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Rose Vs. Single Combs
Nankins are one of a small number of breeds that have two varieties that can be kept and bred together, but shown in seperate classes. Leghorns and Rhode Island Red bantams are the most common of this group. This can lead to some confusion in judging in poultry shows because the after the best of…
Agronomic Effects on Weed Seed Bank in Organic Farming Systems
For this post, I chose to read and analyze the paper Cover Crops and Compost Prevent Weed Seed Bank Buildup in Herbicide-Free Wheat-Potato Rotations Under Conservation Tillage by Jan H. Schmidt, Stephan Junge, and Maria R. Finckh published in Ecology and Evolution. This study was conducted to observe changes to the weed seed bank over…
Wheat Basics
I suppose to start, we should go back to the beginning, over 10,000 years ago in the Near/Middle East/Fertile Crescent region. There was once three closely related species of grass growing on a hillside. Each of these grasses were diploid (2 copies of each chromosome) and had seven chromosomes. By random chance pollen from one…
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