Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Waiting on coffee to brew. Forgot to turn coffee maker on again. 10° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 43° with mostly sunny skies. Another doctor appointment today. I seem to be having a reaction to the Beta Blocker I am taking. So it's a trip to the Cardiologist. A little thawing today will be good before forecast rains tomorrow.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !!!!!!!!

Prayers for those in need.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

The Davenports - The Farm Credit Council

after I get a haircut this morning, headed to J.P. Davenport to pick up my three bags of seed potatoes they say are in. Expect to plant them in a week or two.

Farm has been in their family since 1868. Everything they have is oriented to big ag, not me. All the seed is as GMO as they can make it...everything is Roundup Ready.
But not these potatoes...

I also ordered some sweet potato slips from another company, curious what they will look like when they come in.
No seed potatoes like regular potatoes. Just very small plants, like big seedlings? Part of the learning process which is fun.

 

[toppop52]

We talk badly about GMO and chemicals, but 100 years ago a good 50 acre farm would barely feed a family of 5 and on a good year might give a little trade currency. Now that farm will feed 5 families.
20 years ago average corn/acre was 125, now its 170.

 

[daugen]

poses an interesting question of how many acres you need to feed yourself and your family of four.
No supermarkets, no nothing. Frontier style. Grow it or go hungry.

I'd say about ten acres based on today's outputs. But few around here gets those yields Toppop, those are big ag yields.

You need to grow grain for yourself and your livestock, vegetables, fruit
can you do that all on ten acres?

 

[Buppies]

Wngsprd some of the models latched onto snow for your area but I would be surprised. No mechanism to hold the cold in. Above normal temperatures until March then you might see some snow but just a guess on my part

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 42F @ 5:00AM. Partly cloudy. High near 55F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.

Hope you're feeling better soon, Ed. Colds aren't as bad as the flu, but they're bad enough on their own.

Anybody heard from Gary lately? I miss his big animated holiday gifs!:laughing:

More fiddling with the old motorcycle yesterday, and a nice talk with the previous owner's widow. Says she's getting along OK, but somewhat overwhelmed trying to take care of their place and all the things he used to do. Fortunately she's made a lot of friends who can help or point her toward trustworthy trades people. But she wants me to bring a truck down there and load it up with her husband's old motorcycle and VW bus parts. Just trying to get rid of his things that she'll never use, so we talked about getting together sometime next week. Should be interesting.

Brine level looked fine yesterday after the regeneration, so I'm still wondering what threw off the system. Tried to drain enough water from the pressure tank to feel softened water at the tap, but it turns out that's a lot of water. Poured most of it down some gopher holes, and toward the end realized I could have just put the hose in the big holding tank and saved the electricity it cost to get it up out of the well. Maybe next time.

Not quite sure what's on the agenda for today.

Dare I say it? Happy Hump Day!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

poses an interesting question of how many acres you need to feed yourself and your family of four.
No supermarkets, no nothing. Frontier style. Grow it or go hungry.

I'd say about ten acres based on today's outputs. But few around here gets those yields Toppop, those are big ag yields.

You need to grow grain for yourself and your livestock, vegetables, fruit
can you do that all on ten acres?

They had someone from one of the big ag associations on the news last night talking about the lack of rain here for the last six or so weeks. He said farmers aren't suffering yet, but they're already using irrigation, water they don't typically need until summertime. Not looking good for rain anytime soon, as the ten day forecasts all call for more sunshine. Back to your point, Drew, back in the day, the extensive system of canals and pumps they depend on now didn't exist, and farmers made do with what fell from the sky. A bad water year could leave a lot of people hungry, and not just the farmers!:shocked: The man on TV was already hinting that if the dry weather continued, contracted water deliveries from the California Water Project would be reduced or eliminated altogether. That's gonna be bitter medicine to take since farmers have only had all the water they wanted for two years, and now they're gonna have to go back to fallow fields again.

 

[Ed of all trades]

They had someone from one of the big ag associations on the news last night talking about the lack of rain here for the last six or so weeks. He said farmers aren't suffering yet, but they're already using irrigation, water they don't typically need until summertime. Not looking good for rain anytime soon, as the ten day forecasts all call for more sunshine. Back to your point, Drew, back in the day, the extensive system of canals and pumps they depend on now didn't exist, and farmers made do with what fell from the sky. A bad water year could leave a lot of people hungry, and not just the farmers!:shocked: The man on TV was already hinting that if the dry weather continued, contracted water deliveries from the California Water Project would be reduced or eliminated altogether. That's gonna be bitter medicine to take since farmers have only had all the water they wanted for two years, and now they're gonna have to go back to fallow fields again.

Listening to big ag is like going to the used car lot to find out if you should buy a car. That is the way they see things and they have bet their lives on it. In their view it has to work. I try not to put much stock in used car salesmen. Ed

 

[lostcreekranch]

poses an interesting question of how many acres you need to feed yourself and your family of four.
No supermarkets, no nothing. Frontier style. Grow it or go hungry.

I'd say about ten acres based on today's outputs. But few around here gets those yields Toppop, those are big ag yields.

You need to grow grain for yourself and your livestock, vegetables, fruit
can you do that all on ten acres?

40 acres and a mule Drew.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Hey Ed, theyæ±*e called doctors, GO!

I did, he said give me your money and go home. Ed