I have to read this more thoroughly but it’s bad. How bad?PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:20 pmMore from Cornell.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:25 pmI’m pro GMO.a fan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:52 pmNotice how young he is. This is the stereotypical "I have all the solutions" guy who just got out of college, and has NO IDEA that we've been working on everything he's mentioning for DECADES...not just some dude with a mustache. Real Engineers like my brother. He's talking about chemical companies from WWII? Tinfoilhat nonsense.youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:03 pmyouthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:24 amIt's never about money. Maybe...just maybe, we all being bamboozled: https://www.facebook.com/reel/720201783385543a fan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:40 pmYou don't have to so much as listen to scientists.youthathletics wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 9:42 am Time to pick your poison....Trusted Harvard and Smithsonian Employee or backed by big coal.
Dr. Wille Soon: https://x.com/SpartaJustice/status/1746 ... 19624?s=20
Trust the science, from a scientist they say...
Ask your local farmer. Ask them about wild weather swings, and how much more frequent they are then when they were kids.
Republicans believe farmers, right? Talk to them. If you don't leave the conversation scared, or at least worried, you're not listening.
Or listen to people like me who work with farmed materials.
I just listened to an entire Master Brewer's Assn broadcast where the entire industry, for the first time ever, has to seriously consider changing the raw materials used to make beer because the quality of malting-barley is all over the place. And this is ALL growing regions of the world.
The long and the short of it is that for the last 150 years, you'd get one crazy year for barley for every ten years of normal. Now it's the other way around......9 years of abnormal crop years, and 1 that's "normal".
You can say that we're not getting the cause of this issue correctly identified if you want. But no bones about it.....our Earth is changing. And not in a good way.Afan - I'd be curious what your farmer friends have to say about this guys premise...how much they have seen/witnessed soil and crop changes with new chemicals, seeds, changes in fertlizer, bug pestidisdes etc....along with concerns over climate issues.
Do you remember what soda cans looked like in the 70's? How much thinner are they now? Still strong. Still do the job. How much less weight is being moved on roads and rails because of this?
Farmers and University Extension offices (think: Cornell Ag) have spent the last several decades helping farmers REDUCE pesticide use. This could mean everything from breeding to GM's. Same goes for water and mineral usage.
Our use of these things is WAY down from where it once was. And the EU's use is even lower. Can't speak to other countries, but if it costs money? BIgAg is trying to reduce the use. Because: duh.
If the US and EU would finally accept GMO's? This guy would get what he's asking for.....good crops that don't need pesticides, and make better use of nutrients and need less water. GMO's are the future, imho. But the 1st world doesn't like them, so.....
Didn’t the Cornell AG station in Geneva create DDT back in the day? Pretty sure that’s correct.
"When a disease-causing fungus emerges as a novel fungal pathogen, its arrival can often be traced back to something humans have done. We move fungi from their native hosts and locales to new places and provide them with an opportunity to infect new hosts. If we practice prevention, if we are more careful, and have more regulations around the transport of plants and animals around the world, we may reduce the introduction of at least some novel fungal pathogens. Preventing new outbreaks through greater awareness and by supporting prevention policies and regulation is our collective responsibility."
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/bl ... ite/44014/
"Earlier this year, the Cornell University Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (CU-PDDC) used a new rapid test they developed to identify a small number of oak trees with oak wilt disease on Long Island, in the town on Central Islip.
This is a significant find and only the second location and third time that oak wilt has been identified in New York state, as it was confirmed in Schenectady County in 2008 and again in 2013, said Karen Snover-Clift, director of CU-PDDC, which collaborates closely with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) by providing diagnoses and research on plant diseases."
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/0 ... e-oak-wilt
I know there’s plenty of mushrooms floating around the finger lakes from experience though. Particularly pockets and ties like around the grass roots festival in Trumansburg in the summers.