Posted on 05/21/2019 7:02:14 PM PDT by Western Phil
Not planted yet, cold, wet, muddy.
Drove through Iowa on I80 today.
Don’t remember eastern IA
Central IA looked like it had been planted, but rain has washed out some areas and flooded others.
Western IA looked like the corn had sprouted and could go on to do well.
That's a caca statement, and it makes zero sense. Both the political and economic environment are outstanding, so neither should play a part in the situation whatsoever.
49%? Not bad. I’ve planted 0% because of our weather, in my garden
12” of wet snow today at the compound.
Seedlings are in the Erf heated, insulated garage.
In 93 we couldn’t plant until the very end of June and first of July. Frost came about October 1 giving us a 90 day season.
Our forcast is for more rain Friday, Saturday, Sunday an then 40 to 50 percent chances all next week.
It isn’t a matter of when many acres get planted, because they will not. Anything close to a flooding river is out for the season. For the Missouri River, snow will be melting in Montana all summer, keeping the river up.
It really is not the best right now.
GlobalWarming is too cold to plant on time this year.
It’s snowing and below freezing here in CO. GlobalWarming sucks!
Corn prices need to come up further to reflect the delayed and lost planting
Maybe born in the wrong century? Ah, but no. God is always right and put me in this time.
But I do miss the time of family farms and plenty of food and sunshine even though I did not live that life. I believe it was a better way, and I wish it were still the everyday life for Americans.
A lot of Missouri bottom ground will get planted in beans if it ever drys for a while. Corn up in the hills looks ok. There’s still flood water standing on the river bottom in the northwestern corner of Missouri, cane through there this morning. Farming ain’t for the faint of heart. More beans lower price, less corn higher price. It a tough way to make a living.
“The Erf has a feva”
I have seedlings bursting at the seams to be planted outside but there's little warmth, little sun, and and it's wet.
Many of my seedlings are showing signs of stress. If they don't get into the ground soon and get warmth and full sun soon they're not going to thrive.
It's a bloody shame because this year I have almost perfected the art of growing seedling.
It's going to be wasted year of breeding from heirloom seeds.
You can't plant seed in a flooded field in the mid-West
Flooding has resulted in loss and a reduction of livestock.
Last known, there was a virus affecting Chinese pork production
All of these factors put a hurting on farmers and food production, which may result in higher prices.
Plan accordingly...
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I have three planting beds in my yard that I use. I live on a steep slope in the Colorado Rockies at 8.500 ft elevation. I had to use rocks to build walls on the downhill sides of the beds to form terraces, My three terraces are always expanding, but that is what they are this year. I am still experimenting, but potatoes have always done well. I have quit things that never grow and put potatoes in their place. This year I have four varieties: Pontiac Red. Yukon Gold, Superior white, Russett. I should get 10’s of pounds of potatoes. I kept the Pontiac Red and Yukon Gold going for several years storing over winter, but had work interruptions until the ground froze and ended the run.
I have been growing the White Superior for three years and have saved seed potatoes successfully over winter. The Red Pontiac and Yukon Gold usually saved as well. I plan to be better when I dig potatoes this year and will store some of each including the Russett that I am growing for the first time and is supposed to store very well.
I will have 100’s of pounds of potatoes and am looking into Ball canning except for those I keep for seed for next year.
I also grow other things like peppers, tomatoes, turnips, rutabagas and summer squash. Am expanding growing areas and evaluating what grows well with our short summer and soil conditons.
Like farming isn’t ALWAYS a crap shoot.
Texas peaches should have a good harvest this year. We usually get a cold snap that “supposedly” ruins the crop EVERY year but didn’t get one this year. Of course, the ever grumpy peach farmers will raise the price just because they can.
Thank goodness for the global freezing that brought in glaciers to the Heartland to break up the rock a million years ago. Thank goodness for global warming that caused the glaciers to melt so we’d have great farmland. Thank goodness for the glaciers that created gold and coal. Thank goodness for long darkness that gave us oil and gas. Oh, wait, never mind. I forgot any variation in temperature is baaaad.
Bernie and AOC would tell the farmers they should be giving away their corn for free.
Thank goodness global warming a million years ago caused the glaciers to thaw which gave us the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and all the others.
It was a better time.
Too many idiots in the world today. Seriously, check your pm.
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