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Agriculture
Population
Arts Commerce
AgriculturePopulation
Arts
The Mechanistic Metaphor
CommerceFixed External Extractable Inputs
AgriculturePopulation
ArtsGrowth without growth in regenerative capacity = extraction
Commerce Fixed External inputs + Sunlight & Water
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Extractive Spiral
(Magdoff, 2000)
Positive feed back
The positive feedback from management forms the basis of agrarian optimism. The alternative is a model of mining and extraction.
time
Winter annual (hairy vetch/winter rye)
Warm season perennial(eg. switchgrass)
Cool seasonperennial (orchard grass/clovers)
Spring annual(annual rye grass)
Fall annual (frost kill)(eg.Tillage radish/oats)
Warm season annual(Sorghum sudan grass)
Growth& nutrient uptake
winter spring summer fall winter spring summer fall winter
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Here is a calendar of your year’s labour.In January: pick the large vegetables. Turn over the fallow land. Prepare the hemp and flax. Clean and repair your carts and tipcart, and prepare some stakes and osiers. Fell the willows and poplars. Rebuild the ditches and shape the hedges. Turn over the vineyards. Manure the fruit trees which are languid and prune the rest. Clear the meadows. Thresh the grain. Turn over the manure. Plough the light, sandy soil which was not ploughed at the Feast of Saint Martin. When it is mild, resume planting in the valleys. Graft the early trees and bushes. Plant the corms, kernels, nuts, etc. Have the hemp scutched and begin to spin. Make bundles of firewood and sticks. Let those hens which are ready start brooding. Brand the lambs you wish to keep. Salt the pork. If you are in a hot country, break up the fallow land, prepare it for the March sowing, etc
Open Source
Open Source social systems fit within the physiocratic social framework for adaptive management - and a method for providing feedback across disciplines and as a method for coding the social technical tools required to support the movement of feedback and problem statements.
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INSPIRATION
Prototype and Share
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August Plant Date
September Plant Date
Agricultural Research and Development
These ratings are a social indicator: they rank a grower to other similar growers in the database.
The actual value is less important than the ranking for making management decisions
Indicator valueIndicator value
Indicator value
Indicator value
Whole Systems Health
Rating/ranking
Indicator value
Biological
Social
EconomicTechnological
Biogeochemical
Better Ecosystem Management
Better Systems Understanding
Better Systems Monitoring Tools
Better Data
Better Ecosystem Services Biological
Social
Economic
Technological
Biogeochemical
Physiocratic Framework for Whole Systems Adaptive Management
High Complexity Validation
of environmental indicators
Cultural communication and assimilation of indicators
Low feedback
High feedbackLow Complexity
Behavior over Time
Release-Date Price Per Sensor Pixel (left axis) and Per 12 megapixels (right axis) Vs. Time (exponential fit):
Convergence and Compounding of Technical Achievements
Accessible
Accuracy
Cost
LOW
HIGH
HIGH
HIGH
Participation over time
20031960 2014
RGB imagingKites, BalloonsImage processingtools
Multispectral Imaging,Infragram cameraGround truthing andrefinement
UAV platformDevelopment, ground based sensor integrationNew platforms and devicecalibration
Imaging For Agricultural Research and Management(iFARM)
Technical Maturity & number of departments and organizations and tools
2012 2013 2014
FARM HACK©
Behavior over time
Soil health indicators-water capacity(i)carbon levels(i)Root health(i)Nodulation(i)Pore structure-compaction(i)?-respiration
Atmospheric measures-temperature-humidity-precipitation-Carbon and Oxygen levels
Water
Soil
TemperatureConductivityChemistry (i)(i)Turbidity(i)Algal growthQuantity
temperatureMoisture (i)ConductivityChemistry (i)
Biology – Respiration(i)Photosynthesis(i)Nutrient uptake(i)Water stress(i)Disease identification(i)root health (i)Growth rate(i)Diversity(i)Structure type
Physical Expressions of the Interaction of the Social/Technical System Output
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Cost: $60,000 Cost: $1300
Closed SystemCorporate sales and supported
Open Source Community Developed and Supported
GIS and shared
environmental database
Web Services (REST API, Auth access control)
Technical Biological Interaction
7/25/14
Raster file image layer
Visual data layers
3D crop model layer
Clickable Plot data
Scalability of approach from watershed to individual plant soil interactions
Customizable dashboard display layer for students/educators
Customizable dashboard display layer for Scientist/consultant
Customizable dashboard display layer for farmer, record keeping etc.
Analysis software VIIFarm Smart LCA
Analysis software VIDNDC
Analysis software IIISoil Health Management
GIS and sharedenvironmental
database
Web Services (REST API, Auth access control)
raster image layers Image processing
management layer with auto data entry used to layout fields, crops, practices, etc. tied to GIS shape filesAnalysis
software IIAdapt N
remote sensing environmental data network (automatic data entry)
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Social Technical Systems Interaction Expressed in Software
From one seed springs a thousand and let our ideas spread…
“like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and, like the air in which we breathe, move and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.” Thomas Jefferson
“At the Moment of Sputnik the Planet Became a Global Theater in Which There Are No Spectators but Only Actors”
McLuhan, Marshall. 1974.