Hey Mic

Did you get all your corn in mate. Waving to ya friend.

Thanks for asking. We have had a nice stretch of weather and it has been pretty hectic around here. We should get our own done tomorrow, but we take in neighbours corn to dry and there is still a lot of it in the fields.

At least the other crops locally like soybeans have been harvested.

This whole fall situation made me think of what may be ahead as we approach 2012. For about 5 weeks it rained and rained and everyone was starting to panic because this time last year we had 3 feet of snow. Everyone was worried and living in fear.....yet what happened?

The sun came out and was above normal temps and everything looks like it is going to turn out oakly doakly. lol

Life is full of lessons as we go isn't it. We just have to be paying attention.

I am pleased to hear it mate. If it wasn't for the farmers millions or probably billions wouldn't get to eat. I don't think a lot of people are able to grow all their food due to space or other reasons.

I bought myself a strawberry plant because I am still living with my mum at the moment and I would pick one every now and then and they were beautiful to eat.

When I get into my own place next year I will plant more, but I will be buying somewhere not far from mum, because she cannot get around much anymore without help, so I need to be close, but if mum passes before me down the track, I intend on getting somewhere out in the country and then I can plant some fruit trees, nut trees, my vegetables and so on, then I should be right. That's the plan, but then again the best laid plans etc.........we will see. When I was a kid I used to spend holidays on a family friend's dairy farm in Victoria so I know how some of it works.

I hope all the harvesting goes well for everyone there hon.

Thanks Bigsy. I hope you can get your own place with a garden. The veggies taste so much better when you grow them yourself. No preservatives and you can control the pesticides used etc. So much better for you.

A bone of contention with me is I believe that the governments (well at least ours anyway) do not really have enough in place to help our farmers out. If they walked off the land, then what happens.

There should be more incentives, more policy and procedures to help farmers earn a good living with less stress should something happen. I wish they would do more for them.

ahhh biggs..it's hard for the family farm to exist anymore here in the good ole U.s. of a.
corporate farms are the thing..
we used to do farmers markets in the city three times a week and it was great..but
there just aren't enough little guys left to do it anymore
very sad

what we need is for everyone to have at least a tiny garden to grown one or two things
so that they have a better understanding of it all

glad to hear you are almost done, M...hope the weather holds for ya

The other thing is how niave city people (especially kids) have become. Ask them where milk comes from and they likely would answer ... from the store. A lot of school kids have no idea it comes from cows and how farmers milk them. These same people wouldn't stand much of chance given a world disaster.

Your right Mic, I was just thinking that most people would believe that most products just turn up in the store overnight by magic. They havent got a clue what goes into actually producing food etc.

I know by having spent time on a dairy farm what went on and we're talking about the 60s here. To get to the toilet from the farm house you went out the back door, down a path and into the little tin shed where you guessed it, there was a bench with a bucket in it. The flies were terrible. I hated that part and the only time I stayed was during summer so it was a tad difficult at times. Of course the milk we drank on the farm came straight from the cows.