#Agricultural Science

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This illustration of an ultrasonic reading device to measure the fat in pigs for bacon is JUST SO WIERD.

Ultrasonic testing of materials, 1969.

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Food Growing Friday: Raised Bed Basics!

    Raised beds are a very simple, manageable, and accessible way for people to establish their own gardens. It is not as daunting as it may seem, and it can be as DIY as you want. To start, all you need to focus on is the Frame, the Fill, and the Flood.

    Frame: To start, you need a solid wood or metal frame. If you’re building your beds yourself, a great long-term wood choice is Cedar, which is naturally rot-resistant and not a bank-breaker compared to other woods. If you’re choosing metal instead, especially in wetter climates, you’ll wanna go with Galvanized Steel to avoid leeching and rust. Water Troughs are a great choice for this. You can customize the height of your bed to fit your accessibility and price needs, lower beds are more cost-effective, but higher beds are easier to maintain for people with disabilities and difficulty bending down.

You can also purchase easy-install raised bed kits from your local garden or hardware center, and not even worry about all this.    

Fill: Your soil mix can make or break your gardening experience. You have to make sure that you’re not sacrificing cost for quality, and vice versa. To do so, it’s good to mix about 50/50 with cheaper topsoil, and organic compost. The compost you can source from a bag, or you can make it yourself if you have the resources. Also keep an eye out for local compost bins that you may be able to source from. Topsoil also can come from a bag, or any construction and landscaping projects in your area. Never be afraid to find resources in the community around you!    

Especially with taller beds, it’s also smart to start with a layer of mulch, logs, or branches. Anything organic that can break down, but that takes up plenty of space in order to slow weed growth and lessen the burden of soil on your wallet.

Flood: Water! Water! Water! A garden can grow nowhere without it's beloved moisture. Different beds will have different watering requirements, depending on how well the soil drains, and how much the plants need. But for now, the set up. I have personally found the best way to irrigate a small bed is by drip watering, because it avoids issues like powdery mildew and water spots caused by overhead watering. You can either purchase grids to go across the entire bed, or you can get flexible irrigation tubing and directly target your plants.

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Agricultural Science, Middle School

Do Now:

Watch the video and keep track of the useful/useless ideas

Actually Useful:

Possibly Useful:

Complete Garbage:

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ABOUT THIS BLOG ! :3

What is this blog about?

This blog is a project for my agricultural science class! On this blog, I will post drawings I make that are like information posters on numerous topics regarding nature and agriculture. Some examples would be how to grow certain plants, what you can do with different fruits and vegetables alongside how to grow them, information on animals and more! I’ve always had a passion for art and wanted to be more active on Tumblr, so I’m very glad I get such an opportunity to post my art and I’m very grateful for my teacher for allowing this.

ANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON MY ART OR POSTS WILL RESULT IN A BLOCK AND REMOVAL OF YOUR COMMENT.

* P.S ; I’ve included a requests box in case you wanna learn about a certain animal, plant, fruit or anything agriculture related!

Who runs this blog?

I do! I go by Chlaudie ScKies on this blog since she’s is the mascot I created. I am in my final year of middle school and trying to make the best of it! I use they/she pronouns. My hobbies include cooking, drawing, swimming, researching on various topics and more! My favorite thing to cook is anything with pasta, but I am a picky eater! My favorite artists are Mitski, Rio Romeo, Mommy Long Legs and MCR. I hope to make some friends on here and for my blog to grow a bit! If you have any questions regarding this blog, shoot me a message!

Chlaudie ScKies

This is just some information on the mascot of this blog!

Chlaudie is a 12-year-old gardener who’s homeschooled! She is Mexican and Peruvian with very tight curls. She’s very curious and bubbly! Her name is a pun because she loves the rain!

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Characteristics of Climate of Zambia

This post touches and discusses the topic on the Climate of Zambia, including the seasons, rainfall activities and effect of altitude on the climate. Climate of Zambia Zambia’s tropical climate Zambia lies in the tropical areas near the equator, and therefore has a tropical climate. A tropical climate has the following characteristics: • Summers have high temperature and rainfalls in the…

[stevviefox]

FYI. Know your local plants and eat them, too.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/food-plant-solutions-malnutrition-farming-edible-plants/12580732

https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World

This guy is my new hero. I LOVE learning about native food plants that just grow everywhere without human help.

The database is a little clunky to use (especially on a phone), but still loads of excellent information.

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Why India’s Green Revolution isn’t a blueprint to feed a hungry planet

Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there are new causes for alarm. Floods, heat waves and other weather extremes are making agriculture increasingly precarious, especially in the Global South. The war in Ukraine is also a factor. Russia is blockading Ukrainian grain exports, and fertilizer prices have surged because of trade sanctions on Russia,…

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ASC2023: 16वें कृषि विज्ञान कांग्रेस का होने जा रहा है आयोजन, जानिए कहां करें रजिस्ट्रेशन

इस बार क्या है 16वें कृषि विज्ञान कांग्रेस की थीम और क्या है ख़ास?

कृषि विज्ञान कांग्रेस का लक्ष्य दुनिया भर के प्रमुख शिक्षाविदों, शोधकर्ताओं, छात्रों, किसानों, उद्यमियों जैसे वर्गों को एक साथ लाना है। ताकि वो कृषि-खाद्य प्रणालियों के सभी ��िषयों पर अपने शोध निष्कर्षों, विचारों और अनुभवों का एक दूसरे के साथ साझा कर सकें।

16वां कृषि विज्ञान कांग्रेस (ASC) 10 से 13 अक्टूबर 2023 तक कोची में आयोजित होगा। राष्ट्रीय कृषि विज्ञान अकादमी (National Academy of Agricultural Sciences), नई दिल्ली की ओर से ये कार्यक्रम आयोजित किया जाएगा। इसकी मेज़बानी भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान परिषद्-केंद्रीय समुद्री मात्स्यिकी अनुसंधान संस्थान (ICAR-CMFRI) करेगा। इस बार कृषि विज्ञान कांग्रेस की थीम “सतत विकास लक्ष्यों (SDG) को प्राप्त करने के लिए कृषि-खाद्य प्रणालियों का परिवर्तन” पर केंद्रित है।

कृषि विज्ञान कांग्रेस का क्या है लक्ष्य?

कृषि विज्ञान कांग्रेस का लक्ष्य दुनिया भर के प्रमुख शिक्षाविदों, शोधकर्ताओं, छात्रों, किसानों, उद्यमियों जैसे वर्गों को एक साथ लाना है। ताकि वो कृषि-खाद्य प्रणालियों के सभी विषयों पर अपने शोध निष्कर्षों, विचारों और अनुभवों का एक दूसरे के साथ साझा कर सकें।

इन्हीं सभी बातों को ध्यान में रखते हुए कृषि विज्ञान कांग्रेस में प्रतिनिधियों और प्रतिभागियों को कृषि और उससे जुड़े सभी विषयों के मुद्दों जैसे भूमि और पानी की स्थिरता, कृषि उत्पादन प्रणालियों, उत्पादों, कृषि मशीनरी, अर्थशास्त्र, नवीकरणीय और वैकल्पिक ऊर्जा, प्रिसिजन फार्मिंग, वैकल्पिक खेती प्रणाली, तटीय कृषि, आने वाली पीढ़ियों में प्रौद्योगिकियां जैसे विषयों पर अपने विचारों को रखने के लिए पर्याप्त अवसर दिया जाएगा।

इन विषयों पर होगी मुख्य चर्चा:

खाद्य एवं पोषण सुरक्षा सुनिश्चित करना: उत्पादन, उपभोग और मूल्यवर्धन

टिकाऊ कृषि-खाद्य प्रणालियों के लिए जलवायु कार्रवाई

सीमांत विज्ञान और उभरती आनुवंशिक प्रौद्योगिकियाँ: जीनोम प्रजनन, जीन संपादन

खाद्य प्रणालियों का पशुधन आधारित परिवर्तन

खाद्य प्रणालियों का बागवानी आधारित परिवर्तन

जलीय कृषि एवं मत्स्य पालन आधारित खाद्य प्रणालियों का परिवर्तन

सतत कृषि-खाद्य प्रणालियों के लिए प्रकृति-आधारित समाधान

अगली पीढ़ी की प्रौद्योगिकियाँ: डिजिटल कृषि, सटीक खेती और एआई-आधारित प्रणालियाँ

कृषि-खाद्य प्रणालियों को बदलने के लिए नीतियां और संस्थान

अनुसंधान, शिक्षा और विकास के लिए अंतर्राष्ट्रीय भागीदारी

और पढ़ें.....

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Baby nasturtium leaves are too stinkin CUTE!!!

Nasturtiums are a beautiful, EDIBLE vining flower. They have bright orange flowers that look kinda like large pansies, with a bright peppery taste to match. They're a tasty garnish in salads, sandwiches, soups, etc!

If that's not enough, they're also great at repelling pests in the garden, so they're best planted as companions around your crops!

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LC ag. science: calf production notes

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THE FARM BUILDING

There are different and various types of farm buildings. They are: Poultry and Farm Animal houses Farm stores Farm office Residential house or building Utility building What are the building listed above>>> Let’s explain them below Poultry House These types of buildings depends on the particular type of birds to be raised. There are different types of POULTRY HOUSES. They are: Layer…

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I have an interview to join the college of agricultural sciences leadership club team! I applied on a whim and I’m surprised. It could be a good experience that helps me find a job at graduation and it comes with a scholarship. I don’t have any specific experience at this college and I’m an online student so they want that side of inout but I’m afraid I won’t have what they’re looking for? Who knows! I’m happy to be a part of it, even for a minute.

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data about where carbon emissions are coming from is so frustrating cause there's all kinds of huge, sprawling, just fucking vast breakdowns of What Causes The Most Carbon Emissions Out Of All Everything In The Entire World, but those are aggregations of numerous smaller but still vast aggregations of data, which are processed and polished from various aggregations of crunched numbers, which are patched and pieced together from various studies, estimates and calculations, which are sieved out of numbers crunched from various measurements, estimates and records, which have been collected, estimated or otherwise conceived through an unspeakably huge variety of methodologies with unspeakably huge variety in limitations, reliability and margins of error.

Even if some of the data was very fine-grained at the beginning, it was filtered through some very coarse number-crunching techniques for the sake of the coarse data, so the results are only as good as the wrongest thing you did in any part of this process, but the plans of action are getting thought up from the top down, which makes the whole thing a hot fucking mess.

For example. And I just made this example up. Say you want to know whether apples or potatoes have a worse impact on climate change. So you look at one of these huge ass infographic things. And it says that potatoes are bad, whereas apples are REALLY good, the BEST crop actually. So it's better to eat apples than potatoes, you think to yourself. Actually we should find a way to replace potatoes with apples! We should fund genetic engineering of apples so they have more starch and can replace potatoes. Great idea. Time to get some investors to put $5 billion towards it.

But actually. Where'd they get that conclusion about apples? Well there's this review right here of the carbon footprint of all different fruits, seems legit. Where'd that data come from? Well it's citing this study right here saying that tree-grown crops are better because they sequester carbon, and this study right here about the distance that different fruits get transported, and this study right here where different fertilization systems are compared in terms of their carbon footprint, and this study over here that sampled 300 apple, peach, and orange farmers comparing their irrigation practices and rates of tree mortality, and this study...wow, okay, seems really reliable...

...what's the first study citing? oh, okay, here's a study about mycorrhizal networks in orchards in Oregon, saying that there's a super high density of fungal mycelium in the 16 orchards that they sampled. And here's a study about leaf litter decay rates in Switzerland under different pesticide regimes, and...okay...relationship of tree spacing to below ground vs. aboveground biomass...a review of above and below-ground biomass in semi-intensively managed orchard plots...

...That one cites "Relationship between biomass and CO2 requirements...carbon immobilization in soil of various tree species...mycorrhizal fungi impact on carbon storage...

...wait a second, none of these are talking about apples, they're about boreal forests...and orange trees...and peanut farms! They're just speculating on roughly applying the non-apple data to apples. You have to go backwards...

Yes! "A review of belowground carbon storage in orchard cropping systems!" Seems like overall the studies find potentially high carbon storage in orchard environments! Walnuts...pears...oranges... intercropping walnuts and wheat... intercropping apples and wheat... wait a second, what about orchards with only apples?

Time for you to go back again...

"New method of mulching in apple orchards can lower irrigation and pesticide needs..." okay but if it's new, most farmers aren't doing it. "Orchards with high density interplanted with annual crops show way more mycorrhizal fungus activity..." "Mycorrhizal associations with trees in the genus Malus..."

...And pretty soon you've spent Five Fucking Hours investigating apples and you've got yourself in this tangled web of citations that demonstrate that some orchard crops (not necessarily apples) store a lot of long-lasting biomass in their trunks and roots really well—and some apple orchards (not necessarily typical ones) have high amounts of mycorrhizal fungi—and some techniques of mulching in orchards (not necessarily the ones apple farmers use) experience less erosion—and some apple trees (not necessarily productive agricultural apples) have really deep root systems—

—and some environments with trees, compared with some conventional agricultural fields, store more carbon and experience less erosion, but not apple orchards because that data wasn't collected in apple orchards.

And you figure out eventually that there is no direct evidence anywhere in the inputs that singles out apples as The Best Crop For Fighting Climate Change, or suggests that conventional apple farming has a much smaller carbon footprint than anything else.

The data just spit out "apples" after an unholy writhing mass of Processes that involved 1) observing some tree-grown crops and deciding it applies closely enough to all tree grown crops 2) observing some apple orchards and deciding its applicable enough to all apple orchards 3) observing some tree-including environments and deciding its close enough to all tree-including environments 4) observing some farming methods and deciding it applies closely enough to all farming methods

And any one of these steps individually would be fine and totally unavoidable, but when strung together repeatedly they distort the original data into A Puddle of Goo.

And it wouldn't be that bad even to string them together, if trees didn't vary that much, and farming didn't vary that much, and soil didn't vary that much, and mycorrhizal networks didn't vary that much, and regions that grow apples didn't vary that much, and pre-conversion-to-apple-orchard states of apple orchards didn't vary that much, and economic incentives controlling apple farming didn't vary that much, but all of these things DO vary, a Fuck Ton, and if the full range of variation were taken into account—nay, intentionally optimized—the distinction between apples and potatoes might turn out to be be MEANINGLESS GOO.

anyway big size piles of data about Farming, In General, make me so bitchy