Posted on 11/26/2018 10:32:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
My family and I have farmed this land for the last 58 years.I have never had a fall as wet as this one,never have I been prevented from harvesting.
A lot of people here have no idea what they’re talking about.
It’a called farming.
Yessir, every farmer I know calls a storm a "rain event"..
Crop rotation is mostly done to avoid burning out your land (referred to as soil depletion).
It also helps in insuring against catastrophically low price on one crop or another or one particular pest or another destroying a crop.
But the weather will usually take all of your crops if it is going to be a problem. Unless you have a farm with varying terrain; some higher that the other and subject to flooding.
But there is really nothing a farmer can do to plan for the weather as far as choosing a crop. About all they can do is buy insurance.
“I ain’t no scientist but my personal observation is that sometimes the weather is different. As a matter of fact it changes every day. Weird, right?”
Come on, be reasonable. No farmer ever lost a crop before anthropogenic gorebull worming.
In my years visiting with farmers I learned one thing. No matter what the weather is like, farmers bitch about it. I think it is part of their genetic code.
His farm might just be the lowest ground in the county and is a boom during dry years, marginal during normal rain and a disaster during rainy seasons.
Well, this explains the drought of the 1930s .. The Dust Bowl, dry lake beds being farmed.. that too was ‘climate change’.
About all we have now is a propensity for studies of things we already know enough about from prior experience.
The selective nature of the media and some in gubamint is the true ‘climate change’ that is more concerning, frankly, and bears more studies, of course.
I grew up on a farm nearly within spitting distance of Versailles. My recollection is that some years the weather did not cooperate with my dad’s plans. It was just a fact of life. But that was before we “knew” about “climate change”. We just thought it was the weather or an Act of God.
Having experience in this arena, would you say that the farmer in this article is being silly blaming “climate change” for his woes, or is weather something understood by all farmers to be a fickle mistress regardless of cause?
The point is this farmer chose to pander to the media agenda that climate change is at fault. Any comparison you wish to make in my comment to yourself is your choice.
It appears even farmers can fall for and participate in FAKE NEWS.
From the article..
“In 2015, wildfires burned more than 10.1 million acres – that’s larger than the state of Maryland.”
Just for the record, public service announcements in 1957 warned that each year wildfires burned enough acreage to cover the entire state of Louisiana. That is 52 million acres. five times more than what was burned in 2015.
***he says 20 acres of crops have been ruined this year by excessive rain***
Sounds like HE could use some glo-bull warming to dry his crops. How did the OTHER farmers do?
see my post #41.
But this year is "The Worst Ever". Uh-huh.
So, how does he propose to “fix” the Climate, raise Taxes?
Does he have a Solar Powered Tractor and Pickup Truck?
Forgive me if I’m misreading your post, but are you saying that the heavy rains are preventing harvest? Or are you saying that regardless of the weather, you’re always able to harvest?
What did they call this before Algore invented Global Warming , Too lazy to harvest your crop on time ?
Head of Indiana farmers union?
And that huge 20ac spread is in Illinois.
Well am perturbed this idiot heads up anything in the Hoosier state.
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