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Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 7:02pm On Oct 28, 2021

Finnish:
Today is upon us

I just came back from my cowpea field and due to the work there, I'm so tired then I remembered this. I'll be on farm tomorrow so I just contacted someone now at shop to help me with them.

Agriculture › Re: Wet Season Maize Farm Diary Of An Agric Undergraduate Final Year Student by Dawson126(op): 3:50am On Oct 27, 2021

Attit:
I do not understand. I thought there are ready brands around when you mentioned rice input sellers. If the person has to start searching for them, like how much will the cost? I know the costs of these things, I dont want anything like contract or somewhat. I just want to walk to a store here and get. I really don't want tk rely on someone to source for me as I prefer to import myself. All I want to know is if it is ready available like you mentioned some brands and where I can get them. If I have to be talking to someone and rely on the person to source for me, I dont think I want to do that. I will just continue importing myself.

I have issues with time like I've got to coordinate a lot of things. The person I contacted is my input supplier and her store to my place in the same city, is not a small journey, so if I can't get stuffs at school using lecturers' influence, I contact her. She's very very OK to my judgement.

I decided to tell her I'd be needing one and she told me none was available now but she would see what she could do. It's her job and I really trust her professionalism getting quality stuffs

As I'm typing this, I've not slept since 10:00pm and my eyes are just swollen because I've been lacking good sleep for days now. I've got academic engagements for today.

However it goes, I'd contact you. Or just hit me up on whatsapp

Agriculture › Re: Updated Price Of Grains And Location. by Dawson126: 7:59pm On Oct 26, 2021

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I am glad you're safe Oga Shariff.

Agriculture › Re: Wet Season Maize Farm Diary Of An Agric Undergraduate Final Year Student by Dawson126(op): 7:49pm On Oct 26, 2021

Attit:
Thanks bro.

I contacted the person yesterday. Although the person did reply that work is on going on finding it, that was this morning as I was preparing for the day and I would just send my reply this night.

Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 7:44pm On Oct 26, 2021

Jonnic1:
Thank you man. Please keep it coming. We are following and learning. I am a cow pea (beans) farmer too. I have about 3 & half hectares of beans planted around Keffi, Nasarawa state.

This is very great sir. I would have loved to come see your farm! I was supposed to be in Akwanga by December, unfortunately I was denied access to what I wanted to come and do.

I'm glad to have you here sir

Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 7:41pm On Oct 26, 2021

princenomics:
Thanks for the advice but I have a question, if I apply insecticide during flowering, won't it affect the bees and other pollinators?

Sorry I'm just replying now. We were just informed yesterday at school we will be having our final assessment on Agricultural Journalism and media studies. To kill it all, external journalism professionals were invited, we had to work under pressure to present radio jingles and television drama. I'm just tired right now.

Back to cowpea, (I understand you have knowledge of pollination and pollinators, let's make it clear for the sake of those who don't)

Cowpea is a self pollinating crop .

Pollination is just like the way animals mate, where the male sperm(cum) fertilize (combine) with the female eggs to give babies (in plants, to give seeds contained inside the fruit). But for some crops to mate like that, they need help. Those helpers are the pollinators. Examples are wind and insects majorly. Let's stop it here.

Beans, cowpea, does not need help of such. Beans no need those helpers. That is, it does not require any agents of pollination to produce fruit. It is a self pollinating crop. To run from help, the male organs are hidden away from insect access.

This is why if you plant white and brown beans on the same farmland, they will not affect themselves. Even if you use the same farm plot except the integrity of that hidden male organs are broken.

So no worries sir.

But if someone does bee or fish farming around your side, please don't choose cypermethrin based insecticides. They're very very very toxic to bees and fish

Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 6:49pm On Oct 25, 2021

Finnish:
Yeah

No shii bro

Agriculture › Re: Wet Season Maize Farm Diary Of An Agric Undergraduate Final Year Student by Dawson126(op): 6:48pm On Oct 25, 2021

Attit:
@Dawson126

Quite detailed. I am very impressed with your work. Hmmm! Seems you have a very good teacher cos of your style. But I am sure you are talking in parables to many. It's why you do not have comments here. This is a good thread. Anyway, for future threads, keep it simple. Do not use technical terms too much. Most people are lost. But you nail it.

Bro, could you kindly give me brands of gibberellin acid available? There are fakes around.

Also, please, are there auxins around too? I am looking iba, iaa and the rest.

I am doing a project (relating to tissue culture), and I want to try and get these hormones here. I usually import, I want to try buy here as I need small quantity. You can imagine the cost of 1kg of 99% gibberellin acid. You should understand me. There are periods one needs small quantity like in your case. In fact, I need it now. Maybe we communicate via email. I can shoot you one.

God bless bro.

I grab bro. Concerning the hormones, for growth stimulation purpose, I think gibberellins are in more in market than auxins, auxins being much as herbicides. Yeah, there are a lot of fakes out there and usually I use a lecturer influence in getting some of these things but I have a contact that is very versatile at securing this stuffs for farming purpose, I will get across to them soon and give you a reply

Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 6:41pm On Oct 25, 2021

princenomics:
Thanks for this thread, I planted mine around September 10. Sprayed with Lambda two weeks ago. I just bought two cups of beans from the market. What variety will you recommend.
Thanks for the teaching. I celebrate you.

And from the classification I gave up there, the number of times you might consider to apply insecticides increases from number 1-4. The reason is because as they stay longer to attain maturity, the more insects can attack them.

Let me put it into analogy

You are defecating openly in a bush, the longer you stay while pushing the thing to come out, the more different house flies meet you on it.

Naturally, beans attract insect attacks, so the longer they stay, the more they come.

And in fact you have follow the normal regimen of insecticides application for trailing cowpea, insecticides at 4-5 weeks, (repeat every 2 weeks on, in areas of heavy pest infestations), in low incidence of pest, apply again when flowering after the 4-5 weeks, apply when seed are maturing against seed borers and caterpillars. 10 days to harvesting don't apply insecticides at all

Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 6:32pm On Oct 25, 2021

princenomics:
Pic

They're doing OK but they seem trailing, and try to consider weeding them soonest because they might flower soon enough.

There are four basic classifications of cowpea growing habit
1. Erect (they stand alone like vegetable,no crawling at all)

2. Semi erect (they stand and crawl a little, just a little)

3. Prostrate (these ones trail, like melon or watermelon, they won't climb whatever touches them. Yours is likely like that since you bought from the market so we don't know the exact variety to bought and if mixed together could even be varieties)

4. Climbing (I guess you thought as they are trailing, they might eventually need some sort of support for climbing and why you put some sticks near them) these ones trail like melon or watermelon an would climb whatever they touch.

If you plant these four the same time under the same environment, farm practices and weather, they will flower from number one to number four actually

Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 11:46am On Oct 25, 2021

Finnish:
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/vaccinating-goats-against-enterotoxemia-and-tetanus-is-it-necessary

Have you seen why it is important now?

Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 11:14am On Oct 25, 2021

Finnish:
I can't really pin point your mistake, also I think your goats are "ajebo" , these ones are from village, I think they're grateful with what they've got.

If you're going to feed them with feedstuffs rich in carbohydrates eg the maize, the cassava and proteins get them ENTEROTOXEAMIA VACCINE

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Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 10:36am On Oct 25, 2021

Finnish:
Oh good to hear, I've been giving them only corn and I know they must be bored of eating that, they are free range, so they munch of the little cassava growing in the compound, they've finished that now though.

I hope you've put my mistake above in check on your goats?

Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 10:22am On Oct 25, 2021

Finnish:
Ah thank you, one more thing, you grind everything together innit?

Not really because, dusty feed is not too good for goats.

Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 10:19am On Oct 25, 2021

Finnish:
I've been coming almost every day since I made that post, I bookmarked And started stalking your post self.

Hahahaha

I won't disappoint this time God's willing

Education › Re: History Of Queen Mary 1 AKA "Bloody Mary" Of England. by Dawson126: 9:42am On Oct 25, 2021*

Hintona:
If only Nigerians knew and were interested in their history this way.

Queen Mary is not as bad as history paints her to be. She was an intelligent, strong woman but quite unpopular. Her father Henry VII killed more people than she did yet he wasn't referred to as bloody Henry. Even her sister Elizabeth I who took the throne after she died ordered the disembowelment of 800 Catholics while Queen Mary ordered the burning of only 280 protestants.

[b]In the end the protestants of England won and so she was seen as a bloodthirsty queen [/b]because she was a Catholic.

Some people think the reason for her unpopularity was sexism but that's a story for another day.

Protestants won and anyone who was not for them was otherwise and common we're humans. That's what we do even in our society today, the majority carries all, dictates all.

Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 9:38am On Oct 25, 2021

Finnish:
Dawson126.

I'm at school now and even in a class. I'd send the pictures this week Wednesday or Thursday. Sorry I forgot this until I went through your post.

Agriculture › Re: Goat Farmers: The Hard Lesson I Learnt Today by Dawson126(op): 9:36am On Oct 25, 2021

Finnish:
Dawson126.

Education › Re: History Of Queen Mary 1 AKA "Bloody Mary" Of England. by Dawson126: 5:09am On Oct 25, 2021

chicoMX:
I believe you're referring to Queen Mary II, who was succeeded by her sister Queen Anne.

Queen Mary II never even knew Queen Mary I. There was space of years between them. And Queen Mary II was a protestant unlike the Catholic Mary I. It wasn't that Queen Anne never had a child, in fact she did before becoming queen. She had William, Duke of Gloucester but he deid in his teenage years, during the co-monarch reign of William III and Mary II. And Queen Anne had lot of children who died at birth or never did make it pass the childhood. This led to the crisis of succession of having to choose the Hanovers because when Anne died, the closest royals to the throne were catholic and they had been a lot of wahala caused already by them eg the gun powder plot, revolt and all. The parliament just feared giving them a chance could turn things the other way again

Education › Re: History Of Queen Mary 1 AKA "Bloody Mary" Of England. by Dawson126: 9:55pm On Oct 24, 2021*

KAM3KAZI:
Religion has to be in the top 3 causes of mass genocide

What you should fear is not religions but the ideologies instituted by its elites and teachers. To each of them then, they and their followers were doing the right things.

God and religions are not to be blamed here.

Did God or each of the religions' gods give any of their followers swords,guns or bombs directly? Na unaself dey bind am, they lose am, dey give unaself interpretation, swords, guns, bombs

People die, ideologies stay longer

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Education › Re: History Of Queen Mary 1 AKA "Bloody Mary" Of England. by Dawson126: 9:22pm On Oct 24, 2021

Queen Mary I's act of prosecutions was very graphic and inhumane. The English feared this era to the extent when Queen Anne died without a child who should become monarch, they bypassed close to 56 people of strong royal claim and bloodline to elect Sophia, Electress of Hanover, a protestants (somewhere around present day Germany) and her descendants, giving rise to the Hanoverian Dynasty, which technically the current Elizabeth II is a member

Education › Re: Utme 2021: Jamb Makes N400m From Correcting Errors In Candidates’ Name by Dawson126: 8:54pm On Oct 24, 2021

Siggynigeria:
Nawa...

Stingynigeria na your name,OP. Na you post,na you again fest FTC.

As for JAMB, the fight will implicate a lot of top top officials o. You hear Dibu's case again?

Crime › Re: Train Track Blown By Suspected Terrorists In Niger State (video) by Dawson126: 4:26pm On Oct 22, 2021

This is more or less organized kidnappers strategies.

Did train derailed? Was anyone hurt? They know if any train was to come, news would have reached them before hand.

These folks know what they are doing. Train is somewhat an alternative route to escape their kidnapping business along the roads by potential victims and therefore, must have been affecting their income generation, all they have to do is to shut off that alternative route and see potential victims return to the road.

Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 12:01pm On Oct 22, 2021

BMathew:
Noted, thanks for this.

Alright, I'll remove it now

Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 12:00pm On Oct 22, 2021*

mosdep:
You are welcome Brov. I am a newbie in the cowpea farming business. Incidentally I planted my first set of cowpea seeds in the first week of September almost same time you planted the ones you are showing on this thread. Like I mentioned I have gained much insight from your posts so far and its helping me to take the right decisions. Thanks once again. Here are the pictures of the two varieties i planted:
What are your views observations and suggestions?

I am always happy to be of help sir. As for the cowpea, they're just doing fine, you might just need to consider weeding soon and however it goes, please keep me posted sir.

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Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 5:55pm On Oct 21, 2021*

BMathew:
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Really appreciate your time. Let me have your contact to get in touch and I will also drop you a message via mail. Thanks

Call and whatsapp 090*********. Once you get this, let me know so as to remove my contact. Thanks sir

Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 3:14pm On Oct 21, 2021

mosdep:
Great job. Quite insightful

Thank you.

Are you a cowpea farmer or you're looking forward to being one?

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Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 1:48pm On Oct 21, 2021

BMathew:
Great work, really appreciate it.
SW we're getting there gradually.... Please keep us posted.
And is there a special well treated cowpea seed and how can we get?

Yes you can get and there is. Whenever you're ready, I will be happy to help.

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Agriculture › Re: Environmental Degradation: Appeal for the Creation of ''Nature" Forum on NL by Dawson126: 7:48am On Oct 21, 2021

OP, this is a good idea and this section is surely the closest session it could be posted because agricultural contributes and suffers quite a lot to the foregoing.

Not only will nature lovers meet to interact, but all farmers meet there to discuss issues and also share their experiences and solutions.

Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 7:40am On Oct 21, 2021

Good morning, do have a nice day!

I was sleepy yesterday and could not remember the last thing there

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Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 7:37am On Oct 21, 2021

5. Weed management

We all know weed compete with crops for all necessities they need to do well. On this I'm not too good due to my busy schedule, right now I'm towards the North Central for field work but I surely do have some kind of perception or lemme say judgement when weeding is necessary and could affect my cowpea.

Cowpea does not have good weed competition ability. When it comes to competing with weeds, na lazy crop.

One of the issues of cowpea production is weeding. This is because selective herbicides for cowpea are still under experiments and not much are already in market, therefore you would have to do manual weeding.

Would you now avail yourself to allow your cowpea grow leaves excessively at the cost of effort of weeding? Hell NO. You'd want them to fruit as early as possible to reduce this!

That us why it is necessary too.

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Agriculture › Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126(op): 11:58pm On Oct 20, 2021

There is what is called "Farmers Field School" FFS. It believes that, farmers should be trained on the (their) field all rudiments of (modern) agriculture in other to make better decisions and manipulations for and by themselves without no constant rely on the agric experts or the agric extension agents.

This was how Java in Indonesia was able to solve their problems in rice production.

I am an (ardent) believer of it..
To be continued . .... .

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