[hoosier hick]

My neighbor just planted his wheat across the road. Earlier this year he tried to double crop his largest wheat field with a soybean crop that got about a foot tall before first freeze in late September. It has pods, but is still in the field, so I’m guessing they’ll just till it under....

hh

[autumnraine]

This is the modern day dustbowl in excessive rain. And unfortunately there is no picking up the slack from the normally prosperous San Jaoquin Valley due to the Save the Minnow campaign.

[ClearCase_guy]

Scientists like to measure CO2 levels, and then put that through a computer model, to arrive at temperature expectations, and then extrapolate that out, and relate it to sea levels, and then ascertain the impact of Global Warming on coastal environments based on these results -- which basically seem to flow from theories about CO2 levels.

On the other hand, you can look in the farmers' fields and say: "Wow. Mighty cold and wet this year, huh? We sure could use some more warm, sunny days, but they seem to be in short supply lately."

Scientists think they are a priori better at this, but I'm not at all sure.

[kanawa]

In SW Ontario, finally started the corn harvested last weekend...

[FromLori]

Wait until this affects the prices at the store it was bad all over this year my pumpkins were so small because our summer was first really dry, coldest summer for like a hundred years and then the rains came. My whole garden did poorly.

Related

Farmers scramble to finish harvest from hell

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5AC3BS20091113

Has It Stopped Raining Yet?

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Has-It-Stopped-Raining-Yet/2009-11-12/Article.aspx?oid=939747

http://www.martellcropprojections.com/usweatherforecast.html

http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_cc218564-d0d1-11de-bbf8-001cc4c002e0.html

Rain washing away farmers’ hopes for harvesting hay, corn

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=270298&ac=PHnws

Central New York counties named to ag disaster area

http://blog.syracuse.com/farms/2009/10/central_new_york_counties_name_1.html

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, and the weather kinda sucked all summer. A year or two ago (I forget which) one farmer I know planted almost a month earlier than usual, risking a little frost, because otherwise the rain (in the forecast, then in reality) would have delayed planting, and he got more than the usual increase in yield (from having the corn mature longer) in the fall. Not so this year.