Fred Iutzi

It also seems to me that urban sidewalks are the single most socially valuable form of pavement out there, and not really a good candidate for deliberately subjecting to accelerated breakup via plant helpers.

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atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

The markets and the manufacturing had started, at least, but I suppose there was a lag in actually getting the supply chains extended.

That, plus the later date of onset of large-scale settlement of the plains meant that imported timber and wire fence were available right from the start.

I'm only deeply read on these histories for the Corn Belt, but here I have a strong impression these attitudes were a moving target based on availability of substitutes for local timber, i.e. lumber imported from other regions and lumber substitutes like steel fence material.

I am a written word person and only once ever have I decided to systematically listen to all episodes of a podcast. This is that podcast.

Background image of a solar panel. Text says, "Currents for Currants, Agrivoltaics at UW-Madison." In the bottom right is a QR code to YouTube.

At the @uwmadison.bsky.social Kegonsa Research Campus, scientists from across UW and the @savannainstitute.bsky.social are growing currant berries between solar panels. This practice is known as #agrivoltaics and has many potential benefits.

Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMGH...

Corn, beans, and tall fescue.

Just going to submit a screenshot of this thread as our next funder progress report.

Happy Columbo Day to all who celebrate.

One notion I have about input costs, specifically fertilizer costs, is that as they rise over the coming decades, the de facto yield of annual grain crops will go down as the economically optimal rate for any given nutrient goes down. That further depresses the yield and cost targets for perennials.

That indicates there ultimately ample realistic market break-in targets for perennial grains (and other perennial staple crops!) to hit, provided we continue to drive yields up and costs down. 3/3

Maize and rice are in a yield class by themselves, then come some types of wheat, then soybean, canola, and other types of wheat, then rye, oats, and yet other types of wheat, etc. So there are many, many benchmarks to achieve full or fractional yield parity with. 2/

Nice review. You made a reasonable choice as to level of detail to engage in your article, but in some contexts it's worth pointing out the extremely wide range of yields among grain crops regarded as being fully technologically mature. 1/

Specialist sees agroforestry gaining ground For some grain farmers, diversification can mean growing soybeans and raising cattle. For others, it involves planting crops and trees side by side.

“There are a million different ways of doing agroforestry,” Oviatt said. “You have to take the different components and see what works on your farm.”

Staff member MJ Oviatt talks about #agroforestry in last week's story from Illinois Farmer Today!

agupdate.com/illinoisfarm...

What can we learn from livestock producers about marketing #agroforestry products?

Free webinar hosted by the #AgroforestryCoalition
Thursday, September 4th
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET

Register at agroforestrycoalition.org/event/grassf...

Pushed out by Trump, New Jersey ecologist launches bid for Congress Megan O’Rourke hopes to be a voice for science, also touts her blue-collar roots

I don’t endorse candidates but a scientist who worked on agriculture and climate change before Trump eliminated her job? LFG Jersey girl @meganorourke.com!

www.science.org/content/arti...

Gotta go old school. ; )

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Good old 'vid. It's an American tradition.

Covid was my souvenir from the last World Congress on Agroforestry.

Good time to follow our friends at @canopyfm.bsky.social on their new Bluesky account!

I'm giving a free webinar "Black Currants in the US:
From Banishment to
Revival" As part of the Far North Currant Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska. Tuesday, Aug. 12, noon-1 p.m. (Alaska
Standard Time). Register here: bit.ly/AKBlackCurrant

This really is the quintessence of CoMO.