It also seems to me that urban sidewalks are the single most socially valuable form of pavement out there, and not really a good candidate for deliberately subjecting to accelerated breakup via plant helpers.

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The markets and the manufacturing had started, at least, but I suppose there was a lag in actually getting the supply chains extended.

That, plus the later date of onset of large-scale settlement of the plains meant that imported timber and wire fence were available right from the start.

I'm only deeply read on these histories for the Corn Belt, but here I have a strong impression these attitudes were a moving target based on availability of substitutes for local timber, i.e. lumber imported from other regions and lumber substitutes like steel fence material.

I am a written word person and only once ever have I decided to systematically listen to all episodes of a podcast. This is that podcast.

Corn, beans, and tall fescue.

Just going to submit a screenshot of this thread as our next funder progress report.

One notion I have about input costs, specifically fertilizer costs, is that as they rise over the coming decades, the de facto yield of annual grain crops will go down as the economically optimal rate for any given nutrient goes down. That further depresses the yield and cost targets for perennials.

That indicates there ultimately ample realistic market break-in targets for perennial grains (and other perennial staple crops!) to hit, provided we continue to drive yields up and costs down. 3/3

Maize and rice are in a yield class by themselves, then come some types of wheat, then soybean, canola, and other types of wheat, then rye, oats, and yet other types of wheat, etc. So there are many, many benchmarks to achieve full or fractional yield parity with. 2/

Nice review. You made a reasonable choice as to level of detail to engage in your article, but in some contexts it's worth pointing out the extremely wide range of yields among grain crops regarded as being fully technologically mature. 1/

Gotta go old school. ; )

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Good old 'vid. It's an American tradition.