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Post by sigurdur on Apr 20, 2014 20:01:29 GMT
Price of milk had to go up. The costs of dairy operations have rocketed up because of the increase in regulations. Regulations used to be a nuisance but were bearable. Not anymore.
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Post by zaphod on Jun 18, 2014 13:45:46 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 18, 2014 22:04:18 GMT
You should see what I cull out to make buyer happy. People need to b hungry again.
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 19, 2014 4:24:01 GMT
You should see what I cull out to make buyer happy. People need to b hungry again. Sig, How much are you dumping? C Cull rate for 2013 was 17%. Mostly because of growth cracks.
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 19, 2014 22:14:01 GMT
Yes, if a potatoe gets too dry, and then gets ample moisture, it will grow very fast and sometimes the skin splits. The area is a crack. It doesn't affect the eating quality at all, just an appearance factor. If it is too deep, then it is over 10% of the potatoe by volume when cut off, and the whole potatoe has to be thrown away to make grade. That is for a #2 grade. A #1 grade is 5%, so the crack has to be mighty small, and there can be nothing else wrong with the spud appearance wise.
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 26, 2014 20:56:00 GMT
It doesn't appear to be a Bee killer. A fungicide does tho.
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 27, 2014 16:00:48 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 27, 2014 16:05:25 GMT
The comment about neo pesticides is correct.
No, they are not. The study showed that neonicotinoids, the pesticides used most commonly on GMO crops, were associated with greater, not lesser, resistance to Nosema
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 27, 2014 18:28:29 GMT
Code: Yes, but the neoconids are not what is causing the colony death.
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 27, 2014 18:29:51 GMT
As a follow up to this finding, Bee's were exposed to each class of fungicide. The only class of fungicide that caused the colony death was Cloranthinal.
The Neoconids did not result in a statistically verifiable decline.
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 30, 2014 14:30:54 GMT
Code: It is pretty wet north/west/south/east of me. I am in a very small pocket that has gotten about 2/3 of the precip of areas that are close. Manitoba really got hammered in the past few days, as well as SE Sask. But the markets this morning are shrugging this off in regards to wheat. The world is currently awash in wheat and corn. Soybeans are a bit tighter, but the actual corn belt/soy belt looks fantastic.
All the gloom and doom, in regards to ag production via higher temps, is not coming to pass. Production just keeps increasing.
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Post by zaphod on Jul 2, 2014 20:15:27 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 2, 2014 21:27:40 GMT
California's current drought is not as bad as previous droughts. What has changed is the diversion of water from ag to cities.
And a large supply of water that normally went to AG in the Central Valley now goes to keep some little fish alive. If memory serves me, 300,000 acre feet of water has been diverted.
California is a large vegg growing area, but it isn't the only vegg growing area.
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 2, 2014 21:31:39 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Jul 2, 2014 22:30:17 GMT
California's current drought is not as bad as previous droughts. What has changed is the diversion of water from ag to cities. And a large supply of water that normally went to AG in the Central Valley now goes to keep some little fish alive. If memory serves me, 300,000 acre feet of water has been diverted. California is a large vegg growing area, but it isn't the only vegg growing area. Thanks Sig, I did suspect that historical normal events are being labelled as something else. Now THAT has never happened before! Would I be right in guessing that investment in infrastructure for water treatment/distribution has not kept pace with industrial and domestic, let alone agricultural, need?
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