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<\/center><\/p>\nThey didn’t give me one. Probably for the best. Who knows what I would write on it. Probably koans: <\/p>\n
Shuzan held out his short staff and said, “If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I do have access to a giant chalkboard. Maybe I should write about the philosophical mysteries of faith, reality and the universe there.<\/p>\n
Today I had a few students<\/strong> come up to the office studio to record a few intro and outro tracks for a podcast project we’re launching tomorrow. They sound impressive, which means we must now make the rest of the project sound equally good. <\/p>\n
No pressure or anything. <\/p>\n
Things to read<\/strong>: Because we haven’t used this gimmick here in a long while.<\/p>\n
Agricultural drones may change the way we farm<\/a>:<\/p>\n
For centuries much of farming has been legwork: walking down rows, through patches, going plant-by-plant to check for weeds, bugs, parched soil, any sign of distress. Modern machinery, soil-testing, computers, and ground-based sensors have made crop monitoring and tending more efficient, but still lots goes unnoticed.<\/p>\n
Even with a trained eye, there also are inevitably data that can\u2019t be detected at scale, such as nitrogen deficiency or diminished photosynthesis, the chlorophyll-powered process that is crucial for a healthy plant. And if one ailing plant is found, what is the impact on the sometimes hundreds of thousands of plants that surround it? Farmers were long left to guess.<\/p>\n
Not for much longer: Agriculture drones may soon be flying across America\u2019s farmland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I ask an ag journalist and an ag tech person I know about this story. “What unconventional things related to the use of drones are you seeing?”<\/p>\n
They aren’t seeing anything unconventional, because the idea of convention is a bit thin at the moment as it relates to drones in agriculture. <\/p>\n