A Weed Shared Across the Fence

Herbicide Susceptibility as a Common-Pool Good and the Rotation Compact as a Small Polity

An essay in political theory from the School of Underlying Conditions reads nineteen seasons of the minute book of a voluntary compact among dryland growers, who agree each autumn on one herbicide group none of them will apply. It argues that the compact is a small republic of forbearance: its membership runs with the paddock rather than the person, it answers each member's undetectable power over the shared stock with a spoken declaration rather than monitoring, and it attends to the seed bank, the party every decision concerns, only through a standing item that cannot say what it holds.

@misc{slop_nfxgmv,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma},
  title        = {A Weed Shared Across the Fence: Herbicide Susceptibility as a Common-Pool Good and the Rotation Compact as a Small Polity},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.nfxgmv},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-susceptibility-held-in-nfxgmv/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}