Posted on 10/01/2019 10:16:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
SUMMERDALE, Ala. (WALA) - The fall harvest in summer-like heat continues in Baldwin County.
Having tackled his peanuts in Robertsdale last week, farmer Tim Mullek is now focusing his efforts on cotton.
It's been growing for 5 months and is ready for picking.
"We haven't had a rain in 5 weeks. So all these bolls -- almost every boll -- has opened with no rain in it," explained Mullek.
The conditions may be bone dry, but there's no shortage of the white fluffy stuff.
"When you pick cotton… the lint needs to be dry and the seeds need to crack. And they are dry and they crack. I mean that's textbook harvesting conditions," said Mullek.
The cotton has thrived during the heat wave.
"We were not short on heat units in June or July... and August we had them. We have been hot for two months… it did what it is going to do," said Mullek. "Now one thing it has been hard to do... it's been hard to pull the leaves off. Trying to pull the leaves off of a drought-stricken plant -- it's been a chore."
As Mullek drives his huge industrial cotton picker across the field -- he ejects a full roll of cotton about every 10 minutes.
They've got about another week of cotton and will soon be looking for changes in the forecast.
"If it doesn't rain in two weeks -- I don't know if we will be able to dig the rest of our Baldwin county peanuts. Then it's starting to get pretty dry," said Mullek.
Meanwhile, they still have a lot of work to do in the cotton fields. With more than 600 acres -- they hope to process about 60 to 70 acres per day over the next 9 to 10 days.
I live way up in north Alabama. Dry here, too.
An old gentleman that went to my church used to say, “When you are laying in bed late at night and you put your hand on your old lady’s belly beside you, and her belly button is full of sweat, you know that cotton’s growing”.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, is from Robertsdale. We used to call people from Robertsdale 'potato pickers.'
This is the same area that produced Ken Stabler.
We ride our motorcycles thru there from time to time......................
Drove through southwest GA this last weekend. They were in high cotton!
What the climate change alarmists predict - the destruction of life on earth - defies earth history and evolution. That history of life on earth is 100% about ADAPTATION to an ever changing, ever dynamic world. The survivors in every species are and were the best adapters.
Look at humanity, as it occupies some part of every climate niche on the planet.
And as change happens, there is always winners besides the losers. What goes on is LIFE, writ large.
What is already happening with some species, like the Polar Bears? They are adapting and thriving by adapting.
What too many humans lack is that natural instinct, that natural demand to pick their butts up off of the status quo and adapt.
Their psychology has been warped by the government plantation society mentality. Many cling to dying cities waiting for the plantation state to save them, while jobs aplenty are calling all over the country.
The adults who raised the “greatest generation” did not sit on their butts. They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps out of the big city ghettos, and when the dust bowl ended their dreams they loaded their worldly goods and families in the car and headed west, not even knowing what they would find. Their children accepted and bested the WWII burdens like their parents had the depression - overcoming the hurdles before them.
What needs to be done about “climate change”? What needs to be done economically? INVESTING IN MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION, not throwing our investments away to the “green” lobbies.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, is from Robertsdale. We used to call people from Robertsdale ‘potato pickers.’
This is the same area that produced Ken Stabler.
Actually Kenny was from Foley, AL, a little further south. I was playing on the B team at Foley when he was a senior at Foley High. Plus my mother, a school teacher there, tutored him at his home after school.
The distance from Robertsdale to Foley is 11 miles....that distance qualifies as 'area' in my book.
My HS (Theodore) played against Kenny when he was at Foley HS in the 60's.
LOL.
Try to convince anyone in Foley that they’re in the same ‘area’ as Robertsdale.
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