Frost took most of my fruit tree crop. 20 apple blossoms down to 2 apples on tree
Tree full of peach blossoms to none now
Tree full of pear buds to none
Our sweet corn was terrible due to lack of rain, we harvested first crop, and decided to give rest to chickens, at least won’t go to waste
Most of in ground garden doing terrible (except tomatoes). Thankfully had greenhouse and aquaponics system or I would have had almost no crops this year.
The wife, kids and I play a new game when going places on who is an ant and who is a grasshopper by how many green lawns we see driving through the neighborhoods. Cracks us all up. Now that they passed law in our area about watering lawns and washing cars might have to find other ways to amuse ourselves as all the “pretty” lawns start to turn brown.
With drought and late frost taking out much of the crops, prices now up, which means people can afford less, and in turn prices go up more to cover costs.
Since we as a nation export much of what we grow how is that going to trickle down to other items, and borrowing/lending? Will there be bail outs the way the auto industry, and mortgage industry was bailed out? Of course not, well at least for mom and pop farmer they won’t. Who will buy their land when they have to sell, big AG business, for more GMO laden food! Yeah
