Lots of things
happened in June. One thing that didn’t
happen: rain.
Not quite
true. We did have two or three showers,
the greatest being four tenths of an inch, the others less than one tenth. As dry as it has been, such dabs don’t help
much.
“Greenfields”
forgot to apply this year.
The hedge
suffered a severe attack.
The grain bin
got emptied.
A clean grain
bin equal step one in preparation for harvest.
Next, get equipment ready. When
will harvest begin? It’s a good question
this year. Some seed planted last fall
didn’t emerge until this spring. Those
plants are behind the rest of the field and will delay ripening and drying.
Weeds promise to
complicate things, too. Organic certification
prevents me from spraying for them.
Last year was a
good year. As I told a neighbor, we must
not expect two good crops in a row. That’s
a truth of dryland farming in the semiarid high plains.
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