Damn are those hearing sometimes awful to watch. Those pompous asses acting like children looking down on the guy testifying is a chore. Never been a huge RFK fan but I will tell you this. He has one important thing deep inside him that very few if any had on that committee. He actually believes what he says and will stand by it. He defended his position meanwhile those hypocrites from above did little other than repeat tired old covid phrases. The distancing, the mask, the vaccines, killing grandma, closing schools, funerals, sports, all the tired rest of it that neither they or the so called experts ever believed....not a single word of it. And when that lying Indian women tried she about had the vapors when Kennedy reminded the witch of the 855000 dollars she gladly took from pharma.
Guess what it probably needed as much as anything was Senator Kennedy from LA.
Thanks very much, mcfarm!
I was wondering what your opinion on RFK Jr. is.
How your crops doing?
Another flash drought to end the growing season means the already way too high USDA number in August, will be even farther off.
yes crops are coming way too fast. This weather has them hanging their heads and going the other way. Friend started corn down you way last week. Running from 24 to 28% and yields are in irrigated fields and have held up but not great they say.
I do like RFK's tenacity. He is most likely my favorite Kennedy because many of the rest were rich users and people of little conviction. Cannot say that about the rest of the clan.
Thanks, mcfarm!
The early planted corn here had roots tapping moisture still during this long dry spell. I'm betting those yields will be huge.
However, I pass by a few fields of late planted corn several times a week. Before this .75" inch rain here, the plants were just 5 feet high(and at their max) with leaves severely curled up. Even worse than the image below with the plants here having pollinated already(the ones below are getting ready to start pollination in a drought).
https://extension.psu.edu/managing-crops-during-a-severe-drought-q-and-a
Tenacity is an awesome, positive trait........when you are standing up for or doing the right thing!
OK, I find a much better image that shows what that corn looked like.
ALMOST EXACTLY like this too, except a few weeks farther along on maturity with pollination over!
After the rain, the leaves were no longer curled up but that corn field is evidence of the risk of super late planting when soil moisture dries up in the 2nd half of the growing season. If the vertical soil moisture profile dries up to below the root zone, the plant dies out.
Early planted corn with super deep roots can extend a couple feet deeper and still tap moisture.
I think it was planted in early June.
Fields planted 6 weeks earlier, at the same stage looked like this below. They are drying down and brown now and will be ready for harvest soon. The main difference, in an August with almost no rain was the planting date!!!
https://crops.extension.iastate.edu/cropnews/2017/06/how-fast-and-deep-do-corn-roots-grow-iowa
In 2016, the FACTS team collected root depth measurements at critical crop stages in six corn fields across Iowa. Measurements were taken on the row and at the center of two 30-inch rows. These fields had different treatments such as planting date and tile drainage. Results indicated that root depth increased over time consistently across sites and treatments. On average, corn roots grew about 2.75 inches per leaf stage to a maximum depth of 60 inches (Figure 1). Going into more specifics, corn roots initially increased at a slow rate (0.29 in./day) up to 5th-leaf and from then on with a rate of 1.22 in./day until silking stage when maximum depth is reached.
Other important findings from this work are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL0rhH1dIzs here is another friend in western Ind who started a week ago. Corn was still 30% and as you can tell he had very little issue with drought. His crops are in very good shape, very lush. He has some beans planted as early as march 18th.
Thanks, mcfarm,
Wow! planting beans on March 18th!!