Farm Boy
I hope you dance
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And I've responded to it.
I think we've covered it adequately.
Return to start, or some such.
Edit: with the best grace I can manage assuming differing worldviews and not trying to be condescending.... I plant a little over 34,000 seeds per acre, aiming for a stand of a little under 32,000 living plants. The ~10% loss is unfortunate*, but predictable and quantifiable with observation. At the end of the year, there are zero living plants again. Also predictable and quantifiable.
When I throw 73,000 annual casualties out there, I'm trying to cast boundaries on the issue at point. What is attributable to it, where this input ends, with observation. If that scours.
*edit edit argh: and caused by different factors itself. Some seeds just don't go, maybe they're mouldy and dead, maybe they were cracked by the mechanics used to plant them and thus dead. Maybe they were weak, or planted under a tough piece of dirt, and they starved for light before they found it. All different causes. All addressed with different methods.
I think we've covered it adequately.
Return to start, or some such.
Edit: with the best grace I can manage assuming differing worldviews and not trying to be condescending.... I plant a little over 34,000 seeds per acre, aiming for a stand of a little under 32,000 living plants. The ~10% loss is unfortunate*, but predictable and quantifiable with observation. At the end of the year, there are zero living plants again. Also predictable and quantifiable.
When I throw 73,000 annual casualties out there, I'm trying to cast boundaries on the issue at point. What is attributable to it, where this input ends, with observation. If that scours.
*edit edit argh: and caused by different factors itself. Some seeds just don't go, maybe they're mouldy and dead, maybe they were cracked by the mechanics used to plant them and thus dead. Maybe they were weak, or planted under a tough piece of dirt, and they starved for light before they found it. All different causes. All addressed with different methods.
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