The Agronaut

📷 Fog over the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. I work on a farm in the middle of a capital city!

ℹ️🧪 The Central Experimental Farm is located in Ottawa, Ontario and was established in 1886 as the central research station for the federal Department of Agriculture, agriculture.canada.ca.

Did same for me. Only found 3 out of 40. Even though they are all listed on an academic website.

#GlasgowStrong

How is that even possible? In other news, the WHL Pats failed me last week.

A Multimodal Deep Learning Approach for Soil Moisture Downscaling Using Remote Sensing and Weather Data A multimodal network (MMNet) was developed to integrate remote sensing and weather data for soil moisture downscaling MMNet achieved RMSE ≈0.04m3/m3 $\mathit{\approx }0.04\,{\mathrm{m}}^{3}/{\mat...

🧪 Xu et al [ + agriculture.canada.ca ], 2025: A Multimodal Deep Learning Approach for Soil Moisture Downscaling Using Remote Sensing and Weather Data

TLDR? A MMNet to integrate remote sensing and weather data for soil moisture downscaling captured soil moisture dynamics.

🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

My daughter made these flowers out of pipe cleaners. Pretty neat…

There’s no way this is right. No jambo would ever validate this.

Compact polarimetric response of native grassland and seeded forage across a gradient of Southern Alberta Prairie ecoregions Canada’s remaining intact native Prairie grasslands are highly fragmented and difficult to distinguish from seeded forage using conventional satellite methods due to their phenological similarity. ...

🧪 Lindsay [ agriculture.canada.ca ] et al, 2026: Compact polarimetric response of native grassland and seeded forage across a gradient of Southern Alberta Prairie ecoregions

TLDR? Evaluated RADARSAT CM CP SAR to identify native grassland and seeded forage at 5 Alberta sites

🔗 tinyurl.com/56yc5xf7

Tonight’s rout.

The Henry segment was magical.

Saw them December 84 at the Playhouse. Went with a pal who liked them. Maybe 100 people there. Touring the Heartland album.

Five years later they were selling out Murrayfield.

Making money off the backs of young people who want to better their lives through education loans is abhorrent and counter productive. I’d sign this if I lived in the UK.

Craigy would’ve caught it.

Robbie back now.

Marshall’s chunky chicken champions.

Canada1Water: Hydraulic parametrized integrated soil, bedrock and peatlands datasets The Canada1Water (C1W) initiative is a national-scale effort to model Canada’s hydrologic cycle, integrating groundwater, surface water, and climate i…

🆕📀🧪 Kessel et al [+ agriculture.canada.ca ], 2026: Canada1Water: Hydraulic parametrized integrated soil, bedrock & peatlands datasets

TLDR? Grids include soil attributes, hydraulic parameters, and classifications for bedrock + peatlands (250m, Cdn provinces + territories)

🔗 tinyurl.com/h9j9xtpw

I’d be mad if my kid’s U15 House team coughed the puck up like that. This season is toast.

Growth and yield of forage alfalfa under a changing climate in Canada Alfalfa production will be impacted by increasing temperatures and elevated CO2 concentrations. A projected extended growing season will allow for additional harvests of alfalfa. Alfalfa forage yiel...

🧪 Jing[ agriculture.canada.ca ] et al, 2026: Growth and yield of forage alfalfa under a changing climate in Canada 🍁

TLDR? Crop models predict increased temperature will lead to an extended growing season, enabling additional harvests and shifts in crop growth dynamics. 🌱

🔗 tinyurl.com/mr2e9wrj

(PDF) Simulating climate change impacts on lentil yield in the Canadian Prairies using the CSM‐CROPGRO‐lentil model PDF | Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) has been widely adopted in crop rotations in the semiarid Canadian Prairies. Lentil is a known drought‐tolerant... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

🧪 Qian[ agriculture.canada.ca ] et al, 2026: Simulating climate change impacts on lentil yield in the Canadian Prairies using the CSM‐CROPGRO‐lentil model

TLDR? Lentil yields were simulated for Canadian Prairies with future climate scenarios based on 5 global climate models

🔗 tinyurl.com/2wyp5533

Take today’s map of Canada and merge the NWT and Nunavut.

Provincial boundaries would be the same as today? Only change since 1999 is Nunavut becoming a Territory?

Wien's displacement law - Wikipedia

For physics fans, this is described in Wien's Displacement Law, where the peak of the energy curve emitted from a body is inversely proportional to its temperature. The Sun's T=5778K gives peak emission wavelengths of 500nm (nr the peak sensitivity of the human eye)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%27...

Agreed. Sets a terrible precedent.

In-season crop type identification using optimal feature knowledge graph Early or in-season crop type mapping using remote sensing data is important for crop managements to maximize crop yield. Existing remote sensing-based…

🧪 Zhao et al [ + agriculture.canada.ca ], 2022: In-season crop type identification using optimal feature knowledge graph

TLDR? Integrating OIF knowledge graph and moment-preserving thresholding are effective in identifying crop types without ground data.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I hear ya. Not sure I like it so much.

Fixable issues? Referees that know the too many men rule would be a start. I know two 18 year olds who called it fine in my kids U15 game tonight..:

And yet, expected.

Stealing

As a Canadian I can give props to this. Classy one.

3 on 3… it’ll be done on the first two on one.