May 16, 2020 Notes

Crow hunting - sneak up on a flock mobbing an owl
Crows are smart - major problem for the hazels.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2019/panel_12/2/
Oberlin college planting - is still going.
Transplant by root core
PhD + 3 Masters + 2 assistants for each. Identify and cull shit, increase the good stuff.
Olive pickers - are bigger - so maybe a better choice
Twin Ponds - Illinois - another planting 80 mi north of Twin Ponds
Chainsaw + carbide blade for coppicing
Bill Hunt owns the machine -
Twin ponds project at Michigan - guy took the harvester machine
2000 lb / acre ar e current yield from Illinois place, 45% efficient - as rest ripened sooner or later
Chronic Wasting Disease - hotspot in Phil's area - [1] - By phil - 100% of data shows pryons transfer. Mink, cats, cows, mice, hamsters, and gerbils. It successfully transfers. Maybe bovine thing is the same thing - Mad Cow Disease. Neighbors may be crazy from Mad Cow.
Brandon is working for a robotics company - [2]
Meg Rutter - got published - [3]
2 categories of hired men - (1) move the hay and save money to get land; (2) never saved and never saved for getting their farm
Managing people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder - Phil cut his millenials
Now shifting to COVID
Phil is a polymath, so am I ^[1]
Feels 104 before coffee and meds
71 years old

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