#agriculture notes

[jmose]

INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURE FORM ONE NOTES

INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURE FORM ONE NOTES

INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURE FORM ONE NOTES INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURE FORM ONE NOTES Soil Fertility ll (Inorganic Fertilizers) Introduction Plant nutrients occur in the soil in form of soluble substances. These substances are taken in by the plants in different quantities depending on their roles in the plant tissues.Essential Elements These are nutrients needed by plants for various uses. They…

[moonchild033]

Agricultural Astrology 🌾❤

Agriculture is done according to the phases of the moon as it influences the growth of the crops/plants. 🌒

Seeds are generally planted during waxing moon phase, especially those plants which grow above the ground and is in need of water and light source. Due to the gravitational pull of the moon, the water flow is not that deep and is sufficient for plants that grow above the ground. There is constant light source both during day and night time from the sun and moon for the seeds to flourish.🌕

During waning moon phase, plants that grow below the ground like tubers can be planted as the gravitational pull of moon draws more water to the deepest of roots and edible parts under the ground flourishes.🌑

Destroying weeds or cutting plants/trees are usually done on the last quarter of lunar phase and planting anything new is avoided in this phase. 😌

Note: Your grandparents can tell you these details if they were in farming or someone doing traditional way of farming can also tell. This is not something new, it can also be present in internet if you want to learn more details, I just wanted to share this with y'all.😃

Now coming to the astrology part❤-

If you are someone who wants to do farming/gardening/agriculture as a main/leisure business, the first thing to note is presence of earth signs in your big three or a stellium, especially Taurus. 💚

Taurus Mars/Moon natives can naturally be inclined towards nature and greenery. Their hands are also lucky for any greenery related businesses.🤗

If you are a fire dominant, but still want to do something with lands, real estate can be your forte, especially if you are an Aries Mars or have a strong mars placement. Usually fire dominants have a pitta body type, their normal body temperature itself can be a little bit higher and plants can be more sensitive than we think. 😇

If you are an air dominant, growing flowering plants is more profitable. Libra venus or moon can be attracted to beautiful and colorful flowers. 🌸🌷

Water signs in big 3 or water dominant people can indulge in agriculture or horticulture, especially cancer. Even seeds are planted when the moon is in the zodiac sign of Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces for favorable and profitable results.🌴

Check for the strength of your 4H lord and his connection with your 10H and 11H lord if you want to do agriculture or planting as your major money making business. Also check for 7H lord if it is a business partnership. All of these house lords should not be afflicted, debilitated or in connection with malefic planets.🌾

Usually Leo ascendant and Capricorn ascendant do well in this sector, as their 4H is ruled by Mars who is the significator of lands. If Mars has beneficial aspects with Mercury, greenery based businesses can be beneficial for the native.🌱

Moon in 4H, especially in a water/earth sign can also be an indicator of being interested or feeling serene in nature and liking professions/leisure works related to lands you own. You can be a legal professional but still you may enjoy gardening or having a terrace garden/balcony plants at your home. It can be your comfort zone.🌻

Please feel free to comment down your questions or thoughts! 🤗

Let's Learn and Grow Together!💅💋

With Love-Yashi❤⚡

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[elftwink]

one thing thats so interesting about being a vegetarian is you get to hear all about everyones hypothetical activism that they care about very deeply when talking specifically about your diet and why it's stupid, but literally will never bring up ever again in any other context

[ambertamm]

with current food prices surging, shortly after a global pandemic - where food was hard to access consistently, I'm seeing a huge boom of interest in folks orienting to growing their own food. As someone who has farmed for the last 10 years and is very close to starting my own farm, I just wanna re-widen the view a bit with some reminders. I know these last few years pertaining to food can lead one to a reactionary clinging, or rather a deep mental attachment, to dreams of farming that includes narratives of (food/self/community) sovereignty ... but there is a bigger truth that comes with working the land. A truth not so rooted in our human needs. MASANOBU FUKUOKA was speaking big truths in "The Natural Way of Farming" when he said, " We often speak of "producing food," but farmers do not produce the food of life. Only nature has the power to produce something from nothing. Farmers merely assist nature. ....The objective of natural farming is non-action and a return to nature ....

Modern agriculture has created nothing from nature. Rather, by making quantitative and qualitative changes in certain aspects of nature, it has managed only to fabricate synthetic food products that are crude, expensive, and further alienate man from nature. " Remember this as we continue, do not let the media lead to only think of food with scarcity in mind. do not attach to thoughts of sovereignty, especially food sovereignty, with scarcity in your body. lastly, do not think of farming only in terms of your needs, or only in terms of food production - there so much more that can live in relationship with working in the earth that still leads to your needs being met. In conclusion, start with the earth. if you're going to be an earth worker, start with your relationship with the earth - not your needs. if you are dreaming of farming as a way to meet your human needs/humanity's needs, you will absolutely move through mountains of depressions which feel endless and drain you. start with the nature. Understand that we got into the chaos that is agriculture today, through prioritizing our human needs mostly. We have the power to became farmers, earthworks, growers that don't do this but it requires us to think outside of our needs only - which is hard for us humans to do. especially with the inflation hitting our food prices and our most recent hardships with food access due to Covid.

[rikastrology]

rohini + bordeaux, FR: light-dappled skin and silk sheets. wine tastings and vineyard weddings. cotton, linen, and lace. abundance through generational perseverance. old houses with even older traditions. names lost to time carved into tree bark. the scent of sun-dried laundry and green growing things.

nakshatras as cities

[shallpass13]

Dragon fruit cacti (Selenicereus) are fucking bitches. The ones I worked with when I worked on assorted farms were shaped like overgrown Scirpus or mangled hamantaschen:

These plants can get big. The spines are, or at least seem to be, only on the pointy parts that stick out. Should be real easy to avoid getting stabbed, right?

Wrong. No matter how carefully you touch only the sides of the plants, or even if you try not to touch them at all (if you are, say, pulling weeds), you will get stabbed. It is unavoidable.

And if the ground is covered in plastic sheeting (so you can’t, say, see the bases of the spiky plants you are weeding around), no one can save you.

[fitzrove]

Ahdhgjjf I do like this youtuber I'm vagueposting about so nobody Go For Him but...

it's kinda funny that he said that Tolkien "based [his elves, in part] on ancient Finnish culture"... and the youtuber showed this painting from 1893 as an illustration to accompany the statement (you know, here is some "Ancient Finnish Culture"):

like bestie that is just what my and so many other ppl's great great grandparents were doing in the 1890s. The painting itself is based on events and people that the artist witnessed in the summer of 1893 and is a commentary on the famine of 1892-1893. The guy painted it in open air while witnessing it happen lmao. It's not exactly ancient - Tolkien himself was born the year before it was painted ahhdhd

[bleachbleachbleach]

Having one of those weeks where I read an essay about swimming at a YMCA in New Jersey and my brain is like "which is RELATED TO BLEACH BECAUSE--" and then another about beekeeping "WHICH IS EVEN MORE RELATED TO BLEACH BECAUSE--"

[evesprettylittlediaryy]

If you're a biology student and doing your internship in agricultural engineering, it's being way more difficult than you expected.

Both garden plants and fungus/bacterium studies are followed in this laboratory. I have been seeding bacteria, purifying fungal strains, taking care of plants and doing more.

I have learnt so many things, I got new aspects to the biology. But the most important thing was to learn how to believe yourself.

I would like to talk about it in another post so soon.

Hope everyone is doing well.

I know I do not post regularly and frequently, but I'm doing my best.

Sorry for these delays.

I'll take care of everything so soon.

[ocdhuacheng]

Love us roasting the target city selection

KSDJFNSKDJFSKDJ some of those cities are like.. thats not a real place

[asegbolu]

Revision Agricultural Science Primary 6 First Term Lesson Notes Week 11

Agricultural Science Primary 6 First Term Week 11 Revision Subject: Agricultural Science Class: Primary 6 Term: First Term Week: 11 Age: 11 years Part A: Review and Revision Instructions: Answer the following questions to review what has been taught this term. What is the purpose of preserving farm produce? Answer: To extend the shelf life, maintain nutritional value, and prevent spoilage. Name…

[deliciouspolls]

*Basically anything that isn't a typical farm animal: cow, pig or sheep. Not including birds or fish- might include that in a different poll.

(Obligatory Note: I'm American and this is based on what's overall unconventional to eat in the USA.)

Edit: To clarify just in case, I meant to have "None of these" mean "I've never tried any four legged creature that wasn't cow, pig, or sheep".

Edit 2: I live in an agricultural area. It appears this may have skewed my view on how frequently anything else is eaten. We have the Store and the Farm and that's it.

[reasonsforhope]

"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

[wileycap]

Selected Excerpts From The Fire Nation Royal Palace Servants' (Unofficial) Handbook

Or: Revisions To Normal Protocol After The Ascension Of Agni's Exalted Flame, The Dragon Of The Sun, et cetera, Fire Lord Zuko

1. Agni's Exalted Flame, The Dragon Of The Sun, et cetera, Fire Lord Zuko should not be referred to by his full titles and styles, no matter the context. This appears to annoy him. "Fire Lord Zuko" and "Lord Zuko" are acceptable, as well as "your majesty" and "my Lord".

1.1 "Lord Hotman", however, is unacceptable.

1.2. Even if the Avatar specifically requests you to address Fire Lord Zuko as that.

1.3. In fact, any attempts by the Avatar, the Lady Beifong, the honorable Tribesman Sokka or even Master Katara to get you to address Fire Lord Zuko by anything other than his proper title should be disregarded.

1.4. Referring to Ozai of the Fire Nation (titles rmvd, dishon.) as "The Loser Lord", however, is acceptable.

2. Fire Lord Zuko is aware of the concept of mortality, but does not seem to understand how it relates to His Majesty. Following activities should be discouraged: Free climbing, glider usage, contact with exotic animals larger than a turtleduck (or smaller, if the animal is known to be venomous), amateur theatre productions, cooking, sailing, spelunking, botany, please see full list in the Matron's office.

2.1. It should be noted that His Majesty's belief that mortality does not apply to him does not appear to be completely unfounded. After several "close calls", it has been decided that upon his demise, Fire Lord Zuko should lie in state for at least two weeks.

2.1.1. We do not want another incident.

3. The turtleducks in the Western Pond do not need to be fed by the servants any more.

3.1. However, the turtleducks should be rotated out at regular intervals in order to prevent overfeeding.

4. At any official social functions, at least three servants should be vigilant in case His Majesty tries to tell a joke.

4.1. It should be noted that there is no concern for His Majesty's jokes being offensive, crass or otherwise contrary to good taste. They are simply very bad. His Majesty always ends up embarrassed.

5. Any children left unattended in the Royal Palace for more than 15 degrees can be retrieved from the Fire Lord's office.

6. Should His Majesty go missing, the following places should be searched: roofs and any high places, cellars and secret passages, the fur of the Avatar's sky bison (which is surprisingly deep), and every place that an ordinary five-year-old would think to hide in during a game of "Hide and Explode."

6.1. All of the Imperial Firebenders as well as any soldier who wears a mask during the course of their duties should be questioned.

6.1.1. Important note: Some of the soldiers who are especially close to His Majesty can perform a passable imitation of him. Efforts should be made to prevent an uneducated soldier from, say, conducting a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture.

6.2. After the recent incident, that list is expanded to include the Kyoshi Warriors and any other groups that might wear concealing full face paint.

6.3. If all of these measures prove ineffective, a letter should be sent to The Dragon of the West, Prince Iroh, asking His Highness to return His Majesty.

6.4. If a ransom note is delivered, it should be immediately checked against the handwriting samples from the honorable Tribesman Sokka as well as Avatar Aang, before any other actions are taken.

6.4.1. Replying "Good luck, he's your problem now" to a ransom note is absolutely unacceptable.

6.4.1.1. To further drive home the point, the Royal Archives are required by law to preserve every single piece of royal correspondence. That thing will end up in a museum.

This handbook will be updated should it prove necessary.

[headspace-hotel]

I will write this thought about Veganism and Classism in the USA in another post so as to not derail the other thread:

There are comments in the notes that say meat is only cheaper than plant based foods because of subsidies artificially lowering the price of meat in the United States. This is...part of the story but not all of it.

For my animal agriculture lab we went to a butcher shop and watched the butcher cut up a pig into various cuts of meat. I have had to study quite a bit about the meat industry in that class. This has been the first time I fully realized how strongly the meat on a single animal is divided up by socioeconomic class.

Like yes, meat cumulatively takes more natural resources to create and thus should be more expensive, but once that animal is cut apart, it is divided up between rich and poor based on how good to eat the parts are. I was really shocked at watching this process and seeing just how clean and crisp an indicator of class this is.

Specifically, the types of meat I'm most familiar with are traditionally "waste" parts left over once the desirable parts are gone. For example, beef brisket is the dangly, floppy bit on the front of a cow's neck. Pork spareribs are the part of the ribcage that's barely got anything on it.

And that stuff is a tier above the "meat" that is most of what poor people eat: sausage, hot dogs, bologna, other heavily processed meat products that are essentially made up of all the scraps from the carcass that can't go into the "cuts" of meat. Where my mom comes from in North Carolina, you can buy "livermush" which is a processed meat product made up of a mixture of liver and a bunch of random body parts ground up and congealed together. There's also "head cheese" (made of parts of the pig's head) and pickled pigs' feet and chitlin's (that's made of intestines iirc) and cracklin's (basically crispy fried pig skin) and probably a bunch of stuff i'm forgetting. A lot of traditional Southern cooking uses basically scraps of animal ingredients to stretch across multiple meals, like putting pork fat in beans or saving bacon grease for gravy or the like.

So another dysfunctional thing about our food system, is that instead of people of each socioeconomic class eating a certain number of animals, every individual animal is basically divided up along class lines, with the poorest people eating the scraps no one else will eat (oftentimes heavily processed in a way that makes it incredibly unhealthy).

Even the 70% lean ground beef is made by injecting extra leftover fat back into the ground-up meat because the extra fat is undesirable on the "better" cuts. (Gross!)

I've made, or eaten, many a recipe where the only thing that makes it non-vegan is the chicken broth. Chicken broth, just leftover chicken bones and cartilage rendered and boiled down in water? How much is that "driving demand" for meat, when it's basically a byproduct?

That class really made me twist my brain around about the idea of abstaining from animal products as a way to deprive the industry of profits. Nobody eats "X number of cows, pigs, chickens in a lifetime" because depending on the socioeconomic class, they're eating different parts of the animal, splitting it with someone richer or poorer than they are. If a bunch of people who only ate processed meats anyway abstained, that wouldn't equal "saving" X number of animals, it would just mean the scraps and byproducts from a bunch of people's steaks or pork chops would have something different happen to them.

The other major relevant conclusion I got from that class, was that animal agriculture is so dominant because of monoculture. People think it's animal agriculture vs. plant agriculture (or plants used for human consumption vs. using them to feed livestock), but from capitalism's point of view, feeding animals corn is just another way to use corn to generate profits.

People think we could feed the world by using the grain fed to animals to feed humans, but...the grain fed to animals, is not actually a viable diet for the human population, because it's literally just corn and soybean. Like animal agriculture is used to give some semblance of variety to the consumer's diet in a system that is almost totally dominated by like 3 monocrops.

Do y'all have any idea how much of the American diet is just corn?!?! Corn starch, corn syrup, corn this, corn that, processed into the appearance of variety. And chickens and pigs are just another way to process corn. That's basically why we have them, because they can eat our corn. It's a total disaster.

And it's even worse because almost all the USA's plant foods that aren't the giant industrial monocrops maintained by pesticides and machines, are harvested and cared for by undocumented migrant workers that get abused and mistreated and can't say anything because their boss will tattle on them to ICE.

[snekdood]

ok i think ive come to a goodish enough take about it:

agricultural based societies should lean toward vegan

hunter gatherer societies should just keep doin what they’re doin