Only legumes used in a cover crop MAY add nitrogen to the soil (temperature, inoculant, pH, etc has to be correct). If you harvest a crop from the field you are removing nitrogen.

For example alfalfa produces up to 500lbs of nitrogen per acre. It needs up to 600lbs/acre from full production. Alfalfa farmers for high production often add 10-20lbs of N after every cutting to make up for this.

The alfalfa is the main crop in those areas of Utah. The oats and barley are rotational crops. This is because alfalfa produces allopathic chemistry which inhibits the germination of its own seeds. So they plant oats or barley to allow the chemistry to break down in the soil for a year or two then back to alfalfa for 5-7 years.

Pretty sure it is. It's really hard to get the high enough light levels for that type of plant growth without it.

Once you get high enough in corporate hell, all work is meetings and e-mails about meetings. There is nothing else.

Bullshit - it can't be done.

1st rip get the water heater and all the recommended parts.

2nd trip take the parts that don't fit back and get the "right" ones.

3rd trip take the "right" ones back and get the part you really need.

The 4th trip so the worst. You stop go to a local hardware store because you need a special part and pay out the bose for it.

For me, stopping, getting out, and getting some coffee wakes me up for 2-3 hours. I also listen to audiobooks as I drive to keep my brain working. A good engaging story is better than a nap for me.

The rate of divorce is strongly associated with the age the relationship started at.

Two 18-20 year olds while still barely adults have a very low chance of being successful. Once they reach 24-25 the rate of divorce declines dramatically. By then they are usually making adult-ish decisions.

FYI - In .y experience it's a bit small for a good seed collection.

The proper size would be around 1/2 of your house.

Study was done by watching YouTube videos.

Anybody else have phone camera that inverts the the image during processing? I have had a couple over the years.

Aphids and other sucking insects can cause leaves to roll. Look for them on the underside of the leaves.

Fo there are no bugs or signs of damage it's probably physiological leaf roll.

https://hortsense.cahnrs.wsu.edu/fact-sheet/tomato-physiological-leaf-roll/

Organic farming releases as much or more "poisons" than conventional. Just because those poisons "natural" doesn't mean they are not harmful. Coppersulfate, pyrethrins, spinosad, neem etc are all indesciminate killers. Rotenone is a banned organic pesticide because it's linked to Parkinson's.

The 3/4 number gets a lot worse when you know we really don't need to farm as much land as we do. If we stopped subsidizing idiotic farming practices and invested heavily in infrastructure, we only need to use 1/4 of the land we do. That includes feeding all the animals. If we migrated to a plant based diet it would be around 1/10th the current land usage.

We had a farmyard crossed dog that lived for almost 17 years I called him a car-puk-eh because of his lifelong affliction with motion sickness.

GMO are a tool.

Some GMO's are a good idea. Virus resistance for example was the first GMO I worked with in the 90's. Papaya ringspotvirus is an excellent example.

Some GMO's were a mediocre idea and an overall failure. Like all the efforts with SAMase for improving shelflife. Aka the GMO tomato.

Some GMO's are downright stupid and irresponsible. Like the RR in corn, soy, alfalfa, etc. Its lead to a massive over-application of one chemistry. Creating resistant weeds in all production zones. Or dicamba resistance is soybeans that's fucking up all the remaining trees, shrubs, and forbs.