When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want
Ruth Watson: Inside the new grassroots movement that wants your support
THE fields near my home are bursting with life. Lambs are big enough to rampage through their flocks in headlong, head-butting gangs. Highland cows…
A turkey was chatting with a bull....
‘I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree’ sighed the turkey, ‘but I haven’t got the energy.’ ‘Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my…
Welcome to Farm Hack | FarmHack
After three years of dead ends and cheeky developer comments, Diablo 4 players have finally found the cow level, but the mystery isn’t solved yet
After three years and multiple expansions, Diablo 4 players have seemingly completed the secret cow level.
AT Protocol, Part 2: Explanation For Non-Techies - Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
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WWOOF | World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
A world filled with nature, fresh air, good food, hands-on farming, and community.
Crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: a review
AbstractParadoxically, the number of crop–livestock farms is declining across Europe, despite the fact that crop-livestock farms are theoretically optimal to improve the sustainability of agriculture. To solve this issue, crop–livestock integration may be organized beyond the farm level. For instance, local groups of farmers can negotiate land-use allocation patterns and exchange materials such as manure, grain, and straw. Development of such a collective agricultural system raises questions, rarely documented in the literature, about how to integrate crops and livestock among farms, and the consequences, impacts, and conditions of integrating them. Here, we review the different forms of crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level, their potential benefits, and the features of decision support systems (DSS) needed for the integration process. We identify three forms of crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: local coexistence, complementarity, and synergy, each with increasingly stronger temporal, spatial, and organizational coordination among farms. We claim that the forms of integration implemented define the nature, area, and spatial configuration of crops, grasslands, and animals in farms and landscapes. In turn, these configurations influence the provision of ecosystem services. For instance, we show that the synergy form of integration promotes soil fertility, erosion control, and field-level biological regulation services through organizational coordination among farmers and spatiotemporal integration between crops, grasslands, and animals. We found that social benefits of the synergy form of integration include collective empowerment of farmers. We claim that design of the complementarity and synergy forms of crop–livestock integration can best be supported by collective participatory workshops involving farmers, agricultural consultants, and researchers. In these workshops, spatialized simulation modeling of crop–livestock integration among farms is the basis for achieving the upscaling process involved in integrating beyond the farm level. Facilitators of these workshops have to pay attention to the consequences on governance and equity issues within farmers groups.
Michael R. Crusoe (@biocrusoe@fairpoints.social)
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An Accidental Universe
simpsontw.leaflet.pubFor fans of Talkie-1930 and all the methodological questions raised by historical models, here's a new entrant into the field, TypewriterLM, trained up to 1913. Corpus, instruction-tuning datasets, and event dataset are released. arxiv.org/abs/2606.02991
Pretraining Language Models on Historical Text
arxiv.orgI want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina... [a thread 🧵] 📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf 🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊
