[AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)

[charlie hill]

Yep.  It always looks better from the other guys perspective.

Charlie

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From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:18 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)

> 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" 
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> 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
>>
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>> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:52 AM
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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"
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>>> 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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