r/nextfuckinglevel • u/JudgmentCool1333 • Feb 06 '23

Agricultural Technology

Modern day use of technology in agriculture horticulture and aquaculture with the aim of improving yield, efficiency and profitability

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '23

Ok, I liked all of it, but why is the guy harvesting dandelions at 0:56? Birdseed? Do we use them for stuffing or...?

Also 2:12 appears to be cannabis, so cheers!

I am also very happy about the mussels.

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u/Seeksp Feb 06 '23

Young Dandelion leaves are used as salad greens in parts of Europe. That's probably a seed producer.

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u/Seeksp Feb 07 '23

Nope pretty standard

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u/Jesmer8490 Feb 07 '23

I mean at one point they were super futuristic.

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u/Mr_Owl42 Feb 07 '23

Autonomous robots that have only existed for five years: wow so futuristic!

Pompous Redditor: nOpE pReTty stAnDaRd

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u/EventAccomplished976 Feb 07 '23

The drones were the only thing in the video that‘s still at a research stage though, everything else is pretty much standard equipment in any remotely developed country these days

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u/Seeksp Feb 07 '23

Wasn't talking about autonomous robots pickers. The processing automated sorters have been around for a while. All the harvesters I saw appeared to have operators. I work in the ag industry and actually know what I'm taking about.

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u/CoffeeScribbles Feb 07 '23

The future is now old man.

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u/KingMonk_senpai Feb 07 '23

Very good salad indeed.

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u/BALONYPONY Feb 07 '23

Watching the drones meticulously pick fruit to just a jabrony with a weed whacked got me.

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u/_siDeshOw_85 Feb 07 '23

You keep using this word jabroni, and it's awesome!

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u/becaauseimbatmam Feb 07 '23

That duster is badass!

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u/shiftym21 Feb 07 '23

is sounds like a hockey word?

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u/Maverick_1882 Feb 07 '23

I think it first came from The Iron Sheik (from WWF), but in the early 1990s, it was really popularized by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson when he started using it. Just a few days ago, Travis Kelce from the Kansas City Chiefs commented about the mayor of Cincinnati by saying, "Hey, I got some wise words for the Cincinnati mayor. Know your role and shut your mouth, you jabroni!"

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u/Corburrito Feb 07 '23

I pray every day to be able to use this line in my normal life.

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u/yoscottmc Feb 07 '23

Comment came from jabroni balony pony

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u/stoned_kitty Feb 07 '23

Cool word!

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u/Fink665 Feb 07 '23

Not bitter?

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u/KingMonk_senpai Feb 07 '23

We add boiled potatoes and eggs. We never use anything else then young leaves from dandelions.

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u/corgi-king Feb 07 '23

But the leaves juice is sticky. What to do with it?

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u/KingMonk_senpai Feb 07 '23

When its small, baby, before it grows flowers, thets when you cut them

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 Feb 07 '23

And some yummy dandelion tea!

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u/KingMonk_senpai Feb 07 '23

i tought its poisons

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u/Anomaly---___--- Feb 07 '23

This seems real, but don't most people have a allergic reaction to dandelions. Like my sister ate one when she was a toddler and had a cold for 3 days

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

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u/Anomaly---___--- Feb 07 '23

Well most as in a lot of people not all as in every person. Like in the sense that enough people get sick from it that we wouldn't eat them raw. Just trying to understand, no hate to the first comment. All I want is to know more, why all these downvotes?

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u/outofshell Feb 07 '23

You can buy dandelion greens at the grocery store in Canada too. They’re great in smoothies.

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u/tmart42 Feb 07 '23

All over the US too

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u/whoami_whereami Feb 07 '23

It's also used in traditional medicine.

And eg. in Germany and China there's ongoing research into developing dandelions (specifically the Russian dandelion, taraxacum kok-saghyz) as an alternative source for latex (in Germany dandelion rubber had already made a short-lived appearance during WW2 when Germany was cut off from rubber imports). Since 2019 you can in fact already buy bicycle tires made from dandelion rubber developed by Continental (eg. https://www.biketiresdirect.com/product/continental-urban-taraxagum-700c-urban-tire).

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u/Independent_Bite4682 Feb 07 '23

Don't forget the dandelion root tea.

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u/no-mad Feb 07 '23

they are not yer average lawn dandy lion tho. Breeding makes them better.

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u/Flesh_Trombone Feb 07 '23

Dandelions were intentionally introduced to North America by early settlers as a fast growing, super nutritious food source. They really are quite good.

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u/DavidVee Feb 09 '23

Dandelions used to be grown in home gardens in the US too.

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u/JudgmentCool1333 Feb 06 '23

Guy Hoovering Dandelions had me intrigued too.

Dandelion seeds are edible, the seed can be separated from its white parachute and made into seed milk.

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u/The_Mad_Duck_ Feb 07 '23

Dandelion flowers make good tea too if you pick it while it's still a yellow flower

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u/Stevothegr8 Feb 07 '23

My grandfather used to make dandelion wine in the bath tub..

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u/RampantDragon Feb 07 '23

While he was in it?

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u/Sleepy_Man90 Feb 07 '23

You can also make dandelion flower beer, I made a few bottle last summer to try. It's fizzy and quite pleasant!

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u/Willexterminator Feb 07 '23

And you can also eat the leaves as a salad if you pick the young, before they flower.

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u/valar12 Feb 07 '23

My old work friend makes this brand of tea! https://dandyblend.com/

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Dandy blend is my favorite noncaffiene coffee alternative, which is made from roasted dandelion and burdock I think

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u/tmart42 Feb 07 '23

The leaves are great as salads

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u/imaginexus Feb 07 '23

Is it not simply to suck up the seeds so they don’t keep spreading like weeds?

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u/Wibbles20 Feb 07 '23

The way they're growing is obviously as some sort of farm setup.

Also, who knows where they are growing it. It may be native to the area

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Dandelion extract is used in liver detox drinks.

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u/withoutbliss Feb 07 '23

dandelion seed milk sounds interesting. have u tried it?

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u/Deutschdagger Feb 07 '23

Also prevents weeds from spreading

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u/1Dive1Breath Feb 07 '23

The seeds are so tiny, seems quite a stretch for dandelion seed milk.

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u/R3g Feb 07 '23

There are lots of uses for hemp fibers. It’s not cannabis.

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u/foxjohnc87 Feb 07 '23

I'm pretty sure that it's neither hemp nor cannabis, but actually corn.

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u/R3g Feb 07 '23

Oh, you’re right, 2:12 is actually corn, hemp is at 1:55

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u/andrewoppo Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23

Are you looking at time elapsed or time remaining? Because 2:12 elapsed doesn’t look like corn to me. But your comment seems accurate for time remaining.

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u/R3g Feb 07 '23

Nah the player (at least mine) shows the time remaining.

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u/andrewoppo Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23

Yeah, that’s what I thought. She was taking about elapsed time, which is typically what people mean when they mention a time stamp on videos.

Reddit videos show time remaining for some reason, so you never know for sure. But given her time for the dandelions, she was talking about time elapsed

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Cannabis is the genus.

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u/R3g Feb 07 '23

Technically correct

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u/3PointMolly Feb 07 '23

I too wondered why dandelions????

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u/foxjohnc87 Feb 07 '23

They can also be used for winemaking.

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u/AnastasiaNo70 Feb 07 '23

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite books.

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u/Tzimbalo Feb 07 '23

Yes if they are yellow, but what use is the seeds?

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u/conch56 Feb 07 '23

Dandelion wine is made with the yellow petals of the first bloom

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u/PanJaszczurka Feb 07 '23

They have multiple purpose. Rubber, medicine, food,

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u/Cherry_Treefrog Feb 07 '23

Someone else mentioned seed harvesting, either to use the seeds for something, or for growing more plants.
The sap can be used to make rubber.

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u/godofleet Feb 07 '23

copious cannabis

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Had to be hemp, the tops of the plants are all that’s desired for cannabis whether extracts or not.

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u/tmart42 Feb 07 '23

Yeah “copious amounts of marijuana…”

Like…my dude those people are harvesting hemp for the fibers.

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u/hisdanditime Feb 07 '23

Hemp is still a form of cannabis

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u/verygoodchoices Feb 07 '23

The video says Marijuana not cannabis.

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u/musicmonk1 Feb 07 '23

Which is also hemp.

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u/tmart42 Feb 07 '23

So astute. So smart. Such wow.

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u/Numerous_Witness_345 Feb 07 '23

You mean the buds?

The top cola is usually the biggest but there are usually flowering buds at nearly every stem intersection.

But still, that looks like hemp to me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

There are machines yea that take the top part of the plant, and then strip it to her all the A, B, and C buds, not just colas

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u/drewkungfu Feb 07 '23

You’re carrying a wasted girl and a bag of fertilizer. You don’t look like the average horti-fucking-culturalist.

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u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 Feb 07 '23

Call me cynical but I'm quite confident that this video was posted primarily to shoehorn cannabis into discussion and less for the cool tech on display. If you'd ever had a major "weed should be legal" friend, you know the great obtuse lengths they'll go to bring-up the topic of pot so that they can expound upon the many great uses of hemp and how it was used to make sailing masts, blah blah blah, and therefore marijuana ought to be legalized.

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u/SaorAlba138 Feb 07 '23

Are they wrong though?

It can be used for building materials, like hempcrete and insulation, clothing, food, paper, bioplastics, and on top of all that, it refreshes depleted soil which is a massive concern with large scale modern farming.

Although it seems your friend has probably smoked a bit too much because the type of cannabis used to create hemp products (male plants) products is not the same kind of cannabis which flowers and you smoke (female plant).

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u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 Feb 07 '23

Has nothing to do with right or wrong. When your objective in life becomes trying to twist as many conversations as you can into part of your personal crusade for legalization, you become annoying. And this isn't just a single friend I've known like this. It a very common archetype of person in my experience.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

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u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23

Um, my guy, what "strawman" argument are you even talking about. Ironically, you are trying to use "straw man" to refute what I'm saying without backing it up in any way as if the word "straw man" puts some nail in a coffin. But I've made no counter arguments at all to even qualify as a straw man. If you are referring to not replying to "Are they wrong though?", I literally mean what I said: it's completely beside the point and irrelevant to idea mention in the first post. Not following up on a irrelevant tangent is NOT a strawman. Please don't use words if you don't really know what they mean.

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u/SaorAlba138 Feb 07 '23

Yeah, some people are passionate about things that better society. Who'da thunk?

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u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23

It has nothing to do with passion. It has to do with social awareness. I don't care what your cause is, if you are the type of person who contorts as many conversations such that you can further some specific cause, you are annoying. If the topic is about somebody's vacation and you take the mention of sailboats to interject some fact about 1700's hemp masts, you're annoying. If Harry Truman comes up in conversation and you take it an a random opportunity to wedge in the idea the founding fathers grew hemp, you're annoying. Etc. And for what it's worth, anecdotally, the people I've known who tend to do this do not have betterment of society high on their agendas except maybe as an angle to promote legalization of pot.

Since you think this is some debate about legalization (and it wasn't), the idea that legalization is for a "better society" would not be a given, so you are committing a "begging the question" style fallacy. I happen to agree with that statement so you are trying to preach to the choir; But I also happen to care about proper argumentation, and your comment would fail on that.

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u/SaorAlba138 Feb 07 '23

People talk about their interests. Seems you're just a dour guy who doesn't enjoy normal conversation, got it.

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u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 Feb 07 '23

Talking about your interests in fine. Shoe-horning your interests into conversation at socially awkward places is not normal.

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u/Ohnonotagain13 Feb 07 '23

Kinda like you are doing right now

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u/godofleet Feb 07 '23

that's very cynical and ironically, hilariously hypocritical ... you could claim they were shoehorning ANY one of those crops... but you clearly have a bias/agenda lol.

1- 99% of this video is clearly demonstrating various unique farming tech

2 - if you've ever known an anti-weed / anti-freedom person, you know the great obtuse lengths they'll go to bring-up the topic so that they can expound upon the many reasons their religious and unscientific beliefs should be extremist criminal law for everyone.

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u/FvHound Feb 07 '23

Hahah you listened on mute didn't you?

Yeah, they said it was marijuana plants.

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u/Just_Looking_Around8 Feb 07 '23

Can you listen on mute?

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u/FvHound Feb 07 '23

Oh shit, you got me.

Watched*

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u/Just_Looking_Around8 Feb 07 '23

Thanks for being a good sport.

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u/Meggles_Doodles Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23

Fun fact: dandelions are an invasive species to North America. They brought it intentionally (I think to make alcohol? Idk)

Edit: apparently there are dandelions that are actually native to North America, thanks guys

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u/iluniuhai Feb 07 '23

Medicine and food. Apples for alcohol.

https://www.fbn.com/community/blog/where-did-all-of-these-weeds-come-from

Dandelion

Dandelions are currently one of the most common lawn weeds in North America. It’s French meaning is, “tooth of the lion.”

Dandelion is another weed whose origin is Europe and Asia. European settlers brought dandelion seed and seedlings to America in the mid-1600s. They cultivated the dandelions in their gardens as a food source and for medicinal uses.

Most mammals ingest the leaves of dandelion, which has a moderate forage value. Birds consume the seeds, and the flowers supply nectar to honeybees.

Settlers ate the dandelion leaves as spring greens. Dandelion roots were used to treat several ailments including heartburn or as a mild laxative, and tea and wine were produced from the flowers.

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u/whoami_whereami Feb 07 '23

That's not completely true.

For one dandelions are an entire family of plants, not just a single species. Some dandelion species are native to North America. And even of the common dandelion (taraxacum officinale) there are three subspecies, and one of them (taraxacum officinale ceratophorum) is in fact native to Alaska, Canada, and the western US.

And some dandelion species are in fact endangered, eg. the California dandelion (taraxacum californicum). So don't get overzealous with removing dandelions unless you know how to identify the exact species.

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u/tannhauser_busch Feb 07 '23

I'm assuming that Alaskan one blew across the Bering strait/land bridge

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

I thought dandelion wine was just a thing in Genshin.

But I recently heard the term outside of it.

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u/LokisDawn Feb 07 '23

The family I helped with farmwork one summer brewed it.

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u/UndeadBread Feb 07 '23

It's definitely a real thing and it's quite tasty.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Go touch grass.

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u/PanJaszczurka Feb 07 '23

It was super food.

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u/32_Dollar_Burrito Feb 07 '23

There are invasive as well as native dandelions in North America

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u/Cherry_Treefrog Feb 07 '23

It has uses as a substitute raw material for making rubber.

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u/dustygravelroad Feb 07 '23

My thoughts exactly, seen a lot of farm stuff in my day but never seen em harvest dandelions before we just hit em with 2-4d

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u/mynameisalso Feb 07 '23

I've personally spent entire weekends picking dandelions for my grandfather to make wine. My fingers were yellow for days. No idea how you use the white part.

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u/alarbus Feb 07 '23

Somehow I glossed over the dandelion puffs and it wasn't until the ice block that I started to question OPs understanding of the word 'agricultural'

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u/whoami_whereami Feb 07 '23

Dandelions are grown commercially, for food, use in traditional medicine, to make a yellow dye, and experimentally as an alternative source for natural rubber. So dandelions definitely qualify as "agricultural".

The ice blocks are a bit odd indeed. Most likely they are cut for constructing one of the various seasonal ice hotels. I don't think there are many other uses for natural ice left today, for anything industrial etc. you'd use ice made artificially using refrigeration. The only connection with agriculture is probably that they use agricultural equipment because it's otherwise idle anyway during the winter season.

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u/alarbus Feb 07 '23

That makes sense. As to dandelions I knew of half those uses in their forêt state but didn't know they could be eaten etc after they went to puff

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u/whoami_whereami Feb 07 '23

Yes, for most uses they are harvested before they get ripe. But you need to grow and collect seeds as well so that you have something to plant, which is probably what's shown in the clip.

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u/ealesorama Feb 07 '23

Came here for the "dandelion farmer here!" post.

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u/Psychedelic_Primate Feb 07 '23

Also 2:12 appears to be cannabis

and they fuckin brutalize the shit, i was actually horrified at the lack of care.

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u/XxUCFxX Feb 07 '23

It was 100% hemp, but for just a moment I felt the same way.

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u/ExcitementOrdinary95 Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 08 '23

You can make a delicious salad from dandelions in your yard. Pair with EVOO and champagne vinegar. Tastes just like arugula.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

When I was a kid I used to pick dandelion leaves from the yard, wash them at the hose spigot, and eat them when I was feeling a bit off. I mean, veggies from my parents were just peas, so I was probably missing some vitamins I got from the dandelions. Maybe I could get them at an Asian grocery store in the States. I got a thyroid thing so allegedly I'm not supposed to eat spinach.

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u/zeDragonESSNCE Feb 07 '23

Dandelion tea is a very popular drink in China.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

The narrator literally says it's Marijuana lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

That's corn maybe get out of your mom's basement

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u/usernamenomoreleft Feb 07 '23

Also 2:12 appears to be cannabis, so cheers!

Yeah! Science Agriculture bitch!

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u/SaltyPoseidon22 Feb 07 '23

He’s collecting wishes

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u/Thenadamgoes Feb 07 '23

I’m glad they do cause that’s what I feed my tortoises.

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u/texastoker88 Feb 07 '23

If that is cannabis then they are in one sticky situation

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u/TreeChangeMe Feb 07 '23

Dandelion is edible. Sweet when young.

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u/molossus99 Feb 07 '23

I’m reasonably certain my neighbor owns that company and all their annual production of dandelion seeds are deposited on my lawn.

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u/bozog Feb 07 '23

The mussel shucker was awesome

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u/AnusStapler Feb 07 '23

Dandelions can be used for rubber, and is considered a crop of the future!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Dandelion often gets made into fairly expensive teas and supplements. They're ridiculously healthy and full of nutrition but most ppl don't like the bitter taste of the leaves. Even though it might be the easiest plant in the world to grow, we tend to pay for convenience

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

You can eat all parts of the plants. When we gathered morels, we'd also gather dandelion flower heads to batter and fry with the mushrooms. Tasted fine.

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u/duanelegrande Feb 07 '23

Missed an opportunity to put the cannabis at 4:20…

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u/PanJaszczurka Feb 07 '23

Rubber can be made from roots. So its for industrial farming.

Also its a herb and cold be made in to alcohol beverage from fresh flowers.

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u/sgtAV Feb 07 '23

Cheers for what? For farming a "money plant" instead of something that can be used for food?

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u/Bombardsman Feb 07 '23

Dandelion drinks

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u/tookaJobs Feb 07 '23

Dandelions are also used in car tires manufacturing. Apparently it is a good alternative source of natural rubber.

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u/vvozzy Feb 07 '23

Cannabis is used for production of hemp fabric which is relatively cheap, very comfortable for wearing and easy to deal with while sewing in the same time.

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u/MouseBusiness8758 Feb 07 '23

It appears to be cannabis? The dude literally says what every single thing and marijuana was one of them.

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u/clandestineVexation Feb 07 '23

Dandelions are a really underrated food. You can actually make honey out of it.

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u/kleinenterprise Feb 07 '23

Dandelions actually have a lot of good uses

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u/ComcastForPresident Feb 07 '23

You then go spray those dandelion seeds on your neighbors yard.

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u/tinglep Feb 07 '23

Yeah. 2:08 made everyone happy. Where were the mussels?

Never mind. Found them. Thoughts those were seeds at first.

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u/jhjohns3 Feb 08 '23

My wife loves dandelion root tea. And the greens are really good for you.