@@FlannelFarms yep. Much smaller government is the answer. But not the” libertarian “ way. Via actual conservative action. And maintenance. They’ve interwoven us to deep into the global food chain that getting out is the issue.
My hometown in north Carolina is getting completely destroyed by townhomes. It’s like a disease, they clear hundreds of acres to put up tiny cramped houses with zero trees planted. How do people want this
Nobody wants this except the billionaires making fortune in the housing market... it all comes down to corporate corruption, just like EVERY problem you can think of in America!
"How do people want this" Sounds more like a "need" than a "want" to me. Rental prices are outrageous these days, so many people are looking for some relief from very expensive housing costs. 😕
We will keep you in our prayers. We had 4 head and sold them off a month ago. We will see how next year goes. We were just raising them for our own families meat.
@americanadreaming except that I didn't say the end is near, I said feed prices will probably go up due to poor weather. Which has happened and will happen again. But hey, thanks for your comment!
@@FlannelFarmsBill Gates owns 275,000 Acres of farmland I'm pretty sure the end is closer than you think. And just think about all the foreign interests that own our Farmland on top of that...
Pray. I’m in SC. 16 acres of no pesticide , no irrigation , no chemical veggies. It was all on bad shape. I finally got on my knees and prayed. And I jist said “ lord. I’ve done all the work I can. In good faith. It’s yours. Water it if you intend it to make “. The next afternoon it started raining. That was 6 weeks ago. It hasn’t stopped yet. I’m getting 2 bushels of cucumbers twice a day. Same on squash. About 10 bushels of peas a day. And the corn is heading out. Okra finally blooming. Watermelons are half grown. Cantaloupe ripe any day now. Pumpkins are on schedule. I have a couple size of two basketballs. And beets are up. My only problem now is getting to plow it to keep the grass out. I have to find dry spots of time to hurry and plow it all. So far so good. Yo believe what you want. The Lord will provide.
Though our year has been really dry here in Pennsylvania, our garden has been the best we've ever had. No blight on the tomatoes or potatoes, with as many as 40 tomatoes on a single plant.
Thank you for saying. We need to plan ahead. The United States has had a drought and derechos. If you think that food prices are not going to reflect the lower food production you may be disappointed.
We are looking for 4 hay cutting this year. Texas Farmers everywhere are having to cut prices for round bails just to sale them, almost giving them away. You need to organize Virginia farmers to create an emergency hay lift with truckers to haul hay from Texas to Va.
@@FlannelFarmsyou did a good job. Use your platform to coordinate the refional response. Truckloads of cheap hay from TX has to be better than no hay in VA. I will link this video to the only VA folks I know
You inspired me to get off my couch and restart my aero garden. I live in Houston and I can't grow anything. My heart goes out to all farmers who feed us. It takes a lot of work, time and money to farm God bless us all. ❤❤❤
The climate is like an old water mattress, push down on one area, and the water leaves, but it goes somewhere else, and that place has more than usual. Too much of either can be tough to get through.
Not all of Minnesota, it's very spotty, my local area is very dry, July had rain on 3 days and not enough to really measure. We've gotten a little rain in the last few days, not enough to make puddles. 😮
I had a volunteer sunflower so great. My corn did the same as yours. I'm NE Alabama. Hope the pumpkins do good. We started draught... Now rain daily = bursting watermelons, etc.
@@FlannelFarms It is the whole extreme thing. Some sun, some heat, plants and animals can deal. Too much of anything is a bad thing. What's worse is to have baking heat that dries out the land, making it hard like concrete, and then you get torrential down pours on that. The top soil which has no plants due to drought washes into rivers, and into the seas, where it "fertilizes" the sea. That gives the seas huge algal blooms. That can lead to a process that starves the seas of oxygen. Climate flux is no joke, and settling our climate into a new normal is essential for many things, the economy is one of the biggest things affected.
I’m in West Virginia. I too garden as a side project but lost it all this year with the drought. I am really concerned for our farmers who depend on their crops.
In southern MN and Northern IA the last two summers have been dry, super dry. This winter was super dry and hardly no frost.This year we got 13inches of rain in June and lots of flooding. Every thing is a little taller then what it was last year. I guess the roots didn't have to take off in time because it was so wet.
Cheer up Australia had a ten year drought back 1999-2008 , lakes dry rivers dry etc , then boom huge floods and everything came back , is nature correcting . Was in Victoria down south of the Murray and above
Hi. I was kicked out of my homeland of Virginia over 5 decades ago & I haven't been back. I don't get to talk to anyone from there since they shipped me to Florida. It's so nice to hear from a human in Virginia again. Florida is really different. Thx!❤🙏💚
I'm in upstate NY (real upstate - Adirondaks) and this has been the wettest summer I've ever seen in my 68 years. After a winter with less snow than usual.
East Tennessee-Georgia border here, my little garden of corn has produced some silks and pollen fronds at 2-4 foot tall. The tallest specimens have not silked yet, and I've been watering a little most mornings during the drought. They are fronding though, and I've saved some pollen - while artificially inseminating those shorties with silks. My tomatoes, local heirlooms I grew from seed have yet to produce fruit. They were producers last year, tomatoes out my ears. Buckwheat, amaranth, string beans - it all died, shriveled in the ground, watering it was a fools errand. I've got a SINGLE deformed cucumber from a pair of struggling vines and I've been pollinating the flowers manually now as well - not seen many good insects this season. By God I'm trying to save these plants but I just can't. It's all of us I think.
We are in south central PA and are also experiencing extreme drought. My sunflowers and corn are the same as yours. The ground has cracked, and we haven’t mowed in 6 weeks. I started a fall garden indoors, planting them out today in hopes that they do ok. Prayers for rain!!
Last summer our rain stopped at the end of June and didn't come back until after frost. We had patches of grass die out. Sun felt like a magnifying glass. Had to buy hay for the cows and couldn't overseed the pasture. Weird times. Will pray for you.
Gravitational pull ! The planets in the solar system are not equally aligned around the sun thus making what we are experiencing more prevalent . You can expect what's occurring 5-6 more years , it's part of the cycle ...
Broadly speaking there are two things that you can do. 1) Keep on pushing back the inevitable. 2) Learn to live within the limits of nature. So far we're thoroughly invested in #1.
In many ways, we are meant to tame nature in a good way, but you're right in a broad sense that sooner or later, powers larger than us can flip the script.
So sorry to hear that there has been a drought for your region. We had a drought in Minnesota a few years ago (I think about 4 years ago) and it made the foundation for our barn fail. We had to have piers installed at two corners of our barn to keep the walls from falling apart. The first level of our barn is block. Farming is always a risky business! I had to buy a huge block of hay the next year because the hay was so bad that year. Thanks for this video Brian. It is good to plan ahead for the next year when the weather has been against your region. One year the alfalfa crop had winter kill and there was much less hay that year too. Thanks for the warning on increased hay and feed costs. I hope your farm does okay for your feed costs this year. Did "Paradise Petals" have a bad year because of the drought too? Good bless you guys!
Thank you for bringing attention to this issue. It’s always good to prepare for tough times. I will be picking up some more animal feed. Be well. - Colin
We have pretty trees and bushes, they are dying. One lady mention change in sun, she is right, it seems hotter and sky whiter. Before you have sun but it wouldn’t bake on you, it seems go through your skin. If I don’t keep watering my flowers they are gone. I use to be able sit when sun was out but now it penetrates through skin. That how the veggies are. They keep spraying in sky and the sky gets lighter and sun hotter. It’s nice to have rain, but not to flood out.
Whenever I see my gardens suffer from these harsh weather patterns, my heart always goes out to the farmers …losing my longtime shrubbery and ornamentals and few veggies is heartbreaking, but losing entire food crops can be deadly in many ways. Always praying for food and livestock growers everywhere.
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Mine garden was not good eather. Pototoes were good.
I'm on the east coast of Canada just above Maine. We have had some very hot weather at the beginning of summer...almost tropical. Then, predictions of rain, but no rain. Gardens started off great and things are starting to ripen but the hot weather has killed off some of the foliage. We still have water in the well, use a rain barrell and a kids swimming pool ..hopefully I'll be storing some for the winter. Cheers, great video.
Up in Connecticut in the northeast corner trees and shrubs have grown off the charts. But the amount of acorns falling already is calling for a bad winter.
We've had pretty mild winters here other than one really cold snap a few years ago. We could use it for pest control. It will strain the system though, and people's wallets :/
Yeah. Everything is gonna turn around and be fine. Yeah NO not a chance. Great video thank you. I’m in the vile and expensive west in Northern Nevada Appreciate seeing that 🙋♀️
I'm in the Kansas City Missouri area. Last year I was picking tomatoes until the middle, almost end of October! This year my plants are done already! I water my yard but, I can only water so much. It's very sad. I've been watering my trees though, because I don't want them to die.
I’m in southeast Ohio and we’ve all been devastated by the heat. My tomato plants are dying before they are ripening. Everyone I talk to is experiencing the same issues.
Central texas is wet like ive never seen before. So nice, we havnt had to buy hay for the cows at all so far this summer. The ground is making enough grass for them all on its own. I didnt think it was possible!
Wow ! How amazing to consider the entire “region “ ( sarcasm ) when thinking about a drought- good luck brother , you are more than a farmer , you are a real steward of your land 🙏❤️ wage peace !!! No farmers = no food
We are in extreme drought here in the lower Kanawha River Valley (WVa). I've never seen it so dry in my 65 years. Everyone's lawns have browned out and the ground is literally hard as a rock. We have a seven-day forecast of sunny and dry, with temps getting back up in the mid to upper 90's. We are praying for rain as the fall fire season approaches.
I agree with other here about the sun. Everything I tried to grow was set back from turning yellow and such." And no the contrails aren't unusual or above normal " The honey bees and even mosquitoes rarely show up. And it's hot. Low 80s in Northern Pennsylvania all summer, sometimes 90s. From what I can find these erratic weather phenomena are global. We'll beyond the usual cycles. The one that is the most unusual is the Atlantic Ocean current. It's beginning to stall. That don't happen every now and then. Not yearly, every decade or even hundred years. It's never been recorded far as I can find .
In South and Central Ontario, several farms have shut down (for at least this year), because of too much rain. A lot of weather modification is taking place around the world.
NW NC, and lucky we have springs that we were able to pull water from to keep gardens green. Definitely been dry, and the other crazy part is the Buckeyes have been changing early.
There’s an ancient saying, the forest brings the rain. Even weeds hold moisture in the soil but when you burn all the land or mow it down and don’t replant this is what happens. They only have to push this for a few years, and then the powers that be get all the farmland for pennies on the dollar.
It is. I spend a lot of time working outdoors. You can feel the intensity in your skin. We're in solar maximum right now. My dad is pretty sure that's it
As Debby is moving thru our areas, might be too much for some & too late unfortunately for others. Mother Nature keeps speaking & yet the world ignores her!
Climate change means different things to different people. The climate changes from summer to winter, it changes with LaNina, it changes with solar activities, but if you say it in a video like this people assume you mean the idea of human caused climate change.
If you have fairly flat to mildly sloping property consider adding swales to the higher parts. Swales help keep the landscape hydrated, and the lower areas from being overly wet. It also reduces the chance of downstream flooding while reducing soil erosion, and increasing the watertable. If you can keyline before it rains, that also helps. Rototilling and plowing need to be generally avoided if you can avoid it. Wish someone did restoration ag techniques adapted to the Virginia area. For more rainwater harvesting info using mostly earthworks, check with Brad Lancaster...
We are almost totally flat :/ However, we are working on restoring the land using cover crops and animals. Trying to add back that organic material. Great tips though, thanks you!
@@FlannelFarms We are near totally flat ourselves. It still works. We stopped having huge puddles where they were a problem. It's really helped the elderberry. Would be better if we harvested road runoff to the orchard (the bark absorbs those particularly problematic chemicals, the fruit is still safe) but baby steps. These are better than losing rainwater to direct evaporation.
We have been in a drought in Western Kansas since 2020. We normally get 18 - 20 inchs of rain a year but been getting sub 10 inches on average since 2020. In 2022 we got 3 inchs.
Wecome to the wonderful world of farming as a third generation farmer have seen weather make an break people over and over. Plan for the worst hope for the best
Wise gardeners and small scale farmers will adapt thru utilizing "dry" techniques like wide spacing, earthworks/water retention, saving seed and selecting for drought resistence. I've just begun my research and trials as trying to keep up with irrigation the last few seasons has been tough, even with tap water available!
Yes and no. Many smaller commercial farmers have been pushed into it as it is nearly the only way to make a profit. The government has manipulated so much in farming...
You're absolutely right. In terms of sustainability and best practices, it isn't a good system at all which is one of the reasons we are trying to make as much of our own food as we can.
@FlannelFarms This actually happened already with bananas 🍌 the ones they sell now aren't the same, I still have the original bananas that were sold before lol, I grow bananas
I live in Michigan on the Indiana state line. We'll have periods of some good rain for maybe a day or two and then go a week without. By the end of July I started seeing the apple tree in my yard drop it's apples and leaves. Other plants that usually die off at the end of September or fall are doing so now. It's also been mostly in the 80s with quite a few days in the spring and summer in the 90s. It's been different.
It could be. Something to keep in mind is the climate always changes and we've only been keeping so so records for the past 130 years. I wouldn't be surprised if They were messing with it, but either way, we little folks have to learn how to prepare and deal with it on our level.
Grow tetragon. It comes from sand dunes and ocean spray environment so anything better andvit goes crazy. Very drought resistant and takes freezing down to about 10. Thrives in heat. I grow it instead of lettuce and spinach b/c it can't bolt (creeper instead) and never gets bitter. Reseeds itself also.
I understand that the earths weather is cyclical and that that is the reason why real American Indians would migrate seasonally. We are asking the earth to give us what we want rather than accepting what she gives freely. Follow the cycle don’t try to make it come to you. If you have too many lemons make lemonade, but if you have none, ask someone who has for some of theirs. Bartering sounds good! 🖖👀
We're about to enter 'great tribulation' so all bets is off. The upside, God's Son has returned and has been >> Rev.2;17,28 You'll see what its produced... need a rooster to crow first
It's.... Air. I noticed that too but what has me more puzzled is how we can get an entire day of tropical storm soaking rain and it doesn't make the grass grow or change the color greener?
Nobody's talking about it, the sun is different this year, something with the uv rays very intense has killed some of my blueberries bushes and caused leaf curling on my apple trees, something is very wrong but have heard nothing about it in the mainstream media, maybe something to do with the pole shift, think we're all in trouble and they have us preoccupied with the election b.s.
Yea, that is so weird. This year my squash and zucchini both died prematurely, I watered it all the time and I had planted it with some beans. They just turned yellow and died, they showed no stress before they turned yellow and died. It’s so weird because in the past years squash is always what we saw the highest success with.
Cloud seeding, blocks sun always cloudy let's uv through tho, & keeps tempature hot as heat is held in cannot escape + west coast had an elnino winter so water is nearly always in high demand low supply afterwards
What does one expect to happen when most people cuss the rain every single time it comes? Its praying against the rain, its wishing for drought, its wanting high prices...uh..how about stop a year or so in advance?
I live on a farm in Tennessee and i've noticed the plants are only half as tall as last year; and also there's not as many. Unfortunately; i foresee next year will be the same.
Nature and gardening is a great humbler. It teaches you to sway with the cycles that are beyond our control and just accept them. It’s a lesson that transcends just gardening.
Yup..I watch everyday the town water the football field that no one uses..we had rain early,great start...coming out of a drought..well guess what...drought is not over..100 degrees and the forests lit up like time square on new years..we haven't had anything for a month..good start though so there should still be something..Thank s for this
Florida seems about normal in terms of rain but it has been a couple of degrees hotter (as if it isn’t hot enough down here). La Niña and El Niño really do affect the weather of the entire US I think.
I sorta live nearby. My established jerusalem artichoke patch grew to 9 feet tall last year without irrigation.. This year, right now, they are 2. Won't put much more on either, don't expect another foot, be blooming soon.
East Coast needs more beevers, and they need to be protected. They are the single most important animal in the environment for water retention. Without beevers, desert is inevitable.
The weather is really strange this year. I am in central Virginia near the Blue ridge and I have had great rainfall this year, but it comes down in buckets for a short time. But most of my neighbors haven't seen enough rain to turn lawn grass green.
One thing farmers could do is stop voting for big city billionaires who are conning them out of their money while working against their interests
Absolutely. Vote conservative for sure. 😅.
Now. If you want to be real. There is no candidate that matches your criteria. So what do we do now ?
@puttervids472 there's the rub... no one is talking about seriously curtailing the Fed Gov...
@@FlannelFarms yep. Much smaller government is the answer. But not the” libertarian “ way. Via actual conservative action. And maintenance. They’ve interwoven us to deep into the global food chain that getting out is the issue.
Yeah, ok marty
If you are speaking about Trump…you might need to research that. He has been good for the farmers.
My hometown in north Carolina is getting completely destroyed by townhomes. It’s like a disease, they clear hundreds of acres to put up tiny cramped houses with zero trees planted. How do people want this
I'm so sorry to hear that
Yankees. They don’t know any better. 😅. They think that’s nice and private. They now have 30 neighbors instead of 3000
Nobody wants this except the billionaires making fortune in the housing market... it all comes down to corporate corruption, just like EVERY problem you can think of in America!
"How do people want this"
Sounds more like a "need" than a "want" to me. Rental prices are outrageous these
days, so many people are looking for some relief from very expensive housing costs. 😕
It is the fault of the builders.
As a cattle farmer , all I can say is if you love your family, 🙏🏼✝️prepare
We will keep you in our prayers. We had 4 head and sold them off a month ago. We will see how next year goes. We were just raising them for our own families meat.
@@FlannelFarms Hang in there I’m in Missouri, last year the drought was brutal, blessings 🙏🏼✝️🤝
Only one way to prepare, put your trust in the blood of Jesus Christ to pay for your sins. It is a gift, not of works, so that no one can boast.
@americanadreaming except that I didn't say the end is near, I said feed prices will probably go up due to poor weather. Which has happened and will happen again. But hey, thanks for your comment!
@@FlannelFarmsBill Gates owns 275,000 Acres of farmland I'm pretty sure the end is closer than you think. And just think about all the foreign interests that own our Farmland on top of that...
Chemtrails mess with the weather.
Pray. I’m in SC. 16 acres of no pesticide , no irrigation , no chemical veggies. It was all on bad shape. I finally got on my knees and prayed. And I jist said “ lord. I’ve done all the work I can. In good faith. It’s yours. Water it if you intend it to make “. The next afternoon it started raining. That was 6 weeks ago. It hasn’t stopped yet. I’m getting 2 bushels of cucumbers twice a day. Same on squash. About 10 bushels of peas a day. And the corn is heading out. Okra finally blooming. Watermelons are half grown. Cantaloupe ripe any day now. Pumpkins are on schedule. I have a couple size of two basketballs. And beets are up. My only problem now is getting to plow it to keep the grass out. I have to find dry spots of time to hurry and plow it all. So far so good. Yo believe what you want. The Lord will provide.
Amen, and praise the Lord!
@@FlannelFarms amen 🙏… I give God the glory. I love to watch his handywork. Cant think of anything better than watching something grow.
Though our year has been really dry here in Pennsylvania, our garden has been the best we've ever had. No blight on the tomatoes or potatoes, with as many as 40 tomatoes on a single plant.
@dieselphiend that's wonderful!
Same here. Didnt destroy my land.
Clean food 💟
Thats how you fix greed.grow!!
Thank you for saying. We need to plan ahead. The United States has had a drought and derechos. If you think that food prices are not going to reflect the lower food production you may be disappointed.
We are looking for 4 hay cutting this year. Texas Farmers everywhere are having to cut prices for round bails just to sale them, almost giving them away. You need to organize Virginia farmers to create an emergency hay lift with truckers to haul hay from Texas to Va.
Man, that's not a terrible idea. I tried hard to point out it was a regional issue.
@@FlannelFarmsyou did a good job. Use your platform to coordinate the refional response. Truckloads of cheap hay from TX has to be better than no hay in VA. I will link this video to the only VA folks I know
You're right, and thank you.
You mean "Sell" them, right?
They did that in Florida some years ago. They had a co-op thing going with a bunch of farms up in Wisconsin or up there.
You inspired me to get off my couch and restart my aero garden. I live in Houston and I can't grow anything. My heart goes out to all farmers who feed us. It takes a lot of work, time and money to farm God bless us all. ❤❤❤
That's wonderful! You can do it!!
I'm trying to grow malabar spinach right now. A small step is better than not moving ✌️✌️
"Don't panic, just plan." Words to live by for sure. 👍
Minnesota has had too much rain, but we are thankful for the rain. Prayers going out to those in drought areas!!!!
The climate is like an old water mattress, push down on one area, and the water leaves, but it goes somewhere else, and that place has more than usual. Too much of either can be tough to get through.
Not all of Minnesota, it's very spotty, my local area is very dry, July had rain on 3 days and not enough to really measure. We've gotten a little rain in the last few days, not enough to make puddles. 😮
I had a volunteer sunflower so great. My corn did the same as yours. I'm NE Alabama. Hope the pumpkins do good. We started draught... Now rain daily = bursting watermelons, etc.
Crazy how both extremes cause issues 😕
@@FlannelFarms
It is the whole extreme thing. Some sun, some heat, plants and animals can deal.
Too much of anything is a bad thing.
What's worse is to have baking heat that dries out the land, making it hard like concrete, and then you get torrential down pours on that.
The top soil which has no plants due to drought washes into rivers, and into the seas, where it "fertilizes" the sea.
That gives the seas huge algal blooms.
That can lead to a process that starves the seas of oxygen.
Climate flux is no joke, and settling our climate into a new normal is essential for many things, the economy is one of the biggest things affected.
@jimthain8777 agreed.
I’m in West Virginia. I too garden as a side project but lost it all this year with the drought. I am really concerned for our farmers who depend on their crops.
Me too. Sorry you lost your garden :/
@@FlannelFarms Thank you. I’m sorry your crops didn’t produce. I’m planning differently for next year :)
In southern MN and Northern IA the last two summers have been dry, super dry. This winter was super dry and hardly no frost.This year we got 13inches of rain in June and lots of flooding. Every thing is a little taller then what it was last year. I guess the roots didn't have to take off in time because it was so wet.
@@jonkluver7912 I’m surprised you had little frost in MN last year. Sorry your having trouble too.
Best wishes. Thanks! 👍
Cam trails are causing all the trouble
We had that awful dry weather and heat last summer in SW MS. Hope you see some relief soon.
Cheer up Australia had a ten year drought back 1999-2008 , lakes dry rivers dry etc , then boom huge floods and everything came back , is nature correcting . Was in Victoria down south of the Murray and above
Yep, the only constant is change. It is good to be prepared for the tough times by staying alert to conditions. Cheers man, thanks for the update!
It has rained here in North Carolina almost every day in July.
Yep was just saying they should try to make deals with folks where there was plenty of rain.
@JoyPeace-ej2uv my farmer buddy travels with a flat bed semi to get hay, maybe he can head that way.
Hi. I was kicked out of my homeland of Virginia over 5 decades ago & I haven't been back. I don't get to talk to anyone from there since they shipped me to Florida. It's so nice to hear from a human in Virginia again. Florida is really different. Thx!❤🙏💚
My county in Georgia is very dry but most other counties around us is very wet . We have missed most of the rain this year . Very strange.
OHIO very dry.
Chem trails. Non stop.
Dry in ohio.
I'm in upstate NY (real upstate - Adirondaks) and this has been the wettest summer I've ever seen in my 68 years. After a winter with less snow than usual.
Is it too much rain? My family is originally from near Lake Erie.
Here In Cumbria England, we have had the wettest summer on record….
Parts of the USA have also been flooded. Hope you guys dry out a little. I've watched Clarksons Farm and the weather has been nuts.
Not dry in Wisconsin
Been the wettest summer in years
Awesome! I'm glad you guys are doing well.
East Tennessee-Georgia border here, my little garden of corn has produced some silks and pollen fronds at 2-4 foot tall. The tallest specimens have not silked yet, and I've been watering a little most mornings during the drought. They are fronding though, and I've saved some pollen - while artificially inseminating those shorties with silks. My tomatoes, local heirlooms I grew from seed have yet to produce fruit. They were producers last year, tomatoes out my ears. Buckwheat, amaranth, string beans - it all died, shriveled in the ground, watering it was a fools errand. I've got a SINGLE deformed cucumber from a pair of struggling vines and I've been pollinating the flowers manually now as well - not seen many good insects this season. By God I'm trying to save these plants but I just can't. It's all of us I think.
Yeah man, the whole region. I hope my fall garden does ok.
Super dry in Nashville this summer. Thankfully we got a little rain today, but we still need more.
We are in south central PA and are also experiencing extreme drought. My sunflowers and corn are the same as yours. The ground has cracked, and we haven’t mowed in 6 weeks. I started a fall garden indoors, planting them out today in hopes that they do ok. Prayers for rain!!
You've got them! We are hoping for a small fall garden as well
WHAT THE HAY!!! Blessings to you flannels! ❤
So true, and prayers to all!
Last summer our rain stopped at the end of June and didn't come back until after frost. We had patches of grass die out. Sun felt like a magnifying glass. Had to buy hay for the cows and couldn't overseed the pasture. Weird times. Will pray for you.
Thank you.
Gravitational pull ! The planets in the solar system are not equally aligned around the sun thus making what we are experiencing more prevalent . You can expect what's occurring 5-6 more years , it's part of the cycle ...
@Original22 agreed
I'm so sorry. We have had much rain lately and experiencing the same with out home gardens. Prayers!
Broadly speaking there are two things that you can do.
1) Keep on pushing back the inevitable.
2) Learn to live within the limits of nature.
So far we're thoroughly invested in #1.
In many ways, we are meant to tame nature in a good way, but you're right in a broad sense that sooner or later, powers larger than us can flip the script.
Good video. It is smart to have lots of redundancy.
Thanks!
So sorry to hear that there has been a drought for your region. We had a drought in Minnesota a few years ago (I think about 4 years ago) and it made the foundation for our barn fail. We had to have piers installed at two corners of our barn to keep the walls from falling apart. The first level of our barn is block. Farming is always a risky business! I had to buy a huge block of hay the next year because the hay was so bad that year. Thanks for this video Brian. It is good to plan ahead for the next year when the weather has been against your region. One year the alfalfa crop had winter kill and there was much less hay that year too. Thanks for the warning on increased hay and feed costs. I hope your farm does okay for your feed costs this year. Did "Paradise Petals" have a bad year because of the drought too? Good bless you guys!
It certainly shortened her season, but she did better this year than last year. We will increase her growing area also!
@@FlannelFarms I'm so glad to hear she had some success despite the drought! I like my shirt! It's so great that she's doing her own business!
Welcome to farming! My grandfather gave up farming in 1919 because he was tired of the hail, the droughts, the locusts, nothing new here.
It is cyclical.
Thanks, Brain.
Thank you for bringing attention to this issue. It’s always good to prepare for tough times. I will be picking up some more animal feed. Be well. - Colin
Gladly brother. Keep up the good work on your homestead.
@@FlannelFarms Thank you so much!
Greetings from Mobile County Alabama. We have had flooding but 20 miles away, farms have drought
That's crazy!
Here at 7,000ft in AZ, our native blue Iris flowers sprouted, but only 5% made it to flower. Nearly all withered away!
We have pretty trees and bushes, they are dying. One lady mention change in sun, she is right, it seems hotter and sky whiter. Before you have sun but it wouldn’t bake on you, it seems go through your skin. If I don’t keep watering my flowers they are gone. I use to be able sit when sun was out but now it penetrates through skin. That how the veggies are. They keep spraying in sky and the sky gets lighter and sun hotter. It’s nice to have rain, but not to flood out.
Weather warfare
Thank you bud good info….!
Whenever I see my gardens suffer from these harsh weather patterns, my heart always goes out to the farmers …losing my longtime shrubbery and ornamentals and few veggies is heartbreaking, but losing entire food crops can be deadly in many ways. Always praying for food and livestock growers everywhere.
Mine garden was not good eather.
Pototoes were good.
You're right. It's a historically dry summer in West Virginia. We finally got our rains two weeks ago.
Chemtrails help kill things…..
I'm on the east coast of Canada just above Maine. We have had some very hot weather at the beginning of summer...almost tropical. Then, predictions of rain, but no rain. Gardens started off great and things are starting to ripen but the hot weather has killed off some of the foliage. We still have water in the well, use a rain barrell and a kids swimming pool ..hopefully I'll be storing some for the winter. Cheers, great video.
Sounds like you're ahead of the curve my friend
Up in Connecticut in the northeast corner trees and shrubs have grown off the charts. But the amount of acorns falling already is calling for a bad winter.
We've had pretty mild winters here other than one really cold snap a few years ago. We could use it for pest control. It will strain the system though, and people's wallets :/
Yeah. Everything is gonna turn around and be fine. Yeah NO not a chance. Great video thank you. I’m in the vile and expensive west in Northern Nevada Appreciate seeing that 🙋♀️
We haven’t had more than .25 of an inch the last 3 months. It’s insane, rain breaks up from West Virginia mountains to ours.
I'm in the Kansas City Missouri area. Last year I was picking tomatoes until the middle, almost end of October! This year my plants are done already! I water my yard but, I can only water so much. It's very sad. I've been watering my trees though, because I don't want them to die.
I’m in southeast Ohio and we’ve all been devastated by the heat. My tomato plants are dying before they are ripening. Everyone I talk to is experiencing the same issues.
Sounds like here
Central texas is wet like ive never seen before. So nice, we havnt had to buy hay for the cows at all so far this summer. The ground is making enough grass for them all on its own. I didnt think it was possible!
That is great!
Wow ! How amazing to consider the entire “region “ ( sarcasm ) when thinking about a drought- good luck brother , you are more than a farmer , you are a real steward of your land 🙏❤️ wage peace !!! No farmers = no food
Thanks, man. God bless you and your efforts as well.
We are in extreme drought here in the lower Kanawha River Valley (WVa). I've never seen it so dry in my 65 years. Everyone's lawns have browned out and the ground is literally hard as a rock. We have a seven-day forecast of sunny and dry, with temps getting back up in the mid to upper 90's. We are praying for rain as the fall fire season approaches.
Ah man, thanks for the update and we will pray with you for rain!
It’s so bad in the Texas Panhandle. I’m an experienced gardener and this year is really bad. I can’t imagine where you’re at.
Appreciate update 🎰
I agree with other here about the sun. Everything I tried to grow was set back from turning yellow and such." And no the contrails aren't unusual or above normal " The honey bees and even mosquitoes rarely show up. And it's hot. Low 80s in Northern Pennsylvania all summer, sometimes 90s. From what I can find these erratic weather phenomena are global. We'll beyond the usual cycles. The one that is the most unusual is the Atlantic Ocean current. It's beginning to stall. That don't happen every now and then. Not yearly, every decade or even hundred years. It's never been recorded far as I can find .
Dang. I feel for the farmers this year. 🙏
Perhaps the farmers can start learning to do their best rain dances 👻🙌💥
Haha
In South and Central Ontario, several farms have shut down (for at least this year), because of too much rain.
A lot of weather modification is taking place around the world.
NW NC, and lucky we have springs that we were able to pull water from to keep gardens green. Definitely been dry, and the other crazy part is the Buckeyes have been changing early.
There’s an ancient saying, the forest brings the rain. Even weeds hold moisture in the soil but when you burn all the land or mow it down and don’t replant this is what happens. They only have to push this for a few years, and then the powers that be get all the farmland for pennies on the dollar.
Hi Brian, I pray all will be well with the weather but regardless God will provide a way even if a way does not seem possible.
Amen
are in southwest virginia and its been so dry. We have finally been getting some rain again.
I'm in Oklahoma and my sunflowers and zinnias are half the size and are dying from the extreme heat. I think the sun is stronger.
It is. I spend a lot of time working outdoors. You can feel the intensity in your skin. We're in solar maximum right now. My dad is pretty sure that's it
I agree with your Dad, solar maximum makes a huge difference.
Minnesota has a glut of hay this year. Last year 2023 was dry in minnesota, so hay was a bit scarce.
As Debby is moving thru our areas, might be too much for some & too late unfortunately for others. Mother Nature keeps speaking & yet the world ignores her!
Thank you for saying "Summer" instead of "Climate Change"
Climate change means different things to different people. The climate changes from summer to winter, it changes with LaNina, it changes with solar activities, but if you say it in a video like this people assume you mean the idea of human caused climate change.
hopefully those chickens don't revolt with those numbers 😬🤣, good warning brother, lets pray for rain
Missouri has had a wet summer
If you have fairly flat to mildly sloping property consider adding swales to the higher parts. Swales help keep the landscape hydrated, and the lower areas from being overly wet. It also reduces the chance of downstream flooding while reducing soil erosion, and increasing the watertable.
If you can keyline before it rains, that also helps. Rototilling and plowing need to be generally avoided if you can avoid it.
Wish someone did restoration ag techniques adapted to the Virginia area.
For more rainwater harvesting info using mostly earthworks, check with Brad Lancaster...
We are almost totally flat :/
However, we are working on restoring the land using cover crops and animals. Trying to add back that organic material.
Great tips though, thanks you!
@@FlannelFarms
We are near totally flat ourselves. It still works.
We stopped having huge puddles where they were a problem. It's really helped the elderberry.
Would be better if we harvested road runoff to the orchard (the bark absorbs those particularly problematic chemicals, the fruit is still safe) but baby steps.
These are better than losing rainwater to direct evaporation.
Thank you
We have been in a drought in Western Kansas since 2020. We normally get 18 - 20 inchs of rain a year but been getting sub 10 inches on average since 2020. In 2022 we got 3 inchs.
That is a massive shortfall.
Wecome to the wonderful world of farming as a third generation farmer have seen weather make an break people over and over. Plan for the worst hope for the best
Thanks for all you do my friend! God bless your efforts.
Wise gardeners and small scale farmers will adapt thru utilizing "dry" techniques like wide spacing, earthworks/water retention, saving seed and selecting for drought resistence. I've just begun my research and trials as trying to keep up with irrigation the last few seasons has been tough, even with tap water available!
Same here my friend. We are trying to revitalize our soil to help. It is a slow road.
A hotter world is also a wetter one! Good luck farmers, I feel for you!
Monoculture is greed culture, Variety is the way to go.
Yes and no. Many smaller commercial farmers have been pushed into it as it is nearly the only way to make a profit. The government has manipulated so much in farming...
@@FlannelFarms the day some plague hits, it's SHTF time for monoculture.
You're absolutely right. In terms of sustainability and best practices, it isn't a good system at all which is one of the reasons we are trying to make as much of our own food as we can.
@FlannelFarms This actually happened already with bananas 🍌 the ones they sell now aren't the same, I still have the original bananas that were sold before lol, I grow bananas
@MosaicHomestead the banana flavor is from a variety that went extinct back in the 50s if memory serves.
I wish I could grow bananas here!
Thanks for the info
Back in the 1990's we hauled an enourmous load of hay on a flatbed from wyoming to Indiana due to drought. It happens, so best to try to prepare.
I live in Michigan on the Indiana state line. We'll have periods of some good rain for maybe a day or two and then go a week without. By the end of July I started seeing the apple tree in my yard drop it's apples and leaves. Other plants that usually die off at the end of September or fall are doing so now. It's also been mostly in the 80s with quite a few days in the spring and summer in the 90s. It's been different.
Our apple is also dropping apples and leafs.
Hi Brian! Maybe it's a 'Tree Leaf Fodder' year?
Good idea!
I dont have a farm or anything but i have noticed that it been pretty dry this year. The grass is just starting to grow under my trees.
Can you say geo engineering.
It could be. Something to keep in mind is the climate always changes and we've only been keeping so so records for the past 130 years.
I wouldn't be surprised if They were messing with it, but either way, we little folks have to learn how to prepare and deal with it on our level.
No, very likely from the Tonga volcano eruption throwing off the weather for the past couple of years. It was also hot & dry in Canada.
Great point! One day of a decent sized volcanic eruption can mess things up for a long time.
@@guytech7310 It's also been blamed for the extra moisture in the air around the world causing floods.
Grow tetragon. It comes from sand dunes and ocean spray environment so anything better andvit goes crazy. Very drought resistant and takes freezing down to about 10. Thrives in heat.
I grow it instead of lettuce and spinach b/c it can't bolt (creeper instead) and never gets bitter. Reseeds itself also.
7years feast. 7 years famine.
Dont be scared, be prepared.
I understand that the earths weather is cyclical and that that is the reason why real American Indians would migrate seasonally. We are asking the earth to give us what we want rather than accepting what she gives freely. Follow the cycle don’t try to make it come to you. If you have too many lemons make lemonade, but if you have none, ask someone who has for some of theirs. Bartering sounds good! 🖖👀
Bartering is one of my favorite activities!
@@FlannelFarms excellent! It feels good and makes so many people happy. 🖖👀
🙏🏻 Farmers, we got you. Let's petition the Father, He will provide. Thank you for the video Brain.
Amen to that!
Or flip a coin, same results. Good luck out there. We all need to cut back reserve and do what we need, not what we want.
My bank account said that for years growing up haha.
Stop. Let’s petition our government to stop the reliance on fossil fuels. God has nothing to do with this, we got ourselves into this mess.
We're about to enter 'great tribulation' so all bets is off. The upside, God's Son has returned and has been >> Rev.2;17,28
You'll see what its produced... need a rooster to crow first
It's.... Air.
I noticed that too but what has me more puzzled is how we can get an entire day of tropical storm soaking rain and it doesn't make the grass grow or change the color greener?
Depending on how long we've been without rain, one day might not be enough to bring it back.
is it a coincidence that there were more chem trails in the sky this spring than i have ever seen in my entire life ?
I cannot confirm nor deny my friend.
Chem trails? Well, we sure know that it has nothing to do with Global Climate Change or that we are at Solar MAX.
Is it a coincidence that climate scientist have been warning about this for more then 30 years?
@keyboardoracle1044 No no no! Blame the crazy town stuff! Stop making sense!
Solar maximum is a huge factor.
Nobody's talking about it, the sun is different this year, something with the uv rays very intense has killed some of my blueberries bushes and caused leaf curling on my apple trees, something is very wrong but have heard nothing about it in the mainstream media, maybe something to do with the pole shift, think we're all in trouble and they have us preoccupied with the election b.s.
The sun is the driver of all climate, and they aren't talking about it at all...
Yes our apple tree leaves have curled, pear leaves brown tips, no bees but plenty of squirrels.
Ugh, I hate tree rats lol..
Yea, that is so weird. This year my squash and zucchini both died prematurely, I watered it all the time and I had planted it with some beans. They just turned yellow and died, they showed no stress before they turned yellow and died. It’s so weird because in the past years squash is always what we saw the highest success with.
Cloud seeding, blocks sun always cloudy let's uv through tho, & keeps tempature hot as heat is held in cannot escape + west coast had an elnino winter so water is nearly always in high demand low supply afterwards
What does one expect to happen when most people cuss the rain every single time it comes? Its praying against the rain, its wishing for drought, its wanting high prices...uh..how about stop a year or so in advance?
Weather manipulation and it needs to be stopped
I live on a farm in Tennessee and i've noticed the plants are only half as tall as last year; and also there's not as many. Unfortunately; i foresee next year will be the same.
I was going to make a joke, but this just isn't funny.
Nature and gardening is a great humbler. It teaches you to sway with the cycles that are beyond our control and just accept them. It’s a lesson that transcends just gardening.
Agreed, and to think long term. We are an instant gratification type culture.
Yup..I watch everyday the town water the football field that no one uses..we had rain early,great start...coming out of a drought..well guess what...drought is not over..100 degrees and the forests lit up like time square on new years..we haven't had anything for a month..good start though so there should still be something..Thank s for this
Hi from Oz it has been a while very dry here in parts of Oz
Florida seems about normal in terms of rain but it has been a couple of degrees hotter (as if it isn’t hot enough down here). La Niña and El Niño really do affect the weather of the entire US I think.
Yes they do. I was born and raised in SoFla
I sorta live nearby. My established jerusalem artichoke patch grew to 9 feet tall last year without irrigation.. This year, right now, they are 2. Won't put much more on either, don't expect another foot, be blooming soon.
I'd love to hear how your harvest compares to last year.
East Coast needs more beevers, and they need to be protected. They are the single most important animal in the environment for water retention. Without beevers, desert is inevitable.
Been a struggle keeping the garden watered this year.
How much would it cost to have a well dug to secondary water , in your area ( like a aquifer)?.
12k was what we paid for ours three years ago.
The weather is really strange this year. I am in central Virginia near the Blue ridge and I have had great rainfall this year, but it comes down in buckets for a short time. But most of my neighbors haven't seen enough rain to turn lawn grass green.
I'm working on a video now that shows the corn from one field looking terrible and the corn one field over looking great. So weird.