[-] The_v@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Yellow leaves on the bottom of the plant is the most common sign of nitrogen deficiency.

This can be caused by lack of nitrogn availability or other things limiting the uptake of nitrogen into the plant.

Overwatering: too much water can create anaerobic conditions (No oxygen). Bacteria in the soil convert ammonia and nitrate to N2 gas.

Any disease effecting the root. This includes fungal and bacterial root rots. Letting the pot dry outcan help reduce the pressure.

Other species that feed on the roots. Fungus gnats, nematodes, and many more things can feed on the roots.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I think this is more metal fatigue due to time and use. This happens pretty routinely to metal handled shop brooms in my experience. I have done this with 2 or 3 of them.

In the normal use of these brooms you apply pressure from opposite directions constantly. This back and forth pressure eventually fatigues the metal.

Wooden handled ones tend to last longer.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's called Bi-color corn. It's made by creating a hybrid between white and yellow corn inbreds. The seeds are all yellow. The resulting corn (F2 seeds) display a yellow:white ratio of 3:1.

The color has zero impact on flavor, texture or sweetness. It's all for visual impact.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

I like how they don't give a verbal response to the stupid request. Instead they publish reports of more strikes on critical facilities.

Putin has to be cursing every morning he wakes up in his hardened bunker and another oil facility is a smoking ruin.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

A-10 is live target practice for Iran's domestically produced manpads. It should not be anywhere near this conflict. That they are using it at all shows massive incompetence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misagh-2

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Recoilless shotgun type weapon. That drone barely shifted when it fired.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

It was manufactured in Ukraine and discontinued back in 2002. So I would say replacement is unlikely.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

It's oats so it's not that bad. It's a lot of volume for not much weight. Each shovel was pretty light and easy to move. Oats run around 32lbs/bushel. Oats are also pretty slick so it it doesn't take much force to push a shovel into them. This mess was more annoying than a serious issue.

It's not like wheat at 60lbs/bu. That same sized pile would be closer to 8 tons and take a while to pick up. Each shovel full would weigh more and then surface is rougher so it's harder to push a shovel into.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Now my sides hurt from laughing so much at you.

The shear amount to shit your going to get for this one over the years. I would ask you "Is your mill running?" Everytime I saw you or called you for decades.

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My wife's fluffy white dog I drive around with for work. He likes to eat higher moisture corn and cow shit.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Start getting your pinky in shape with this weird environmental triggered trait. It's easy to find in any corn field (to be continued...).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 113 points 11 months ago

Veiwers who have worked with a lot of PhD's:

So they are going to make a extremely complicated evil plan only to be foiled by obvious oversight that only an idiot would miss.

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[-] The_v@lemmy.world 143 points 2 years ago

They also need to remove the limited liability from companies for intentional illegal activities.

illegal business practices should be charged to the people involved instead of the company. The executives who made the decision to break the law lose personal assets.

Otherwise the shitheads just pass the company losses onto the employees: no raises, hiring freezes, layoffs, reduction in benefits, etc...

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 129 points 2 years ago

After the rapist Brock Turner was given a slap on the wrist, California passed mandatory sentencing for rape.

He was accused of 3 rapes but convicted of 2. He received the maximum sentencing for each.

His lawyers are likely going to fight the conviction constantly until the money runs dry.

My personal thought is the conviction is unlikely to be overturned but a sentence reduction is likely. So he got the maximum sentence. Danny will likely be behind bars for at least 6-10 years for his crimes.

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