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Brassinolide plant hormone growth regulator Supplier & Manufacturer
By: Doraagri Tech
Tags: Brassinolide, Farming, Pesticide, Fertilizer

Brassinolide is a Brassinosteroid, a plant steroid also called a plant hormone. The first isolated brassinosteroid was discovered when it was shown that pollen from rapeseed could promote stem elongation and cell division. Brassinolide is made from rapeseed pollen, as such it's constantly gassing off a yellow gas and will stain its label yellow.

Functions

BRs have been shown to be involved in numerous plant processes:

Promotion of cell expansion and cell elongation; Works with auxin to do so.

It has an unclear role in cell division and cell wall regeneration.

Promotion of vascular differentiation; BR signal transduction has been studied during vascular differentiation

Is necessary for pollen elongation for pollen tube formation.

Acceleration of senescence in dying tissue cultured cells; delayed senescence in BR mutants supports that this action may be biologically relevant.

Can provide some protection to plants during chilling and drought stress.

Encourages new root growth.

This kit comes with instructions, scoop and 10g water-soluble Brassinolide 0.1%.

Specification

Brassinosteroid brs (brassinolide)

Cas No.: 72962–43–7

Spec: 90%TC 0.1%SP

Chemical Name

(22R, 23R, 24S)-2a, 3a, 22, 23-tetrahydroxy-24-methyl-B-homo-7-oxa-5a-cholestan-6-one; Brassins; BR; Kayaminori

Physical and

Chemical Properties

Appearance: Light yellow or white powder

Molecule Formular: C29H50O6

Molecular weight: 480. 68

Melting point: 225–258°C

Solubility(20–25centigrade): Solubility in water: 5mg/l;

Easily soluble in methanol, alcohol.

Toxicology

Poisoning symptoms: No report about human poisoning.

First aid: No specific antidote known. Treat symptoms.

Toxicological data:

Acute oral in rat: LD50>5000mg/kg

Acute dermal in rat: LD50>5000mg/kg

Effect

Brassinolide is a steroidal plant growth regulator.

Its function includes:

1. Promote the growth of plants to increase yield.

2. Raise the ratio of fruit-bearing and increase the unit weight.

3. Enhance the resistance of the plant to drought and cold weather.

4. Enhance the immunity of the plant. Used in tissue culture, regulate the differentiation of the tissue.

Applicable plants

Field Crop: wheat, rice, corn, bean, cotton, and so on.

Vegetable and fruit: cucumber, tomato, chili, celery, eggplant, strawberry, and so on.

Package

1g/aluminum bag (Brassinolide 90%TC)

1kg/bag,25kg/drum or according to customer’s requirement.(0.1%SP)

Delivery

By FedEx/DHL/UPS/TNT, Door-to-Door. 5–7 days

By Air. 10 days

By Sea.

South America : around 40 day

•Southeast Asia: around 10–25 days

•Africa: around 40 days

•Europe: around 30 days

Get an inquiry of Brassinolide
6 Stupid Mistakes Writers Make and How You Can Avoid Them
By: Ryan Dejonghe
Tags: Writing, Success, Marketing, Publishing, Farming

First, an analogy of growing money

In Robert Kiyosaki’s book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the central theme is knowing the difference between an asset and a liability. Here’s the gist:

Assets continue to make you money.

Liabilities don’t continue to make you money.

Your savings account is not an asset. If the interest you earn is less than inflation, it is a liability. You’re losing money.

Your home is not an asset. You are dumping money into it to keep it alive. Even if you sell it for more than you bought it, most of the time, you’ve spent far more than you’ve gained.

But this article isn’t about investing; it is about writing.

You can do one of three things with your writing. Only one of them is smart:

Sit on it. Keep it in your Grammarly folder and watch it get buried.

Sell it. Earn a set price for your piece. It could be $100. It could be $500. What you get is all you’ll have.

Give it and grow it. Publish a piece of writing that has returning revenue. This method has the potential for unlimited income.

A piece of writing is like a seed. If you want it to grow, you have to plant it. You keep that seed in your pocket, and all you’ll have is a seed. You can sell your seed to someone else, and all you’ll have is the money for your seed. Or, you can plant the seed. It might be a dud. It might be a prize-winning pumpkin.

The choice is up to you.

In regards to farming (writing), there are some really dumb mistakes people make. Here are six of them.
Gotta Have That Funk: Maytag’s Blue Cheese Just Got Bluer
By: Iowa Culture
Tags: Small Business, Farming, Cheese, Iowa, Dairy

Maytag Farm Reserve (Photo: Maytag Dairy Farms)

One of Iowa’s most iconic businesses is involved in a cover-up. Maytag Dairy Farms is leaving the rind on some wheels of their famous blue cheese.

The art and science of cheesemaking, of course, requires just the right mix of ingredients to mature over the course of many weeks or months. So even a small change in an early step can dramatically alter the final product.

For nearly 80 years, the cheesemakers in Newton have trimmed the rinds off their wheels of blue cheese after they age and ripen in the hillside caves. But with the new product, called Maytag Farm Reserve, the natural, edible rinds are left on to encourage the special bacteria (Penicillium roqueforti) to work more of their funky, moldy magic.

“With the rind on, the cheese ages from inside out and outside in,” says Robert Wadzinski, a third-generation cheesemaker and Maytag’s vice president for product development.

So while the traditional product offers a “clean, buttery taste profile with a little bit of sharpness and that salty tang you expect from blue cheese,” says Noreen Otto, the company’s chief administrative officer, the new version is “more earthy, with an almost nutty flavor.” It’s also denser and creamier, “almost like fudge or cheesecake.”

Many other blue-cheese producers — in France, California, Oregon and elsewhere — sell rind-on varieties. Maytag decided to develop its own version to offer something new in the ever-evolving market of specialty foods.

Cheesemakers roll carts of cheese to a cold storage unit at the Maytag Dairy Farms in Newtown, Iowa.

“We talk a lot about legacy here at Maytag,” Otto says. “It’s not just created in the past, in our history. For us, it’s a living, vibrant thing, and we think about how to carry it into the future.”

The company plans to release the Farm Reserve more widely in 2021. Until then, cheese fans who want a blue Christmas can find it online and at the Maytag visitors’ center, the Newton Hy-Vee and several specialty shops in Des Moines.

— Michael Morain, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
The .3 Percent THC Threshold Hurts Our Hemp Farmers
Tags: Thc, Opinion, Farming, Hemp Farming, Hemp

Despite the wild west stage hemp is currently running through, the versatile crop is here to stay. From fiber, to extraction, to smokable flower, 465,787 acres of hemp were planted across the United States in 2020, according to Hemp Industry Daily. While that is a very large stash, more than a few farmers have had their crops go up in smoke…and not in a good way.

For example, USA Today, reported, “ About 13% of Iowa farmers’ hemp fields had to be fully or partially destroyed because the THC levels in the plants exceeded 0.3%, the maximum allowed under state and federal laws.”

According to the USDA interim final rule enacted on October 31, 2019, “ the term “hemp” means the plant species Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.” Under federal law, anything above .3 percent is considered marijuana.

With the vast majority of hemp grown outside, thousands of variables can affect how the plant will produce THC. In an article published by Terpenes and Testing Magazine, “ THC and other cannabinoids are plant defense mechanisms, and cannabis responds to environmental stress with decisive chemical action.” It is also worth noting genetics also play a role in how a plant will produce THC. Farmers should always throughly research which strains they will choose to plant.

Iowa isn’t the only state watching its crops go up in smoke. This is an issue farmers in every state face. Besides battling pests, the weather, and a million other factors, farmers have to battle the plants themselves in order to remain compliant with already outdated laws.

There is a push from dozens of groups to raise the legal THC limit to 1 percent. Everything from financial damage to farmers to how the extraction process and the THC percentage correlate has been cited as reasons to change the legal limit.

However, there is hope for the hemp sector of the cannabis industry. In early December, the House passed the MORE Act, which, if passed by the Senate, will decriminalize marijuana. This could open up the door needed to raising the THC limit for legal hemp.

The hemp industry is growing, but the .3 percent THC threshold is hurting our farmers. The current threshold puts farmers at unnecessary risk of losing their otherwise healthy crop. Without reasonable boundaries, the industry’s growth is restricted. Thankfully, the current research within the industry is helping to provide valuable information used to change outdated legislation. Only through education and research will we pull hemp out of its wild west stage into a new era.
Backstage Story Of Our Delicacies
Tags: Farm Produce Traceability, Agric Ecommerce, Farming, Digitizing Agriculture, Daydone

We all have heard and know that farmers feed the world but how?

Unfortunately many don’t care about how this is possible (once their delicacy is on the table nothing else)

This backstage story

For farmers to feed any nation and people it lies heavily on distribution, distribution is how the food gets to you. Get to your doorstep, kitchen, and table. This story is just beginning because the geographic distribution of agriculture production is more north than south.

While this is true, the journey of farm produce is alarming, hazardous and the worst part is traders’ greed.

Part 2: Traders’ greed

Traders of this our must-have items have gone through a lot of logistics, networking to get this item in their retail shop. But like other traders that want to be the most to gain from this supply chain.

They definitively deserve it after some have gone to the north to get items and store them.

But not at the expense of our health with heavy storage chemicals, and re-bagging. This then tilts the story for the farmer and now new entire produce, kind of originated by the retailers.

Let us continue

Have you bothered to see where re-bagging is done, you will observe this is done with no particular care for the produce. Produce like rice especially the ones from the industry doesn’t just have stone but with re-bagging, alteration, and resealing come some of this.

We said the produce was re-originated by retailers because some brands we see on our table are not produced from anywhere on the farm but are manufactured by our retailers, who choose what quantity and quality this have to be.

Part 3: Who to be blame

This story looks like side blame, but it has to also been since from the side of the retailers seeing that the margin on produce is negligible and to compete you have to follow the process that others are doing.

This increases among retailers since they are in more competition for consumer attraction than the wholesaler who has the advantage of less competition.

Part 4: Conclusion

What if I tell you it does not have to be this way, that we can bring transparency and traceability to all farm produce and in fact feed consumers with a lot more details about what they consume. This is what only technology can do, and that is why we are advocating for Agric eCommerce to disrupt the backstage story of our must-have consumables. This story is not factious and also not to paint bad the open marketplace as that is the traditional way all of all have rely on.

But there has to be changed and in the new system for it to work. I am an advocate of a new backstage story for Agric, and not just a new industry will solve it but the government have a huge role in this and that is why I believe Nigeria government through NIRSAL have launched SAT-C

Thanks for reading to the end. I advocate for a digitized Agric network.

Written by: DayDone Agric
BSC/ETH Yield Farming 참여 방법 (Feat. CLT)
Tags: Bsc, Clt, Farming, 파밍, Cexlt

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PantsOnHeadRetarded(PHR) token, farming NFT wrapper
By: Meme Cat
Tags: Nft, Defi, Farming, Token, Crypto

Despite the silly name PHR packs a decent array of features, it’s a farming token, a NFT token and a wrapping token just like REN, it will also have an airdrop.

PHR has the ability to more easily wrap various coins and tokens, just like REN via burning/minting. It can turn your DOGEs into a token and help your token be put on an exchange without the minting, burning and other features hindering it.

PHR has a NFT-based rewards system just like MEME and GRAP, you can place your token inside your NFT just like Aavegotchi will be able to in the future.

You’ll be given a common primary login NFT where you can put your liquidity pool tokens inside of it so you no longer have to pay taxes every time you stake, unstake, pool on Uniswap.

You have to farm the rare NFTs. It’s a meme-able token.

It will have a presale going on over at:

https://t.me/pantsonheadretarded

twitter.com/HeadRetarded

10% of the current supply will be airdropped to the most effortful of supporters together with an NFT.

5 lucky members will have an initial presale 50% bonus of 2 ethereum each, plus an NFT.

The token plans on having a strong initial marketcap of 1M before being listed on Uniswap where 80% will be put into liquidity and 20% used for further marketing.
Импакт-инвестиции в сельское хозяйство и АПК
By: Ixd Capital
Tags: Impact Investing, Agriculture, Farming, Ixdcapital, Finance

As an impact investment evangelist IxD Capital effectively promotes new industrial and digital business models.
Farmer Blue
By: Kevin Tenkku
Tags: Ghosts, Past, Farming, Love, Good Old Days

Farmer Blue was a good man

He walks his land, he loves his fields

I see him daily in his blue shirt and big brimmed hat

dirt dust mud

pushing and carrying

tilling and seeding

his rows on rows

as Farmer Blue has done

when the train carried his produce

tracks gone long before

the last whistle heard when Wilson couldn’t speak

Blue walking and working everyday

gated houses built last year over fields and wood

fading in and out over the manicured

his fields long dead almost a century grown

he walks and works his fields from another time

fading in and out while the Buick passes

Farmer Blue smiles and works

he fades in and out

he knows what the land needs

tells me to stay and enjoy

“I’ll be here”, says Blue

long ago his wife had passed and Blue still works

as the dust covered print said Blue died too

dirt dust mud

tilling and working

my friend Farmer Blue
WFH farmer -The beginning
Tags: Farming, Regenerative Agriculture, Natural Farming

“Dream so big that people think you’re crazy. Continue to pursue your dreams and know that everything is possible”

Our typical conventional ‘farmer’ experiences scarcity, over produce, meager income, and social stigma. This has been the case for decades. The conventional farming revolves around a certain set of non lucrative activities. There are a number of factors that affect farming. Even though, it dates back to green revolution, government policies, extensive chemical usage and later the same govt policy to salvage them through MNREGA.

A farmer in 1950–1970's was self sufficient and was able to produce and sustain a life without any hassle. Is the current situation of a farmer is due to the government policies or because the farmer failed to follow the previous generations practices.

In my own experience of learning to understand this vicious cycle a typical farmer undergoes from season to season. I decided to jump into farming with as much little knowledge. In 2012, I took up this as a initiative and selected one of my farm stretch of 4 acres that was purely rain dependent area. Before I share my detail experiences, let us ponder on the noise that is happening around Delhi.

The recent updates to the farm laws promise an open market, allowing farmers to sell their produce where they want, to whom they want and at the most competitive prices suitable to them. So, what is wrong in this and why Punjab/Haryana farmers protesting in a National Highway. Meanwhile, Is Corona still a topic of discussion or taken a break to support farmer protests?

Change is inevitable and that is the only way to come out of a tangle of government regulations that exist for generations.
Public Service Announcement: No More Barn Coats PLZ.
By: The Misfit Farmer
Tags: Barn, Agriculture, Farm, Farming, Humor

Recently several farmers have texted me long-winded messages. Figures — most farmers have notoriously bad texting skills; some even use punctuation and complete sentences. This may be an attempt to overcompensate and debunk the stereotype that farmers can’t spell or write, which is a real dumb stereotype considering sixty-three percent of new farmers are English majors trying to heal the land and grow organic produce.

But yesterday, for example, I received a beautifully-punctuated message. It was from Vernon Dedham, a local grain farmer, via text message. It had not a single emoticon. It said, “Mr. Bishop, please utilize your public platform, The Misfit Farmer Blog, to stop the scourge of barn outerwear, i.e. coats, given to agricultural producers during the season of Christmastide. My closet runneth over with new barn garments. Yours Truly, Vernon Dedham.”

If you’re under thirty, here’s what Vernon said translated to a proper text: FYI plz stop w/ barn coats cuz clos8 ful :). If you’re over thirty, you can text this to all the millennial gift-givers in your life to preemptively save closet space.

On behalf of Vernon and farmers everywhere, let me explain. Farmers don’t want a new barn coat for Christmas. The rips, grease stains, and built-in manure smell in our current barn coat might lead you to think that we need, and therefore want, a new barn coat. You might think a barn coat is the perfect gift. But every year farmers are just being polite and faking it when they open the jumbo shirt box, the one with this year’s new edition of a barn coat.

FARMER: ( Feigning surprise) “Well looky here-a new barn coat!”

GIFT GIVER: “Try it on. Do you think it’ll fit?”

FARMER: (Putting it on for the first and last time) “I think it’ll work.”

The current barn coat is not worn out. It’s broke-in. And the warm embrace of a broke-in barn coat is hard to beat and only gets better with time. I’ve had my barn coat for nineteen years. It has patches, tears, grease stains, and my undying loyalty. I like it so much I’ve even washed it half-a-dozen times in nineteen years. Meanwhile, I have a closet full of brand new barn coats given as gifts, many I’ve only worn once when I was trying them on at Christmas. Eventually, they’ll go to Goodwill when my wife goes on one of her Maria Kondo organizing and decluttering binges.

Originally published at https://misfitfarmer.com on December 10, 2020.
Composites Weekly Dives Deep Into Hemp-Based Additives With Heartland Executive Jesse Henry
By: Tim Almond
Tags: Manufacturing, Industry 4 0, Plastic, Farming, Hemp

December 10th, 2020 — Jonathan Taylor, founder, and producer at Composites Weekly, spent time this week interviewing our CEO Jesse Henry to discuss biocomposites and the future of the plastics industry.

Jon has over 15 years of experience in composites manufacturing. He also spent 10 years in the US Military as a reconnaissance scout. Let’s just say that Jon knows a thing or two about biocomposites and their implications across the mobility, defense, and plastics industries.

As he connected with Jesse, the bottlenecks that have previously prevented hemp from being embedded into commercial use cases became apparent.

Click below to listen to the 30-minute interview.

https://compositesweekly.com/discussing-the-advantages-of-hemp-based-biocomposites-with-jesse-henry-of-heartland-industries/

In this interview, Jon and Jesse discuss:

The industrial hemp supply chain, and why this is an important factor in the adoption across manufacturing.

Biocontinuity, and why it’s important to determine the optimal size, aspect ratio, and moisture content.

Polymers, and some of the use cases that Heartland is testing with their partners.

The applications across multiple industries and value-added in each use case.

Bulk density, and how this impacts the weight of the composite.

Sustainability, and how carbon-negative materials will positively impact the manufacturing industry.

In just their short 30-minute interview, Jon and Jesse dive deep into all these topics.

This conversation has set the stage for future conversations between Jon and Jesse to dive deeper into use cases and the implications across industries.

Leaders in the composites and mobility industries who see sustainable materials impacting manufacturing will enjoy this brief, but an insightful, interview.

Jon is posting content each week with leaders across all parts of the composites industry. For more information on Jonathan and his platform, Composites Weekly, click the link and give him a follow.

– Heartland Team
Finding the sweet spot in Georgia’s mountains
By: Undp Georgia
Tags: Agriculture, Farming, Mountains, Undp, Georgia Caucasus

Vano is only 19 years old, but his ambition is to become the largest producer of honey in his region.

“Not only the largest,” he says with a broad smile. “On our farm, we produce the best, purest mountain honey, made by a very special kind of endemic species — the Georgian grey mountain bee, which has been in my family for generations.”

Vano has recently passed a UNDP-supported professional beekeeping business course.

“This training helped me understand how to keep the balance between having profit in beekeeping and taking care of the bee population. Without bees we can’t grow any crops, let alone enjoy a spoonful of good honey.”

The Georgian grey mountain bee is just one example of the endemic species that make up the unique biodiversity of the Caucasus mountains. Georgia is located in one of the biologically richest regions of the planet. One of the World Wildlife Federation’s 35 “priority places” covers the Caucasus. Moreover, Georgia is located within two of the 34 “biodiversity hotspots” identified by Conservation International: Caucasus and Iran-Anatolia. Forest massifs surviving in the Georgian mountains are the world’s last untouched forests in the moderate climate zone.

Georgia is currently home to over 16,000 species of fauna and 6,500 species of vascular plants. Twenty-five percent of these are unique to the region, including the Georgian grey mountain bee.
serendipity
By: Prayer Flags
Tags: Farming, Climate Change, Sustainability, Bangalore

“So let’s leave some blue up above us

Let’s leave some green on the ground

It’s only ours to borrow, let’s save some for tomorrow

Leave it and pass it on down”

So sang Alabama in their 1990 album Pass It on Down. But here in this weird year of 2020, I find myself doing the “leave some green on the ground” bit as a vocation. All very serendipitously.

I was just past the decade mark at Zyme (a terrific experience, with some wonderful folks), when I started talking to a few people who were planning to set up a farming collective. Having tried exploring the idea of farming a few years earlier (and almost giving it up due to the challenges involved), the collective idea re-kindled the urge. And in mid-2017, I signed up to become an early member of the Tamarind Valley Collective . The Tamarind Valley Collective is a 100 acre permaculture farm with a vibrant community of 50 families trying to rejuvenate an otherwise barren parcel of land using cyclical and regenerative methodologies. It has been an interesting and rewarding journey so far.

Long story short. Zyme got acquired in 2018. The new company wanted to run things differently (obviously), and I found myself taking a long awaited break from work. The break was short-lived as I started a music school sometime in 2019! The story of how I stumbled upon it deserves a longer piece.

In the meanwhile, visits to the farm became more frequent. One thing led to another and I started putting some of things I learned (and, still remembered) in my corporate marketing experience to use in helping one of our Collective’s co-founder in his venture, WeCommunities. What does WeCommunities do? To put it simply — builds sustainable living communities.

A year later, we are living amidst a pandemic and increasingly unsustainable models of living, hurtling fast towards a point of no return as far as the fragile ecology of our planet is concerned.

Can we reverse the damage? I believe so. Will we reverse the damage? I need an oracle! How does one stay sane in the face of these challenges? Each day, I do whatever little I can. Some of these, hopefully, may rub off on others.

And each day, I remember to ‘leave some green on the ground…and pass it on down’…
Benefits to Existing/Current Projects by Evaluating RFI Integration
By: Deep Think
Tags: Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Farming

Yield Farmers in DeFi have everything to gain and nothing to lose by working with RFI

Farming Projects

The potential farming projects’ (SUSHI, YAM, etc) holders have the opportunity from RFI to earn DOUBLE YIELD which is:

“ While staked in a XTOKEN/RFI pair — you’ll receive the RFI transaction fees as well as the farmed rewards”

On top of all that for the holders, the projects and their respective liquidity pools benefit too in this way :

1. When projects market buy RFI and create the liquidity pair exclusively against RFI, the RFI in the liquidity pool will still get all the TX fees. So the amount of RFI in the liquidity pool will continually rise with every TX that occurs. More RFI in the pool = higher XTOKEN price.

SO EVEN if neutral XTOKEN buy/sell pressure, if RFI price is constant you’ll see a rise in XTOKEN price (it’s like XTOKEN holders are indirectly getting fees from RFI network)

2. Existing projects integrating with RFI (e.g. SUSHI) get all the upside to $RFI and that translates to XTOKEN (e.g. SUSHI) upside. RFI has tremendous upside right now. The price appreciation of RFI gets reflected in XTOKEN as far as USD value.

As awareness grows, more will notice the incredible incentive to integrate with RFI and that will start the snowball of adoption. Even the biggest liquidity farming projects like SUSHI/ YAM will benefit from having a pair to RFI because the upside to RFI is much higher than ETH.

It’s a win-win for all and a no-brainer for basically anyone in the alt market for the upside compared to the Big Duo(Bitcoin and Ethereum).
Benefits to Existing Projects By Evaluating RFI Integration
By: Jonathan Fullerton
Tags: Defi, Farming, Decentralization

In three weeks since its fair launch, Reflect Finance (RFI) has attracted almost 3000 active community members and 4000+ holders. In addition, RFI boasts 9 integrations with other projects with more coming on the horizon — a signal that reinforces strong fundamentals and innovative technology.

What is Attracting Everyone to RFI?

RFI’s deflationary token model with frictionless yield that directly rewards 1% of all transactions to holders’ addresses instantly. All of the fees generated directly go to the address without the need for a smart contract, interface, or a central party.

As a result of this innovation, many holders are looking to use their RFI for another utility — potentially your project. If you provide 3rd party lending, yield farming, or any other innovative smart contract, this will give RFI holders an opportunity to gain double — RFI’s instant yield and your project’s utility.

In short — RFI holders can become your holders too.

What is Attracting Projects to RFI?

Integrating RFI with your project can bring the following benefits:

Bring positive exposure to your project to a vibrant RFI community Increased TVL Increased liquidity Increased trading volume

If you’re interested in learning more, we invite you to come to our telegram and contact an admin to discuss integration of our projects. We look forward to seeing you!
RFII Finance: Layer 2 RFI + Farming Mechanics
By: Rfii Yield
Tags: Defi, Farming, Yield Farming

Why RFII & RFY?

RFII and RFY serve to bolster the RFI eco-system, to fill a void that one may deem as an integral and key piece of any DeFi ecosystem: Farming. 🌱

By providing farming solutions to RFI holders, RFII aims to be more than a fork. The goals for the project are as follows: to provide unique and simple ways of staking your RFI, RFII or RFY on a farming platform, that leverage the revolutionary RFI autofarming capabilities to bring new opportunities to RFI, RFII and RFY holders.

RFI, RFII & RFY | Tokenomics

RFI brings revolutionary autofarming capabilities to respective token holders. RFII has been forked 1:1 with RFI, with plans to fork RFY nearly 1:1 with RFI, with the addition of a call in the transfer function to allow for complete dual farming and triple farming capabilities with auto compounding while staked also being a possibility.

RFI has a supply of 10,000,000 RFI, 9,500,000 of which were fairly added to Uniswap by the developer with locked liquidity for 1 month. 500,000 RFI were airdropped to holders of the FLOW protocol. The developer’s plans are to relock the tokens over 1 month, 2 month and 3 months.

RFII & RFY Logos

RFII has a supply of 1,000,000 RFII, 300,000 of which were fairly distributed to liquidity generators, who contributed 40 ETH, which has been locked along with 500,000 RFII to Uniswap along with 100% of the 40 ETH.

Over 40,000 RFII has been airdropped to early contributors, and 30,000 RFII will be airdropped to RFI holders along with 10,000 RFII to the RFI deployer and developer.

The remaining 120,000 RFII tokens are reserved for the team and are currently locked, you can check the vesting periods here:

https://team.finance/view-coin/0x31aCf54FaE6166dc2f90c4D6f20d379965e96BC1?name=reflectreflect.finance&symbol=RFII

RFY will have a supply of 100,000 RFY. 99.99% of which will be added as rewards for staking, with 0.01% going to Uniswap paired with 4 ETH.
Custom cartoons by Stefan Popa Popa’S via MemeCa$h
By: Memeca H
Tags: Defi, Farming, Nft, Nft Collectibles

The famous cartoonist Stefan Popa Popa‘S has entered the crypto ecosystem. Because of his collaboration with the MemeCa$h project, crypto-enthusiasts have an opportunity that until now was only available to VIPs.

Specifically, buymeme.cash offers the option to order a custom cartoon, signed by Popa’S.

The project will issue vouchers in the form of NFTs, so that the owner of the token can ask for a personalised drawing. The vouchers will be auctioned off to the public, with the instant buy option. Within 48 hours, the buyers will receive the NFT token and, in addition, the custom cartoon will also be shipped by courier.

Based on the partnership between MemeCa$h and Holdtowin, voucher-type NFTs for custom cartoons will also be offered as lottery prizes.

Popa’S is probably the most famous cartoonist worldwide and the holder of a Guinness World Record. He created hundreds of drawings of famous personalities, including kings, presidents or famous footballers. Through the MemeCa$h project, his art becpmes available in digital format worldwide.

This means that you can join the celebrities and VIPs in the exclusive club of owners of original Stefan Popa Popa‘S cartoons. Join the Telegram group of the MemeCa$h project for details.

🌐 WEB& SOCIALS:

Twitter : https://twitter.com/BuyMemeCash/

Telegram (English): https://t.me/buymemecash

Telegram Announcements: https://t.me/buymemecash_ann

Website: https://buymeme.cash
long break
By: H. L
Tags: Taiwan, Potato, Farming

Ever since finishing my job in medical field, I came back home and tried to do something new.

Unfortunately, not much update after then. Pretty much trying to adapt to the new life, the weather and the culture. I haven’t lived home for 10 years almost.

During the daytime, I picked up some planting pastimes. At the beginning, I planted some basil and lettuces. Though the basil died not longer after I harvested the leaves for some pasta. The lettuce on the other hand, grows super fast and it even blooms.

Lettuce isn’t found much in Asian cuisine, neither of my family or I wanted to eat it. The lettuce seeds come in a mixed package where it contains up to 1000 seeds, I casually planted them without making any plan in advanced. The one kind of lettuce I found interesting is called chovory. It has a saw like leafy lettuce that grows outward from the center. It grows really fast, soon it has became a big bush.

My neighbors are really good farmers. Sometimes they give useful advice to plant the greens. My neighbor came inspect my greens and told me the chovory is an eye- plant. It is good for the eyes.

I didn’t know what it was, so I asked her if she wants them. She harvested some of it and saying it could go well with omelette.

Other plants I have planted are okra, eggplants and potato.

Okra is a very popular vegetable within households. Introduced from Japan, where we as well eat it after boiling and dipping with soy sauce.

Potatos came from the old potatos that I didn’t eat, which it grows the roots within it. I seperated the potato itself into different sections, carefully planted them into the soil. The tricky part of planting potato is that, you’ll need to make a so called cover on the soil. Where the potato that grows underneath wouldn’t get much sun exposure. Too much of sun exposure would lead to the production of toxic greeny part of potato.
Industrial Hemp Supply Chain Unlocks The Future of Mobility Through Lightweighting
By: Tim Almond
Tags: Manufacturing, Sustainability, Plastic, Farming, Hemp

December 8th, 2020 — Transportation is foundational to the human experience. Humanity has evolved from carriages, buggies, and bicycles into dozens of different types of scalable motorized activities. Cars, boats, and planes are 3 specific vehicles that have amplified our ability to connect with people from all over the world.

Of course, cars, boats, and planes are an oversimplification of much more complicated mobility infrastructure.

The fastest planes on the planet are fighter jets used by the US military. On a commercial level, SpaceX is launching and landing rockets on a monthly basis.

Tens of thousands of ships on the planet are moving goods, while US battleships create the standard for global marine transportation.

Race Cars down the street from you are doing 0–60 in under 2 seconds.

These advanced types of performance vehicles all have one thing in common. They are all heavy vehicles with big engines that need lots of horsepower.

Lightweighting has become the cornerstone of mobility capabilities.

Lighter cars can accelerate faster.

Lighter cars can go further.

Lighter cars can turn smoother.

Lighter cars can carry more weight.

Lighter cars get increased miles per gallon.

The lightweighting movement is not just driving the automotive industry. It’s driving anything and everything with engines, wheels, or wings.

We’re experiencing an amazing inflection point in the world today where material science has met scalable agricultural supply chains. Similar to solar costs being the least expensive energy source, natural materials have become less expensive than synthetic & mineral alternatives.

Material science has proven that hemp fibers and hemp hurds are valuable alternatives for the additives that are being used in plastics every day.

Hemp Hurds Replacing Mineral Fillers in Plastics

Talc — which is known to have asbestos (a carcinogenic).

Calcium Carbonate — which is known to have crystalline silica (a carcinogenic).

Hemp Fibers Replacing Synthetic Reinforcements in Plastics

Glass Fibers — which is known to irritate any and every part of the human body.

Carbon Fibers — requires 20–40 pounds of CO2 to produce.

These are just a handful of the dozens of additives used in manufacturing that are toxic to both humans and the surrounding environment.

The implications of successfully implementing hemp-based additives to replace the additives that are already used will be the most groundbreaking opportunity within materials science in the past 100 years.

For example sake, let’s use one filler and one reinforcement agent.

We will compare:

Fillers: Talc vs Hemp Hurds

Reinforcement Agents: Glass Fibers vs Hemp Fibers

This will give us a good framework of understanding of how hemp can impact parts of vehicles that are already being produced.

Talc vs Hemp Hurd — Weight
Customer Story | Detecting and Managing Variance in Citrus
Tags: Citrus, Agtech, Farming, Agritech, Precision Agriculture

Customer Story | Detecting and Managing Variance in Citrus

“The NDRE tool in Aeroview allowed us to see the extent of which the flush in our trees was not all at the same time, with some trees being several weeks apart. This allowed us to measure the extent of the variance between the two rootstocks in the orchard.” – Farm Owner

The customer in this story is a large citrus producer in the northern region of South Africa. To achieve his best yields, the Farm Owner has found and implemented two rootstock and varietal combinations.

The problem

Looking at his Tree Insights, the Farm Owner saw variance throughout one citrus orchard. There were dark green and distinctly lighter green patches of trees.

The variance between the different areas was even clearer using our Zones tool.

After investigating in-field, the Farm Owner found that the lighter trees were in flush and those that were darker had already flushed.

In fact, when looking at his Tree Insights and clicking on the green bars on the graph, he could see that 768 trees out of 2099 in the orchard had flushed.

The Farm Owner and his team concluded that the different rootstock and varietal combinations were having a negative impact on the uniformity of this orchard.

The solution

The farm team uses its insight into variance to monitor the growth and performance of both combinations and carry out customized applications. When it comes to harvest, these insights will be useful for planning picking and market strategies.
Role of Agriculture Software in Farm Solutions
By: Smart Agri Tech
Tags: Agriculture, Farming, Tech, Software, Technology

The agriculture sector is changing faster with the speed of upcoming advanced technologies suitable in agriculture technology. These modern technologies include Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that are becoming an essential part of the new farm solutions. Automation is entering into new farm management solutions to handle farming activities remotely, understand microclimate in the field and carry out farming activities with Agbots (Agricultural Robots). The core of these automated technologies is the communication to and forth from a service provider or an operator and machines/ instruments/ vehicles in the field. Agriculture software platforms such as agriculture applications are playing a significant role in handling all these responsibilities.

Agriculture software is one of the critical parts of advanced farm solutions that allows real-time monitoring, data collection, analysis, and data-driven decisions to farmers. It helps in making the right decisions and the right time that optimise inputs and outputs in the field. The demand in the development of customised agriculture software by agritech companies and individuals in the entire agriculture and food value chain is increasing tremendously. Thus, the global market size of farm management software and services is growing and is estimated to reach 2.9 billion USD (United States Dollar) by 2021. Within five years from 2016, this growth will be more than twice as the market crossed 1.307 billion USD in 2016.

Farm solutions include four modes of operation and control, study, understanding and description, diagnosis and prescription for day-to-day operation and management. These solutions are developed for in-depth insight and analysis of crops, livestock, agricultural economics, and technical equipment and facilities with good services. The ultimate aim of farm solutions is to enhance farms’ effectiveness and consequent profit for farmers. Agriculture software can do profit estimation, measurements, track and maintain records of staff performance and field activities, resource and inventory control, management of crop and labour along with overall business accounting. Modern farm management solutions are automatic and digitalised having the capability of handling complex tasks in the farm management.

Agriculture software for farm management applies to both small and large farm operations. This increases its utility as most of the farmers worldwide are smallholders, whereas farm solutions are relevant to only large fields. With intense research and developments, farm solutions and technologies beneficial for small farms are in progress in various research laboratories worldwide. Advanced farm solutions will soon alter the farming with their precise and smart decisions that optimise the quality and quantity of the yield.
Nigeria is wasting Generations — Ode to Agriculture
By: Oluwabukola Shaba
Tags: Nigeria, Value Chain, Agriculture, Farming, Farm

Picture in a picture of my egbons on a recent trip to my father’s farm in the village

As the daughter of a farmer, I’ve always loved agriculture. This is partly because I was a child when my dad farmed most actively and I didn’t have to do much than beg to be allowed to plant seedlings and then consume a lot of fruits and roasted corn or yam, depending on the season. As a kulikuli seller, I’ve thought of possibilities of empowering subsistent farmers to keep producing while ensuring there’s always a market for them to sell at. Our subsistent farmers are too poor and that’s not right.

Today, I had a conversation with one of my older friends about farming and the agriculture landscape in Nigeria. We talked about the agriculture value chain and how it leaves farmers/growers as the poorest on the chain. Referring to his father’s generation and mine, he said a phrase that prompted this post: “Nigeria is wasting generations…” and I’m inclined to agree. Thinking about my father’s many acres of farmland where he grows a variety of crops and fruits like cocoa, maize, yam, cassava, oranges, oil palm, etc, you would expect that the returns from selling those crops would have made him rich but that did not happen. I’m grateful for how the crops produced sustained our family during desperate times but there’s something seriously wrong with a system that does not reward such hardwork with enough pay to have a good life, not necessarily the luxuries.

My old friend told me stories of how his father would borrow money from middlemen in between planting and harvesting season and the middlemen will insist on being paid back in produce worth a lot more than what was borrowed.

We also talked about post-harvest loss and how we must introduce technology into our farming process to ensure we preserve a lot of the yields so they make it to the market. I reflected on my time as a staff of Initiative for Global Development in Washington, DC and working on videos and other projects around the subject. Do you know how much difference it makes to use plastic crates in place of raffia baskets in transporting tomatoes to market?

I guess this is a reflection on agriculture or maybe a love letter to this sector I hope to play in sometime soon. I want to be part of the tech innovations that help to preserve food and reduce post-harvest loss, I want to be part of policies that protect farmers from greedy middlemen and compels the government to provide infrastructure like good roads to support market access and lastly, to ensure there are regulations that discourage monopoly within the value chain.

Agriculture is one of our tickets out of poverty as a nation and we must start to pay attention to what’s going on in that sector.
New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act Analysis — Growers
By: Thomas Grady
Tags: Cannabis, Farming, New Jersey, Legal

Recreational cannabis growers in the State of New Jersey will be required to obtain a Class 1 Cannabis Grower License.

The New Jersey Cannabis Regulation Commission will have the power to issue Class 1 through Class 6 licenses. Class 1 Cannabis Grower licenses will be granted for the premises at which the cannabis is grown or cultivated. Class 1 Cannabis Grower License applications are not yet active, but the Legislature has outlined some requirements.

The company must have at least one “significantly involved” person who has resided in the State of New Jersey for at least two years as of the date of application. This person must have a financial interest and decision-making powers in the company.

There will be a criminal and background check for any officer, director, or employee of the company. The State legislature has indicated that they will not take into consideration state or federal convictions involving cannabis or cannabis resin. Any other person with a financial interest who also has decision-making authority must be 21 years of age or older.

No background checks will be required for individuals owning less than five percent (5%) equity in the company, or for groups owning collectively less than twenty percent (20%) equity in the company.

There will initially be a hard cap on the number of Class 1 Cannabis Grower Licenses permitted by the State. The number of licenses to be permitted is not yet clear.

The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission is expected to determine the maximum amount of issuable licenses by Q2-2021. The maximum amount of licenses will then be subject to change from time to time based on revenue and demand.
Water Management for Maize Crop
Tags: Farmers, Farming, Agriculture, Organic, Dairy

in New York Behind the Masks
Organic Maize Farming in Tamil Nadu
Tags: Farmers, Farming, Agriculture, Organic, Dairy Farming

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Repealing the APMC Act apparently did not do wonders to Bihar
By: Shrutin Shetty
Tags: Farm Bill, Bihar, India, Farming, Farmers Bill

The ongoing farmer protests against the 3 farm bills poses some interesting questions about the seeming obviousness of removing structures that seem to limit growth of especially small farmers.

Consider this. Bihar’s Agri & Services sectors form 20% & 61% of its economy. Punjab’s is 25% and 50%.

7–8% of Punjab’s population is poverty, 33% of Bihar’s!

Bihar is the 2nd largest state by population (9.1% of India’s population), Punjab ranks 16th (2.2%).

Bihar has an above average land fertility compared to many states. However, what Bihar probably doesn’t have, and that Punjab probably does, is a sense of a larger family — a sense of pride, community and togetherness in its culture.

Theoretically, repealing the APMC Act should do wonders to Bihar, right?

At least as per this 2015 (updated ’18) article, in the 14 years Bihar has had since being the only state to repeal the APMC Act in 2006, it has little to show of the seemingly obvious benefits.

Bihar has been a marginalized state over decades with a high infant mortality rate. Of course, all this is just a thin slice of a huge, complex picture. But hopefully it adds to a bit to the clarity, as one wonders why repealing the APMC Act didn’t do wonders to Bihar.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/.../article6871346.ece#