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Oh my your poor wife. Send her my deepest sympathies for her trauma. Ironing the sheets...shudder... the horror.
Don't worry those trees are slowly dying because of extensive use of volatile herbicides like dicamba and 2-4D.
What type of a madman are you to fold a fitted sheet?
Ball it up like a normal person and shove it in the linen cabinet. The wrinkles add character.
It's a wee bit complicated:
The pathogen is persistent. The oocyst (transmission form) can survive in soil for a very long time (months or even years).
It's also very small and can be carried by wind or water etc.
Standard washing and disinfecting of food has no effect on the oocyst. The the oocyst are strongly protected and remain dormant until inside a host.
The host range for the pathogen is unknown. It is found very rarely in animals so adequate screening is very difficult.
Genetically it undergoes sexual reproduction. This means that the population is naturally heterozygous and constantly changing. Unlike bacterial or viral infections you can not isolate a strain and link infections. This makes determining a source extremely complicated.
Most cases of infection are theorized to be mild.
That one doesn't need a return visit from the drone fairy.
How much you want to bet that Wildberries had the lowest fire control standards?
A few companies will avoid testing in Ukraine because they know they will fail. There already is a bunch of systems that already haven't survived the conditions.
Examples-
Excalibur m982 guided artillery shell. Russia got so good at jamming them that less than 1 in 9 hit the target. At almost $100k per shell they are a massive waste of money.
Anduril Industries and Skudio haabe failed massively with their drones in Ukraine.
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/anduril-s-autonomous-weapons-fail-in-tests-ukraine-combat
https://www.sofx.com/us-drones-underperform-in-ukraine-skydio-and-others-face-setbacks/
If these people are buying the goods internationally they usually have to pay for them before they are shipped. For most businesses that means taking out a short term loan to cover the purchase. It's a standard practice even in established businesses.
Lenders require insurance against the destruction of the goods. Insurance companies like to carve out exemptions in what they cover to minimize their losses. Acts of war are almost universally exempted unless the customer pays a much higher premium.
I expect to see online retailers in Russia ban the sale of military goods on the next few weeks. Insurance companies and lenders are going to increase the insurance premiums and refuse loans to operations that sell them.
You'd think a warehouse with billions in merchandise would have a fire suppression system. Guess not.
Don't speak Russian either but their response to the fuel rationing is "Why is this happen to me? Poor me...boohoo...." I expect the response to having all their shit burn up is the same.
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.
What's even better is that 45% of the production is for ethanol. Almost all of this is used for blending with gasoline in vehicles. A massive transition toward electric vehicles and public transit would eliminate the need for this. So 45% of the land used for corn production is not needed.
Irrigating corn improves its yield by up to 70% in many regions of the corn belt. Investment into irrigations systems could decrease the land area needed for raising corn by another 50-60%.
Bottom line: We really don't need to farm 60 million or so acres in corn we currently do in the U.S out of the 80-90 million averages.