RT @simonmaechling: People who drink coffee, eat burnt toast, smoke or enjoy a glass of wine, but worry about pesticides really don't under…

@Kenya_Agron Yes indeed sounds a good approach for a double crop. Maybe some foliar N could add to flexibility by allowing late application when more of season is known. Maybe also look at some of the early genetics from Finnish Boreal. Not sure if it will work with your altitudes though.

@clintwfischer This is an interesting topic. For some reason it seems most countries have multiple different farm operation softwares. Makes sense from an accounting/legislative perspective. But the basic biology of farming/operation management is basically the same. It easily gets expensive…

@simonmaechling The role of Phytochromes in seed germination is actually pretty cool. In that perspective the biodynamics got one small part slightly right. Soil cultivations should theoretically in that perspective be a night thing…

@FarmerSimonC @ArableSam @TeagascCrops Yes I agree that it could theoretically be an issue. And rotational plowing could be a sound solution. However still not an argument for annual plowing. Also against stratification in notill, foliar fert makes sense. In aus they have made nice trials with deep P/K placement.

@FarmerSimonC @realJohnKempf Also good story Simon. I have found winter OSR establishment using a low disturbance subsoiler (in 28cm depth) can be a beneficial disturbance/soil amelioration once in a 5 year rotation. Solves compaction at the right time of year.

@realJohnKempf Thanks for a good read. Well written and important points.

@richardpayne94 @NFUtweets @NFUEnvironment Good. I just mentioned because I hope such extreme (non-scientific) precautions doesn’t make their way to UK.

@emilnielsen Det drejer sig om registreringsopdateringer, primært fornyelser af fortsat godkendt kemi. Unuanceret &overdrevet at kalde det “historisk miljøsvigt”. Lad os tage ansvar for vores miljø og gemme sådan et kraftigt ordsprog til et reelt miljøsvigt som høfde 42 og teflon fabrikker.

@Matt3ngland Yes peas + barley is a great intercrop. If you can keep the pea proportion reasonably high.

@Gary_Starlorn @OakbankGame @baseuk @glomalin Please follow my work. You’re welcome to visit anytime. I’ll keep farming in the meantime.

@simonmaechling And it must be more strait forward to predict possible disease mutations and correct corresponding base-pairs in the mRNA vaccine. Let’s bring this tech to plant-science! -how do you think this could work in plant science? :)

@simonmaechling I love cheese. Now I’m hungry for cheese.

@AndreiGirz @simonmaechling No, subsidies is the same pr ha (at least in DK) but turnover and cash gross margin are larger on more productive soils. This means that subsidies are relatively less important. Hence organic farming encourages continued farming of marginal soils.

@AndreiGirz @simonmaechling For more fertile quality soils subsidies are a smaller % of gross margin compared to less productive soils. Hence the yield gap between conv and org makes it less profitable to do organic on highly productive soils.

@agronomistag Yes exactly there’s plenty of philosophic angels. (I’m on the intrinsic team). But yet so many times biodiversity advocates seem to use homocentric arguments which I think is misguided and disregards “natural/biodiversity”.

@ErlandLundeby Looks good 😃