@@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. 😕
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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!
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.
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 ...
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. ❤❤❤
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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 live in Maine and I am a fulltime landscaper. In the last 4 years I have seen literally thousands of new giant beautiful vacation homes pop-up in my county, rich out of staters. Massive houses, visit maybe once a summer. Every one of them has 2 football fields+ of entirely empty field around them, they clearcut EVERYTHING within that radius to the ground. Left with a mansion in the middle of a field. I knew it was going to end up having some form of ecosystemic effect. They want nothing but grass, and they also keep it very short and spray pesticides and herbicides everywhere. The rich are the ones who are really destroying our Planet, but nobody wants to have that discussion apparently.
Lawns are such a waste of space. The freedom lover in me wants to say, hey, they bought the land, they can do what they want. The nature lover in me wants to put a stop to it. Tough to know where to draw the lines. Thanks for your comment my friend.
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
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!❤🙏💚
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
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 :/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
It’s called weather, it changes all the time. Just ask the woolly mammoths who died so quickly in the Arctic that they are still preserved intact in the permafrost. Now that’s fast freeze.
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.
Central, Southern Indiana here… I was surprised to see Indiana is slightly below average on the map because God’s been good to us here… our weather hasn’t been all that extreme except for the very hot patches, which just goes with summer. For the first time in recent memory, we’re in August and our grass is springtime green. 😮 Usually, by August our yard is brown and burnt.
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 .
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
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
The Point of this is the Practical & Economical Effect of these Weather Patterns ! The Practical is in Dealing with things As They Are. As for the Economical Use your own observation, knowledge, & Discression. After That Pray !
I live in Virginia Beach technically on a swamp and I can confirm I’ve never seen any of my plants or surrounding plants bloom as much as they have this summer. From my cherry blossoms trees to my rose bushes and even my tomatoes. All the maple trees have shot seeds in the thousands in spring. So take this video with a grain of what you think you been sweating.
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
Im in ohio. My garden is a disaster. 2 ft tomatoes, zuchini & squash never produced. Still just small vines varely producing flowers. Pepper plants & corn 12" tall. I've been watering them on a schedule but it doesnt seem to matter. Last year I had 8ft tall tomatoes, 6 ft tall corn, 2ft bushes for peppers, & so on. I give up. I'm keeping things alive just enough to allow what is there to just ripen & go to seed. Now it seems the cold is going to set in early so I'm scrapping everything soon and mivying on. Things really need to be better next year. I was counting on the harvest for canning. 🤷♀️
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.
I'm in southern Virginia and my sunflowers look like that, 😢. My tomatoes are small and half of them are spliting, it's terrible. My Kentucky wonders green beans grew, flowered an I got 3 beans! Terrible!
Our beans are terrible also! We planted cow Peas and nothing! Maybe one of your three beans will be a magic bean and you can raid a giants castle or something.
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.
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.
Keep in mind......we are in a magnetic pole shift. And our magnetic shield is drastically reduced allowing much more solar radiation to hit the planet. This is causing many issues around the world.
Here in NV it has been very dry but we are getting rain problem is it gets so darn hot and then so dry,its been a mess we don't grow crops just simple things like herbs and a few tomatoes and squash we have had a few but the bugs are Atrocious this yr. So we have been fighting ants. Hopefully and Prayerfuly we ask the father for help. Be Blessed
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
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?
I live in Michigan , And our crops we are having outstanding year ! Sorry for your troubles ! Realtors have said this for the past 50 years ? Location location location !!! Was there any part of that you don't understand ???
I'm glad your crops are doing well! There isn't a perfect location, everywhere has fluctuations. Our issue this year is how big the swing has been. Virginia is known historically for being a wonderful location to grow. Huge wealth was made here with the tobacco crops.
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! 🖖👀
