Dryland Cropping in the Canadian Prairies and the U.S. Northern Great Plains
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Canadian Prairies are located south of the boreal forest, but encompass some of the mixed grass-forest interface. The climate of both the northern Great Plains of the USA and the Canadian Prairies is typically continental with long cold winters and short warm summers. Traditionally, spring-seeded small grains have been the most common crops grown in the Canadian Prairies, especially hard red spring wheat and durum wheat. Agricultural expansion in the Canadian Prairies and northern Great Plains was initiated and has developed through most of the past century with the use of some form of tillage. Placing the fertilizer close to the seed has been shown to enhance crop uptake and reduce the competition from weeds. Many areas of the northern Great Plains have responded to the current round of low commodity prices by increasing crop diversity and cropping the land more intensively.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it