National Farmer's Day
Happy National Farmerās Day everyone!

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National Farmer's Day
Happy National Farmerās Day everyone!
UNEARTHED | There is no one principle that can reliably guide all our decisions. Trade-offs abound.
āWant to fix our food system? Ditch the philosophy. No more unifying principle. Call off the dogma.ā
The "Regulatory" Drought: It's Easy to Feel on California Farms
Daily Ag Fact: 9/21/15
Dairy cows are not milked at all the last 45-60 days of their pregnancy. Dairy animals not being milked are calledĀ ādry cowsā. This break allows their mammary system to have a break and relax for a while before the cows begin lactating again, as well as allowing the cow to store extra body fat and prepare to give birth.
How do you make a sandwich at home? Grab some bread, slap together some mustard and mayo, throw in some turkey, add some cheese, lettuce, tomato and onions, and then eat it right? Thatās what normal people do but thatās a total shortcut. How do you truly make a sandwich at home and from scratch? It involves farming vegetables, milking cows, killing a chicken and so much more.
#farming #agriculture
Daily Ag Fact: 9/15/15
Monterey County in California generates over 8 billion dollars in farm income and employs over 75,000 jobs yearly.
#cawater #cadrought #agriculture
Challenge. Think farming is simple/easy? Answer all the questions below
1.) What crops are you gonna grow this year? 2.) Look at the market, you think that price gonna be the same in a few months? 3.) Where are you planting each crop? 4.) Seeding time, can you work from 9:00am to 11:00pm in order to get done in the little time you have? 5.) Your seeder broke half-way through, what are you gonna do? You donāt have the money to buy the new fancy ones. 6.) Where you gonna get a sprayer? 7.) Can you spray the crops at the exact right time so that bugs canāt eat it all? 8.) It rained a lot last night, think you can work in that soil with the big equipment? Iāll give you a freebie, you canāt. 9.) Your crop is ready to harvest, but their predicting a hail storm, did you decide which fields to cover? Hint: you canāt cover them all, look at the price 10.) One of your fields is completely ruined by the hail storm, insurance gonna cover all the money you put into the ground? Another freebie, no. 11.) Youāre going to harvest all the other crop now, how do you know when itās ready? 12.) Can you sit through another session of long hours to get the crop in before the price changes? 13.) How many bins should you have to hold each crop when youāre done? 14.) Whoās gonna drive the truck to move full loads while you drive the combine? 15.) Say itās real dry on another area of land, that combineās been running for a few hours, what do you do if something catches fire? 16.) Youāre finally done harvesting all the crops, did you store it all? 17.) Who are you selling your crop to? 18.) Are you getting enough bang for your work? You lost a lot of money on that totaled field remember. 19.) Think you now have a lot of free cash now? Iāll answer for you, no, that money has to go back into the farm.
Think youāre done? No, not by a long shot hun.
20.) Itās winter now, did you get all your expensive equipment where the snow and freezing water canāt ruin it? 21.) Flash forward, time to clean your equipment so itās ready for this times harvest, but some animal decided to make that machine itās home over winter. Thereās no coverage for that, how are you gonna fix what the animal ruined?
Iāll give you slack and skip winter, but now I add the other lingering questions
22.) Did you remember to clean out everything before it was put away for winter? 23.) How are you going to make sure your soil stays good? Plants can take out those important minerals other plants need. 24.) Did I mention youāre still paying taxes for your home? Water, electricity, ect. you have the money? 25.) Oh, youāre fields that you work so hard on? They arenāt close to each other at all, thereās miles between some of them, how do you move all the equipment to different fields? 26.) Guess what, itās time to pick what youāre going to plant again. Take the profit of last year, where do you put it?
You get my point yet? Farming takes a lot, itās not mindless, itās not all easy work. And thinking everything is all safe and sound for farmers. Look up to my uncle Dale, heavy equipment hit him in the head at 14 and he was gone in a snap. Rest in peace.
My point is, respect farmers. Be nice to them, if you own a company work with them donāt just do what you want, talk to them ācause sitting so long alone can take a lot out of you. It takes strength to make it in the farm world, you should hug them and always let them know theyāre loved and appreciated.
Last note: farming isnāt all hell though. You should see some of the views they get.
I showed this to my dad and several other of my produce farming friends, and they agreed with this. This post just shows how dang difficult it is to farm and all of the different questions and things you have to think about. Farming is not easy by a long shot. Lets remember to thank our farmers.
What is this picture of? Does it look like clouds full of rain to you, and hundreds of the other hopeful Californians? Iāll let you in on a little hint about this picture that I took Friday night driving to a friendās house:
This is smoke from fires.
As many of you know, California is literally burning up. With over 8 million acres burned so far this year and with much of that acreage having burned in the last month to two months, its scaring being a rancher. We constantly have to think ahead and keep updated on the fires and where they are. We have to be ready to pack up on a momentās notice and get out. Some ranchers donāt have trailers at all; Some donāt have trailers big enough for all of their animals. I saw a picture today of someone fleeing the Valley Fire with their horses in the bed of their pick up truck, bumper nearly dragging on the ground. Iāve heard stories and know people who have simply had to open the gates to their pastures and pray that their animals have the ability to get out and run. My Facebook feed is flooded with people looking for their horses, of people with trailers or extra space on their ranch opening their doors to people trying to flee, of people that only had space for their animals but not for feed and are desperate to feed their horses, rabbits, dogs, cats, chickens, sheep, goats, or cattle. Iāve had several friends who have had to evacuate their properties while escaping the Butte, Valley, Lumpkin, and the numerous other fires in the state. I have friends who started school 3 weeks ago but havenāt been to class because theyāre volunteer firefighters and theyāve been on the front lines the whole time.Ā
Thereās been different stories coming out of the fires of the animals who didnāt get a chance to escape. Stories about cattlemen coming back to their herds to find most of them gone or firefighters that took videos of cattle and wildlife running through their camps or their lines trying to escape. I know of a sheep rancher who had left his gates open for his sheep to escape, but the fire blocked the gates and many of the sheep perished against the fences. I know there will be horses that will never be found even as their owners search desperately.
Its scary to look at the Cal Fire website at these fires. Valley Fire: 50,000 acres in the last 24 hours, 0% contained. Butte Fire: 65,215 acres in the last 4 days, 20% contained, Lumpkin Fire: 425 acres in the last 2 days, 21% contained. Its hard to read about these.
So please keep us in your mind until we can finally get the much needed rain. If youāre the praying type, please pray for California and the people who are losing their homes and towns. If youāre not, just send some hope our way. Weāll need it.
kenzie-sweetpea, as of September 13th at 4:50 PM, the Butte fire has burned 81 homes and 51 outbuildings.
VICE News recently abandoned journalistic standards to portray California's farmers as wasteful. Learn the truth VICE NEWS didn't want to tell.
#agriculture #cawater #cadrought #farming #almonds #rice #vice #vicenews
#Almonds still in their hills and shells, on the way from the field to a processing facility. #california #agriculture #cawater
The poultry industry produces six billion tons of chicken feathers every year, most of it destined to end up in a landfill. But recently chicken feathers have ended up in everything from art projects to running shoes to car manufacturing.
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While I totally dropped the ball and missed National Farmerās Market Week, hereās a cool article and infographic on why Farmerās Markets are important.
This is the Mother Orange Tree, California's oldest living orange tree in California. Originally planted in Oroville in1856, it has survived two moves and still bears fruit. #agriculture #california #roadtrip
Opponents comparing #CaWaterFix to the Bay Bridge debacle donāt want you to know about the SFPUC tunnel. That project came in on time and under budget. #cawater #cadrought
It's National Peach Month! Here are some beautiful peach blossoms from our travels. #cawater #peaches #agriculture #latergram