Dan Bloomer
@danbloomer.bsky.social
Dad, Consultant, Farm Fanboy, Agritech Afficionado, Aging Post-grad
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There are lines that are breathtaking and then there are lines that stop all the clocks. Wonderful and powerful work by @johnjcampbell.bsky.social.
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February 10, 2024 at 6:17 AM
There are lines that are breathtaking and then there are lines that stop all the clocks. Wonderful and powerful work by @johnjcampbell.bsky.social.
www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/10/j...
www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/10/j...
Been listening to The Hoon, from Bernard Hickey and friends. As an informative panel, I don't know anything that comes close in the areas they discuss. Ka pai, the Kaka
November 12, 2023 at 5:08 AM
Been listening to The Hoon, from Bernard Hickey and friends. As an informative panel, I don't know anything that comes close in the areas they discuss. Ka pai, the Kaka
Posted info about a field walk at our Carbon Positive research site in Hastings NZ this Thursday: Carbon Positive Field Walk this Thursday. www.landwise.org.nz
November 5, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Posted info about a field walk at our Carbon Positive research site in Hastings NZ this Thursday: Carbon Positive Field Walk this Thursday. www.landwise.org.nz
Pleased to have my latest electric weeding research published open access in 'Agronomy'. Many thanks to co-authors, reviewers and editors: the process certainly improves the quality of the final product. www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13...
The Electric Spatula: Killing Weeds with Pulsed Microshocks from a Flat-Plate Electrode
Seeking an easy-to-deploy, energy-efficient, non-herbicide weed control method, we tested a flat-plate electrode to apply pulsed electric microshocks (PMS) to a grass and four broadleaf weed species. ...
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October 27, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Pleased to have my latest electric weeding research published open access in 'Agronomy'. Many thanks to co-authors, reviewers and editors: the process certainly improves the quality of the final product. www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13...
October 15, 2023 at 7:19 AM
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A shout out to Toby Morris and the power of his work. I have an online course that talks about inequity and today a participant spoke about how this comic changed their viewpoint entirely. How they had thought we all start at the same place.
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September 28, 2023 at 3:24 AM
A shout out to Toby Morris and the power of his work. I have an online course that talks about inequity and today a participant spoke about how this comic changed their viewpoint entirely. How they had thought we all start at the same place.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wir...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wir...
Recommend this Plant and Food Research podcast. @rhbloomer.bsky.social, Jim Walker, and Peter Welch discuss the impact of and recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle in Hawke's Bay orchards. www.plantandfood.com/en-nz/articl...
Recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle · Plant & Food Research
Cyclone Gabrielle was a devastating event that caused widespread damage to the pipfruit growing region of the Hawkes Bay. We speak to Jim Walker and Peter Welch about the effects to the industry
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September 6, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Recommend this Plant and Food Research podcast. @rhbloomer.bsky.social, Jim Walker, and Peter Welch discuss the impact of and recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle in Hawke's Bay orchards. www.plantandfood.com/en-nz/articl...
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Kicking-the-can-down-the-roadism is happening again - seems like a good time to re-up a story I wrote about political climate inertia at the time the IPCC released its latest assessment northandsouth.co.nz/2021/10/18/n...
"We Spent 25 Years Doing Virtually Nothing"
Why New Zealand is one of the developed world's worst climate laggards
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September 1, 2023 at 5:19 AM
Kicking-the-can-down-the-roadism is happening again - seems like a good time to re-up a story I wrote about political climate inertia at the time the IPCC released its latest assessment northandsouth.co.nz/2021/10/18/n...
Very pleased to get my literature review of non-herbicide weed management options, electric weeding, and robots published Open Access. Part of the Special issue in the NZ Journal of Agricultural Research. Lots of other goodies in there too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 1, 2023 at 3:22 AM
Very pleased to get my literature review of non-herbicide weed management options, electric weeding, and robots published Open Access. Part of the Special issue in the NZ Journal of Agricultural Research. Lots of other goodies in there too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz & online at www.stuff.co.nz
Cyclists! Pesky buggers - using no fuel, needing no WOF's, getting fitter, not going excessively fast on motorways, not ploughing into front rooms or bedrooms whilst people sleep... sheesh! How dare they?!
#ClimateCrisis
Cyclists! Pesky buggers - using no fuel, needing no WOF's, getting fitter, not going excessively fast on motorways, not ploughing into front rooms or bedrooms whilst people sleep... sheesh! How dare they?!
#ClimateCrisis
August 20, 2023 at 7:45 PM
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz & online at www.stuff.co.nz
Cyclists! Pesky buggers - using no fuel, needing no WOF's, getting fitter, not going excessively fast on motorways, not ploughing into front rooms or bedrooms whilst people sleep... sheesh! How dare they?!
#ClimateCrisis
Cyclists! Pesky buggers - using no fuel, needing no WOF's, getting fitter, not going excessively fast on motorways, not ploughing into front rooms or bedrooms whilst people sleep... sheesh! How dare they?!
#ClimateCrisis
Got some helpers in grazing our "Carbon Positive" conventional cropping treatment plots.
August 21, 2023 at 12:57 AM
Got some helpers in grazing our "Carbon Positive" conventional cropping treatment plots.