Farmers are price-takers not price-makers. The prices they receive are driven by speculation on the commodities markets (even for crops not traded on the market).

Since they can’t control the price they receive for their crop, they are very sensitive to any change in the cost of inputs. Determining how much to spent on inputs is the part of their profitablity they can control. So widespread behavioral change is usually pretty close to immediate.

Farmers almost uniformly over-apply N fertilizer. Having it be more expensive and forcing them to look into more efficient ways of applying fertilizer and managing nutrients is not a bad thing.

“Allies” of the U.S. in the middleeast have a shitton of stockpiled patriot missiles from decades of buildup.

Ukraine needs those missiles to protect themselves from daily attacks.

The middle eastern counties need to stop using them on cheap drones but don’t have Ukraines expertise in knocking them out of the sky with other methods.

War makes strange allies at times. Sort of like in WWII how the allies saved the Soviet Union under the genocidal Stalin.

Swirskii mites.

I have kept a mosteras for many decades. A few basics. The brown spots on the edges are usually too much water (causes N deficiency), salt buildup, or lack of fertilizer.

Watering, the pot should be saturated then allowed to completely dry out. Don’t pay attention to the soil, look at the leaves. When the plant is drought stressed they have a slight dimpled look. The leaves appear duller and not as shiney. Salts- the are very sensitive to water softeners. Do not use water that has been softened.

Fertilizer - they do best with slow release fertilizers. For conventional fertilizer you want polymer coated. For organic you want manures aka something that takes time to break down.

Salt leaching- you need to leach the pots at least every couple of years. The smaller the pot the more often it is needed. Flushing a bunch of water through the soil removes salt buildup.

Pot size- ignore everything anyone says about pot size for monsteras. They always get rootbound in any pot but they don’t care. You can grow giant ones in a 1 gallon pot. A larger pot = less frequent watering and fertilizing. For most of my plants life I kept it in an 2 gallon pot for ease in transport.

Light: monsteras are tree climbers. In low light conditions they grow away from the light looking for a tree trunk (small leaves with long internodes. If you want big beautiful leaves, they need 4-5 hours of direct sunlight. Preferably in the early morning or evening.

Honestly a simple drip irrigation system is how I would go. You can set them up with a timer on a garden hose. You can controll how much water each pot gets with the number and type of emitter. Its a lot more setup at the start but once it’s installed they tend to work seemlessly.

A large drone that can carry more weight, and stay aloft longer. Hmmmm… maybe Ukraine could drop a few ideas.

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So sumer was kind of like rural Australia, Wales, and Scotland.

Beer, food, and their current love interest.

I want to see the next video where they bring in the heavy bomber or artillery and blow the shit out of the dugout.

Yep as soon as the game is launched, LAYOFFS!!!

Sharing profits with the people who actually did the work is anti-capitalist.