[Myrddin]

Shorter growing seasons is a much bigger problem. As the new ice age settles in, we see delayed planting. It's 26F in Pocatello this morning. Still having hard freezes. Last Fall, the hard freezes came early and it was literally an "all hands" effort trying to get the potatoes out of the ground before they were destroyed by a hard freeze. Our snow pack is reasonable right now. The Snake River continues to have periods of cover in ice. The big Spring runoff really hasn't commenced.

[mylife]

yessir...

[caseinpoint]

I grew up in Southeast Idaho and I well remember when the breakneck harvesting was an annual event because the farmers waited until the first hard frost to kill the vines and then tried to get the potatoes out of the ground before the frost sunk deeper down to the potatoes. Schools were dismissed for one to three weeks to free us students and I earned my school clothing and Christmas gifting money picking potatoes with the wire baskets and then later working on combines.