ryan ackett, PhD(!)

Those who make whistles impossible make vuvuzelas inevitable

Chris Jones launches Iowa ag secretary campaign with call to 'retreat from ethanol' Clean water advocate and author Chris Jones formally launched his campaign for Iowa secretary of agriculture Thursday with a sharp critique of the state's farm economy — calling for a "retreat from et...

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RFK Jr. forgot what makes us healthy Healthy food is not healthy if it destroys the environment that produces it.

Food is not the only thing that determines your health. You also need healthy soil, clean water, and a livable climate.

If the entire nation increases its consumption of meat and dairy, we will not have any of those latter three things.

will do!

ordered :) cant wait!

glad to have you here, missed your thoughts!

Now that it’s pointing down it’s perfect

Cult 45(q and z) and the Failure of the Elites Political elites in both parties are not reading the room on biofuels

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ICYMI…the most gobsmacking fact from this reporting—>how much land will be needed to produce sustainable aviation fuel

“The maximum amount of land that we’ve converted to cropland in a single year (roughly 1.8 million acres), would have to be quadrupled every year for the next 30 years,” said Limb.

same, off twitter for 18 months and not on here as much. its been good for my nerves, but I def miss keeping up with the thoughts of a small sampling of folks online

this just makes him more iconic tbh

its under copy editing now and peer review next month. sounds like something I'd like to throw a shout-out to in our public land protection/restoration section

not sure if I have the requisite skills but I'm certainly supportive of the campaign

Enhancing predictions of nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils using a classification‐swap machine learning approach The Class-Swap model outperformed traditional Random Forest models in predicting both daily and seasonal N2O emissions from agricultural systems. The effectiveness of the Class-Swap model is inferre.....

Direct link to the paper here: acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Big updates! First, I have a new paper out in the Journal of Environmental Quality demonstrating a technique to improve predictions of soil N2O by individually modeling different "modes" of N2O production. Also, I blogged about the inspiration on my new website! www.ryanackett.com/entries/clas...

Agricultural soil carbon sequestration gets a lot of attention but let’s not forget that the best way to keep carbon in soils is to stop further expansion of agriculture into natural ecosystems.

#WorldSoilDay

Mine is that legislation like Prop 12 and eliminating key CWA exemptions is the best path forward for climate action via dietary shifts

Poor Quality of Commercial Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Inoculants Used for Agriculture and Home Gardening There is an urgent need to develop microbial inoculants that can consistently improve crop performance as part of efforts to implement sustainable agricultural practices and reduce the environmental ....

Mycorrhizal biofertilizers are a $1 billion industry as alternatives to synthetic nitrogen. However, commercial biofertilizers are often poor quality, with new research finding 85% did not form symbiotic nodules with plant roots, & had no effect onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

obama giving himself a medal

citing myself in a paper

please do! currently wrapping up a section for CCI contrasting ag easements as privatized conservation with public models, I love seeing what other folks are cooking up!

big paper submission yesterday that I'm incredibly excited about! modeling N2O emissions from ag is notoriously difficult, but with some clever compromises ( high temporal resolution vs high quantitative resolution) we can achieve remarkably accurate results that can drive mitigation efforts!

big paper submission yesterday that I'm incredibly excited about! modeling N2O emissions from ag is notoriously difficult, but with some clever compromises ( high temporal resolution vs high quantitative resolution) we can achieve remarkably accurate results that can drive mitigation efforts!

super interested in this topic, I'd love to read when it's out!

And I think this phenomenon becomes especially pronounced at the intersections where food and ag cross with climate change and environmentalism. Most of the very strongest and most insane beliefists I’ve encountered live there. In beliefs like, “we can use agriculture to make landscapes healthier than they were before agriculture” and “companies have a financial incentive to protect the environment.” On some level, I totally understand both of these beliefs. They seem wonderful and incredibly powerful. I mean, if agriculture can make land even healthier than it was before, then we never have to think about what’s the right amount of agriculture! And if companies will do environmentalism, than we never have to deal with our fucked up farm policy!

Fabulous newsletter out by Sarah this morning on the contradictions between beautiful *dreams* of agriculture and the real making of a better food system. These ideas could not be more important, and yet could not be more marginal.

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And I think this phenomenon becomes especially pronounced at the intersections where food and ag cross with climate change and environmentalism. Most of the very strongest and most insane beliefists I’ve encountered live there. In beliefs like, “we can use agriculture to make landscapes healthier than they were before agriculture” and “companies have a financial incentive to protect the environment.” On some level, I totally understand both of these beliefs. They seem wonderful and incredibly powerful. I mean, if agriculture can make land even healthier than it was before, then we never have to think about what’s the right amount of agriculture! And if companies will do environmentalism, than we never have to deal with our fucked up farm policy!

Fabulous newsletter out by Sarah this morning on the contradictions between beautiful *dreams* of agriculture and the real making of a better food system. These ideas could not be more important, and yet could not be more marginal.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.

It's a classic win win where cows get grass and meadowlarks get something that's not corn or subdivisions, but biodiversity, land, climate (not just methane, but also nitrous oxide) still suffers.

Most of our most ecologically significant "protected" grasslands are in the production game, and they are DYING, at least compared to the few that aren't. But yeah, conventional corn is worse.

Can you even imagine a pre-tomato Italy?! Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free. 🍅 🇮🇹 🚫

a diagram representing 4 factors that are necessary before a plant disease occurs. Three vertices of a triangle are labeled: • a susceptible host (the plant), • the causal agent (pathogen), • a favorable environment for the pathogen, Inside the triangle is a circle labeled "time."

recommendation for people looking to cover up their Deathly Hallows tattoos: some interpretation of the horticultural Disease Triangle