Sampling plant and soil microbe communities in apple orchards across the mountains and valleys of Virginia!

The prettiest field season I’ve ever had!

Now time for some chemical analyses of apple phytochemicals 🧪🍎

Here we go again!

I can’t access the Fourth National Climate Assessment—the Trump admin took it down. It shows extreme precipitation will rise across much of the U.S., supporting my case for tillage reduction research. Farmers and researchers need this info!

Below is an old screenshot.

#ClimateChange #Farming

Do you ever get frustrated when you open old code and find that functions that ran in the past were deprecated?

Enter {renv}, a package that stores all package version information in a within-project library! I've been using it for reproducible analysis and long-term code storage.
#Rstats

Shout out to the #rstats {performance} package. Its check_model() function is super helpful for model evaluation.

#statistics #STEM

As someone who enjoys meat but is concerned about the environment, I found it interesting to see that poultry is relatively "light" in terms of GHG emissions per 100 g of protein and land use. Is there a catch to eating chicken that I'm missing?

Full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Just so we are all clear, the Trump administration has not reduced total government spending. The graph below compares the last two years of spending (blue lines) to Trump (red line).

Laying off federal workers and cutting research funding undermines us.

Three years of intercrop diversity left no legacy effects on weed-crop competition, likely because intensive tillage reduced diversity legacies. In contrast, broader crop system differences created lasting legacies that significantly influenced competition.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Interested in no-till planting winter wheat into summer-killing cover crops? We found that no-till planting winter wheat into a rolled-crimped buckwheat mulch resulted in reduced weed biomass and equivalent yields compared to a tilled control.
🧪 #ag

acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In an analysis of long-term weed community data, we found that cropping system management impacts weed seedbanks. However, yearly variation in crop growth affects weed biomass.

I was honored to be part of this collaborative effort between Cornell and INRAé, led by Jake Allen
doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Promising use of remote sensing to study functional diversity at a landscape level. These authors linked NSF-NEON data with sentinal-2 data. Really cool use of #openacess data!

Plain text summary: phys.org/news/2024-04...
Peer-review paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...