Looking Ahead
Nothing Seems To Discourage Larry McClendon These Days
Tommy Horton
By Nov. 1, McClendon assessed the situation and realized that 90 percent of his cotton was still in the field waiting to be harvested. Sensing that the clock was ticking, he hired extra workers and rented several harvesters. The crop was picked in eight days. An expensive crop had just gotten more expensive.
"For the first time in my life, I felt that circumstances were running me, and I wasn't running the farm," he says. "Like I said, I haven't seen anything like it in my life."
McClendon says he's heard older farmers talk about the floods of 1957 and 1972, but now he has his own reference point on how weather has affected his farm. The fall of 2009 has easily moved into the record books.
source : cottonfarming
Nothing Seems To Discourage Larry McClendon These Days
Tommy Horton
By Nov. 1, McClendon assessed the situation and realized that 90 percent of his cotton was still in the field waiting to be harvested. Sensing that the clock was ticking, he hired extra workers and rented several harvesters. The crop was picked in eight days. An expensive crop had just gotten more expensive.
"For the first time in my life, I felt that circumstances were running me, and I wasn't running the farm," he says. "Like I said, I haven't seen anything like it in my life."
McClendon says he's heard older farmers talk about the floods of 1957 and 1972, but now he has his own reference point on how weather has affected his farm. The fall of 2009 has easily moved into the record books.
source : cottonfarming
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