What if it Snows?

Might apply for a crop disaster loan... Cotton, corn, and bean corps do it all the time. Don't fool with farming the ground, farm the Dept of Ag.

EG..EWG's Farm Subsidy Database

 

Definite pepper weevil exit hole.

Only hope is to find a way to keep the weevils off your peppers, because once the bug lays the egg, it is protected from pesticides by the sealed body of the pepper.

As for the hornworms......

I saw a picture on reddit.

The guy posted, "What is eating up my pepper plant? It was fine last night".

The redditors replied, "Um, MAYBE the five hornworms hanging on your plant?"

Dude sez, "OMG! I didn't even NOTICE them when I took the photo!"

Group sez, "That's okay. They camoflage themselves well. Go out in the dark with a UV flashlight and you'll see them glow."

I wish I knew back in high school that there was such a thing as entomology. I would have taken more science and applied myself more.....

Yeah.....probably not.

 

"They ruined my peppers! I need a BAILOUT!"

 

Blame Nixon's Ag Secretary Earl Butts for the massive subsidies. The plan was designed to make farming less profitable unless you went big. Had to get the little family farms consolidated into gigantic farms. Fifty years later, mission accomplished; easier for Bill Gates and Ted Turner and the Chinese to buy up big chunks of land all at once. Now they're turning off the water in the Ho during one of the wettest years in recent memory.

My family wonders why I distrust the government's good intentions.

 

Don't worry, it's Colorado. If he gets sentenced to anything more than ten years, the governor will reduce it down to a suitable number.

 

Harder to handle sitting up. Coil ram on a 40K forklift sits straight out, stick it and go. Lying flat, must be on dunnage to get any forks under and the possibility of it going slinky.
Only one I ever saw loose ... I was foolishly growling up hill in and around Steubenville one afternoon and winding along I saw this like 12" steel strap to my left. It just seemed to follow the contour, like you would string pipe, to weld, and come back and drop in. New to me. Got up further and there was a crew with smoke wrenches lopping it off in regular sections about 10' long. Further up, a small wrecker was yarding the pieces and loading them on a real short flatbed.
Up neat the top I saw the beginning of the end I had been watching. Tractor with short ftat pups was all mangled up in the ditch. One coil still tied to the trailer up on its side, other trailer upside down and empty.
I've often wondered what my reaction would have been had I been grinding up and the roll was unwinding down the ditch like a flash flood.

 

I wonder if that's the guy who was chaining coils next to me in Alabama years ago and asked me why I was working so hard. "You can just put one chain on the middle ones. I've been doing it that way for years and never had a problem." Smdh. Btw, a strap over the top of tall skinny ones makes some sense, if you use edge protectors under the strap and use enough chains to secure the coil below. And a sufficient number of coil racks. And rubber under the coil. Tall skinny ones are a problem waiting to happen. Aluminum coils are maybe worse though.

 

Some times they do. Just depends on the requirements for the receiver.

 

In the western states; water, grass, and cattle. Hard to get together at the same place; at the same time, for the season needed.