Marshmallow Farming

http://uvideo100.com/marshmallow.html ^

[navysealdad]

Too much rain ruins marshmallow crop in North Carolina.

[jdietz]

The sad part is some store manager is going to hear about this and raise the price on Marshmallows due to a scarcity.

[dangus]

I was made honorary chair of the Cliff Clavin society in college. No-one else would be a member.

[blackdog]

I farmed in Wisconsin. I moved there in the 90's from South Carolina. I had a terrible problem with invasive quack grasses in Wisconsin. After the first year and comment to my farming neighbors who were in their 80 years old demographic, they convinced me that my quack grass problem was related to the time I was plowing and cultivating. They explained to me that cultivating in the daylight would allow the broken roots to multiply into new plants. So each plant became hundreds after each time I cultivated or plowed in the sunlight. Following their advice I plowed and did all my field work each night after the sun went down. I toiled away for months doing all my work in the midnight hours. The schedule began to take it's toll on me and I saw no noticable decrease in my competing weeds problem.

At a 4th of July picinic I expressed my frustration to the clique of old-timers while we were sharing good food and beer. Up to that point they all had been dead-pan serious and had been steadfast and humorless when it came to farming issues. As they all boiled over in laughter, asking me if I could take a good joke?, I realized they had been getting a good laugh at my tractor headlights every midnight.

I got pranked by the best.........Farmers have a strange and patient sense of humor and will go to enormous lengths to pull off a good joke.

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t know. I think they might be able to sell those marshmallows to all those fake pig farmers to feed their make believe pigs.

[Pecos]

You obviously didn’t pay attention to the video. Rain on the marshmallow crop makes them bitter. What pig would eat bitter marshmallows? ;-)

[NautiNurse]

LOL! Snipe hunting.

[dfwgator]

I heard in Montana they grow Dental Floss.

[bgill]

I hear the pink marshmallows are more rain tolerant than the white ones. Maybe he should try the pink variety next year.

[blueunicorn6]

By golly, I think you’ve come up with a new saying.

“What pig would eat bitter marshmallows?”

Remember folks, you read it first here on FR and Pecos is the author.

Some of us write for years and can’t come up with a saying as good as that.

[Vinnie]

Darn. I just bought a couple trained pigs to find them.

[navysealdad]

Spaghetti crop has been badly hurt by climate change and sequester.

[Rebelbase]

“I heard in Montana they grow Dental Floss.”

True. I’ve seen fields of the tall weeds that it’s processed from.

[exDemMom]

Indeed. I love marshmallows. I’ve always wondered what the first marshmallows tasted like. Did the Egyptians sweeten them with honey? How did they flavor them?

I’d love to taste real marshmallow.

[dangus]

Yes, they sweetened them with honey. Beyond that, I know little.