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[Ralph Goff]

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.