Weather spikes or Climate Changes speaks out.

The corn was up nicely. At the very stage where deer like to browse it,and thereby totally destroy it in the process yet they had paid no visits.

Here is how the weather can play havoc with corn either in the garden or in the field.

Its came a hard fast slashing rain yesterday afternoon. That quickly turned the soil to mush at the top 2 or so inches. Then came very high shifting winds. The winds just blew the corn to the ground.

Already a lot of almost mature wheat had been blown down in some areas in my region, creating what many would say were crop circles yet it was just the effects of wind in circular patterns or whatever the wind preferred to do as it hit the topography of the fields. When it does this the wheat stays down. It does not recover.

This was not widespread as I observed but yesterdays high winds were likely broader in coverage. The corn in the fields is at this stage of not having enough roots(nodal) to be able to withstand the winds.

I have not surveyed the fields to see what happened as yet. This was what happened to me and there was a barn that prevented some damage. In the fields with no wind breaks it could be bad.

So cut down the trees along your fields. Let the wind come thru like a wailing banshee and see what it does to your crops. Its called 'Conservation Trees' or was but now that program seemed to not exist anymore for googles show no revelant hits.

Out in the ag lands this is what IMO climate change is all about. Sure the weather is changeable as one posted on a drumbeat the other day. Sure you can't predict it......
..BUT if you get this spiking weather in rain,wind and moisture and you used to be able to win most of the time but now it is worse...then what do you call it? Ohhh just variability....years of experiences by farmers show that at least much can be depended on as far as the way weather normally occurs and how to plan around that.

With what I have seen its changed in its variability. If you live in a ivory tower and make prognostications based on some wireless weather instrument then you are not seeing the whole picture. If you live in an area like Georgia and your in a loooonnnggg drought and suddenly get 4 inches in an hour...it doesn't help much YET the averages all say something else.

Averages don't mean much in this venue.

I also recall harvest of last fall when the rain and wind knocked the field corn to the ground and most just simply could not combine it. It was one huge mess. Tractors stuck,very dirty corn, most corn unsalvagable.

Airdale-topic was not about gardening..its about weather