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Activity should begin to pick up ... hopefully. These cool short growing seasons make tough harvests .
ABF5 ... my guess your last decent harvests / growing seasons were 2014 -15 ish ?
If you look at the solar cycle graphs you can pick out the late 80’s drought and the early 2000’s droughts for many areas. Fringe areas like far western Alberta and NE Sask had relative good years by being not too wet ? Just going by memory, could be wrong . Far NE sask was decent this year though because they missed the majority of fall rain / snow .
I know starting about 2005 through 2017 this area had relatively stable years and very limited frosts with long harvests for the most part despite the low sun spot activity around 2008 ish , we had more spring frosts than normal 2007 - 2009.
The solar cycle just one piece to a very complex system so trends not always exact but it is interesting after the past few years . The current reality of immature crops , wet cold harvests and early frost damage in areas does not fit the narrative at all of longer growing seasons and the ability to grow “long season†crops . Some areas just north of here were not even 75 days frost free this past year.
4-5 years ago kinda fits the WP article but not the past few years. Maybe again in 4-5 years.
Activity should begin to pick up ... hopefully. These cool short growing seasons make tough harvests .
ABF5 ... my guess your last decent harvests / growing seasons were 2014 -15 ish ?
If you look at the solar cycle graphs you can pick out the late 80’s drought and the early 2000’s droughts for many areas. Fringe areas like far western Alberta and NE Sask had relative good years by being not too wet ? Just going by memory, could be wrong . Far NE sask was decent this year though because they missed the majority of fall rain / snow .
I know starting about 2005 through 2017 this area had relatively stable years and very limited frosts with long harvests for the most part despite the low sun spot activity around 2008 ish , we had more spring frosts than normal 2007 - 2009.
The solar cycle just one piece to a very complex system so trends not always exact but it is interesting after the past few years . The current reality of immature crops , wet cold harvests and early frost damage in areas does not fit the narrative at all of longer growing seasons and the ability to grow “long season†crops . Some areas just north of here were not even 75 days frost free this past year.
4-5 years ago kinda fits the WP article but not the past few years. Maybe again in 4-5 years.
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