{"id":406,"date":"2016-05-08T17:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T17:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2023-02-01T07:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T07:57:27","slug":"harvest-time-bestology-week-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/2016\/05\/08\/harvest-time-bestology-week-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Time!  bESTology Week 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Harvest Time! bESTology Week 15<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_3808\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harvest.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3808\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harvest-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Image: wikipedia.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harvest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/harvest-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Image: wikipedia.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you for participating in bESTology 2016. It is <strong>Harvest Time<\/strong> and time to reflect on the past 14 weeks of bESTology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Remember, it is never to early to jumpstart your team\u2019s preparations for <strong>Bet The Farm 2016<\/strong>. You and your team can begin:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">writing your research paper<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">recruiting new BEST team members and organizing your team<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">creating marketing materials<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">learning agriculture terminology<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">building robot prototypes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">understanding the impact of robots and automation on farming<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">designing your exhibit booth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">practicing public speaking skills<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">creating giveaways for game day<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">developing a game plan for spirit &amp; sportsmanship<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and more\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>To assist in your preparations, review the past 14-weeks of activities:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 1<\/strong> &#8211;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/break-new-ground-bestology-2016-week-1\/\">Break New Ground<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Introduction to farming and agriculture<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farm phrases<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Evernote and the BEST Farm Journal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Consumable kit applications for the farm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Exploring the Cooperative Extension Service<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 2<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/lets-talk-farm-bestology-week-2\/\">Let\u2019s Talk Farm<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farming and agriculture terminology<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marketing and Business<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Media<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 3<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/the-germination-of-agriculture-and-farming-bestology-week-3\/\">Germination of Agriculture and Farming<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Historic overview of farming and agriculture<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mind Mapping<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beef Basics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Week 4 \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/14\/best-digs-soil-bestology-week-4\/\">BEST Digs Soil<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Soil and Science<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Geology of the U.S.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Crop rotation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 5<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/fields-of-opportunities-bestology-week-5\/\">Fields of Opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Career choices and skill sets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Women in agriculture<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creating an organization chart<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meet your grocer and thank a farmer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 6<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/28\/comparing-apples-to-oranges-bestology-week-6\/\">Comparing Apples to Oranges<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">America\u2019s cash crops<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Crop forecasts and economics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Impact of automation on crops<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 7<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/06\/circling-the-farm-bestology-week-7\/\">Circling the Farm<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Center Pivot Irrigation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3-D printing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pi and farming<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Teamwork<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 8<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/13\/plant-safety-first-bestology-week-8\/\">Plant Safety First<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Safety protocols on a farm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Food safety<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BEST practices for safety<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 9<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/seeds-of-knowledge-bestology-week-9-2\/\">Seeds of Knowledge<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Genetically modified organisms (GMO\u2019s)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Value of bees<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Svalbard Seed Vault<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 10<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/03\/dont-be-a-pest-bestology-week-10\/\">Don\u2019t Be A Pest<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pesticides, Herbicides and Fungicides<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MSDS<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EPA and regulations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 11<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/11\/robots-have-arrived-bestology-week-11\/\">Robots Have Arrived<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farming sustainability and automation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farm and agriculture robots<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farms of the future<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 12<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/17\/its-time-to-grow-up-bestology-week-12\/\">It\u2019s Time to Grow Up<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vertical farming<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hydroponics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 13<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/when-pigs-fly-or-do-they-bestology-week-13\/\">When Pigs Fly! Or Do They?<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Transporting livestock<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">USDA, U.S. State Department and foreign trade<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Invasive species and imports<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Freight rates<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Week 14<\/strong> \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofbest.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/01\/space-the-final-farming-frontier-bestology-week-14\/\">Space: The Final Farming Frontier<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NASA and commercial space corporations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Growing food on the International Space Station<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Science and the cycles involved with farming on Mars<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Enjoy our last few game hints and BEST of Luck during BET THE FARM! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint #1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does a BEST volunteer enjoy a BLT or ham sandwich while working on the farm?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hint #2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Does a BEST volunteer prefer an ear of corn or an ear of wheat?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Hint #3: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Does what goes up must come down?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Hint #4:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let us give thanks for BEST volunteers!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Hint #5:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It may be windy in Kansas but not enough to slow down the volunteers who created Bet The Farm!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">To download a PDF copy of Harvest Time \u2013 bESTology Week 15 \u2013 Click<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B4Zn0esNNU9Kajh4a3VhTXpZcWc\/view?usp=sharing\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While the information contained in this website has been compiled from sources believed to be current and reliable, Friends of BEST in Alabama, Inc. (FBA) cannot be held responsible for any errors, omissions or content changes. Links made from this website are to reputable organizations at the time of posting. However, FBA cannot be held responsible for content on such linked websites. The existence of such links does not represent an endorsement by FBA of any views expressed or products or services offered.<\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvest Time! bESTology Week 15<br \/>\nThank you for participating in bESTology 2016. It is Harvest Time and time to reflect on the past 14 weeks of bESTology.<br \/>\nRemember, it is never to early to jumpstart your team&rsquo;s preparations for Bet The Farm 2016. You and your team can begin:<\/p>\n<p>writing your research paper<br \/>\nrecruiting new BEST team members and organizing your team<br \/>\ncreating marketing materials<br \/>\nlearning agriculture terminology<br \/>\nbuilding robot prototypes<br \/>\nunderstanding the impact of robots and automation on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestology-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestology.bestrobotics.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}