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Plant breeder: wheat @ CÉROM, hemp @ PhytoGene Inc. Views are my own // Sélectionneur végétal: blé au CÉROM, chanvre à PhytoGene Inc. Les opinions exprimées ici sont uniquement les miennes.
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My god look at Canada
12.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 339 🔁 183 💬 22 📌 11
A shocking deterioration in the prairie drought, with 87 percent of agricultural land on the prairies either abnormally dry or in drought. Crops are stressed after a dry June.
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An old time-y illustration of a Oat.
Today is Duodi the 2nd of Messidor in the year 233.
Messidor is the month of harvest.
Today we celebrate oat. #JacobinDay
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
19.06.2025 11:21 — 👍 29331 🔁 8578 💬 576 📌 700
CÉRÉALES 🚨 Appel à la vigilance
Des cas de rouille jaune et d’oïdium ont été rapportés dans les céréales dans plusieurs régions. On recommande de surveiller les champs.
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“Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspiracy & Smuggling a Dangerous Biological Pathogen into the US for their Work at a Univ. of Michigan Laboratory”
This sounds fishy. Fusarium is a common fungus & a bane to farmers. Different strains attack different crops (blight, rust, etc.). Research is normal.
Winter wheat looking lush....
29.05.2025 13:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
Everyone thinks we grow a lot of corn & soybeans in the US "because of subsidies," & that's just... not accurate?
So I made a video about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSR...
Anybody know an expert on comparative grass anatomy and/or development that can help us with identifying homologous tissues in maize and rice?
20.05.2025 03:25 — 👍 6 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1Some nice Nova Scotia liquor...!
16.05.2025 17:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi - I’m looking for roles inside and outside of academia in Canada, and would appreciate any leads or contacts y’all may have. I’m a computational and molecular biologist with a broad range of prior experience in both wet lab and dry lab work. If you or someone you know is hiring, get in touch!
10.05.2025 20:02 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
ÉTAT DES CULTURES 🌦️ Départ lent pour les semis, départ prometteur pour le blé d’automne.
Détails sur La Tournée des Grandes Cultures ➡️www.lebulletin.com/etat-des-cultures/etat-des-cultures-9-mai-un-autre-depart-lent-140422
Merci à G3, Les Moulins de Soulanges et Pioneer.
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They don't actually produce the same compound though, do they? Lemons = limonene and Lemongrass = citronellal. We just sense them similarly.
05.05.2025 01:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely.
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yeah I had misread that. Deleted.
22.04.2025 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 010 000%
19.04.2025 22:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0great! Our rye border plots were looking robust but purple, I guess they got started a bit too early...
18.04.2025 01:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Winter survival at 99%. I can feel three months of stress dissolving
17.04.2025 16:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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17.04.2025 16:33 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Un bon départ pour la saison...!
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I thought this was going to be about Jeremy Irons' incest tax law loophole...
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The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc
20.03.2025 05:53 — 👍 65 🔁 80 💬 1 📌 1
A snowy field
A muddy field
What a difference 10 days make...
17.03.2025 17:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image description: graphic representation of the soil food web. Shown are primary producers: plants and organic substrates; herbivores and decomposers: root-feeding nematodes, fungi and bacteria; microbial grazers: collembolans, mites, nematodes, flagellates; tertiary consumers which are various types of nematodes)
One thing you don’t see when looking at soil is all the energy exchanges happening in the #soil! This is called the “soil food web.” Shown: fungi that live in the soil. Read our #GroundedInSoils blog to learn more! bit.ly/3v644Us
15.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Blois in as agriculture minister vist.ly/3mxappj #cdnag #westcdnag
14.03.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This went up less than 15 mins ago on local news in San Diego.
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