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Category: In The Field: Plants

#125: Climate Change

Gregg
In The Field: Pests & Disease, In The Field: Plants | July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

It’s hot.  Damn hot.  But then it gets crazy cold.  The old max/min for temperature, rainfall, etc is becoming less and less relevant as variability increases and timeframes change.  How do you pivot to accommodate your crop?

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#121: Fertilizer Theory

Gregg
In The Field: Plants, Sciency Science | June 21, 2021

The History of Fertilizer.  Why it works, how it works, potassium, potash and coprolite.  Sounds like a bunch of crap if you ask me.

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#120: Shortcuts

Gregg
Business Management, In The Field: Operations, In The Field: Pests & Disease, In The Field: Plants, Off The Bine: Drying & Processing | June 14, 2021

There’s a fine line between “that’s a creative way to save some time and/or money” and “uh oh, what did I just do?”.  Sometimes those great ideas don’t work out too well, leading to the eternal battle between Current James and Future James.

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#110: Hops in the year BC

Gregg
In The Field: Operations, In The Field: Pests & Disease, In The Field: Plants | April 5, 2021

BC is, of course, Before Crop.  What do you need to do before you even think about planting?  Envelopes of dirt, out of service telephone poles and the irrigation/shower tradeoff lead the discussion.

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#107: Year One

Gregg
In The Field: Operations, In The Field: Pests & Disease, In The Field: Plants | March 15, 2021

It’s your first year of hop production.  What makes this year different from other years?  Where should your expectations be set?

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#106: The Scientific Method Part 1

Gregg
In The Field: Operations, In The Field: Plants, Sciency Science | March 8, 2021

You changed something in your hopyard between Year 3 and Year 4.  Yield went up.  Did your single change make a difference?  This week we dissect the Scientific Method and how to properly set up your experiments (insert maniacal laugh here).

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#105: Go Back and Answer A Bunch of Questions That We Forgot To Answer

Gregg
In The Field: Operations, In The Field: Pests & Disease, In The Field: Plants | March 1, 2021

We were going to simply call it “mail bag” but this title is more appropriate.  A mixed bag of stuff that we’ve been asked over the last {covers mouth and mumbles} months.  Rapid-fire hop chemistry, burnback, mathematical theories, carotenoid degradation and more.

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#103: Julie at Sandy Ridge Farm talks hops plants!

Gregg
In The Field: Plants, Interview, Sales & Marketing | February 15, 2021December 6, 2021

Guest star Julie talks to us about greenhoused plants at Sandy Ridge Farm: viruses, transportation and more.  Then she schools us in a game of Beer ‘er No.  Hey, it’s on You Tube too!

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#95: More Stuff You Don’t Know You Need

Gregg
In The Field: Operations, In The Field: Pests & Disease, In The Field: Plants, Off The Bine: Drying & Processing | December 28, 2020

A gaggle of walkie-talkies, whether your potassium is pregnant and other measurements you’ve never heard of. This is Part 2 of our lists of things you need to run your hopyard.  You can see our recommended items on a shared Amazon list at https://tinyurl.com/HopnologyShoppingList.

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#93: More Photosynthesis

Gregg
In The Field: Plants, Sciency Science | December 14, 2020

Gregg didn’t get enough sleepy-time during the first discussion, so James brings more photosynthesis to the party.  Plus threats of close-up magic.

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