My apologies, I missed a warning on your other post:
The entire seed industry is notoriously and historically full of fraudsters. Most countries have enacted laws to protect the farmers/gardeners from this fraud. There is also a bunch of international treaties on the subject.
The most egregious larger fraudsters are usually caught. However small packet mail fraud with online retailers is rampant.
Paraquat has mostly been used on alfalfa hay recently in California. However it's sprayed on all sorts of stuff from cotton to peanuts. It has an extensive label and is still used quite extensively in the U.S.
It's always money...
Suppliers have contracted for shipments already or hold inventory of the chemical in their warehouses.
Farmers have purchased the chemistry and have some in their supplies.
When they ban a chemistry they normally do a phase out to allow them to use existing inventory and not lose money.
If they didn't give them time to use the inventory, the suppliers and farmers could sue the government for losses incurred due to regulation changes. The government would likely lose the lawsuits and have to pay millions.
When you go down the rabbit hole a debate starting from scratch again:
45 minutes to re-install the OS.
Another couple of hours to get all of the common programs you use downloaded and installed.
A full month or more of customizing everything to your preferences and downloading the programs you rarely use.
The carrots have likely been attacked by nematodes. I don't see any galls so it's likely a lesion nematode. These guys like to munch on the sweet tender new growth at the tip of the roots. This causes the forking in the picture.
But what about the cars?
I just hate going to the Dr. So I don't go unless I have too.
It also sucks that my local hospital group got bought out by a corrupt mega group and to get good care I have to drive 3 hrs away.
When iPhone launched it was targeted at the general public.
Blackberry had successfully dominated the businesses. In apps, texting, e-mailing etc they were light-years ahead of everyone else at the time. Ther had a bit of a learning curve to figure out but it got the job done. Many of the things that the iPhone became famous for were blackberry inventions. They were also highly customizable with tons of options where you could tweak all sorts of stuff aka pretty complicated.
So Apple went after the consumer market where they had a major fan base built up from the iPod. The thing about the iPod that set it apart from other MP3 was it was extremely simple to use. Like your 50 year old MBA boss could use it simple (if someone loaded the MP3's for him) and no customization.
So the phone they made was about the same size as an iPod, and extremely simply to use. No customization because that created complexity. It was all tightly controlled.
Pretty soon it became the dominant phone in the market because as the current president shows, too many americans are fucking stupid. It remains the dominant phone because too many americans are fucking stupid.
It's a much more complex phone today but don't worry, most americans don't know how to use all the features anyway because they are too fucking stupid.
Before the IPO, close to 100% of old.reddit likely contributed. For submitting, the old.reddit interface had better options for the experienced user. It was faster and easier to submit complex longer comments and posts.
The interface isn't that great for reading comments/post. The third party phone apps did it better.
Besides you had to have a tiny bit of experience with the platform to know how to find that setting. Not something most casual readers who hit the site via a search engine would know to do.
Since the IPO it's likely mostly few old-timers checking the niche subs. Probably very little engagement. Honestly, it's likely still around because of some critical tool for moderators or bots that would be extremely expensive to upgrade. Definitely not because they care about the user.
Remember the only qualification to become a parent is functional gonads. No education, training, or proof of competency and aptitude is required.
Which is why shit parents often resort to physically assaulting their children. It's because the are too ignorant of actual parenting techniques and methods to know otherwise.
"My parents spanked me and I turned out fine"...
No you fucking idiot, you did not turn out fine. You are beating a helpless child because you don't know shit about parenting.
Like in other places, the sailors introduced non-native species into a closed ecosystem.
they introduced other animals, including dogs, pigs, cats, rats, and crab-eating macaques, which plundered dodo nests and competed for the limited food resources.
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.
Government bonds rates are usually linked to inflation. Over the past 5 years, inflation on the ruble has averaged 17% per year. That's the problem. The buyers want the 10 year bonds to be at 17-18%. There's all sorts of issues with this for the government.
I would suspect that a few oligarchs are going to mysteriously run afoul with Putin in the next few months. Confiscating their assets will fill the hole in the budget for a little while.