Nathan Drewitz

Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they can not be taken out.

[North Central Weed Science Society @NCWeedScience]

As a tech rep in Ag, I still spend an inordinate amount of my time hoeing plots. My Ph.D. just means the waterhemp is Piled Higher and Deeper. FYi there is a difference in hoe quality. One makes you work, and the other makes work happen.

[North Central Weed Science Society @NCWeedScience]

Another key part of my job is teamwork. Here's @DrewitzAgronomy helping me till some plots today in Clear Lake, IA. We are putting in plots for a retailer field day next month.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“In the winter of 1934, the agronomists of Pskovsk oblast sowed flax on the snow — exactly as Lysenko had ordered. The seeds expanded, grew mouldy and died... He accused the agronomists of being kulaks and distorting his technology. And the agronomists were sent to Siberia.”

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

The Interrogation
The Gulag Archipelago
Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 3

“If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (the “secret brand”); that a man’s genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov’s plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.
Yes, not only Chekhov’s heroes, but what normal Russian at the beginning of the century, including any member of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party, could have believed, would have tolerated, such a slander against the bright future? What had been acceptable under Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich in the seventeenth century, what had already been regarded as barbarism under Peter the Great, what might have been used against ten or twenty people in all during the time of Biron in the mid-eighteenth century, what had already become totally impossible under Catherine the Great, was all being practiced during the flowering of the glorious twentieth century—in a society based on socialist principles, and at a time when airplanes were flying and the radio and talking films had already appeared—not by one scoundrel alone in one secret place only, but by tens of thousands of specially trained human beasts standing over millions of defenseless victims.”

[Debalin Sarangi @UMNweeds]

The first grad student from #UMNweeds lab passed his defense today. Congratulations, Navjot (@NavjotS39)! You did a fantastic job.
Thanks to @MNSoybean for their funding. This research will help our farmers. Thanks to all involved.
@CFANS @UMN_AgroPlant @UMNExt

[Debalin Sarangi @UMNweeds]

.#UMNproud of this team!
Graduate Team 3rd Place overall in North Central region at the #NationalWeedContest

@NCWeedScience @WorldofWeeds @UMNExt @UMN_AgroPlant @CFANS

[Mark Dorenkamp @BRNAgNews_Mark]

Click link for @brownfield conversation with @UMNExt crops educator @DrewitzAgronomy on #alfalfa coming out of dormancy https://t.co/GDBXzbRfzh #mnag

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down…even if you feel the friendship has run its course.⁣⁣

[Katie Drewitz @KatieWinslow7]

It’s the Nathan show this morning at Tour De Forage with @DrewitzAgronomy and @n_hulinsky! Special thanks for Chelsea with the MFA for all her work putting this together. Great turn out for the final leg of the tour.

[Nathan Drewitz @DrewitzAgronomy]

Let it snow!
https://t.co/UvgDEdxQDm

[Debalin Sarangi @UMNweeds]

Thanks to @AgronGirl and her team from @CortevaUS for putting together a great @NCWeedScience Weed Contest this year... Good job students in representing @UMNews at the contest. #KeepGrowing #UMNProud

[Bruce Potter @SWMNpest]

#soybeanaphids on the move and many fields recently infested. Will need some help from weather and the beneficials this year. Winged aphids being produced at low population densities. Fields not equally infested. Wait for threshold. @MNSoybean

[Debalin Sarangi @UMNweeds]

2022 UMN Weed Management Field Day... all, thanks for attending! Great turnout and good discussions. A lot of background work done by the #UMNweeds team members. 👏 👏 Also, big thanks to Mr. Nicolai and RROC farm staffs. @UMNExt

[Katie Drewitz @KatieWinslow7]

We finished the morning discussing forages and learning how to take samples from bales with @DrewitzAgronomy and partners from the @USDA. After our morning sessions we enjoyed a lunch of Tater tot hotdish! #MNStateCattlemensTour22 #Forage

[Katie Drewitz @KatieWinslow7]

Spent today at the @UMNExt Weed Management field day in Rochester. Interesting to see the many trials and ongoing research. Looking forward to seeing the results this fall! #UMNExt #Research #CropProduction #Spray22

[Debalin Sarangi @UMNweeds]

Please join us on Wednesday, July 6th...

[Debalin Sarangi @UMNweeds]

Acetochlor (SOA group 15 - applied PRE) herbicide injury on giant ragweed...
@NCWeedScience

[Nathan Drewitz @DrewitzAgronomy]

The final sample for the 2022 Alfalfa Harvest Alert Program is now up at https://t.co/EumZPBAsjS. Our cooperators in Morrison County cut early this week and we pulled one final sample before the cut.

[Nathan Drewitz @DrewitzAgronomy]

Most of the fields in the program have been harvested, but there are a few left sending in samples. https://t.co/uB1SegCG0A

[Nathan Drewitz @DrewitzAgronomy]

Harvest is starting to pick up across the area. Check out the most recent Alfalfa Harvest Alert. https://t.co/wPKkZQM4DK