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I have been a farmer for 50 years. Even before our government paid for every disaster that came along. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Farming has been my one and only occupation for 37 years, and I can not understand your cynicism toward the above posters. Just because you (and I) may have our entire livelihoods at risk to every dry spell and late or early frost does not give either of us the right to have some holier than thou attitude toward someone who farms or grows a garden for relaxation or any other reason. What is your problem, doubletrouble?
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On my weekly drives up to the country, I often stop and marvel at the speed of which the corn grows. Green and growing in the spring, brown and ripe in the hot dogdays of late summer. Later on in summer these corn fields will spring-up little local watermelons, and the farmer's family fireworks stands. In the fall, pumpkins.
A drive through these back roads will tell you the month
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Here in the Miss delta the corn is tasslin'. I measured some at 116 inches. Cotton planting down 65%-70% in places.
116/12=close to 10 feet.
If the Ethanol don't sour the South will rise again!
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Sidelock
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Deltaboy,
Here, too. Haven't measured any, but, corn acreage is up dramatically and cotton is down by 33% (in my county according to intended acreage reports). Four dollar corn and forty eight cent cotton will do that every time!! Ducks like leftover corn a whole lot better than cotton hardlocks, too.
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Stan,
Don't nothin' like hardlock cotton. The plague!
But South Jawja is hot, hot, hot. Hope you'all are in another area.
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Sidelock
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Stan, didn't mean to curl your toes. Where I come from that saying is a common one for people who complain and nothing serious is meant by it. Calm down!
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Sidelock
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No problem, dt. That's the hangup with these dang computers, there's just no inflection in the "voice", is there? Sorry I misunderstood.
All the best, Stan
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Lowell;
I feel the same way ....sort of a nostalgic feeling about driving along the back country roads, seeing the crops, stoping at a few farmers stands....thinking about how many years you've done this and how many times you have left....
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The world seems to be at a stand still on these back roads.
Everything is like always been.
Crops grow at their own pace and time.
Can't rush 'em.
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Whenever I drive the back country roads and see fields of crops I remember an article in some mag some years back about dove shooting in GA. The frontispiece photograph was of a beautiful blonde babe decked out in her ladies' camo shooting vest, broad-brimmed hat and sunglasses, standing knee-deep in a milo field holding a Browning Superposed Pigeon Grade 28 ga. at the "butt on thigh" position as she scanned the treetops for dove. The whole idea makes me anticipate the season that much more. KBM
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