Thursday, March 15, 2012

You like bread don't you?

If you look over here much, you know I have a farm.  This years warm winter and already a record hot spring has the wheat jointing to damn early (look up jointing if you care).  The danger is once it joints it is not immune to freezing.  Up to this point hard red winter wheat, as a grass native to the steppes of Russia it could survive most anything.  If we get a sharp cold night now, it kills it, and that danger runs to mid April.   There are smart asses who want to tell you that global warming is a hoax, but they say if it was happening it is a benefit, (I don't know how but, maybe if they fall through the damn ice), well if we catch a late spring freeze across Kansas and thousands of square miles of wheat die, your going to learn how much benefit is to have a wheat shortage caused by global warming speeding the growth cycle.

1 comment:

  1. Darell,
    It is SEVENTY-SIX on March 15th in Indianpolis. Dad still has clippings of the March - I think 1962 blizzard. Everything is blossuming early - the cherry blossums in Washington for example.
    And, I read that another cold blast could well
    occur.

    Tomorrow I expect rain and thunderstorms on the trip to Evansville. Every Friday night Dad takes Mom and her sister out to eat at the
    Serlion Stockade. It is a buffet - But, excellent! We did Golden Corral last trip and got raped.

    I love batterd shrimp. In fact there is place close to Mom and Dad's called the Burger Bank -
    people bought a failed small drive thru bank location decades ago - maybe 30 -40 years and
    made it into an Evansville icon.
    It is still a drive-thru and they have a shrimp
    basket that kicks ass.

    I will be okay...

    Sarge

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