So, the message here is that more Global Warming would HELP?
Somebody is off message.
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported recently that due to a late planting season and a cooler and wetter fall than normal, only 20% of the corn crop is out of the fields vs. an average of 58% during the years of 2004-2008.”
You don’t have to have a devastating freeze to cause problems with crops. If you lose a week or two at the beginning of the planting season, and a week or two in the fall, you can be in trouble in terms of overall harvest.
I expect that Obama will blame Bush for this.
Its too bad those idiots believed the global warning crap, now we can all starve.
I guess we can thank Al Gore for solving that obesity problem with another Nobel.
Corn and soybeans have both been down two days in a row because of the bountiful harvest.
I’m not sure we ever had summer here. My cherries came in small and late, but the apples did very well. Most of the farmers I speak to still have crops in the fields.....
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. - Robert E. Lee
Now we have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the cotton field that we are hoping to get out if the ground ever gets dry enough. A neighbor of ours buried his cotton picker in the mud yesterday. Then the boll buggy. Almost buried the tractor that went out to pull the others out.
Over thirty inches of rain in 5 weeks. At this point we are hoping to get done by Christmas, which usually marks the beginning of our wet season. Sigh.
St.Louis had it’s wettest month in recorded history with 12.38 inches and the 5th coldest October ever.
Some of the state is almost double the normal rainfall.
I know here in Arkansas we've had the 5th highest total annual rainfall on record, so far and with only 2 more inches to go and 2 months left in the year, we may very well set a new overall record. The farmer's are gonna lose bigtime on this crop because it's too wet to harvest.
Farmers in SW Ontario are having difficulty getting the corn in too.
They left out the lower than normal number of growing degree days (lower temperatures in July & August) during the growing season. This, in addition to the cool fall delayed maturity.
In spite of the adversity, the crop volume is predicted to be #2 for corn and #1 for soy beans. The harvest delay appears to be universal over the whole Midwest,Nebraska to Indiana (Ohio?), Minnesota to Arkansas. Farmers in south eastern Kansas are looking for rice tires for their combines.
I talked to a farmer putting the corn head on his combine on my morning run today. He says the moisture content is finally down to about 19-20%. Also that he was leaving tracks last night as he was harvesting beans.
Next possibility for rain here is Tuesday. Unless they get stuck out in the muddy fields or get stuck waiting for dryers, the local farmers should get most of their crops out.
From the point of view of the crops, every harvest is tough.
Deuteronomy 28
15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. [a] 21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
Not only does our food supply depend upon the harvest, this year's crops are looked to to provide seed for next year's crops. The soybean harvest was largely lost in Louisiana, and you might think that is no problem because the harvest went well in Illinois (it hasn't so far, but for the sake of argument, let's say it did). Problem is that the group (variety) of beans up north isn't grown down south.
One of our neighbors has 3500 acres of sweet potatoes. Less than half has been harvested. They are doing it pretty much by hand right now because the fields are so wet and the quality of the potatoes is suspect (they may not store). This farmer intended to put away X number of seed potatoes for next year. He has less than half of that amount with little hope for making his quota. This is a huge problem and he is not alone. Sweet potato farmers in SE Arkansas are in even worse shape.
We have had a solid week of dry and sunny weather, but there is still water in many places due to the flooding and our rivers and bayous have yet to crest. God willing, we could still get some crops out of the field. I'm not saying that everything is a total loss. What I am saying is that this year is not the only thing to consider.
N.J. cranberry farms reap the reward of cooler-than-usual weather
star ledger | 10.26.09
Posted on 11/02/2009 6:19:09 PM PST by Coleus
Edited on 11/02/2009 6:39:27 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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