Typical Spring News

The weather has been warm and dry, leading our tenant to hope for an early and successful cotton planting season. As usual, he intends to plant Pima cotton if possible. The wheat is growing nicely. The previously high wheat prices have decreased somewhat, but our tenant still has hopes for a successful wheat crop. Of course, even a successful wheat crop is a money losing proposition. Wheat is, however, an excellent rotation crop for maintaining the health of the land for cotton farming.

Wheat in March	Cotton Field Ready for Planting

As the attentive will undoubtedly notice, the above pictures look just about exactly like every picture of wheat and cotton land taken on our land in March, of every year. Well, we have to put something in here.

Disturbing New Development

Our tenant has been plagued lately by outcroppings of some sort of yellowish rock, apparently deposited by geological processes thousands of years ago in the ancient Ortigalita Creek streambed. This rock is very dense, malleable, and does not appear to be subject to the usual weathering effects we find on most rocks. Whatever it is, our tenant has already hauled off 792 pounds of it, with no end in sight for the ongoing interruptions to his farming operations. This is extremely serious. There's just no telling how much of a problem it will be. A small sample is shown near a 10" plastic irrigation pipe, clearly showing how big the individual pieces are.

Robert Sturgeon
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