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Posted by gandle 4 NE (My Page) on Tue, Nov 17, 09 at 20:56
| Rain mixed with snow quite effectively put a stop to what little corn harvesting we have done. Son told me to just go home and we will wait until the ground freezes hard. Moisture is still in the 20-21% in the ears, far too moist to store without expensive drying at the elevator. Hard freezes should bring rhe moisture down. If conditions don't change soon my conditional and provisional CDL will expire. Not sure on the protocol for renewal in the same year. We have had freezes almost every night but the days warm up quite well so there is no solid footing for the machinery. Son is now concerned re: mycotoxins from the constantly moist corn so far looks O.K.
Saw a program on Public TV last night about the dust bowl on the great plains. I certainly remember it well. Had to stay all night once at school because it was impossible to see even a few inches from your face. The janitor somehow went across the stret to his house and brought back several loaves of bread and several quarts of home canned beef. Think everyone got about 1/2 a slice of bread and some cold canned beef for a meal. Can't remember whether or not we had breakfast. Grandad managed to come to town and get me the next day. We had several days off at that time. Many cows died of dust pneumonia that year and the dust was so fine it managed to come in the house around every door and window. It was insanely hot but grandma kept the windows shut and had damp rags laying on the sills and thresholds trying to stop some of the dust from coming in. It didn't work, you could shovel it out with a grain scoop after an especially windy day. Hopefully, a terrible lesson was learned then by the farmers and plowing up grasslands in low rain fall areas will never be done again. Something like 400,000,000 acres were affected. |
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RE: We give up
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| George,you should read The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. It't about the great dust bowl,those died and those survived. It's a wonderfully written account and won the National Book Award a couple of years ago.It's riveting. Sorry for your bad weather..and that's all I'm going to say because I don't even want to think about the S word for awhile. |
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| I've read the Worst Hard Time. Hard to read though, brought back some very unpleasant memories. Grandad shooting one of the milk cows because there just wasn't enough feed to winter her. First time I ever saw him cry. |
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| I remember several people sought refuge from the dustbowl in my hometown. They found work in the mines,forests and the many dairy farms that were there then. A tuff time for many. Steve S. |
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| We used to have dust storms when I lived in Oklahoma but they were few and far between. We lived in a very small town surrounded by plains. I remember one time my mother and I were driving out to pick up dad from work and thought we could beat the storm heading our way. Everything got very black and we had to pull over to wait it out.Our car lights were on and when the storm blew through,there facing us with our front bumpers almost touching,was another car with it's lights on. The dust was so thick we hadn't even seen each other. |
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