Northeners!!!

[hillsdown]

You southerners will find anything to beotch about. First you complain that it is too hot and dry so us northerners are kind and oblige by sending you some cool air and moisture (BTW you did not stipulate that snow was not welcome ) and now you complain that it is too cold and wet..

Just cannot please you people....

[Calman]

You southerners will find anything to beotch about. First you complain that it is too hot and dry so us northerners are kind and oblige by sending you some cool air and moisture (BTW you did not stipulate that snow was not welcome ) and now you complain that it is too cold and wet..

Just cannot please you people....

Wait a minute I'm not complainin about the moisture,but I would rather not have it in the white powdered form.

Cal

[1982vett]

Yep! I've been using all the carbon I could find, hoping to become a cotton farmer. There is already some cotton in Ky, so it is only another 150 miles north to me. Surely, if we all pull together, we can warm the planet that much.

I thought about cotton too but after last year's fiasco with people getting hung on their contracts I think you might consider doing something different. Me, well I'm looking at putting in 800 acres of okra. On paper, I will be a millionaire in no time flat since I will be able to cut okra all through the summer and have continuous income. I'm pretty sure this will work cause I think I have learned to be conservative in my paper ciphering from my little cattle venture. Unlike cattle, which was a sure thing, I think okra is surer than sure.

BTW - I'm not giving up on cattle cause I know once I reach 20,000 head I will be all but guaranteed a million dollars a year. I'm so pleased there is money in this business.

Think of all the jobs you can create for picking and the job credits. Shouldn't be to hard to flood and break the market. Will be only a matter of time before you will be paid NOT to plant okra. Then you can move on to something else.

[Jogeephus]

Think of all the jobs you can create for picking and the job credits. Shouldn't be to hard to flood and break the market. Will be only a matter of time before you will be paid NOT to plant okra. Then you can move on to something else.

You are really giving me some food for thought here. Your idea about getting paid for doing nothing is novel for sure. Did you come up with that all by yourself or is there some precendent for this. I like the idea very much. It sounds so ..... um ..... fair and balanced.

You southerners will find anything to beotch about. First you complain that it is too hot and dry so us northerners are kind and oblige by sending you some cool air and moisture (BTW you did not stipulate that snow was not welcome ) and now you complain that it is too cold and wet..

Just cannot please you people....

If you send any cold weather down this way and it messes up my sweet corn I'm going to send you a box of love bugs and fire ants and we'll see you has the last laugh.

[1982vett]

You southerners will find anything to beotch about. First you complain that it is too hot and dry so us northerners are kind and oblige by sending you some cool air and moisture (BTW you did not stipulate that snow was not welcome ) and now you complain that it is too cold and wet..

Just cannot please you people....

If you send any cold weather down this way and it messes up my sweet corn I'm going to send you a box of love bugs and fire ants and we'll see you has the last laugh.

Yep, I'm putting the old wives tale that "mesquite doesn't get frosted off" to the test. My haygrazer I planted is starting to come up. Pecans have big swollen buds too. Hope they know what they are doing. I guess we we will find out tomorrow.

[rusty]

You all talking about opens up a story.I'd heard about low interest farm loans from the USDA so set up a meeting last tuesday.Was talking to the lady and she said something about expected profit so I asked her if there was farmers who had profit and if so they really could help me out.Not enough sence of humor on her part.

[Jogeephus]

You all talking about opens up a story.I'd heard about low interest farm loans from the USDA so set up a meeting last tuesday.Was talking to the lady and she said something about expected profit so I asked her if there was farmers who had profit and if so they really could help me out.Not enough sence of humor on her part.

I can just imagine the look on her face. You ought to pencil out the okra and see what kind of money you can make....well maybe handle is a better word.

Yep, I'm putting the old wives tale that "mesquite doesn't get frosted off" to the test. My haygrazer I planted is starting to come up. Pecans have big swollen buds too. Hope they know what they are doing. I guess we we will find out tomorrow.

We don't have mesquite so I'm not familiar with that one. How does it go? I went with the pecans and the muscadine this year since Easter is coming so late. When both of these were budding leaves I planted. Am chomping at the bit to plant millet but I think I'll wait a little longer.

[Alberta farmer]

Well I'm sure glad we have global warming...because just think how darned cold it would be otherwise!
This has been a tough winter up here in the tundra but then we are used to it.
Personally I got sick of calving cows in the winter a few years ago and decided if they weren't going to pay me to do it, then I would take an easier path and calve in May!
One thing that I am really envious about is how short of a growing season we get here. Our first frost free day is June 10th(average) and not many years go by when we don't have frost by Sept. 15! Makes it a real challenge to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers.
On the other hand we don't have rattle snakes or black widow spiders or lots of other hot weather critters trying to kill us.

[Jogeephus]

One thing that I am really envious about is how short of a growing season we get here. Our first frost free day is June 10th(average) and not many years go by when we don't have frost by Sept. 15! Makes it a real challenge to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers.
On the other hand we don't have rattle snakes or black widow spiders or lots of other hot weather critters trying to kill us.

Isn't your soil very rich? Seems like I remember reading something about gardening in the far north (maybe it was in Alaska) but it made mention of how rich the soil is.

While ya'll may not have our slithery friends - who by the way only want to give you love taps - ya'll seem to have your fair share of those winged blood suckers. I was in Canada in 1976, and I remember the mosquitoes and blackflies to this day.

[Alberta farmer]

Joe: Where I live the soil is a black loam and is pretty good stuff. In Alberta there is a narrow band of black loam soil. Our short growing season doesn't allow us to grow a lot of things.
Mosquitoes can be bad but no black flies here. I think you have to go further north for them. Incidently we feel sulphur in our summer mineral mix and that pretty well keeps the mosquitoes off the cows.
The common practice here is to plant a garden on May 21. Bedding out plants don't go out until June 10th...and then you have to be prepared to cover them up in case of frost. Pretty sad.

[1982vett]

We don't have mesquite so I'm not familiar with that one. How does it go? I went with the pecans and the muscadine this year since Easter is coming so late. When both of these were budding leaves I planted. Am chomping at the bit to plant millet but I think I'll wait a little longer.

Nothing more than mesquite won't get frosted off. Could be they are tough enough to stand a little frost. Low this morning was 36.

[TB-Herefords]

Hasn't changed temp since this morning; 30 degree's. Hasn't stoped snowin either; avg 10in, drifts almost to my croch. All this today. From what I hear though about twenty miles southwest and twenty miles north they dont have much of a skiff. I'm kinda glad I calved in Jan and feb; cold dry beats cold wet. Calves are probly think may or june woulda been a nice time to calve.

[Calman]

I have been wondering,with all that snow up north and all that time you have to spend inside the house is the divorce rate pretty high? Or is the murder rate high? Now I love my wife very much but I could not stand to be couped up 24-7 in the same house with her.

Cal

[TB-Herefords]

I aint married but I know why grandpa put a stove in the shop . Snow don't stop the daily chores though.

[curtis]

I have been wondering,with all that snow up north and all that time you have to spend inside the house is the divorce rate pretty high? Or is the murder rate high? Now I love my wife very much but I could not stand to be couped up 24-7 in the same house with her.

Cal

I'm with you Cal, the only thing i can stand 24-7 is my dog, an she looks at me kinda funny .