[AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)

[Ralph Goff]

In a year like this Charlie, I'd agree with your Dad. The driest year in my 
farming history was 1988. Hot and dry all spring and summer. We managed to 
grow some short thin wheat and barley. Harvested it dry as could be but 
excellent quality and early. Yields were maybe one third of a normal year. 
Right now that looks pretty good.
Of course for the cattle man this rainy season has been mostly good with 
plenty of green grass, although a little hard to make decent hay between 
rains.
I guess that old saying about the other man's grass always looking greener 
applies if you happen to live in  a dry area outside of Sask.

Ralph in Sask.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)


> Ralph my dad always said "dry weather will scare you near to death but wet
> weather will kill you".
>
> Charlie
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:52 AM
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Subject: Re: [AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:03 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)
>>
>>
>>> Ralph, the scary part for me here in California is that we still do not
>>> have
>>> our first tomatoes ripe.... They are a big cost item to grow and I have
>>> no
>>> fruit yet about to go into the third week of September! Why? Cool and 
>>> wet
>>> spring, then cool summer, now what about the fall? So far this year 
>>> looks
>>> like 1964 when the cannery tomatoes were still being harvested at almost
>>> Christmas. I'm praying for a WARM fall without rain!
>>>         Grant Brians
>>>         Hollister,California
>>>         Vegetable Farmer
>>
>> Grant, that sound like Sask. weather. As I mentioned to Charlie, the cold
>> might save our crops from sprouting in the fields since they are too wet
>> to
>> combine.
>> RE: tomatoes, they are a failure here this year. Some type of blight has
>> struck and I don't know if I am going to get one edible tomato off the
>> whole
>> garden. Picked a few green ones to ripen in the house but they are
>> starting
>> to rot before they ripen or turn red. I've heard of other people having 
>> to
>> throw all their out as the same thing happened. The problems of a wet
>> year.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>>
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