Sturgeon Farmland News

March, 1998 THE LATEST SCOOP ON YOUR FARMLAND Volume 10, Number 1

No Wheat This Year

El Niņo did its best to keep our tennant from planting his wheat this past winter, and that was good enough. Our tennant has decided to plant sorghum instead. This cereal crop, also called milo, is used for poultry feed. It is a good rotation crop and it uses less water than corn (maize to you Brits).

Cold, Wet Weather

This winter's cold, wet weather is continuing on into the spring. Our tenant has his fields ready to plant cotton, both short staple Acala cotton and long staple Pima cotton. The planting date for Pima cotton is much more critical than for Acala cotton. While Acala can be successfully planted in May, Pima should be planted in April. Pima planted in early April produces better than Pima cotton planted in late April. So, if the currently wet and cold weather continues well into April, our tenant must change his cotton planting plans away from Pima to all Acala cotton.

Insane Tenant?

We have no particularly interesting news about our farmland this quarter, but we do have evidence in hand indicating that our tenant may be slightly insane. This photograph was taken by our tenant while on a flight in a Cessna 182 over the Sierra Nevada Mountains between Los Banos, California and Minden, Nevada during a storm on April 11, 1995. The pilot and owner of the airplane, Corky Sherwood, is obviously crazier than our tenant, as he should have known better!

Robert Sturgeon
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