Fucking bastard got me laughing on that one.
Artificial turf options are much cheaper. The players get hurt more often on it but that's a price the owners are willing to pay.
I spent most of the past year consulting on one of the FIFA fields for a customer who does professional sport fields (usually has 3 or 4 growing at a time).
Grass is complicated and expensive indoors. It can be done, but it's not easy. It's a significant ongoing cost for a stadium. They replace the grass constantly.
The grass seed industry is also full of corruption, lies, and all sorts of backroom deals. Every so often somebody goes to prison for some shenanigans or another.
The politics and corruption involved is really quite insane.
HIV infection is increasing in Russia. There is a very strong stigma in the country against those that are infected. So treatment is often insufficient.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(25)00272-3/fulltext
Turned a bridge into a dam by the looks of it.
His mistakes were monstrously huge of course. He firmly believed that free-markets would regulate themselves and pushed to decrease regulations. His naivety screwed over millions of people and sunk the countryinto a global recession. Even worse he presided over massive increase of wealth inequality that we have never recovered from.
Well that one is going to need another visit from the drone fairies.
China for the past 30 years has over and over again shown one goal: To become an economic and military superpower.
They are consistently and actively acting to weaken other countries influence and strengthen their own.
Why are they supporting both sides in the Russian/Ukraine war? Because it's demolished the Russian military stockpile and made Russia dependent on China for goods.
Why are they pushing so hard on renewables? It destroys the power of the oil countries over their economy.
Why are the dumping billions into infrastructure construction like high speed rail? It is less dependent than air infrastructure on aircraft builders in the U.S and Europe.
The most dangerous thing about China is the leadership is proactive in world events. World politics and economics are being constantly manipulated by the Chinese.
Likely ate a bit of the paint thats peeling.
Oh my, that's not going to end well.
Extremely limited supply, huge demand, and institutionalized corruption... Hmmmm.... what could happen?
I don't think the military is going to keep much of that fuel.
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.
WTF man, we need more details. What model/brand, power source?
I personally enjoyed a standing Crown RC battery powered with a clamp. Squeezing toilet paper. We used to fight over those trucks. Unfortunately standing sideways on the fork was literally a pain in the neck by the end of the day.
Then sit down propane ones like the Toyota's or Hysters are much more comfortable but not as nimble.