Podcasts about Phosphorous

The first animated series for James Gunn's DCU has concluded and we've got a lot thoughts. Mainly, why are we still coding disability as monstrous? Is David Zaslav running security in Pokolistan? What's the over-under on at least one student wanting to get freaky with a fish girl? Is Doctor Phosphorus the show's MVP? Follow Jason: twitter.com/netw3rk Follow Rosie: IG & Letterboxd Follow X-Ray Vision on Instagram Join the X-Ray Vision Discord See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are joined in the studio by Alec Bean and Karly Pavlinac with Agricultural Soil Management (ASM) which is a company that conducts soil tax deduction analysis for property owners.  This is very interesting as you can evaluate you land for excess levels of Potassium and Phosphorous, and apply for a tax deduction based on excess levels.  Join us in the studio as they take us through the process and outline the opportunities for land owners who are in their first 3 years of ownership and have not applied fertilizer yet.  Enjoy the show..   ASM Company

On this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter, University of Illinois soil scientist Andrew Margenot shares key takeaways from his long-term phosphorous (P) studies. Margenot's research group focuses on everything from NPK recommended rates, soil test values, removal rates and more. He's currently leading the charge on a project to analyze thousands of soil samples dating back to the late 1800s — the largest soil samples archive in the world.

There are three reactions to the concept of “feeding your plants”: 1) Plants feed themselves through Photosynthesis (you don't need to feed your plants!) 2) They'll pick up elements in the soil that they need for growth and development, nobody feeds the plants in a native forest. 3) What's scientifically needed for our gardens is a soil test that indicates which chemical elements are lacking in soil. This is about the Science of Fertilisers. This is the time of the year when soil temperatures are great for plant growth. Roots work over-time to extract minerals, dissolve them in water and transport them through the phloem bundles to the leaves of plants, where photosynthesis puts it all together and creates carbohydrates and chemicals that allow cell-elongation (growth). Plants use three main elements for bulk growth “food”: Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and potassium (K), which are generally known as NPK (their chemical symbols). N is used to make the green stuff: leaves and chlorophyll (LAWNS, LETTUCE, SPINACH, HEDGES). P is good for root development and plant health (CARROTS, PARSNIPS, POTATOES, etc). K (potash) is for sex: flowers and fruits (TOMATOES, APPLES, STRAWBERRIES, FLOWERING PLANTS). Other elements needed for plant functioning are needed in much smaller quantities: Mg (Magnesium), S (Sulphur), Ca (Calcium), Cu (Copper), Fe (Iron), Zn (Zinc), Mn (Manganese), and a heap more of those minor “trace elements”. There are a few different types of fertilisers: 1) “General” Fertiliser – for general growth: usually something like N-P-K 7-3-6 or 12-4-13 (note how Phosphorus is usually less than the N and K). 2) Potato fertiliser: N-P-K 3-9-6, also good for carrots and parsnips. 3) Tomato or rose fertiliser - usually higher in potash (K): N-P-K 3-4-9. This helps to stimulate flower and fruit growth. Of course, you can always use the general fertiliser (which tends to be highest in Nitrogen) and simply add a few handfuls of Superphosphate (P) if you grow root crops, or handfuls of Sulphate of Potash (K) if you want to up the dose of K (potash) for flowers and fruit. Organic fertilisers usually have lower concentrations of elements, and they are often less prone to fertiliser run-off into water courses. Chicken poo (a “Natural” organic fertiliser) has a high content of Nitrogen which can burn plants – I would always send it through a cycle of composting before use. These are very general comments on how to use fertilisers; some plants require a bit more detailed knowledge or would benefit from changing fertiliser regimes in different times of the year (Cymbidium orchids have a green-growth phase to make leaves in spring and summer – followed by a flower bud initiation in autumn and flowering in winter). I use General fertiliser on my young tomatoes to get them growing up and create a strong climbing vine, before the flower buds are formed. Once they start flowering, I assist the plants with more potash to keep on making fruit – I just switch to a higher potash fertiliser such as Wet&Forget's Seaweed Tea. Dog Pee fertiliser Most homeowners let their dogs use the backyard as their own personal toilet. Urine is very high in Nitrogen. Too much nitrogen will burn the grass and create yellow patches after sensational, dark green growth (a dog will usually come back to the same patch – territorial “marking”). The concentration of nitrogen in the dog's urine depends on the type of dog, its sex, and what the animal eats. Larger dogs will pee more and cause more damage. Female dogs also tend to cause more damage than males because they squat and urinate in one concentrated patch whereas the males spray their urine over a larger area and in much smaller doses each time. Finally, diets high in protein can increase the concentration of nitrogen in the urine since protein breaks down to release nitrogen compounds. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

North Dakota growers, this episode is for you! This week, Mike Howell sits down with Brady Goettl, the new Assistant Professor of Extension Soil Science with North Dakota State University. From building banks to boosting yields, we uncover expert insights to help North Dakota growers.   Tune in as we discuss navigating nutrient management in North Dakota and the importance of supporting your soil. What research has been done to support North Dakota farmers? What unique challenges does the state face in crop production, and how can we address them? Uncover everything you need to know about nutrient management in North Dakota today.   Looking for the latest in crop nutrition research? Visit nutrien-ekonomics.com   Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NutrieneKonomics

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Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous move quite differently though the soil, and understanding how they travel is key to helping growers choose the best application strategies. Phosphorous, for example, tends to be more like a tortoise, moving slowly and methodically. Nitrogen, on the other hand, is the hare, racing quickly through the plant root... Read More

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Hello there!In this episode of The Poultry Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, we explore the critical advancements in poultry nutrition with Dr. Bayo Sokale, a technical lead at BASF. Dr. Sokale shares his extensive experience and insights on the innovative uses of feed enzymes and performance ingredients, including phytase superdosing's impact on poultry diets. Tune in to explore how these advancements can optimize your poultry operations, available on all major podcast platforms."Understanding the role of feed enzymes in poultry nutrition is not just about enhancing growth but also about optimizing the overall health of the birds." - Dr. Bayo SokaleMeet the guest: Dr. Adebayo Sokale, DVM from the University of Ibadan and PhD in Poultry Science from Mississippi State University, currently serves as the Technical Lead for Feed Enzymes & Performance Ingredients at BASF in North America. He grew up on a mid-size layer egg farm and followed his father's footsteps into poultry veterinary science. With extensive experience since 2013, Dr. Sokale supports applying innovative enzyme solutions in poultry nutrition.What you'll learn:(00:00) Highlight(01:17) Introduction(03:45) Importance of feed enzymes(05:17) Phosphorous and beyond in nutrition(06:17) Phytase superdose effects(07:38) Field study insights on phytase(11:05) Future of high-dose enzyme usage(11:52) Closing thoughtsThe Poultry Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast is trusted and supported by innovative companies like:BASF* Kerry* Cargill- Anitox- Kemin

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It's time to start thinking about winter and looking after your soil.  We all know that garden soil thrives when you add Organic material (compost!!!) to the soil. Just like the Sea-food soup it enriches the Fertiliser amount and that helps no, not just the plants, but certainly the tiny live-stock in the soil that feeds the plants through the roots: Photosynthesis is the way a plant feeds itself.  It allows the microbes and beneficial fungi to work on the mulch – it simply breaks the mulch down and turns it into a kind of slow-release fertiliser that will benefit the plants when everybody “wakes up” in spring.  Chipped prunings from your fruit trees, hedges, severed dead branches and twigs, old fallen fruits, berries, and husks are all ready to be recycled according to the law of “Circular Economy” which runs the planet and your garden.  My most wonderful tool in the garden is our Hansa C7 Chipper Machine; it works its bottom off at this time of the year.   Everything that goes through it will turn to mulch and everything that once lived will turn to compost, even Coffee grounds!  There are lots of articles that warn gardeners against using coffee grounds in the garden, so we've decided to have a go at that stuff (our son-in-law owns a French bakery that also brews a decent cup of coffee – plenty of brown grounds in serious quantities).  Information around this topic:  Acidity (pH): After brewing, the grounds are almost pH neutral: between 6.5 and 6.8 (higher than Hydrangeas that need a lower pH to flower blue!  Nitrogen: Just 2%; not a great deal – still need N on the soil in spring!  Other nutrients: Phosphorous, Potash, Calcium, Magnesium all in rather small amounts and Manganese, Zinc and other micronutrients also in very small quantities – certainly not an “over-dose”.  So, it looks as if these coffee grounds really don't produce a heap of “plant food”; instead, they “feed” the microbes that deliver “Glues” that are brilliant at producing great soil structure.  What about effects on plant growth? Any negative effects?  Robert Pavlis (a Canadian who writes an interesting blog called Garden Myths) led me to some publications around Testing caffeine for allelopathic effects.  The findings show that if you use huge amounts of coffee mulch it could certainly stunt the growth of bacteria, fungi, seedlings and even plants! (Does that surprise you?)  However, after 6 months the trend totally reverses, and the plants grow better than before.  And here's Julie's observation:  Since we used the grounds as “mulch”, the blackbirds (her worst enemy that toss mulch out of the garden and onto the paths) have ceased vandalising the borders and raised beds.  No more mess of ornithological origin!  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time to get weird and deep on this weeks episode. You guys chose it on our community tab for YOUTUBE! This week is for Sci-Fi lovers of film, book and more! First we kick it off with a discussion about Christina's thoughts about Late Night With The Devil, rapidly growing technology & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice . Then we both try a new SPICED beverage & Shot recipe directly from the Shimmer itself. Plus finally we review James Vandermeer's novel adaptation of Annihilation (2018) that Alex Garland brought to life with his own personal touches. Or rather his own team of talented film makers as he would prefer it. The 4k of the movie was donated to the stream by Resolution67 that we devour and get pretty deep on. We discuss the deeper meaning, how some people might have wanted more in this movie and what we think it was all about. Plus loads of trivia and jokes. All in one great new Episode of BTV! JOIN US on both Audio everywhere podcasts are & Video now on Youtube! Episode Link ► https://www.longlivethevoid.com/episodes/ep365 VIDEO Podcast LINK ► https://youtu.be/BHZgxBczjgY LinkTree ► https://linktr.ee/btvcast Time Stamps HORRORSHOTS - 14:28 Annihlation (2018) Spoiler Free Review - 20:11 Annihilation - Trivia & Spoilers Discussion - 38:13 End of Podcast Talk - 1:03:00 So grab your Boots and be sure to grab your Compass. Oh and please for the love of podcasts don't forget to bring your Phosphorous as we travel Beyond The Void!

Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium. Every grower knows that these three nutrients are at the heart of every successful cropping plan. But in 2024, the tools to manage those nutrients are so much more potent and complex than they used to be. And cutting back on fertilizer inputs—discerningly and purposefully—can be a powerful opportunity to reduce costs and improve an operation's sustainability footprint. So in this episode, we're talking to Ron Calhoun—Senior Marketing Manager of Plant Nutrition from Loveland Products at Nutrien Ag Solutions—to find out how growers can leverage tools like enhanced efficiency fertilizers. He'll tell us why there's no one-size-fits-all answer. But how, by bringing the best science and technology to bear, Nutrien Ag Solutions makes it possible for growers to improve their profitability and benefit the planet.

For at least 20 years, the burgeoning poultry industry has been spreading the waste litter from their barns across one particular watershed in Oklahoma. Journalist Ben Felder dug into the origins of the lawsuit brought by a long gone state attorney general seeking to bring some accountability to the industry over damage to the local waterways. 20 years later, negotiations on how to manage this by product have broken down, and now new legislation threatens to give industry even wider latitude to pollute at will. Why is industry more important than clean water?Photo Courtesy of Investigate Midwest. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member!What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast.

For at least 20 years, the burgeoning poultry industry has been spreading the waste litter from their barns across one particular watershed in Oklahoma. Journalist Ben Felder dug into the origins of the lawsuit brought by a long gone state attorney general seeking to bring some accountability to the industry over damage to the local waterways. 20 years later, negotiations on how to manage this by product have broken down, and now new legislation threatens to give industry even wider latitude to pollute at will. Why is industry more important than clean water?Photo Courtesy of Investigate Midwest. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member!What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast.

A second US official has expressed concern over Israel's reported use of white phosphorus in military operations in Lebanon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's left in your field? Nutrien Senior Agronomist Lyle Cowell talks about the value of knowing what nutrients are in the field post-harvest and what will be there when spring seeding begins.   References:  https://prairienutrientcalculator.info/    To discover the latest crop nutrition research visit nutrien-eKonomics.com.

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There is an economic principle that states that, after a certain point, each additional unit of input (like fertilizer) will result in progressively smaller increases in output (like crop yield). This means that there's an optimal amount of fertilizer for a given crop in a given soil, and beyond that point, you're just wasting money. Well, as it turns out, much — or maybe even most — of your applied Phosphorous and Potassium is unavailable for your crops. In the old days of inexpensive fertilizer this was less of a problem. However, as commodity prices dip and fertilizer prices remain elevated, you need to maximize your fertility applications. Chad Henderson maximizes his investment by treating his dry fertilizer with a biocatalyst. The $4 per acre treatment yields Chad an additional 12 bushels while using less fertilizer. Agronomist Steve Sexton explains how it works. Presented by Loveland Products

After billions of years of Earth's development, it's still the same five elements that shape so much of human evolution. Stephen Porder is associate provost for sustainability and professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Brown University. He is also a fellow in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus and how these building blocks of life affect the climate. His book is “Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future.”

Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture Expert, Bill Maily, joins us to discuss the various management and nutrition considerations when starting a wildlife food plot. To discover the latest crop nutrition research visit nutrien-eKonomics.com 

"Farmer Dan" joins Mike Howell from the Farm Progress Show this week to share what it's like to farm in the Texas Panhandle, being a social media star, an in-depth look at growing milo and why a strong nutrient management plan is so important.   To discover the latest crop nutrition research visit nutrien-eKonomics.com

It's Ted's day in both the comics covered in this episode. First in Adventure Comics 71 Ted battles men from the Future and his old nemesis The Light. There needs to be more stories with those two battling it out. Then in Starman Volume 2 #13, an older Ted fights off Dr Phosphorous, recently grant greater powers from Neron, and proves his is not an old man.    #DCComics #AdventureComics #Starman #DoctorPhosphorous #JackBurnley #GardnerFox #JamesRobinson #TonyHarris

The next big arch in Jack's story, Sins of the Child Part One: Jack's Day (First Half), is here. Jack and Ted bond, Nash goes on killing spree, Mikaal and Solomon are kidnapped, and Dr Phosphorous kills Ted. Or does he?   In Adventure Comics 70 the Golden Age Starman battles highjacker from stealling much need aid on the way to the United Kingdom.     #Starman #DCComics #AdventureComics #SolsomonGrundy #MikaalTomas #TheMist #JamesRobinson #TonyHarris #GardnerFox #JackBurnley

In this exciting episode of "What The If?" Philip, Matt, and Gaby delve into a cosmic "What If?" scenario that's full of scientific discoveries and hilarious tangents. Imagine a universe filled with phosphorus! As much as you want, wherever you swing your arms. Our intrepid explorers uncover the surprisingly central role of phosphorus in our daily lives, making up about 1% of our bodies and playing a crucial role in everything from DNA to cell membranes. They explore the wacky world of phosphorus, taking us from the glowing screens of old-style televisions to the unexpected, and somewhat gross, tale of phosphorus' discovery by a 17th-century alchemist (Spoiler: it involves a lot of pee!). The episode doesn't stop at terrestrial tales though, venturing off to the Saturn moon Enceladus and revealing the significance of recent phosphorus findings. Through a captivating mix of chemistry, biology, and astronomy, the trio gives listeners a fascinating glimpse of how this seemingly common element impacts life as we know it, and potentially, life as we might find it elsewhere in the cosmos. --- Find out more about Gaby's upcoming science fiction short story publication, coming soon! Here are the links for the anthology. The physical copy can be pre-ordered here : https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/luminescent-machinations-queer-tales-of-monumental-invention The ebook can be pre-ordered here: https://www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/luminescent-machinations-queer-tales-of-monumental-invention --- Check out our membership rewards! Visit us at Patreon.com/Whattheif Got an IF of your own? Want to have us consider your idea for a show topic? Send YOUR IF to us! Email us at feedback@whattheif.com and let us know what's in your imagination. No idea is too small, or too big! Don't miss an episode! Subscribe at WhatTheIF.com Keep On IFFin', Philip, Matt & Gaby

On this episode, we have our Top 3 space news stories from May to mid-June - and they don't disappoint! All the other space articles we've been gathering will be available in the description here. Vast Space is ambitiously shooting for 2025 to launch their Haven-1 space station module into orbit and have a crew of 4 stay for 30 days in orbit. Who is helping them send their space station up? How is the station going to allow for life support? Artemis 2 will have alot of firsts, including the first person of color, the first woman, and first Canadian to orbit the Moon. But it will also be the first to use Lasers to send HD footage back to Earth and improve how much data can be sent thanks to the O2O technology. Saturn's Moon Enceladus is spewing water into space, but recently a paper was published that shows those plumes contain a key ingredient for the building blocks of life. The benefits from the Cassini Spacecraft continue to this day, and the find of phosphorus in the plumes opens our minds to more possibilities for life in the universe. And points us to a very likely place to look in our own Solar System. So email/DM us todayinspacepodcast@gmail.com / @todayinspacepod Twitter & Instagram / @todayinspace TikTok / /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook and let us know your Questions and Thoughts about the episode! SOURCES: https://amp -cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/09/world/artemis-2-laser-communications-scn/index.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/vast-says-it-will-launch-its-first-space-station-in-2025-on-a-falcon-9/amp/  https://www.vastspace.com/updates/vast-selects-impulse-space-for-haven-1-space-station-propulsion?new=1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05987-9  -------------------------- Here's to building a fantastic future - and continued progress in Space (and humanity)! Spread Love, Spread Science Alex G. Orphanos Timestamps: 00:00 Intro to the podcast - NEW MERCH coming soon 03:16 Vast Space plans to launch a commercial Space Station by 2025 with Falcon 9 & send 4 Astronauts for 30 Days with Crew Dragon 09:49 Manscaped Ad 11:35 Artemis 2 to use LASERS to send HD footage back to Earth and push data comms into the future from radio 17:49 Enceladus is spewing Phosphorous from its underground oceans - another building block for life on a Moon in our Solar System Space News that didn't make out Top 3: https://rnasa.org/2023files/press2023.html https://exterrajsc.com/mars-sample-recovery-helicopters-to-be-designed-by-aerovironment/2023/05/08/ https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/06/03/space-based-power-project-successfully-transmits-power-to-earth-for-first-time/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/glenn/2023/3d-printed-rocket-launched-using-innovative-nasa-alloy https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/raising-orbit-by-186-miles-water-propulsion https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/05/17/virgin-orbit-17-million-bankruptcy-bid-for-aircraft-from-stratolaunch.html https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/gregautry/2023/05/27/lunar-orbital-congestion-ii-economic-and-strategic-drivers/amp/ https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/01/pentagon-awards-spacex-with-ukraine-contract-for-starlink-satellite-internet.html https://arstechnica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/boeing-stands-down-from-starliner-launch-to-address-recently-found-problems/amp/ https://www.space.com/mars-astronauts-suspended-animation-sound-waves? https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Research/Flying_frying_in_microgravity https://exterrajsc.com/strategic-framework-for-space-diplomacy-released-by-state-department/2023/06/02/ We'd like to thank our sponsors: • Caldera Lab • Manscaped • AG3D Printing Follow us: @todayinspacepod on Instagram/Twitter   @todayinspace on TikTok   /TodayInSpacePodcast on Facebook Support the podcast:   • Get 20% OFF at Caldera Lab - use code SPACE or go to calderalab.com/SPACE   • Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code SPACE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod #sponsored   • Buy a 3D printed gift from our shop - ag3dprinting.etsy.com   • Get a free quote on your next 3D printing project at ag3d-printing.com   • Donate at todayinspace.net #space #rocket #podcast #people #spacex #moon #science #3dprinting #nasa #tothemoon #spacetravel #spaceexploration #aerospace #spacetechnology #engineer #alien #stem #listenable #iss #alienlife #astronomy #astrophysics #starship #rocketpen

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The health of a grapevine starts at ground level – literally in the soil. The California Department of Food and Agriculture is helping farmers improve the quality of their soils through the Healthy Soils Initiative. Taylor Jones, Ph.D., Director of Viticulture at Star Lane and Dierberg Vineyards used his funding as an opportunity to study the effects of compost. After completing two three-year trials in six different soil types in two American Viticulture Areas, Taylor found that compost additions significantly increased organic matter, Reduced Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Potassium usage by 35 percent, and decreased water use dramatically. Listen in to hear the only downside to increasing the use of compost on your vineyard. References: 149: Fair Market Trade: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Grapevines 151: The Role of the Soil Microbiome in Soil Health 163: Onsite Compost Production Using Vineyard Waste   165: Become a Microbe Farmer: Make Compost   167: Use Biochar to Combat Climate Change California Department of Food and Agriculture's Healthy Soils Initiative Compost Benefits and Quality for Viticultural Soils Compost use in premium vineyard development Dierberg Vineyard Taylor Jones LinkedIn  Tyler Jones: taylor@dierbergvineyard.com Vineyard Team Programs: Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship - DONATE SIP Certified Vineyard Team – Become a Member Get More Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript Craig Macmillan  0:00  Here with me today is Taylor Jones. He's Director of Viticulture at Star Lane in Dierberg Vineyards. And we're gonna talk about some soil health projects that he's got going. Thanks for being on the podcast.   Taylor Jones  0:10  Yeah. Thanks for having me.   Craig Macmillan  0:12  I just learned about this recently, and you talked about a little bit in the vineyard team tailgate meeting that got me interested, you have more than one thing going on? Is that right? Yeah, yeah, we do. And these projects are funded by the California Department of Food and Agriculture Healthy Soils program. Is that right?   Taylor Jones  0:25  Yes, that's correct.   Craig Macmillan  0:27  We'd love to chat about that part of it a little bit later. But right now, I really want to know what you're doing. How many projects, what are they about? What are you trying to find out?   Taylor Jones  0:33  We have two projects, we were awarded two different grants, one for each of our vineyard properties that we have. So we have one healthy soils project over in Santa Rita Hills that started in 2018. And it's a three year program. And then we have another project that's healthy soils program at our Star Lane Vineyard in Happy Canyon, AVA and over their three year project also. And that one started in 2020, I believe. So we just hit our final year, this this last year. So yeah, to two different projects. And essentially, we're the states paying us to put compost down and improve our soil health. So we're jumping on that and trying to see what actually happens in the vineyard after compost has been applied. Since we're getting all of this compost from CDFA. It's we're going to use the money that we're saving on the compost to kind of do some some studies and see what's actually being impacted in our vineyard soils.   Craig Macmillan  1:30  So talking about the Star Rita AVA, project.   Taylor Jones  1:33  Over at Santa Rita hills, we have Drum Canyon vineyard, and over there we were awarded, it was 35 acres of compost applications, we had six tons per acre. For three years, over the three year span, we had 18 tons per acre put down down over there what we did, we tried to, as best we could make an experiment, you know, it's kind of hard to make a proper randomized trial. In a field when you're doing compost applications with your normal operations, we try to apply compost in all the areas that we could in our vineyard and while leaving a few barrier rows that we could do tests. And so we had, for example, we'd have 10 rows applied with compost, and then a few rows, no compost so that we could test those rows separately see what's going on. Are there changes in organic matter? Are we seeing changes in compaction, all the good stuff that comes with soil, so testing soils for nutrition, microbial populations, and then also water, I think water is the big thing. So that's how we set everything up on the property, we have five or six different soil types that we apply conference to and in each soil type, we did our own measurements there. And we were able to have soil moisture probes in most areas so that we could utilize those to help with some data. We really saw a lot of benefits from putting the compost down. I mean, we're in you're entering our sixth year after application, the state's requiring us to send a final numbers and we have to do one more test of organic matter. So that's coming up soon for our final dataset. Overall, we saw some great really good impacts from from the healthy soil program at that site.   Craig Macmillan  3:11  Before we go farther, are we talking about banding under the vine we're talking about broadcasting?   Taylor Jones  3:14  Whenever you do your grant, you have to specify what you're going to do. And in our case, we went with banding the spreader that we have is a bander you know we'd have six foot rows and we have a ag soil works hydraulic gripper, the wings move. So we're in an area where we have a lot of compaction. Typically we like to rip every three years every other row. And so that kind of led to the decision of banding. We're getting the compost close to the vine. Since we're in a six foot row, our rippers going right down the vine row right next to the root zone. So we're trying to get everything incorporated and move down lower in the soil profile. That was our target what we did we since we had three different years, and we didn't want to rip every single year, we did well alternating rows. One year we did every other row with a compost band and rip. The following year we did the even numbered rows with the compost band and rip and then the final year, our desire was to go no till so at the final year, we banded and we just did a light disk and seed on top of that, that we didn't unnecessarily rip over again. So it was technically a combo of riping and broadcast.   Craig Macmillan  4:22  Unrelated just further conversation that I've had weed control under the vine using some kind of cold federal weed knife or using herbicides?   Taylor Jones  4:31  For the extent of this trial. We use it herbicides, trying to keep all the weeds down as much as possible so that we're not seeing any funky results coming from having weeds all over the place. So we try to keep the berms clean as possible.   Craig Macmillan  4:42  And this one has been going for a little while now. What kind of preliminary results do you think you're seeing?   Taylor Jones  4:47  We're seeing some some great preliminary results. The most impactful result that we're seeing is water. Our water usage has declined dramatically. I mean, we went from irrigating every two weeks historically, this will be my eighth vintage here at the company, we used to always pretty religiously we'd water every two weeks, if not more over on that property. And every year, we were kind of able to spread that out, we were seeing water holding capacity almost increase. So last year, we ended up waiting 79 days from basically from bloom until we harvested, we were able to not water at all. Pretty amazing, we were able to heat stress, we have totally sensors in the field that help us tailor our irrigation strategies, but that 79 days of no water being used was significant for our operation in terms of water savings, you know, propane costs, even the irrigator had more time to do other things besides troubleshoot the irrigation system. I think all of that kind of stemmed from the organic matter increase. We saw, on average over a three year timespan, the average was about point 2% increase in organic matter per year for those three years. And you know, 1% organic matter is more or less 20,000 gallons of water per acre that you can hold. That's our goal. Let's try to increase organic matter by 1% and try to achieve that extra water holding capacity. Let's see how high we can get and so we had different different soil types reacted differently in terms of how well they held water.   What kind of soils do you have out there? We're talking about the Santa Ynez River Valley, we're talking about being relatively close to Lompoc, for those of you who are interested, there is tremendous will type variability all through that area. And Drum Canyon is relatively on the west side of that area. I would describe it as that what kind of sils do you have out there?   So we have top of the hill pure sandbox, as you go down the hill, we have some nice Shaylee loans. As we continue down, we get more and more loamy but a little bit more clay and silt as you kind of go to the flats. We're getting a lot more water holding capacity there in the flat zone. And then we have another corner of the vineyard that is the lowest coldest spot and that's mostly sand like a kind of like a sandy clay. So huge variability in soils, we kind of have almost all the types on our property, which is well fun for me.   Craig Macmillan  7:12  Fun for you. Tremendous variation in water holding capacity.   Taylor Jones  7:15  Oh yeah, we had a block we tried to establish our sandy soils, and that was watering twice a week with four gallons per vine, like just trying to get those vines. I mean, it's windy there, we have a lot of struggles and sand is sands an issue trying to get vines established. And to get that taproot down, otherwise, our loams on the hillsides, they tend to have good drainage, they're maybe two feet deep before you hit a layer of sandstone. So our soils are fairly shallow. So we get good water infiltration and penetration, good ability to stress the vines out quickly, but not really holding water. Well, as you get to the flood zone, we've always been able to irrigate a little bit less often those soils kind of have more of clay particles, they're holding on to water a little bit more, until you hit the sandy zone and there are definitely watering twice as much as we do in other areas.   Craig Macmillan  8:02  But you're seeing improvement in all these areas?   Taylor Jones  8:05  Definitely every single area of all in line with each other and what what we're seeing in in our sandy soil series, we saw the higher increase in organic matter than the other soil series. And we were able to irrigate slightly less in those zones than the other ones, which then in previous years percentage wise, which was surprising, but also I'm so glad water is the same you know, in our sandy soils, we saw almost it was point eight 5% organic matter increase total over a final timespan. So that's the equivalent of 16,600 gallons per acre that of water that was used, On the lower end some of the, our loamy silty soils, we ended up getting about a point seven 2.45% increase over five years. So a little bit different there. But you know, we didn't need as much help with holding water in those soils of the sandy soils. So it kind of balanced out percentage wise in terms of how much water we were using.   Craig Macmillan  9:06  What about above ground? Did you see changes in the vines, the fruit crop load, wine quality?   Taylor Jones  9:11  Not so much crop load tons tons per acre, we're pretty spot on throughout the vineyard with seasonal variability. For better or for worse. Some areas we had too much vigor, some areas are vigor was improved overall vigor was higher than than previous years, even with reduced water and reduced and reduced fertilizer inputs as well. So yeah, above ground pruning weights increased a little bit. But that was that was kind of expected. We're having a lot more vigor. But yeah, fruit load was not impacted, which is fine. We're not like trying to pump out as much fruit as possible.   Craig Macmillan  9:43  We've made wines out of these?   Taylor Jones  9:45  Yes. So why is not really a lot of changes in wine. Our winemaking team. They make a couple different wines. A lot of its blended from different areas of our flat zones. And in our other ranch we saw some Yans increasing Other than Yans, that's about it in terms of wine quality was still on point with with every previous year, so no changes in wine quality and no changes in Brix or pH, anything like that phenologically ripening, everything seemed to be pretty, pretty standard for our ranch.   Craig Macmillan  10:18  And that's a good transition. So what about the Happy Canyon?   Taylor Jones  10:21  We're just getting some, I'm finally organizing some data for Happy Canyon. And they're we're seeing similar results. And if anything this year more so or we have had some pretty significant rains. But our cover crop took off a lot quicker than any previous year, this last November, November, December is when we put our final load of compost in from healthy soils. So we were in year three, and we're finally seeing cover crops just taking off. Unfortunately, I think the only downside of these projects has been a lot of increase in in inter row weeds, we've had a lot more weeds creeping up. And that's just I think, some of the compost we're getting this now the seed beds in there just stuck there. And you can see the Malvo just coming up right where we planted and ripped, which is frustrating, but I'll take the soil benefits and deal with the weeds later, you know. Happy Canyon, we're seeing very similar results, we're starting to be able to use less water on a per annual basis, we have a little bit less soil diversity over at Happy Canyon a lot more silty clay silty on the hillsides, clays towards the bottom and the flats. That grant there was 95 acres of compost and give that reference over over a three year timespan that ends up being it was 58 $59,000 worth of compost that we got to not to have from the state which which was phenomenal. And then at the Star Lane project, we're only doing four times an acre, not six tons an acre, the grants kind of based off of what compost you're buying and your carbon nitrogen ratio of your compost, so four tons an acre and Happy Canyon still with the goal of trying to go no till over there. And we're seeing similar increases in organic matter where we're getting that point 2.25% increase year after a year. So there were targeting hopefully, my goal is to find one block, maybe that we can get a full 1% increase in that would be amazing. But it's good to see similarity over two different ADAs two different ranches. It's nice to see the similarities kind of confirming what we're seeing at one ranch versus the other ranch.   Craig Macmillan  12:24  And I want to come back to that. But before I forget, again, we're talking about this is four tons per acre banded, you are not tilling the middle right now.   Taylor Jones  12:32  Correct.   Craig Macmillan  12:33  But you are tilling with that piece of equipment over at the Santa Rita ranch when you have to occasionally yes in terms of no tilled you for see Star Lane being able to farm with a no till system indefinitely? Or do you have plans that you'll have to reset the system every so often? And if so, how would you go about it?   Taylor Jones  12:53  That's that's a good question. I think that I would love to go no tilling indefinitely, unfortunately, with the rate of compaction all of our soils have and then the heavy equipment we're using it's it's inevitable that we're going to have to rip and till but I don't think that we'll ever have to do like every single year full plowed down kind of stuff. I'm totally fine with instead of ripping every three years, let's double that to rip every six years or even further down the road, see how far we can push it. I think with our compaction results that we're seeing in both ranches, our rate of compaction has reduced by about 80% We should be able to go for about five and a half years without ripping instead of every three years. So we can probably push that to six years and rip and then you know, maybe future copost applications will help reduce that even more. We're doing some no till trials where we planted a vineyard and started it no till and comparing it to the same block that's being tilled annually every year. And so far, we're five or six years in now and seeing no differences in yield or plant growth which is promising because I think that for our soil future we kind of need to go the the no till route and you know show that it can be done. And let's see what happens.   Craig Macmillan  14:06  Something that we didn't touch on that. I think if our listeners are not familiar, this is in Santa Barbara County, Santa Yenz Valley. Happy Canyon and the Star Rita AVAs are about as different as you could possibly get in my opinion. So fill us in a little bit about what's going on soil and climate between those two branches.   Taylor Jones  14:24  Both are similar in terms of frost. I mean we had we always have the same amount of frost days I feel like but yeah, so So Santa Rita hills a lot closer to the ocean. You've got the Santa Ynez mountain range, they're going east to west kind of funneling in all the morning fog so we get Santa Rita Hills morning fog usually burning out towards the end of the day, high winds and that that kind of leads to some nice distressed plants are really big fluxes in temperatures with daytime highs versus nighttime colds very similar toHappy Canyon Aava like stuff over there, we get a lot warmer during the day, we're seeing a lot more 90 degree plus days than what we would see in Santa Rita Hills. And with with the way the climates moving, both ranches seem to be trending towards more and more and more high heat days. And we're seeing more cold days as well. And out at Happy Canyon, we're kind of on the far edge of Happy Canyon where Star Lane is and we have morning fog kind of creeps in and it will kind of tickle the edge of our ranch almost kind of recedes a lot more back into Santa Ynez. So at Star Lane, we get a lot more a lot less foggy mornings, kind of ocean mist, and we have a lot more beautiful sunny mornings out. But over there, we also have a lot of wind as well, the significant amount of wind. So AVA wise, they are, you know, they're fairly, fairly similar, I would say only because you have some of that marine influence. High winds with soil types are completely different. And just like the amount of the day that you're getting sunlight in different areas, and wind is fairly different as well.   Craig Macmillan  16:05  Tell me a little bit about the Healthy Soils program. I think this is a really fascinating thing. I remember when it started, and how did you find out about it? How did you get led to it? What was the process like for getting into it?   Taylor Jones  16:17  Trying to think I found it, I really liked looking for grant money, I came from an academic background. And if there's free money to be had, why not apply for it, we use all the tractor replacement grants, we're trying to get electrification grants, you know, find money where we can find it to help our help our company out. Pretty sure we just stumbled upon this program being available. And we basically talked to CDFA. And we're like, Hey, we're interested in applying and said, Here's the process. And it ended up being kind of ridiculously easy. I'm surprised that more people don't apply for Healthy Soils programs, there's just an an online application that you fill out, not only while you're filling out this application, they make you use the Comet Planner tool online, which is a really fun tool, if nobody's used it before, just to estimate greenhouse gas emission reductions based on you know, that's, that's kind of the core of the program is reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing organic matter in your soils. And comet planner can kind of help you look at that. So there's some criteria you have to meet, you cannot have applied compost on these fields within I forget what it was in the last five years or something like that. If you've been applying compost, you can't get the Healthy Soils program. So we used some areas, we had put compost down so we couldn't use those zones, which is why in our Drum Canyon Ranch is 69 acres, but we could only put compost down on 35 of that. So that's one One limitation of the program. But overall, you pick your blocks that you want to do you set out a sampling protocol for them. And they'll usually accept it. And it's essentially you sample your soils every year during the program prior to compost application. And they'll reimburse you for those soil samples as well. So that you can track your organic matter. That's that's all they require. We submit our soils for more testing than just organic matter. Yeah, overall, it's a really simple end of the year, you have to send them proof of your project. And that's generally photos of the compost arriving pictures of the team implementing the compost, actually putting it into the ground, receipts, invoices that you had for just everything to prove that you've done what you do. And then yeah, it's three years. And then in year five, you have one last soil sample to send to the state. So overall, it's a simple application process. I found it one of the easier grants to actually apply for.   Craig Macmillan  18:38  You mentioned that you were doing soil analysis beyond just the soil organic matter what what variables are you looking at?   Taylor Jones  18:44  We just submitted for a full a full soil health panel looking back on it, I wish I would have added bulk density on that, because I think that would have been interesting to see how it changed. But you know, hindsight is 2020 but we looked at you know, NPK, calcium, magnesium cation exchange capacity. Any differences in pH, soil moisture, sodium, just kind of the whatever you send to us soil lab, whatever they'll give you for those tests. I think the biggest thing was we reduced our NPK usage by about 35%. At both ranches after this soil results showed you know we had some NPK increases, but not really as much. I think what we're seeing more so is our vines, roots, finding new areas where they haven't been before. And they're kind of being able to utilize resources that previously weren't available to them. So that's leading to our decrease in fertilizer usage, which is great. We're trying to go towards organic and getting away from a lot of inorganic fertilizer usages would be spectacular.   Craig Macmillan  19:47  That reminds me of something so have you been applying either synthetic organic NPK formulations on top of the compost as the compost been it for the fertility program?   Taylor Jones  19:56  We still do add a little bit, a little bit of NPK but more so calcium, we will have more calcium applications. Especially out in Happy Canyon, we have really high serpentine soils and really bad magnesium problems. So we're always trying to add in gypsum and calcium whenever we can. The Drum Canyon Ranch, not too much of a problem over there we have a problem with potassium uptake. Um, so we do increase our potassium usage they're coming into this year, I think we're really going to reduce based on what we saw last year in terms of vigor and vine health. I mean, our nitrogen applications are going to be really low. Phosphorus, we're always pretty fine on we don't need to use much will probably continue with potassium, but we'll see what petioles looked like this year.   Craig Macmillan  20:40  Well, we're running out of time. Is there one thing that you would tell a grower one piece of advice you'd give to a grower regarding what you've learned from this project?   Taylor Jones  20:49  I mean, the advice is use compost, I think we're we're seeing root zones reaching areas they haven't before where we're using significantly less water, which is just key to farming in California and really in the world going forward. You know, you're you're increasing your CEC or your cation exchange capacity so less nutrients down I mean, you're getting compost is kind of like a win win scenario. The only downside is weeds. Our soils are seem to be returned to normal. We had earthworms returned for the first time since I've been at this ranch. Five different soil pits we found earthworms in which they've never been in before. They're kind of creeping in from the edges, which is awesome. I think we're gonna maybe transition to worm farming.   Craig Macmillan  21:33  (laughs). Where can people find out more about you and what you do?   Speaker 2  21:39  you could always find out. Dierberg and  Star Lane Vineyards, we have Dierbergvineyard.com. Starlanevineyard.com. Otherwise, I kind of just bounced around the Santa Barbara County. I think it always...   Craig Macmillan  21:50  Just like if you're looking if you're looking for him. Just go to Santa Barbara County and drive around a little bit. Yeah. Probably near a vineyard.   Taylor Jones  21:58  Yeah, exactly.   Craig Macmillan  22:00  He has a lot of friends.   Taylor Jones  22:02  But no, yeah, you know, I'm happy if people want to reach out to me. You know, my emails, Taylor taylor@Dierbervineyard.com. Yeah, happy to help people out with applying for grants or if they want to chat or look at some data. I'm always down to see what other people are seeing and compare what we're seeing in our AVA versus another AVA or different grower strategies for compost applications. You know, I think information sharing is the way to go.   Craig Macmillan  22:28  Yeah, totally. Fantastic. Well, Taylor, I just am so happy you could be on the on the podcast, this has really been fun for me.   Taylor Jones  22:35  Thanks for having me.   Craig Macmillan  22:36  This is a topic. It's obviously a hot topic, continuing topic. And I think that the longer that we as an industry have been doing this, because this isn't something that people were doing in the 70s for instance, you know, is this you know, we've all had to learn we've had a compost is not just compost, you need look, the analyses and this rate is not the same as that rate and on the soil does that and the fact that you guys are doing that work along with everybody else and that you're sharing information. I think it's really fantastic. So, thank you so much for your contribution.   Taylor Jones  23:03  Yeah. Thank you.   Craig Macmillan  23:04  So our guest has been Taylor Jones. He is director of viticulture at Star Lane and Dierberg Vineyards in Santa Barbara County.   Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Phosphorous runoff has been plaguing Madison's lakes and streams for years. This fertilizer causes algae to bloom, making our beloved waterways stinky and hazardous.  Now facing tougher state and federal regulations, the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District has to clean up more phosphorous than ever. And just how they propose to do that is up for debate.  The sewer district says filtering out more phosphorous would be costly, and wouldn't address other pollutants like mercury, chloride and PFAS. They'd rather change where the water flows. Instead of sending treated water to the Badger Mill Creek in Verona, they'd reroute it to the Badfish Creek southeast of Madison, where there's a plan in place to manage it. But concerns that the Badger Mill Creek would suffer persist.  Come along for a deep dive into what it takes to clean up southern Wisconsin's water.  Dylan Brogan speaks to Martye Griffin, Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District's Director of Ecosystem Services. Learn more: 

Phosphorous rich fertilizer has become an important tool in food production to feed the booming human population, but what happens when so much phosphorous enters our soil and waterways? In […] The post The past, present, future of Phosphorous with Dan Egan appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

Like many things, too much of a good thing can be very, very bad for you. And the case of Madison-area lakes and rivers, too much phosphorous fertilizer has been a very bad thing: it causes stinky and hazardous algal blooms and fish kills. It's one reason why many of our beaches get so stinky that public health has to post advisories not to swim in them.  The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District must decide how to clean up phosphorous in its waste water. Prompted by state and federal regs, they can invest in technology to clean up more of it — or dump the treated wastewater into the Badfish Creek, which can better absorb the phosphorous. The sewer district says redirecting the water is the cheaper and easier solution. But the problem? That water currently feeds Badger Mill Creek in the heart of Verona. And Verona Mayor Luke Diaz says the Sewer District's plan puts their prized trout stream at risk. Wanna talk to us about an episode? Leave us a voicemail at 608-318-3367 or email madison@citycast.fm. We're also on Twitter and Instagram!  Want more Madison news delivered right to your inbox? Sign up for the Madison Minutes morning newsletter.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Madison? Check out our options for podcast ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember learning about vitamins and minerals for the first time? Maybe it was fun and exciting or maybe it was overwhelming - or possibly both. Regardless of how you felt, there's a lot of them. And remembering all them isn't easy.  So I broke them up into two episodes - one on vitamins and one on minerals. In this episode, I cover the minerals - both the major and trace minerals.  Normally, you'd have a whole semester on micronutrients so this episode is a summary - a review.  This is what you'll learn in this episode: A review of the major minerals, electrolytes, and complications that happen when the levels are elevated or depleted A breakdown of the trace minerals - the role, food sources, deficiency, and toxicity symptoms Here's a glance at this episode:  [08:30] – Why elevated potassium levels need to be addressed and the dangers of elevated potassium levels [10:30] – Symptoms of hyponatremia and what I used to see in my patients when I worked in pediatrics [11:45] – A review of the symptoms of hypernatremia [13:35] – An overview of magnesium including hypomagnesemia and hypermagnesemia. [16:59] – Phosphorous, what it is, why it's important, and where it likes to hang out in the body [20:17] – The role of calcium and phosphorous in the body and why these two go together – like buddies [22:37] – A quick review of refeeding syndrome and how the electrolytes reviewed in this episode are connected to refeeding syndrome [24:48] – What foods interfere with iron absorption [34:20] – The role of zinc especially for people in the clinical setting [38:38] – Why copper is monitored in people with cholestasis [47:29] – What's up with Chromium? [48:39] – Fluoride, the tooth mineral [50:01] – Molybdenum - not only fun to say. You'll hear about a case study of a rare genetic condition involving molybdenum

Nik from Rooted Leaf Nutrients (use code GROWCAST for 20% off) is BACK for another installment of his nutrient deep dive - this time focusing on phosphorous and magnesium. Nik shares his beliefs around the myth of the PK booster, and why phosphorous has been mislabeled as a nutrient that should be overapplied during the flowering stage. Nik instead encourages to think more about the relationship between MAGNESIUM and phosphorous, tracing these minerals all the way back to the very beginning of the photosynthetic process- where magnesium helps capture energy from light and transfers into the tri-phosphate bond known as ATP. Nik extrapolates on what this means to us cannabis growers, and how we can maximize our plants biomass production when we full understand the link between magnesium, phosphorous, and light intensity. Community Cup: Oklahoma! Education - Cannabis Cup - Homegrower Showcase GrowCast Membership (bonus content, member discounts, member discord and more!) GrowCast Classes (IPM CLASS IS LIVE! Use code GROWCAST for $20 off and members get 25% off!) GrowCast Seed Co (Vaulted Packs are up!) Code growcast15 now works with grow KITS from AC Infinity! www.acinfinity.com use promo code growcast15 for 10% off the BEST grow fans in the game, plus tents, pots, scissors, LED lights, and now GROW KITS!

Phosphorus is a critical nutrient used as agricultural fertilizer. Through human digestion, it is returned to the water cycle through wastewater. In the first episode of our podcast series, Chemistry with a purpose, we speak to Matthias Staub, Development Director of Water at Veolia, a leader in municipal wastewater treatment. The company is currently testing Kemira's new Vivimag phosphorous recovery technology, which has promising implications for the circular economy.   Interested in learning more, visit kemira.com

We all hate overpaying for comic books. Listen up as Gem and Tom let you know about some hot books that could break the bank if they are purchased at the wrong time. Shazam is all over social media right now, Power Girl is putting on a show, Carnage's first appearance in ASM is a consistent modern comic, Boba Fett remains a very popular Star Wars character, Green Lanterns from the Gold and Silver Age are meeting up, the Red Hulk could be headed to the MCU, Harley Quinn's first appearance is a modern comic book grail, Doctor Phosphorous could be headed to the silver screen, a Punisher variant is setting records, and Lobo seems to be at the top of everyone's hunting lists. ❤️ Mystery Mail Call (our comic book subscription service) https://www.comictom101.com/ (US ONLY) ❤️ Follow us on Whatnot!: https://www.whatnot.com/invite/comictom101 ❤️ Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/2PfSSSY

Phosphorous is one of the most essential elements for life on earth, but it is not an element with an unlimited supply. Overuse of fertilizers containing phosphorous also has led to unintended environmental consequences. On this episode, Dan Egan discussed his new book, The Devils Element.

Ep 149 is loose and it's a poison special looking at our glowing friend phosphorous...How was this element discovered? Do you know about the Match Girls? And what made Mary Wilson so handy with her sex pills?The secret ingredient is (of course)...phosphorous!Join us on Patreon to get extra historic true crime episodes every week, and come and follow us on TikTok, Instagram Twitter and FacebookSources include Chronicle Live, British Library, The Daily Mirror, Historic UK, The Conversation and A Is For Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Paterson with AgrotechUSA makes a solid point, “We concentrate a lot on the shiny new things but 80% of crop production still comes down to N,P & K. So, let's get the “P” right.” Getting the “P” right might very well mean getting the available phosphorous from your soil, into your crops. Kevin Matthews and Temple Rhodes explain why they've adopted in-furrow Nutricharge application as a standard practice on their farms. Turns out you may already have adequate phosphorous levels, you're just not utilizing it. Presented by Advanced Drainage Systems.

On this episode, Fastline Marketing Group President Dean Barke returns for Part 2 of our discussion ahead of the National Farm Machinery Show, Feb. 15-18 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. Soil Test Pro Sales Manager Patrick Campbell offers spring soil sampling tips and discusses his company's appearance at the National Farm Machinery Show. In this week's installment of “The Dirt with Nutrien,” Senior Agronomists Mike Howell and Dr. Cristie Preston highlight the importance of phosphorous to plant growth and development. We learn about a National Pork Board mission to Panama and Colombia in our Meat Monitor segment, Jesse Allen recaps the February WASDE report in our Market Talk segment, and Ray Bohacz discusses EGR valve cleaning in “Bushels and Cents.” The episode also features the music of Clarksville Creative Sound recording artist Mackynzie McKedy. Timestamps Fastline Marketing Group advertisement: 0:00 Intro/news: 0:30 Goatlifeclothing.com advertisement: 6:35 Dean Barke, Fastline Marketing Group: 6:54 Patrick Campbell, Soil Test Pro: 10:40 Mike Howell and Dr. Cristie Preston, Nutrien: 18:26 Soil Test Pro advertisement: 22:25 Randy Spronk, U.S. Meat Export Federation: 22:58 Jesse Allen, Market Talk: 25:12 Ray Bohacz, “Bushels and Cents”: 32:25 Mackynzie McKedy: 34:01

In this episode we have the one and only Albert Tomechko of Vitalize Seed. We talked about briefly C:N ratios, base saturation specfically focusing on Potassium (K), and then discussed the Phosphorous and Zinc relationship. We did have some intrnet issues so a little rough, I do apologize, but stick with it it was a great conversation!https://vitalizeseed.com/

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Learning as much Deep Learning math as I could in 24 hours, published by Phosphorous on January 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL:DR I designed an experiment where I committed to spend two 12 hour days trying to learn as much deep-learning math as possible, basically from scratch. Table of Contents Origins and Motivations Results Takeaways Experiment set-up The Curriculum Documentation on hours Origins and Motivations For a long time, I've felt intimidated by the technical aspects of alignment research. I had never taken classes on linear algebra or multivariable calculus or deep learning, and when I cracked open many AI papers, I was terrified by symbols and words I didn't understand. 7 months ago I wrote up a short doc about how I was going to remedy my lack of technical knowledge: I collected some textbooks and some online courses, and I decided to hire a tutor to meet a few hours a week. I had the first two weeks of meetings, it was awesome, then regular meetings got disrupted by travel, and I never came back to it. When I thought about my accumulating debt of technical knowledge, my cached answer was “Oh, that might take six months to get up to speed. I don't have the time.” Then, watching my productivity on other projects over the intervening months, I noticed two things: There appeared to be massive variance in my productivity. Sometimes, in a single day, I would get more done than I had accomplished in previous weeks. I seemed to both enjoy and get more done by “sprinting” through certain projects, eg. by spending 10 hours on it in a single day, rather than spreading that same work out over 2 hours a week for 5 weeks. It was, for some reason, way more motivating and seemingly more efficient to sprint. Also, when I asked myself what I thought the main bottlenecks were for addressing my technical debt problem, I identified two categories: Time (I felt busy all the time, and was afraid of committing too much to one project) A combination of lacking Motivation, Accountability and Fun Then, as my mind wandered, I started to put 2 and 2 together: Perhaps these new things I had noticed about my productivity, could be used to address the bottlenecks in my technical debt? I decided to embark on an experiment: how much technical background on deep learning could I learn in a single weekend? My understanding of the benefits of this experiment were as follows: Committing “a weekend” felt like a much smaller time cost than committing “a few months”, even if they were the same number of hours. No Distraction: I could design my environment to minimize distractions for two days, something it would be intractable to do to the same degree for several months. “Trying to learn as much as possible” felt like a challenge. I was, to be honest, pretty scared. I didn't know what I was doing, it felt extreme, but that also made it exciting and fun. I had some historical data that I might be good at this kind of sprinting, and framing this as an experiment to see what I could learn about my productivity added another layer of discovery-driven motivation and fun. What if I learned more about how to be productive and get hard things done via this experiment? As far as I knew, nobody else among my peers had done this - but I suspected that more people than me had the same problems, and that if I conducted this experiment, I might learn things that would be helpful to others, which added yet another layer of discovery-driven motivation and fun. Accountability: Once I told somebody about this, it was hard to back out. It's way easier for them to monitor me for a weekend than for a few months. Results I'd consider the experiment a success: I finished the whole curriculum in ~18 hours, and I got a lot of neat take-aways I'll go over below. At the end of day 1, after 12 hours of cram...

“Please work with us!” That's the message to the Government this morning from labour providers who say there are severe staff shortages in food and farming and 60 per cent of farmers and manufacturers expect they won't have enough workers next year. Tis the season for an announcement on seasonal worker visas - last year it came on Christmas Eve, heralding 40,000 6-month visas for people coming from abroad to work on UK farms and in poultry processing this year. We understand the exact numbers for NEXT year are currently being discussed by the Home Office and DEFRA. The National Farmers Union have called for 55 thousand visas - but the Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick, recently told the House of Commons that he felt 40,000 a year “is approximately the right number” and pointed out that this year there were 1,400 visas left unused. Our week long travel through the world of cheese culminates in a trip to the Yorkshire dales where it's believed versions of Wensleydale were first made a thousand years ago. Farmhouse production came to an end after the second world war but it's making a come-back and bringing benefits to smaller farm businesses. And the UK needs to reduce its reliance on ‘risky import markets' for phosphorous and instead develop innovative ways of recovering it from animal manures and wastewater. That's the advice in the UK Phosphorous Transformation Strategy, which has just been released. Phosphorus is needed for biological processes in plants and animals. At the moment the UK imports 174,000 tons a year - mainly from Russia, China and Morocco - and prices have been impacted by the war in Ukraine. Presented by Charlotte Smith Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons

Brian Contos is the CSO at Phosphorous. Before joining Phosphorus, he held CSO, Advisor, & leadership roles at companies like ArcSight, Cylance, Jask, and Verodin, to name a few.

Theaux Le Gardeur who is executive director of Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER®, they are a grassroots, advocacy-based membership organization charged with protecting, conserving and restoring the Gunpowder, Bird and Bush Rivers and their Watersheds located in Monkton, MD. Because of the economic, biological and recreational importance of the Gunpowder River, there exists a pressing need for independent, comprehensive baseline environmental monitoring and mapping of the river and its watershed. They participate in monitoring projects such as temperature, pH, dissolved solids, Chlorophyll A, Nitrogen, Phosphorous and bacteria are collected throughout the watershed. This data will be visualized with GIS mapping and shared with regulatory agencies. With Theaux we talk about the river itself, what problems the river is facing, projects and sampling they're working on, and NASA satellite training that they're a part of. And to give more information on the NASA satellite training we attended, every day, several NASA satellites circle the globe from the North to the South Pole. As the earth turns, these satellite routes will cross over the entire planet, one swath at a time. Some of these satellites take pictures of the ever-changing waters of the earth. This program is designed to ground truth the satellite data by comparing information from samples obtained in the field to the satellite data to determine how precisely the space images capture water quality data. Contact and connect with Theaux: gunpowderriverkeeper@gmail.com Gunpowder and their work: https://gunpowderriverkeeper.org/ NASA and SERC collaboration: https://gunpowderriverkeeper.org/reflecting-on-a-successful-training-with-the-smithsonian-environmental-research-center/

The state of Arkansas and the federal government are headed to court over how much phosphorous can be in the water coming out of local sewer treatment systems. But what does that mean to the average person and the local environment? We'll talk about that today with Dr. Rebecca Muenich, assistant professor in the school of sustainable engineering and the built environment at Arizona State University on the Know the News podcast. Read more about the story this weekend at nwaonline.com.  Don't miss the latest news in Northwest Arkansas, sign up for our free newsletters at: nwaonline.com/email/

Do you know what fertilizer you should be using? What is the difference in synthetic and organic? Do you really need nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium? With so many questions revolving around fertilizers in the garden, we decided it's time to do a deep dive before we get too far into this 2022 spring/summer season. Facts About Fertilizers Did you know that organic fertilizers feed the soil and synthetic fertilizers feed the plant? Any source of organic matter will, sooner or later, become a soil acid after it has deteriorated into the soil. Manure that is applied to the surface without a soil cover can lose 25% of its nutrients in a single 24-hour period on a sunny, windy day. Calcium Nitrate (or nitrate of lime) is produced by reacting nitric acid with crushed limestone. What Fertilizers Should You Be Using? Part 1 20-20-20 Fertilizer Our 20 20 20 Garden Fertilizer has a balanced ratio of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium that works great for fertilizing plants at all stages of growth. This water-soluble formula dissolves easily in water and can be applied by pouring alongside plants or with an injection system. used on any vegetable or plant in your vegetable garden. It works especially great when used early on heavy-feeding crops like tomatoes, onions or corn and it also helps to stimulate early plant growth in heavy-feeding cool crops like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi and more! Micro-Boost Micro-Boost is a micronutrient blend specifically designed to improve the yield potential of your vegetable garden plants by maximizing nutrient uptake, promoting a robust root system and an overall healthier plant. It can be used on all crops. Complete Organic Fertilizer Our Complete Organic Fertilizer is a balanced blend made from 100% all-natural, composted chicken manure. Includes 5% Nitrogen, 4% Phosphorous, 3% Potassium and 9% Calcium. OMRI listed for certified organic production. This formulation also includes 9% calcium which is especially important when growing tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. Calcium deficiencies can cause blossom end rot in nightshade (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant) species and is indicated by a rotting on the bottom of the fruit. This fertilizer will provide the adequate calcium to prevent blossom end rot and provide a healthy harvest. What Fertilizers Should You Be Using? Part 2 Calcium Nitrate Fertilizer Calcium Nitrate Fertilizer is a water-soluble formulation that provides fast-acting nitrogen along with calcium to increase fruit quality and prevent blossom end rot. Great for tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and more! This fertilizer contains ammoniacal and nitrate nitrogen, which results in quick uptake and fast growth responses. Nitrate nitrogen also improves the uptake of potassium, calcium and magnesium by the plant. Chilean Nitrate Fertilizer Organic Nitrate Nitrogen nutrient source collected from natural rock deposits found in Atacama desert in chile. Chilean Nitrate Fertilizer provides a non-synthetic, natural source of nitrogen for your vegetable garden. Also known as sodium nitrate, this fertilizer is bagged in a dry, flowable form that is 100% water soluble. OMRI listed for organic use. For side-dressing field corn, popcorn or sweet corn, apply 3.5 lbs per 1,000 square feet at least 2-3 times throughout the life of the plant. We recommend an initial application prior to the first hilling of the corn. Apply the granular fertilizer alongside the row and cover with soil during the hilling process. For other vegetable crops, apply alongside the plants at a rate of 1 cup per 10 feet. Use a hoe or other hand cultivation tool to mix the fertilizer into the soil. Apply every 2-3 weeks or as needed. Products of the Week: Fertilizers Tongues of Fire Bean Oxheart Carrot Indigo Rose Tomato Trinidad Scorpion Pepper Depurple Cauliflower Watch the Complete Show on YouTube Below: https://youtu.be/ttk35rcVCDY

Robb Dedman was sitting in an Ag conference when he heard a presenter explaining how a product could increase phosphorous uptake in corn. As the crop consultant and biz partner to Matt Miles, Robb had been noticing that very problem at Miles Farms: The soil held ample “P” yet the crop tissue samples showed a deficiency. So, Mr. Dedman went on a search and discovery mission. He found a company named AgrotechUSA and conducted trials last year with their NutriCharge product, which increases phosphorous availability to plants. The results and the return on investment were significant. Presented by Advanced Drainage Systems

In season 2 episode 5 of the chemistry lab James and Aevry discuss H.P. Lovecraft, Drugs, Insurrection, Naked Fights , and Onlyfans.