#Agriculture Seed Company

[farming-seeds]

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n149_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Farquhar's catalogue of seeds 1901 :. Boston, Mass. :R. & J. Farquhar,1901.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42284121

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The knowledge of some common plants

Since many people don't know most of the plants around them, this is information on some plants that are commonly seen in many places throughout the world

This is Lamium purpureum, also called Purple Deadnettle.

It's called deadnettle because it looks like a nettle but it doesn't sting you

This plant is a winter annual—it grows its leaves in the fall, lasts through the winter, and blooms and dies in the spring

Its pollen is reddish orange. If you see bees with their heads stained reddish orange, it is likely because they have visited Purple Deadnettle

This is Trifolium repens, white clover

It is a legume (belongs to the bean family) and fixes nitrogen using symbiosis with bacteria that live in little nodules on its roots, fertilizing the soil

It is a good companion plant for the other members of a lawn or garden since it is tough, adaptable, and improves soil quality. According to my professor it used to be in lawn mixes, until chemical companies wanted to sell a new herbicide that would kill broadleaved plants and spare grass, and it was slandered as a weed :(

It is native only to Europe and Central Asia, but in the lawns they are doing more good than harm most places

Honeybees love to visit clover

Four-leaf clovers are said to be lucky

This is Achillea millefolium, Common Yarrow

It has had a relationship with humans since Neanderthals were around, at least 60,000 years, since Neanderthals have been found buried with Yarrow

Its leaves have been used to stop bleeding throughout history, and its scientific name comes from how Achilles was said to have used Yarrow to stop the blood from the wounds of his soldiers. A leaf rolled into a ball has been used to stop nosebleeds

It is a native species all throughout Eurasia and North America

This is Cichorium intybus, known as Chicory

The leaves look a lot like dandelion leaves, until in mid-spring when it begins growing a woody green stem straight up into the air

Like many other weeds, it has a symbiotic relationship with humans, existing in a mix of domesticated or partially domesticated and wild populations

It is native to Eurasia, but widespread in North America on roadsides and disturbed places, where it descended from cultivated plants

Its root contains large amounts of inulin, which is used as a sweetener and fiber supplement (if you look at the ingredients on the granola bars that have extra fiber, they usually are partly made of chicory root) and has also been used as a coffee substitute

A large variety of bees like to feed upon it

This is Phytolacca americana, known as Pokeweed

It is easily identified by its huge leaves and its waxy, bright magenta stem

It can grow more than nine feet tall from a sprout in a single summer!

If you squish the berries, the juice inside is a shocking magenta that is so bright it almost burns your eyes. For this reason many Native American people used it for pink and purple dye.

It is a heavy metal hyperaccumulator, particularly good for removing cadmium from the soil

All parts of the plant are poisonous and will make you very sick if you eat them, however if the leaves are picked when very young and boiled 3 times, changing out the water each time, they can be eaten, and this is a traditional food in the rural American Southeast, but I don't want to chance it

British people have introduced it as a pretty, exotic ornamental plant. I think that is very funny considering that here it is a weed associated with places where poor people live, but maybe they're right and I need to look closer to see the beauty.

If you see magenta stains in bird poop it is because they ate pokeweed berries- birds can safely eat the berries whereas humans cannot

This is Plantago lanceolata, Ribwort Plantain

It grows in heavily disturbed soils, in fact it is considered an indicator of agricultural activity. It is successful in the poorest, heaviest and most compacted soil.

The leaves, seeds, and flower heads are said to be edible but the leaves are really stringy unless they are very young. Of course, it is important to be careful when eating wild plants, and make sure you have identified the plant correctly and the soil is not contaminated

I have also heard the strings in the leaves can be extracted and used for textile purposes

and that's some common plants you might often see throughout the world

[shatteredsnail]

i’m so normal about monsanto

[ceyhanmedya]

Agricultural Robot (Agribot)

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Agricultural Robot (Agribot)

What is an Autonomous Agricultural Robot? What are the usage areas of agricultural robots?

An agricultural robot , also known as an Agribot  , is a robot designed for use in the agricultural industry. Agribots automate tasks for farmers, increasing the efficiency of production and reducing the industry’s dependence on manual labor.

One of the biggest advantages of Agribots is that they can work 24/7, 365 days a year. Unlike human labor, they don’t need to be paid, just maintained.

Agribot continues to grow and investors are more focused than ever on sustaining our economy through automation, robotics, vertical farming, modern greenhouse applications, artificial intelligence and precision farming.

Some of the main applications of robots in agriculture are:

Harvest and collection

Autonomous mowing, seeding, spraying and pruning

Sorting and packaging

Phenotipleme

As the human population  increases, farmers are forced to use new technologies to meet the increasing demand. It is expected that there will be about 9 billion people in the world by 2050. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Association says agricultural production must double to meet rising food and bioenergy demands.

To meet the food demand of 9 billion people, robotics and automation are expected to play an important role in society. Agriculture is undergoing a hi-tech revolution as manufacturers increasingly turn to robotics to meet multiple challenges.

Innovative technologies and automation of tasks can help overcome some of the challenges, as the latest trends in robotization  show.

Harvesting and Gathering Robots

Harvesting and picking robots are best suited for high-value crops such as grapes, where harvesting has traditionally been laborious and time-consuming. Innovations such as nanotechnology ,  materials science  and  mechatronics  allow picking robots not only to detect fruits and analyze their ripeness, but also to grasp and sort them without damage.

According to Future Farming, harvesting robots could be used for crops such as broccoli, citrus fruits, cauliflower, kiwi, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, mangoes and watermelons in the near future  . Even some  field robots ; It can take over activities such as tillage, seeding, crop care and mowing from tractors.

Sorting Robots

High-value crops (including a variety of lettuce, strawberries, blueberries, oranges and other citrus and grapes) seem to offer the best examples for robotic sorting. These robots are especially useful where steep terrain is dangerous for workers and equipment. Thanks to precision technology,  weeding  robots  can also direct specific doses of herbicides to the weeds, radically reducing the amount of herbicide applied.

Milking Robots

Dairy farmers are switching from traditional milking methods to automatic milking methods to meet the exponential increase in global milk demand on the one hand and to alleviate labor shortages on the other. Milking robots help increase the productivity and efficiency of the milking process. The expectation is that the market share will shift from stand-alone units to multi-stall units and then to advanced rotary units in the coming years. Automatic feeding and barn cleaning systems also help increase productivity in the industry.

Drones/UAVs

Due to the growing awareness of drones in agricultural applications,  the global agricultural drone market is expected to grow the most steadily. Agribusinesses  use drones (also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to collect data for  soil analysis , planting, crop spraying, crop monitoring,  irrigation, and animal health assessments, among other things.

The decline in component prices and the improvements in stability and reliability are expected to be more common with relatively low-cost projects, particularly from Asian countries.

Will Agricultural Robots Become Widespread?

The United States, Europe, Australia and Japan are major regions that are adopting robotic systems  and  autonomous agricultural machinery to replace human labor while performing mundane agricultural tasks  . Although robotic systems are already well established in the dairy industry, harvesting, picking and sorting will quickly catch up from 2025. 

Adopting new technologies like robotics, machine learning will be a key factor in the changing face of agriculture worldwide. It will also reshape the definition of farm workers, lighten the workload, and also show promising results in crop productivity, increased yields and managed input costs. 

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[riverpiracy]

it's still so insane that we literally figured out a way to pop the hood on a crop's genetic makeup and swap in parts to make it more resilient, nutritious, and abundant, and the consumer market responded with a need for stickers on all of their foodstuffs to guarantee they contain none of those nasty scientist plants. not for sensible reasons, like giving agriculture companies the ability to sell single-use seeds or possible disruptions to local ecosystems, but because they made it in a lab so it must be bad for you somehow. go back to eating shitty, 5 kernel corn cobs and melons with a 60/40 seed to flesh ratio, then.

[najia-cooks]

[ID: A bowl of avocado spread sculpted into a pattern, topped with olive oil and garnished with symmetrical lines of nigella seeds and piles of pomegranate seeds; a pile of pita bread is in the background. End ID]

متبل الأفوكادو / Mutabbal al-'afukadu (Palestinian avocado dip)

Avocados are not native to Palestine. Israeli settlers planted them in Gaza in the 1980s, before being evicted when Israel evacuated all its settlements in Gaza in 2005. The avocados, however, remained, and Gazans continued to cultivate them for their fall and winter harvest. Avocados have been folded into the repertoire of a "new" Palestinian cuisine, as Gazans and other Palestinians have found ways to interpret them.

Palestinians may add local ingredients to dishes traditionally featuring avocado (such as Palestinian guacamole, "جواكامولي فلسطيني" or "غواكامولي فلسطيني"), or use avocado in Palestinian dishes that typically use other vegetables (pickling them, for example, or adding them to salads alongside tomato and cucumber).

Another dish in this latter category is حمص الافوكادو (hummus al-'afukadu)—avocado hummus—in which avocado is smoothly blended with lemon juice, white tahina (طحينة البيضاء, tahina al-bayda'), salt, and olive oil. Yet another is متبّل الأفوكادو (mutabbal al-'afukadu). Mutabbal is a spiced version of بابا غنوج (baba ghannouj)‎: "مُتَبَّل" means "spiced" or "seasoned," from "مُ" "mu-," a participlizing prefix, + "تَبَّلَ" "tabbala‎," "to have spices added to." Here, fresh avocado replaces the roasted eggplant usually used to make this smooth dip; it is mixed with green chili pepper, lemon juice, garlic, white tahina, sumac, and labna (لبنة) or yoghurt. Either of these dishes may be topped with sesame or nigella seeds, pomegranate seeds, fresh dill, or chopped nuts, and eaten with sliced and toasted flatbread.

Avocados' history in Palestine precedes their introduction to Gaza. They were originally planted in 1908 by a French order of monks, but these trees have not survived. It was after the Balfour Declaration of 1917 (in which Britain, having been promised colonial control of Palestine with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War 1, pledged to establish "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine) that avocado agriculture began to take root.

In the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, encouraged by Britain, Jewish Europeans began to immigrate to Palestine in greater numbers and establish agricultural settlements (leaving an estimated 29.4% of peasant farming families without land by 1929). Seeds and seedlings from several varieties of avocado were introduced from California by private companies, research stations, and governmental bodies (including Mikveh Israel, a school which provided settlers with agricultural training). In these years, prices were too high for Palestinian buyers, and quantities were too low for export.

It wasn't until after the beginning of the Nakba (the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from "Jewish" areas following the UN partition of Palestine in 1947) that avocado plantings became significant. With Palestinians having been violently expelled from most of the area's arable land, settlers were free to plant avocados en masse for export, aided (until 1960) by long-term, low-interest loans from the Israeli government. The 400 acres planted within Israel's claimed borders in 1955 ballooned to 2,000 acres in 1965, then 9,000 by 1975, and over 17,000 by 1997. By 1986, Israel was producing enough avocados to want to renegotiate trade agreements with Europe in light of the increase.

Israeli companies also attained commercial success selling avocados planted on settlements within the West Bank. As of 2014, an estimated 4.5% of Israeli avocado exports were grown in the occupied Jordan Valley alone (though data about crops grown in illegal settlements is of course difficult to obtain). These crops were often tended by Palestinian workers, including children, in inhumane conditions and at starvation wages. Despite a European Union order to specify the origin of such produce as "territories occupied by Israel since 1967," it is often simply marked "Israel." Several grocery stores across Europe, including Carrefour, Lidl, Dunnes Stores, and Aldi, even falsified provenance information on avocados and other fruits in order to circumvent consumer boycotts of goods produced in Israel altogether—claiming, for example, that they were from Morocco or Cyprus.

Meanwhile, while expanding its own production of avocados, Israel was directing, limiting, and destabilizing Palestinian agriculture in an attempt to eliminate competition. In 1982, Israel prohibited the planting of fruit trees without first obtaining permission from military authorities; in practice, this resulted in Palestinians (in Gaza and the West Bank) being entirely barred from planting new mango and avocado trees, even to replace old, unproductive ones.

Conditions worsened in the years following the second intifada. Between September of 2000 and September of 2003, Israeli military forces destroyed wells, pumps, and an estimated 85% of the agricultural land in al-Sayafa, northern Gaza, where farmers had been using irrigation systems and greenhouses to grow fruits including citrus, apricots, and avocados. They barred almost all travel into and out of al-Sayafa: blocking off all roads that lead to the area, building barricades topped with barbed wire, preventing entry within 150 meters of the barricade under threat of gunfire, and opening crossings only at limited times of day and only for specific people, if at all.

A July 2001 prohibition on Palestinian vehicles within al-Sayafa further slashed agricultural production, forcing farmers to rely on donkeys and hand carts to tend their fields and to transport produce across the crossing. If the crossing happened to be closed, or the carts could not transport all the produce in time, fruits and vegetables would sit waiting in the sun until they rotted and could not be sold. The 2007 blockade worsened Gaza's economy still further, strictly limiting imports and prohibiting exports entirely (though later on, there would be exceptions made for small quantities of specific crops).

In the following years, Israel allowed imports of food items into Gaza not exceeding the bare minimum for basic sustenance, based on an estimation of the caloric needs of its inhabitants. Permitted (apples, bananas, persimmons, flour) and banned items for import (avocados, dates, grapes) were ostensibly based on "necessary" versus "luxury" foods, but were in fact directed according to where Israeli farmers could expect the most profit.

Though most of the imports admitted into Gaza continued to come from Israel, Gazan farmers kept pursuing self-sufficiency. In 2011, farmers working on a Hamas-government-led project in the former settlements produced avocados, mangoes, and most of the grapes, onions, and melons that Gazans ate; by 2015, though still forbidden from exporting excess, they were self-sufficient in the production of crops including onions, watermelon, cantaloupe, grapes, almonds, olives, and apples.

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Ingredients:

2 medium avocados (300g total)

1/4 cup white tahina

2 Tbsp labna (لبنة), or yoghurt (laban, لبن رايب)

1 green chili pepper

2 cloves garlic

2 Tbsp good olive oil

Juice of 1/2 lemon (1 1/2 Tbsp)

1 tsp table salt, or to taste

Pomegranate seeds, slivered almonds, pine nuts, chopped dill, nigella seeds, sesame seeds, sumac, and/or olive oil, to serve

Khubiz al-kmaj (pita bread), to serve

Instructions:

1. In a mortar and pestle, crush garlic, pepper, and a bit of salt into a fine paste.

2. Add avocados and mash to desired texture. Stir in tahina, labna, olive oil, lemon juice, and additional salt.

You can also combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor.

3. Top with a generous drizzle of olive oil. Add toppings, as desired.

4. Cut pita into small rectangles or triangles and separate one half from the other (along where the pocket is). Toast in the oven, or in a large, dry skillet, stirring occasionally, until golden brown. Serve dip alongside toasted pita chips.

[botaniqueer]

If anyone wants to buy seeds from shops that are pro-Palestine, my favorites are Experimental Farm Network and Truelove Seeds! They work with Black and Indigenous people when sourcing seeds

I haven't ordered from them, but Alliance of Native Seedkeepers is another good one.

A shop to avoid is Baker Heirloom Seeds. Horticulture and agriculture have a white supremacy problem and there are a lot of sellers that fall into this and they're no exception (speaking as someone who unfortunately bought seeds from them in the past before I found out ;=;). They're friend's with Clive Bundy and have taken credit for seeds from others including native folks as their own. Most recently they took another company's purple tomato and just rebranded it as theirs.

If anyone knows of specifically Black and Indigenous-owned (esp Palestinian) shops, feel free to add some in the reblogs!

[dairy-farmer]

Clark has had his eyes on Tim for ages, but Batman would have made him regret being born for putting his hands on Timmy. The kid was also really close to his younger clone with super-senses which was awkward and would have made it impossible to go undiscovered for long.

When Kon and Bruce are "dead" and out of the way he sees his chance though. Dick trusts Clark and is too busy with Damian to suspect him of exploiting Tim's grief.

Now Clark just has to find some way to get him off of birth control and do some sleight of hand with the condoms so he can lock this down

😍😍😍😍 clark waiting for an opportunity because bruce is a vigilant guardian who keeps a close eye on tim. clark suspects that he may be subconsciously sensing clark's interest in him and is trying to keep him close as a result. and even when he's not around kon is. and clark knows that kon would rat on him, that he'd bring it up to someone whether he realized clark's intents or not.

clark can't help the interest he feels in tim, it would be easier if he didn't but he is. the soft curve of his jaw, his hair, his sweet eyes and soft looking mouth. tim bears a striking resemblance to a young lana, the one clark recalled from childhood that was still sweet and gentle with him. it saddened him that so many things from his childhood had grown older, bitter, and disenchanted. smallville was slowly losing the battle to big agriculture. only 4 of the original family owned farms remained, lana's mother and uncle had both ended up selling their land after a bad crop season put them deeper in debt to one of the predatory seed companies that had swept into town.

smallville was being sucked dry and much of clark's childhood with it. clark's marriage and relationship wasn't as smooth as when he and lois had just been dating and clark was feeling so much pressure from everywhere in his life.

and then he'd seen tim. so dolllike and sweet. and the way him and kon played was so much like how clark had played with lana and...it had just made him want. he'd wanted to feel tim, to touch him and fuck him. he'd felt a desire and hunger for him that he hadn't felt for anyone in so long.

and so could anyone blame him for taking the oppertunity when it was there. tim was teary and vulnerable and practically fell in clark's arms, desperate for distraction. and clark was kind and acted hesitant and unsure long enough to have deniability but then giving in. it's not hard to mess with tim's pills while he's asleep, passed out from how hard clark fucked him. clark already knows where he keeps them. and in the act its much easier. all it takes is a sewing needle clark stole from tim's sewing kit and a deft poke through the condom tim still offers him even while in a manic state.

kryptonians are stupidly fertile and clark just knows with the measures he's taken they will be enough to get what he wants. in a few months tim will be ashamed coming to him but clark will be welcoming and supportive as he offers to stay with tim. to do the right thing.

lois will be upset when clark explains to her that they'll need to seperate but deep down she'll know that its what she wants as well.

after that...well. the other bats can't hold it against clark forever. he's superman and he's trying to do the right thing after they both made a mistake together. maybe by the time the second kid comes around they'll have accepted that clark and tim are a thing, that they have sex and are making babies together.

so long as everything goes to plan it will be fine.

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n53_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Farquhar's bulbs 1902.. Boston, Mass. :R. & J. Farquhar,1902.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42229865

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[acti-veg]

One of the most infamous modern-day monopolies is the biotech agricultural company Monsanto. The company specializes in environmentally toxic, genetically modified crops and seeds, and utilizes patents to dominate seed markets. In India, 95 percent of cottonseed is controlled by Monsanto, as Indian companies have been locked into joint ventures and licensing arrangements for the last couple of decades. Every patented seed is the "intellectual property" of Monsanto, entitling them to royalties, thereby raising the costs of seeds.

Perhaps most shockingly, these patented seeds have come to include "gene use restriction technology" — seeds that will not produce viable offspring seeds. In this way farmers are forced into buying new seeds every year, rather than harvesting them out of the previous year's crops. The swelling of Indian farmers' debt — along with increasing farmer suicides — are a product of what Indian environmentalist and ecofeminist Vandana Shiva has dubbed Monsanto's "seeds of suicide."

-Hadas Thier, A People’s Guide to Capitalism

[growingstories]

Farming

High-rolling lawyer James Christophers is a name partner in a prestigious firm, specializing in liability cases for pharmaceutical clients. He is known for his handsome, muscular appearance and confident attitude. Despite his tight schedule, which includes early morning workouts and back-to meetings-back, James enjoys the city and life his spends weekends at bars gay, always with a new boyfriend in town.

Recently, James inherited a vast farm in the middle of nowhere in Northeast Ohio from his late uncle. As he was married to his mother's sister and childless, James is the sole heir. Although James flies to the farm in the company jet during weekends, he finds the intensity of combining the farm and his city life overwhelming.

It is during one of these visits that he meets Jackson, his neighbors' 20-year-old son. Jackson, who prefers to be called Jackie, reveals that he is on the brink of losing his wrestling scholarship if he doesn't win his next match.

In a surprising turn of events, James proposes a deal to Jackie. If Jackie loses the match, James will pay for his last year of tuition In return, Jackie agrees to work on the farm during his free time while attending school. Unfortunately, Jackie loses the match and immediately starts working on the farm. The initial weeks prove to be challenging as he tackles manual tasks such as harvesting and yard work, providing enough physical exercise to maintain his muscular physique. As the holidays approach and there is less work to do on the farm, Jackie realizes he has gained weight due to his continued wrestling diet.

In the spring, James visits the farm and unveils his plan for a flourishing agricultural business. He introduces a new fertilizer for wheat and corn, promising faster growth and larger yields. Although it is not yet available on the market, James decides to conduct a trial season. The whole village becomes interested, and James offers to share the results after the next harvest.

Even though there is a lot of hard labour Jackie keeps eating like he did as a wrestler, during the summer, Jackie continues to gain weight, reaching a staggering 260 pounds.

Also James sees his weight climbing. Despite the weight gain, the crops thrive, and James seizes the opportunity to sell his shares in the law firm and invest the money in expanding his farming business. The town becomes dependent on James for their seed supply, and he even keeps some wheat for the local bakery and corn for his own livestock.

Eventually, Jackie graduates and secures a job at a real estate company out of state. This leaves James in need of a solution the to farm work. He finds Danny, the son of a local baker.

Though Danny lacks ambition, he possesses a strong work ethic. Unfortunately, working alongside this young man becomes detrimental to James' fitness goals, as he gains weight due to the delicious goods from Danny's mom she prepares everyday for them.

Desperate to lose weight, James spends two months at a fitness resort. Upon his return, he successfully sheds the excess fat and gains some muscle, resulting in a weight of 205 pounds.

However, he quickly gains weight yet again after consuming too many pastries from the bakery, reaching 237 pounds. Concerned the about rapid weight gain, James reaches out to his previous clients for the trial reports, only to discover that the hormones in the seed additives cause an increase in appetite and muscle growth, as well as the faster storage of fat in humans and animals.

Faced with this startling revelation, James contemplates his options. After studying the fine prints he realizes that he is legally protected and not liable for the consequences of the seed additives. Unsure whether to inform the baker or Danny's mother, James decides to continue with the next season, planning to visit a fitness resort as soon as the seeds are planted. However, amid the increasing demands of his growing business and the rapid weight gain of his animals, he struggles to find a solution for his own weight.

Frustrated, James strikes a deal with Danny. In exchange for not revealing James' secret of not eating, to his mother, he pays Danny a bit more. Danny agrees to eats both his and James’ food his mother baked. Weeks and months pass, and James remains unable to lose the weight. Without the motivation of his previous lifestyle, he is less concerned about his appearance.

Meanwhile, Danny's newfound popularity because of his new size leads him to overeat even more from his mothers goods.

After a year, Danny has gained an astonishing 220 pounds of pure fat, reveling in his newfound sense of power and masculinity. In town, he becomes popular among girls who appreciate his larger frame. However, the consequences of his actions, as well as his increasing weight, continue to unfold.