[AT] lost

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

I kind of figured it would rot or sprout once the spring thaw came. I can 
see an insurers point, a fellow could intentionally fall behind harvesting 
if the crop was at the tipping point of an insurance payment just so he 
didn't have to fool with it.

John

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:45 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] lost

On 12/19/2013 8:57 PM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
> Ralph, should a farmer in your area actually get snowed in with some crop
> left to be harvested, I would assume it would ruin in the field or is it
> salvageable (maybe for feed) come springtime.
>
> John Hall
>
John, if that farmer has crop insurance than he has to harvest the crop
in spring to collect insurance on it. It has been done and we usually
lose some yield and quality. So many white tail deer now and they do a
lot of damage to swaths that lay out through winter. Tolerances for
animal droppings in grain are pretty low, actually zero, and the grain
has to be sold as feed. Happened to me once with a small field of flax.
I guess tolerances were different in 1952. My dad and uncle left a field
of wheat swaths out all winter and by mid April it had warmed and dried
up to the point that they harvested the wheat good and dry. A little
bleached and light but not bad considering.

Ralph in Sask.

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