WTF its White and its a good sise area this morning!

[freewheat]

Alberta farmer 5, good posts there. You and us must have near identical climates by the
sounds of it, we are wet, and have a short cold climate. We get red river valley
rainfall, with Yellowknife heat units!lol.

As far as accepting climate shifts: I get what you are saying:
I am not positive this wet crap is a long term shift yet, but I am planning for it by
getting into the sheep business. I will farm one way or another. The reason I think the
trend will shift back, is simply that for the previous hundred years, this area was the
garden spot. 1988? Great crops. The 1930's, great crops. 2001-2002? Excellent crops.
From 1928 to 2003, this area was one of the best, most consistent areas in western
Canada to seed a crop and ensure yourself a good crop. And then it all went to snot.

So I am not sure if it is the new normal, I sure hope not, but just to give you some
background as to why it is hard to potentially have to accept this potential climate
trend to wetter than historical.

And again, I am planning for the potential of it by raising animals on grass with low
inputs, low labor. I have room to do both, but if it really is a new normal for climate,
in a few years, I would be busy planting grass, and making fences...

[checking]

Regrets will come this summer that we also missed it.

[bgmb]

Makes a guy want to drop a match on every acre in the fall...

[BTO_farmall]

Geg,

Ya Stop and Wave Ta All The Farmers Down in The Bottom of The Diversion When You Drove Through Portage???? Had Tractors, Cultivators, More Tractors, You Name It, It Was Down There. Were Protestin Against Openin The Flood Gates, Myself Woulda Opened The Gates n' Washed er' All Down The River, F#ck The Farmer!!!!!!!!! Say, Gotta Lotta Custom Work Lined Up Fer DumbBroad Acre Farms This Spring?????

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-farmers-protest-portage-diversion-1.1258837?playVideo

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Freewheat, sounds like you have a very
good idea. I wonder how many, if any
other farmers have a contingency plan?
Nearly all of us western Canadians are
farming on the edge of the productive
farmland as far as climate in concerned,
then we push the limits even further
with long season crops. It would take
very little change in temp or growing
season length to make most of us
unviable. Could this be a taste of what
is to come, or will this year be just an
anomaly as the relentless global warming
keeps progressing until we are growing
pinapples at the 60th parallel? My plan
is to hope that global warming is real,
while preparing for the opposite to
happen.