Hydroponic greenhouses in the late 1970's for one bankruptcy. Off a deep well on a high mountain valley with water that came out of the ground at 6-8C.... Oh and brutally cold winters down to -30C The heating cost alone for the water was prohibitive. They blamed the Mexicans for "tanking the market" for that bankruptcy.
On the other side, they always chased last year's market. Sugarbeets were high so they doubled their acres - bank forced sale of 300 on that one. Beef was high so they bought steers ar extremely high prices and then sold them at a loss.. bank forced the sale of another 400 acres plus they lost their grazing contract. The last one was lamas. Yep they bought 100 of them.... Somehow it was the blacks fault for that one.. never did quite figure out how. I currently guess the bank got a new loan manager who happened to have a darker skin color.
Nope, that's not what it means at all
Genetically linked behaviors follow distribution curves. There is always variation in every population for any behavior. When a behavior is highly selected for, alternative behaviors become more rare...but they still happen.
A good example of this is homosexuality, evolutionarily speaking this behavior is highly selected against (reduced babies). It still occurs in all sorts of species.
What this means is that around 2/3rds of humans are strictly monogamous. Around 1/3rd of humans are promiscuous or partially promiscuous. These are instinctual behaviors that can be overcome somewhat by cultural norms. On an individual basis, for every 3 people you meet, one instinctually finds sleeping around to be their "normal" behavior.
Double check your insurance policy. Sometimes they will have a rider to cover loss income due to this type of thing.
Did you get hole covers?
My parents and grandparents taught me how to go bankrupt..
Step 1: Mortgage inherited assets to follow the latest fad.
Step 2: Make no profit but spend tons money.
Step 3: Accept government handouts right and left but still lose money.
Step 4: Go bankrupt and lose everything you inherited.
Step 5: Blame everyone else for your own stupidity. Extra emphasis on people with darker skin color.
That is what I spent yesterday figuring out. It was not fun or easy. Had to double and triple check my numbers.
Taiwan "Hey Ukraine, got a few of those navel drones for us?"
Ukraine has shown that a traditional naval power is pretty weak.
The actual plant in the picture is poison oak.
$16.50 adjusted for 11 years of inflation is $22.36.
So in real terms they have rewarded your friend with a 1.5% annual pay increase for 11 years of loyalty.
By swapping jobs your pay has increased by around 9.4% per year during the sametime.
I have an outdoor koi pond aka happy hunting ground for a local great blue heron.
Damn thing has gotten bold over the years. It sits on the neighbors roof and stares accusingly at me for sitting next to my pond and interrupting his fishing. For over 10 years he has been hunting in my pond.
He has been around a bit less lately after my wife's dog decided he looked like some tasty chicken and sneak attacked him. My wife looked out the window to see her small fluffy white dog dangling from the leg of a 5' tall heron.
The first 5-10 years a person works usually results in massive amount of growth in skills and productivity. If a company won't adequately compensate for their ever increasing value, another one will.
Annual pay raises were never more than 3% when I stayed with a company - usually 1-2%. When I swapped jobs I had a few 30% pay raises.
My wife's fluffy white dog I drive around with for work. He likes to eat higher moisture corn and cow shit.
For silage corn the entire plant is harvested, chopped up, and packed tightly in a pile and covered with plastic or very large plastic bag. This creates an anaerobic conditions and yeasts/bacteria convert the sugars to alcohol, then acids. This acid preserves the feed for cattle for up to 2 years.
Silage corn is the most common base feed for all dairies and feedlots.
This isn't even the tallest variety out there. There are others that are 3' (1m) taller.
The machine with the spout is a chopper. They are a million dollar gigantic woodchipper. These things are fucking terrifying and you should absolutely stay out the field when they are running. Every so often a deer jumps into them.....shudder.... nightmare fuel.
Early in the season before a corn plant is waist high it takes a guess on how many kernals it can fill. Sometimes it guesses wrong and so it aborts the top kernals to fill the rest.
The entire top of the damn plant turns bright red.
As sugars build up in the top of the plant with no place to be transported to, the upper leaves start to turn bright red and die back.
You may get a bar bell ear or there may be no ear on the plant. In of field of millions of plants a bright red top narrows the search down.
Start getting your pinky in shape with this weird environmental triggered trait. It's easy to find in any corn field (to be continued...).
This right here is 350bu/acre of corn. 113 day variety on an almost pure sand field. Every damn ear looked the same. Look at that beauty, every kernal is huge and dense.
This here is trichoderma ear rot in an organic field. This 100 day variety was chewed on by an earworm. The damaged kernals allowed trichderma to enter and infect the ear. This ear rot produces many toxins and is a big no for consumption.
The twist - Trichoderma is usually a beneficial organism in the soil. It feeds on other pathogenic fungus/bacteria and is applied extensively for biological control.
Although normally a secondary pathogen, it has mutated to become a primary pathogen in both Italy and Germany in recent years.
This here is a genetically susceptible 113 day variety to fusarium kernal rot. This is a nasty little fungus that produces all sorts of mycotoxins that can give any mammal that consumes it a belly ache or even death. It's easily identifiable by the white streaks in causes in the kernals.
This 98 day little minx has a flirty pink cob. It doesn't look like much but it packs quite the wallop. The ears posted yielded 302bu. Medium high ear placement and a fast drydown makes this an excellent choice for grain.
This is pretty little 102 day number with a bright white cob that threshes very easily. It does extremely well for dry grain, high moisture grain or earlage.
The field in this picture averaged 305bu.
Probably the easiest plant to care for once you figure it out.
I water it every month or two. Fertilize it every 2 or 3 years. Redirect the arial roots into the pot when I water.
It gets 3 hours of direct sunlight in the morning.
Every 5 or 6 years I haul it outside in the summer. Then leach the pot with the garden hose to remove the salt buildup. I also hack the plant back to a more manageable size.
I hereby formally invite your partner to come over and organize my linen dresser. It's in my office and everything is just jumbled in there.