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Although, alas, no fortune.
This week's Farm Side will be, as have been many before, about the weather and its affect on agriculture.
If any of you fine readers are willing to be quoted, either by name or by, "A farmer from the Midwest...or East....South....Northeast.....or the nation to the north etc.," said this week, of the ongoing strange weather.....
Then I would happily, nay eagerly in fact, share your thoughts and opinions on the summer we have had and are having, in Friday's Farm Side newspaper column.
Real material like that makes things click if you know what I mean. Leave a message in the comments or on Facebook if we are buddies there or send a pigeon with a leg band. Anything would work for me. Deadline is Wednesday noon as always.
Thanks in advance.
C'mon now, don't be shy......
Why don't you just make up informed sources like the big fellows do?
ReplyDeleteWe are having very wet weather...most unusual for this time of year and cooler. Much cooler the trees are starting to show leaves in the process of changing. The rabbit brush is blooming the goldenrod is blooming all three or so weeks earlier. I am thinking we are heading into a very hard winter.
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http://coloradofarmlife.com
Central lower Michigan has had very few 85+ degree days. Cool nights have really delayed tomatoes and peppers. I don't know if there's even enough time left to get any melons, they may never ripen. At least rainfall has been normal. I suspect we'll have an early fall and a long winter with heavy snow. Is anybody predicting an El Niño or La Niña yet?
ReplyDeleteMother in law in Florida, we had very dry weather until July and then the rains sit in. Some times 4 inches at a time. My kids have sod fields with beautiful grass now but has been too wet to take the heavy tractors and sod cutters in as they make a rut in the sod. Sod business down here is going great and finally they have been able to start cutting again. The new tomato fields and squash fields are being planted this week and we will soon have fresh produce.
ReplyDeleteThank you, one and all. I knew I could count on the good folks who visit here. Having a lot of fun putting the Farm Side together this week. It doesn't even feel like work!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure my friend Roger Stitzlein, who's managed the Loudonville, Ohio Equity since 1978, will drop by with an impression or two :)
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ReplyDeleteIn my area of Maine, we haven't had a single day of rain since the end of May. The only rain the garden has gotten has been in the form of (the occasional)thundershower. Which means I have to water...hate to put that much pressure on the well.
Goldenrod and Queen Anne's lace all blooming early. Some color on tree showing up already. Makes you wonder.
Diane
Diane, thanks for the quote. Crazy weather everywhere!
ReplyDeleteWe had a very wet spring and it was difficult to get crops planted, but with the continuing moisture all summer, now there's very good potential for high crop yields. On the down side, crop prices have dropped with the prospect of large crop yields across the country.
ReplyDeleteWe had a very wet spring and it was difficult to get crops planted, but with the continuing moisture all summer, now there's very good potential for high crop yields. On the down side, crop prices have dropped with the prospect of large crop yields across the country.
ReplyDeleteAgribusiness, thanks! Here there is going to be a lot of prevented planting acres, and the dry hay prospects are abysmal. Chopped forages are not as bad a problem, but we talked to a big time hay guy yesterday and he was as gloomy as I have ever seen him. Really hard to put up good stuff this summer. Glad there will be good crops elsewhere
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