Posted on 08/04/2023 8:40:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I thought when I read this headline that it would say that it was too hot and too dry for crops to grow.
My husband has farmed for 4 decades. Climate change might end his run.
And I thought it was strange that after 160 years of using crude oil and an exponential increase in gas powered farm equipment and 40 years of good farm results that one year would ruin the whole thing and that suddenly farming wouldn't work.
But nope, the problem here is they got too much rain and they didn't get sunny days when they were convenient to harvest so the crop yield is down.
But as we come to the end of the wettest July on record, “make hay while the sun shines” has been shifting from self-evident axiom to rueful irony. Yes, you have to make hay while you can. But also you need sunshine to make hay.
Here’s how it works. It takes at least two sunny days to complete the cycle: mow, dry, rake, bale. Much of that time is waiting for the sun to do its work. (The hay must dry completely, because moisture can breed heat-producing bacteria deep inside a bale — which might then spontaneously combust and burn down a barn.) In theory, if Adam mowed a field on a Tuesday morning, he could expect to bale it late Wednesday afternoon.
I had no idea that humans and our use of natural resources could control the climate that extensively but now I know because the truthful and balanced WaPo printed this wonderfully informative piece.
Farming would be so much better with battery operated combines, tractors and trucks and farmers got exactly the right amount of rain and the correct number of sunny days.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I saw a meme over at Patriot Post.com the other day that depicted an iceberg party submerged under water that said on the part above the water climate change and under water the face of Karl Marx and the word communism.
There are SOOOOOOO many stoopid articles to pick from.....
Some old timers referred to these folks as watermelons—green on the outside, red on the inside.
The Government should capture and store sunshine and clear days during the winter and sell it to farmers in the spring and summer.
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we can have climate paradise
just as soon as we surrender our freedom
Control Freaks are mentally ill.
I’ve lived in the South my entire life so far. It is a fact that it gets hot in summer. 2023 isn’t a particularly hot summer. We’ve had days in the 90’s, but have yet to break 100. Some years they’ll be a few days over 100, some years not. Stop believing what liars with an agenda tell you. They also told you Biden got 81 million legitimate votes. They told you the jab was safe and effective. They told you blacks were being slaughtered en masse daily by police. Why would anyone believe a word they say at this point?
Farm a bit myself.
In June we were praying for rain, in July we were praying for sunshine.
In August we will probably pray for both.
The weather hates you. If you are a farmer you know this and you know this is the way it has been and the way it will be, world with end, amen.
Back in the mid 1970s PROGRESSIVE FARMER magazine had an article telling farmers in the South that they would soon be planting crops that formerly had been grown in the North but THE COMING ICE AGE had caused the crops to be now planted in the South.
In the years 2004 or so the same magazine warned farmers that global warming would force many crops to be planted in the North.
I wrote a letter to the Editor asking him to explain why they jumped on the Coming Ice Age band wagon in the 1970s but were now on the Glo-Bull Warming bandwagon.
After over fifty years of taking THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER I dropped my subscription.
Under Communism, every day is a sunny day,
unless the party needs it to rain on someones parade!
Maybe the author doesn’t do her research; has no one ever heard of the Volcanoes of 2021 which pumped 100 billion tons of vapor and ash into the atmosphere and will take years for it to wash out of the atmosphere. This trash in our atmosphere has changed weather and will continue to do so for years.
Both posts well stated.
Summer’s just get harder and harder for me as they did for my Dad. There is a tipping point for us all. Nearly 70 is mine. For some summer just wears us down. As air temperature exceeds body temperature the thermodynamics of cooling just fall apart.
We cut hay yesterday. Not only cut it but raked and baled and finished 200 acres in less than 12 hours. In for lunch and most of it is off the fields already and in the barn in a first ever.
103 here today and time to go finish up to do another chore.
They know what they’re doing and that’s why they’re winning. In this world evil is more compelling than virtue.
Rather than losing everything because his bales spontaneously combust, he loses everything because his electric farming equipment spontaneously combusts instead.
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