( tl;dr: things are basically good but also completely up in the air )

@siderea pointed me to this epic-length tweet thread from Sarah Taber on twitter, about agrarian romanticism in Star Trek here, thank you threadreader

Here is where I admit to having only a passing knowledge of Star Trek, so I can't judge that side of things, but I do think the future agricultural policy questions are interesting.

I mostly agree ( Read more... )

(another xpost-from-tumblr ag stuff ramble ( Read more... )

I grew up on stories of the Dust Bowl.
( a story about soil, or, if you will, my agronomic testimony )

There aren't a lot of hot-button controversial issues in agronomy--partly because the guys (mostly) who work on how to get 300 bushels/acre of corn in Iowa don't really hang out with the permaculture set, but also because, well, it's farming.

The exception?

Conservation Agriculture. ( ye gods this got long )