Steven Kiwewesi

Dear family, friends and fellow #YouthinAgricUg many thanks for the support you showed me and the team @Eco_SmartFarms. We are very much humbled

@DesireMunguci @dr_katumwa @higenyi_ 😂😂😂

@dr_katumwa @higenyi_ Et in térra pax hominibus hallelujah Bonaé voluntatis… dominus deus sabaoth😂😂😂

Fellow Catholics, don’t forget to write those Easter locations in Latin. Aura for aura 🤗

@TefreckHandsome @SimonKaggwaNjal 🙏🙏🙏🙏 MHSRIP

Today, we laid to rest a man of God, a man of peace, and a true servant of the Lord. Our formator was more than a teacher; he was a shepherd who walked with us patiently, corrected us in love, and shaped us through discipline, prayer, and example. RIP fr Emma @SimonKaggwaNjal

I get asked all the time about dryland relay cropping and the potential. Here is a 1ac test a few weeks post harvest vs the irrigated a few yards away. We simply don’t get the rain here.

Constant Canopy 10.0 40’ controlled traffic polycropping

What the naked eye can’t see from the road is the Chocolate Cake soil created here from 4 consecutive wheat |bean|corn rotations. You will not see any stubble in 10 days Soil is charged with C and H20 Incredible Hulk comith

Hurt so good StockCropper plot grows corn, covers, and livestock as hard as you can… and I love it @zebulousprime

Living on the edge

A project for my Uncle David’s cows Multipurpose land use is the goal. Can we get to 90% + yield on 60” of 160” … 37.5% footprint Growing a Substantial grazing venue after corn harvest? Then grow the corn is the forage space the next year… similar to StockCropping

Narrow alley crop corn 4 rows of 20" corn (60") Corn should get 10' tall creating a leveraged photosynthetic venue Plays... grazing Zamboni... green chop in season while applying manure... could be autonomous Faster harvest... yes you get to skip over each pass And Dare I say each pass will put more corn in the tank before you calculate the skip You're harvesting AIR

Going back to April Wide wheat is a cheat to warm the ground up... especially 2" deep to conceive and start the growing process And slowly that sunshine gets bottled up by the wheat growing from 8" - 46" tall with more width Dynamic design thinks day by day

At its core for me.... Relay cropping is a mechanism to at 1st dry the soil to plant, warm it up, and then preserve moisture and keep the soil cooler when it gets hot. Quicker canopy keeps weeds out... so all my moisture and fertility goes towards value instead of weeds

Herbicide legacies showing up in this year's canola, from last April's trial site. What's interesting is that the light colour in the surrounding crop is Bidens pilosa - seeded out in Sept 2024's off-season lupins. I suspect that some of the Group B's are responsible for the poorer canola.

Better than a blue pill. F'n around and tweaking a little every year to get better.

Finished relay soybeans within the WB9303 spring wheat. Great potential here.

@namatshevetale1 Many congratulations Dr. @namatshevetale1

Successful defended my PhD last week, and my academic baby (thesis) is now available online!! #PhDone #PhDdefence #Thesis #AcademicTwitter

Experiment to show the ability of plant roots to push into compacted soil. Top half of cylinder have a BD of 1.2 g cm3 and lower half 1.4 g cm3 left buckwheat right black oat

Function of our 12 row soybean relay planter. The middle row is just along for the ride and is somewhat lifted for this operation.

@queridoAntonioL @FAOUganda @UNinUganda @MAAIF_Uganda @DrRwamiramaBK @FredBwino @PS_MAAIF @ZimudziFarayi @FAOCameroun @narouganda @NARO_DG Many thanks for the work well done 👌

Tonight, I say farewell to Uganda, carrying a heart full of gratitude. A huge thank you to the incredible @FAOUganda team, our partners, and the wonderful people of 🇺🇬 for the collaboration, resilience, & friendships we’ve built. This isn’t goodbye; it’s simply a see you soon!

Combines finishing the harvest with sunflowers in the background. Of all the crops we grow, I find sunflowers one of the hardest to articulate the overall benefits of, beyond the gross margin. Able to sit and wait to a point at harvest, very little spraying, flexible planting window etc.

Getting our relay planter set up today for a Wednesday and Thursday run ahead of the next rain delay. I was looking for a photo for @FredVLarsen and ran across these Relay beans from 2019 and 2020