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[CrealCritter]

Yep, they evacuated to their family a little farther away.

Awesome

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[CrealCritter]

Doesn't affect my use. Here, it's natural fertilizers. The mares plop wherever they like, the stallion makes a nice pile in just a couple areas, the goats have spinners installed I believe! They drop pellets every where. 60 chickens free range, scratch things up and add more. The barns/sheds/coops get cleaned for the garden. Haven't bought fertilizer in years.

BUT prices have doubled and tripled for commercial fertilizer sales lately. Crop farmers are feeling it big time.

It's a sad state of affairs then, if fertilizer prices have increased.

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[CrealCritter]

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[Trying2keepitReal]

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We are within pennies of those numbers.

 

[farmerjan]

Funny, our regular gas is in the 3.29-3.35 range but Diesel runs from 4.15 here at the pilot to 3.69 at a local station...

 

[flowerbug]

The fire is going to affect some of the fertilizer supply. Since it is gone sky high in price, the general discussion is unless it is a crop farm, many/most are cutting back or not going to apply commercial fertilizer. Poultry litter has always been available in this area and my DS called the 2 guys we get it from to make sure we are on the list as usual. We will be getting our usual amount BUT it has gone up too.... We get about 400 ton a year to put on pastures and hay fields and the little bit of corn we grow. We usually only grow corn in a crop rotation to renovate some hayfields. We do use some herbicides in order to kill the johnson grass because the horse hay customers do not want johnson grass in their hay. It is very invasive and will crowd out/smother the orchard grass. There is also some concern if it gets drought stressed or frosted, with the prussic acid produced, that it can make sick or kill an animal. So we will plant corn for 2-3 years and kill everything in the field before planting to try to stop the johnson grass taking over.

all grasses can be tough to control. those seeds can be moved around very easily by birds, but also just on any equipment you use to plow, any bits of remaining dirt on the machine/tires can spread the seeds.

 

[Medicine Woman]

So I hope it’s okay to use this thread to discuss this….like I keep hearing that March 1st the truckers are protesting and heading to Washington DC. I was thinking it’s about buy American but I was told something else but I can’t confirm that either so I truly have no idea what they protesting but supposedly we are all warned to make preparations for this shutdown. Can’t possibly be worse than Ida. I decided to come here and see if everyone is on board and making preparations.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Lovely

 

[tortoise]

So I hope it’s okay to use this thread to discuss this….like I keep hearing that March 1st the truckers are protesting and heading to Washington DC. I was thinking it’s about buy American but I was told something else but I can’t confirm that either so I truly have no idea what they protesting but supposedly we are all warned to make preparations for this shutdown. Can’t possibly be worse than Ida. I decided to come here and see if everyone is on board and making preparations.

It's about vaccine mandates for crossing borders. There's a Canadian trucker protest that has been blocking bridge(s) on the border. I believe the last bridge was cleared today. The USA trucker convoy protest PLAN is also apparently about vaccine mandates for truck drivers.

I don't expect anything more than the regular supply chain hiccups. It's a big country, there are a lot of roads. If I lived in a city I might be more concerned?

 

[Medicine Woman]

I was told that. I don’t know. I mean all I can see is them inconveniencing the unprepared. I wish them luck and all but really my protest will have a bigger impact. I am an unvaccinated nurse who is fixing on taking a bridge tender position rather than accept the vaccine