Researchers have spent decades breeding better potatoes for chips, and their work isn't done There’s a surprising amount of science in a bag of potato chips. Researchers have spent decades developing chipping potatoes that can grow in all kinds of climates, avoid diseases and pests, sit in st...

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Paperback version: Returns, returns, returns

A Tax Credit for Sustainable Crops There’s a generous new credit called 45Z that is largely dependent on farmers’ regenerative practices.

There's a new #45Z #taxcredit that could be HUGE for American #farmers and become a way to increase the adoption of #regenerativeagriculture to a scale the U.S. hasn't seen before...EXCEPT it all hinges on the still-pending USDA rules and carbon calculator. My latest:

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A Tax Credit for Sustainable Crops There’s a generous new credit called 45Z that is largely dependent on farmers’ regenerative practices.

Dept of Treasury finally approved 45Z, a generous tax credit that rewards producers who use regenerative practices. It could be a huge boon for sustainable ag — if the USDA can agree on its rules.

New from @kristenschmitt.bsky.social:
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March's Life Edits On writing and living with intention

This month, I interviewed Ken Dychtwald for an upcoming piece on legacy for AARP. And there’s a piece of advice he gave me during our conversation that rings true and nearly mirrors the goal I mention above.

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#writingcommunity #thursdaythoughts

Happy birthday!

Perfect band name.

First album:
Ramen Revolution

Let the great revision begin!

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At least it was memorable.

Ah...thanks...on the mend.

The reality, right?

Celebrated finishing the first draft of the WIP with a blizzard and food poisoning.

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One chapter to go and this WIP draft is complete.
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #onward

I think 👍 is my least favorite emoji (even though I'm guilty of using it) because nine times out of ten, it's just the laziest of acknowledgments. 🙃

Raising Goats to Graze Using goats and sheep as lawnmowers has become a booming cottage industry, particularly in conjunction with solar operations. Meet the farmers renting out their ruminants.

For Ambrook's Offrange, I wrote about the growing trend in using goats and sheep as lawnmowers, and interviewed the farmers who raise them and the organizations that help: Goats On The Go and the American Solar Grazing Association.

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T-minus 45 pages or +/- 10K and this first draft is DONE.
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #TGIF

I think you should be able to track library holds like you can packages. It would make things a lot easier if those ahead of you had to update their daily reading page count daily so you knew how long you had to wait.

Maybe someone should invent that technology.

#writingcomunity

February's Life Edits Manure, mammoth sunflowers + more

February: manure + mammoth sunflowers

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The best title for your next book (complements End Papers)

Do you go by page count or word count when it comes to completing a first draft? I go by a bit of both...but today, I'm thinking in pages and I have about 75 pages left to go and two plot points left to wrap up.

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It's been a busy day, but I hit 60K!!! (And apparently love a good rhyme!)

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The best (and worst) part!

On the cusp of 60K and I know it's going to be okay.

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Just started a list of potential plot holes, so it's a Monday for sure.

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Nearly finished.

Failure happens, but to make it define us in anything we do is silly.

#amwriting #5amwritersclub #onward

Applying this quote to my current round of edits...In the words of Kevin McCallister:

"All this time I've been worrying about it, but if you turn on the lights, it's no big deal."

#freelancewriter

Yesterday wasn't a writing day, but today is.

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Hit the point on the WIP that the rest of this is going to be...

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a man in a blue hoodie is sitting on a couch and looking at the camera . ALT: a man in a blue hoodie is sitting on a couch and looking at the camera .

I wanted to hit 50K words by this weekend...and I did.

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