wish i was a bar of soap

[bedupolker]

Happy Pollinator week to the Baltic Isopod, the first underwater pollinator discovered by science! Lab studies imply that their activities help pollinate seagrass and macroalgea. Is there anything isopods can't do?

[catchymemes]

When you finally hit the trick after countless tries

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

May he plow the Lord’s fields in heaven

[en-shaedn]

Dave Brandt was probably the longest running no-till farmer in the state; he'd been running his land no-till since 1971. He experimented with fertilizers, cover crops, and different irrigation techniques and he'd been doing all of that for a very long time.

The guy was an institution all on his own; look at this.

The “A” profile in his soil is now 47 inches deep compared to less than 6 inches in 1971 and acts like a giant sponge for water infiltration and retention.

From 1971 through 1989 David used an average of 150-250 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre to grow his corn crops. After adding peas and radishes as a cover crop mix, he cut his nitrogen needs in half and was able to get it down to 125 pounds per acre.

When he added multiple species and became more aggressive with his cover crop mixes, he was able to achieve an additional drop in applied fertility. His starter fertilizer is now just 2 lbs of N, 4 lbs of P, and 5 lbs of K. His corn crop now only requires 20-30 lbs of N throughout the entire growing season. He requires no fertility for his soybeans, relying on fertility gained solely through his cover crops. He uses only 40 lbs of 10 N – 10 P – 10 K for his small grains.

Ten years ago (source study published 2019) David stopped using any fungicides and insecticides. This occurred at a time when fungicide and insecticide use has increased significantly with the average commodity farmer.

Four years ago he stopped using any seed treatment, including neonicotinoids.

His cash crop yields have been increasing by an average of 5% annually for the past 5-6 years, with far less fertilizer and no fungicides, insecticides or seed treatment.

What started as a basic heavy clay soils when David purchased the farm in 1971 have been officially re-classified by Ohio State University soil scientists as a highly fertile silty loam soil.

[izzetheking]

i wish there was only such thing as 3 people

[coughloop]

[dappermouth]

(greeting someone u care for deeply)  well well well… look who crawled out of the primordial FILTH

[cetitanhasmoved]

Don't give a fuck about zelda hope he dies

[cetitanhasmoved]

[rednines]

[sloppystyle]

[roundo]

These posts right in a row are really doing something for me

[lovereply]

[existential-celestial]

Mahmoud Darwish, from “Counterpoint: Homage to Edward Said”

[opendirectories]

[natalieironside]

I dunno, stranger, we ain't got a whole lot to offer ye on accounta t'other day them Yankee cavalry done rode down and requisitioned plumb near all we had, and then the day after that them rebel cavalry done come up from t'other direction and done did the same damn thing, so no, stranger, I's just a humble Miss'ssippi rat farmer and I ain't know a damn thing about no "time machine" or no "2037 eSports World Championships disaster" anymore than I know about no damn Charleston guv'ment. But when you see that Jeff Davis you tell him I want my damn horses back or I'll head on down to Gulfport and take 'em outter his yeller hide.

[natalieironside]

And this mornin some boys in teal uniforms done come through and said they was from "a secret third thing." I ain't even know what the world's comin to no more. Say, you ain't no reb, are ye? You better not be no reb.

[judicialinvestigator-deactivate]

[modogoblin]

he got a war in his minde

[funnytwittertweets]

[sindri42]

Bees choose to live in the box where they know damn well that a large fraction of the honey will periodically be removed, instead of simply leaving that place like they are perfectly able to do, because the human box comes with an invulnerable titan to guard them against all threats. The bees consider the payment offered to this colossal mercenary to be a pretty good deal.

[intjint]

Bees know about supply and demand

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Protection money

[stitch-n-time]

Protection honey

[valtsv]

an angel falling from heaven and hitting the ground and being like "that wasn't so bad actually" then moments later they stub their toe on a rock and scream like mel blanc in a looney toons short

[ruinedchildhood]

[emilyofjane]

You mean to tell me Burger King is a version exclusive pokemon?