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Post by sigurdur on Jan 28, 2018 3:51:51 GMT
Read this in another blog today interesting does it apply to you Sig."Really not news to celebrate unless one puts the importance of fight over AGW/Climate Change over the general welfare of humanity. I have posted this elsewhere but will mention it here. As I was driving Thursday I tuned to AM radio and listened to the Indiana Agricultural Report. The guest expert was talking about sulfur depletion in soil. He said that farmers had not had to worry about it because in the past “acid rain” had kept the sulfur concentration in the soils within the optimum range for most crops. However now it is being found in many fields that sulfur concentration levels are dropping below the optimum range for the most common crops grown in Indiana and that farmers need to ask specifically for testing for it because it is not part of the normal soil analysis. So now what farmers once got free they are going to have to pay for to be sure their yields and crop quality do not decline. Who would have thought that there was a benefit from “acid rain”? It has been applying to me for 20 years or longer. I try and stay ahead of the game, even tho NDSU said I didn't need sulfur. Had to pull teeth to get it done at 1st. Had to special order Sulfur to my co-op. My neighbors thought I was nuts. Well, today, every fertilizer dealer in the area HAS a bin just for sulfur. Was hard to get at 1st. Got it from a coal fired power plant. Someone there was looking for a market, so they palletized the sulfur. Was cheap, not so anymore. Sulfur is a 2ndary nutrient, required to metabolize N in the plant so that protein is made.
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 5, 2018 13:23:33 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 5, 2018 15:40:52 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 25, 2018 17:31:42 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 5, 2018 18:17:07 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 6, 2018 14:26:45 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 14, 2018 19:13:14 GMT
"Drought threat intensifies for U.S. Plains winter wheat crop BY Reuters | March 14, 2018
Yield prospects are dimming for winter wheat in the breadbasket of the southern U.S. Plains, where the crop is emerging from dormancy and requiring moisture at a time when much of the region is gripped by drought, crop experts said.
In Kansas, the top wheat-producing state, Governor Jeff Colyer on Tuesday declared a drought emergency in 28 counties and issued drought warnings and watches for the rest of the state. The emergency declarations allow affected counties to access water from certain fishing lakes." kticradio.com/agricultural/drought-threat-intensifies-for-u-s-plains-winter-wheat-crop/
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 15, 2018 14:00:52 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 15, 2018 15:20:34 GMT
Another setback for the old paradigm. The mainstream is starting to peal away. When will the rout begin?
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 16, 2018 3:12:52 GMT
This is. A problem that certainly needs to be addressed.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 16, 2018 16:16:40 GMT
Dzud kills more than 700 000 animals so far this year, Mongoliawatchers.news/2018/03/13/dzud-kills-more-than-700-000-animals-so-far-this-year-mongolia/In long past centuries, did extended periods of drought in Central Asia send waves of mounted peoples westward into Europe? Forgotten books that some might be interested in. While "Environmental Determinism" has been roundly criticized in the past half century, have so-called scientific paradigms swung (as usual) to far in the opposite direction? www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/ThePulseofAsia_10107611After The Pulse of Asia was finished in 1907 the next step was obviously to carry the investigation into new fields. Palestine was chosen, partly because that country is geographically unique, and partly because there and in the neighboring regions the course of history can be traced far into antiquity. As the result of a journey in 1909, under the auspices of Yale University, Palestine and its Trans formation was published in 1911. The evidence discussed in that book shows that Palestine and Syria are full of proofs of climatic changes quite as convincing as those in Central Asia. Moreover, the indications of pulsations are even stronger than appears in The Pulse of Asia. The curve shown on page 349 of the present book indicates dry periods from four to six hundred years after Christ and possibly about 1200 a.d. The evidence from Palestine and Syria indicates a marked dry period not only at both of these times, but about 1200 b.c., while there are indications of minor periods at earlier times and also about 800, 600, and 100 b.c. And 300 to 400 ad.
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 17, 2018 14:28:59 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 17, 2018 15:01:21 GMT
Yeah, about that wheat price...........it sucks!
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Post by glennkoks on Mar 22, 2018 13:35:37 GMT
According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization world food prices are up through the first two months of the year. It's not a substantial increase but for citizens of poorer nations who do not have much expendable income it will hurt. If the trend continues it could be troublesome. There could be many reasons including inflation but erratic weather and disrupted growing seasons could be playing a role. www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/home_graph_1.jpg?23344566
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 22, 2018 15:53:24 GMT
According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization world food prices are up through the first two months of the year. It's not a substantial increase but for citizens of poorer nations who do not have much expendable income it will hurt. If the trend continues it could be troublesome. There could be many reasons including inflation but erratic weather and disrupted growing seasons could be playing a role. www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/home_graph_1.jpg?23344566Actually, it is economics. Everyone is looking for a crop that shows a positive on the bottom line. Those crops are elusive in today's market.
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