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North of London | From Ontario many of your memories sound like mine but I am not so good on the exact years.
What we suffered from most was wet weather in September and trying to pull and harvest dry edible beans.
'67 just about ended my farming career as we plowed most of the beans down.
Struggled through it and was smarter after that but plowed beans down in '77 and got little or the ones i did harvest.
Said I was not going to grow beans in any year ending in '7 but plowed beans down in '86 but they were so desperate for beans that year and the processors had figured out how to make 'white' beans that were black and brown be presentable and able to dry them that we did sell some.
'88 was the one year that I really had a drought in my farming career. That was a 50% yield at best but we usually manage to get some rain here to keep drought to a minimum impact on yield.
I also have heard many stories of the 30ies but can not repeat the year.
They had a very hot summer, maybe '36 and they had a very cold winter which split maple trees because it was so cold.
Like you a little before my time but heard the stories. | |
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Past Droughts
