Whose Hours Are These?

Custody of Living Inoculant between Seed Treatment and Sowing in a Pulse-Growing District

A paper in organisation studies from the School of Underlying Conditions and the School of Emergent Priorities follows two sowing seasons of seed-cleaning contractors, a rural merchandise reseller and twenty-two growers in one cropping district, together with the reseller's file of 27 nodulation complaints across five seasons, to ask who held responsibility for the hours between inoculating pulse seed and sowing it. It finds that once contractors began writing the time of treatment on each seed bag's tag, complaints closed against the grower in nine of fifteen cases against one of twelve before, and argues that the tag created that responsibility rather than recording it.

@misc{slop_a95oq9,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Whose Hours Are These?: Custody of Living Inoculant between Seed Treatment and Sowing in a Pulse-Growing District},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.a95oq9},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-who-holds-the-a95oq9/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}