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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

What a relief, the buggers we were waiting for have arrived! #varietymixtures #diversification #wheat

Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Extremely excited me on the sowing machine, for our collaborative project on wheat variety mixtures PreDiMix. With ETH, UZH, IPK Gatersleben and Agroscope.

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Something I would recommend to every plant biologist: attending a tree pruning course

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Early morning surprise.... too much Gluehwein? Looks like a painting of stars on a winter sky, though.

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

What a wakeup. Walking through snow on the way to work

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

First flower buds at 3 week after sowing.

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What has really resonated greatly with me is the depiction of N fluxes on a medieval farm, in the book "crop ecology" by Connor, Loomis, Cassman

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

PiqaBoo. A very nice part of working in AG research is to encounter the latest kids on the (fruit) bloc

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A field visit back in summer. What a great sight, and lots of interesting discussions around the first GE barley in a Swiss field trial. www.protectedsite.ch

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Escaped the fog for a few hours this WE to the Talalpsee, Kt. Glarus

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

New speed breeding setup unveilled. I have the best colleagues in the world!!! Hope to have my first soybean RIL Population early 2026 🤩

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

On the run to a meeting at ETH Zürich, I still managed to make a picture and make a mental note that the city is nice indeed

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

This fall, I was introduced to the science and art of Ampelography, the description and identification of grapevine varieties through plant shapes and colours. What an interesting endeavour!

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

A rare sight: no fungicide treatment in grapevine (left) often results in no harvest, and severe damage to the plants. The problem: pathogens introduced to Europe 150 yrs ago. How little has been achieved since then in terms of genetic progress. People prefer Pinot or Cabernet, not Divico or Divona.

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Cycling to work this morning

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

A very close encounter, on my way home

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

The once mighty Morteratsch glacier, rapidly melting away...

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Or: Chance encounter with Agroscope colleagues doing field work 😄

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Or: Hybrid wheat field right next to a field of Ribelmais, a landrace grown locally for several hundred years. ~100 years of breeding progress in a single picture

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Cycling through ag-fields always yields some interesting observations.... e.g. leak field with yellow nutsedge, a recently arrived invasive weed spreading quickly

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Genome-edited barley field experiment on the Swiss protected site www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/de... . Nice plots, despite the heavy rainfall in recent week... #futurecrops #Innovation

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

A nice selection of Swiss fossils, found on this lovely summer day

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Spring hast arrived.... Kingfisher and fresh beaver tracks right at our doorstep...

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Sam Wuest @samwuest.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Winterwonderland at the local vineyard

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