Posted on 10/18/2009 6:46:49 AM PDT by GoldStandard
Edited on 10/18/2009 6:58:37 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The infamously boy-less balloon caused even more trouble than we thought on Thursday -- because its landing also wreaked havoc on a valuable wheat crop desperately needed by a local family.
TMZ spoke with Doug and Joanna Abbott who told us their 300-acre wheat crop was destroyed mostly by emergency vehicles racing across their field to chase the balloon -- which also caused its fair share of damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
this gets added to the bill im sure
The wheat crop in the photo has already been harvested.
Sounds like a civil suit to me.
I’m just sure that the governmental agencies that railroaded onto private property will promptly pay for the damage done, yeah yeah, I’m sure of it, they will be just fine... NOT
Pray for them.
Can you even grow anything in October in the US?
>>>The wheat crop in the photo has already been harvested.
How do you know? Ever hear of Winter Wheat?
I see furrows in the picture. Are you sure that it wasn’t recently planted? If so, that’s many wated man-hours and tractor-hours, wasted fuel, wasted seed, and whatever else I haven’t thought of.
Actually, it looks as though it had just been planted. It is the time of year for that.
Yes.
For winter wheat, yes, and you must be correct. But doesn't that look like stubble?
It’s probably winter wheat that’s just been planted.
If it Winter Wheat then unless the field was wet and they left huge ruts it should be okay. Most Winter Wheat fields around here are planted to graze cattle on until late winter or early spring and then finished out.
That’s what I saw—a freshly sown field, but is the entire crop ruined?
That's what I noticed. I think they smell lawsuit $$...but all they have in that field is stubble from a recent harvest.
Wheat troll.
Hope he had crop insurance with a “damage caused by publicity seeking idiots” clause.
Sure, and that must be the case, but doesn't that look like stubble?
Yea, that must be the case, just looks like stubble to me.
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Agreed... what wheat?
winter wheat is planted in Oct and harvested in July. The field would have just been planted in the last week or two. The idea is to have it just germinate in the fall, then begin to grow in the spring, so the harvest is in early to mid summer.
When I saw the landing live on TV, I did not see any stubble, it struck me as a field that had recently been planted. I could see the drill/planter marks and there was a great deal of dust where people walked and the vehicles drove.
If there is stubble, there is a planting method of "no-till", where a crop is planted without working the soil. We regularly plant right into the remnants, stubble, or trash of a previous crop.
from the article
“Sadly, we’re told the field only produces a crop of wheat once every two years, which means the couple will have to wait two more years to see the full fruit of their labors ... all because of some giant empty publicity stunt balloon.”
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2009/10/17/balloon-boy-landing-wheat-crop-destroyed/#ixzz0UIQZQFQc
From the number of vehicles I saw when the helicopter camera pulled out, and the number of people that were running around, I would imagine that this particular field is in pretty sad shape.
Yea, I’ve planted a lot of corn and soybeans no-till, but I wasn’t aware that you could do it with wheat.
Its probably just the camera angle and lighting that it making it look like stubble to me.
True. I grew up on a farm and live on one now. What I saw was not a newly planted field, but one that was full of stubble. That ain't the way it's ever looked after we planted winter wheat.
Winter Wheat.
How much is soil compaction a factor? Those emergency vehicles are pretty heavy, but maybe it’s no worse than the effects of normal farm equipment.
Who said their field was where the balloon landed? They were chasing the balloon for a long while and might have trashed several fields before it landed.
You expect a reporter to get a picgture of the ruined field? Or if they have one, to show that if it doesn’t have the balloon in it?
There are lots of the stupid things in my area and they damage property every time they land. They will cut trees and fences to drive into fields, destroying crops, to get to the down balloon.
Somehow they think they have the right to do whatever they want.
I never said that the entire 300 acres was ruined, but there was activity in many spots of the field. It doesn’t take damage to every square inch of a field to consider the crop a loss.
I don’t know how much soil compaction is a factor in that particular field, as I am unfamiliar with the type of soil and how the seeds were sown.
And most of the dozen plus personnel stand around trying to look important.Usually a couple EMTs do all the work,if needed.
The only thing missing was the SWAT team and someone or something getting tasered.
I understand your point, however, the flip side is that in a small percentage of cases, all that apparatus is actually needed. No official wants his career and reputation ruined by the press, for “an inexcusable delay in response time” that may cost lives. Often times, the first reports that come in of an incident are incomplete or sketchy. Emergency responders would rather throw everything they have at a small incident, than to hold back, and discover later that they needed a greater amount of assistance. With all the “Monday morning quarterbacking” the media love to engage in, I can’t blame them. Not to mention the tremendous responsibility they have to protect life and property; I imagine you could spend a lifetime second guessing yourself if someone died on your watch, and you didn’t do enough to save them. Again, I respect your point of view, just something to consider. Thanks.
bttt
It’s from TMZ, I don’t buy it.
BTT
It seems Americans no longer understand concepts like cost vs. benefits, the gov't doesn't make money-it only prints it;there is no free lunch;don't swat flies with a 2x4 UNLESS it is a really big fly.
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