Sunny November weather may cure this season's harvest headaches

Judging from what I'm seeing for apple prices in the grocery stores - the prices need to come down. Some profit is better then no profit at all.

Does anybody know why apples are even more expensive at the orchards than they are at the grocery? I'm not talking about the waxy Washington "not so" Delicious, I mean the locally grown apples. A sack of apples, some cider and a couple caramel apples cost me over $30.00.

I'd like to have my crop rotated,and my vegtable harvested so it doesnt go to seeding

Labratt ? I hope it was Hard Cider at those prices

Is it ever a good year for farmers? The way they complain, you would think they are all starving, yet every farm I go buy has a nice new house and hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment. I don't get it...if it is such a horrible way to live, then quit and go work for the Ag Department...I'm sure they are hiring...

Hurricane Ida and this warm snap is clear evidence of global climate change. If we do nothing we will all suffer. It is time to pass cap and trade. Obama should hire the world's foremost expert on this issue, Al Gore, as a czar to direct our economy so we can save the planet.

The mid-west is the back bone of harvest crops, we should be thankfull we are in
this position to make sure the crops are getting in before winter hit's the mid-west.
It's good to see the farmers are having a bumper crop to harvest to be able to ship
harvest crops through out the world, if this wasn't possible there would be a real shortage of food to go around the world. What's amazing to see even with the bad weather that the mid-west got this summer, they were really blessed to see such a good bumper crop to harvest, they were very lucky not to get there crops destroyed
from hail this past summer, & flooded out from hard driving rains that sometimes
mother nature does dump on the farmers crops.

Incredible70 wrote:

Is it ever a good year for farmers? The way they complain, you would think they are all starving, yet every farm I go buy has a nice new house and hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment. I don't get it...if it is such a horrible way to live, then quit and go work for the Ag Department...I'm sure they are hiring...

Did you know that all farmers are buried only 1 foot deep?
Thats so they can still get their government, hand out!

Cheapshot wrote:

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Did you know that all farmers are buried only 1 foot deep?
Thats so they can still get their government, hand out!

Never badmouth farmers with your mouth full.

OK here is how to translate the article:
At first it looked liek total disaster for the farmers and their crops; which would have meant food shortages and higher prices.
But then we got lucky with the weather and almost everything is saved, to the point where we have record yeilds in many areas.
But there are problems with the harvests due to complications.
So be prepared for sharply higher prices in everything from food to propane anyway.

..."like" total disaster; sorry for the typo.

".."yields".... OK I give up for today... back to spelling class....

Labratt wrote:

Does anybody know why apples are even more expensive at the orchards than they are at the grocery? I'm not talking about the waxy Washington "not so" Delicious, I mean the locally grown apples. A sack of apples, some cider and a couple caramel apples cost me over $30.00.

Here's another question. You go into the orchard and the samples are positively delicious. You buy a bag of the same apples and they're nothing like what you tasted coming into their store. If I ever get apples at the orchard again, I'm going to want to pick them myself - fresh off the tree. I suppose they charge a lot that way too, even if you pick them yourself? I remember spending a lot at the apple orchard too. We never went back again. We've got a dwarf McIntosh apple tree that I'd like to start getting some decent apples off of and I want to plant a Honey Crisp tree as well. The apples have been falling off the tree long before they're ready because we haven't sprayed it like they say. I guess I'm a little afraid of the chemicals and haven't used any yet. This year inch worms just tore up the tree. Next year, I'm going to do everything I can to get my own.

HonestLiberal wrote:

Hurricane Ida and this warm snap is clear evidence of global climate change. If we do nothing we will all suffer. It is time to pass cap and trade. Obama should hire the world's foremost expert on this issue, Al Gore, as a czar to direct our economy so we can save the planet.

What ever happened to the term "global warming?" Using the term "climate change" is an attempt to continue deceiving the American people. Obviously you are fooled by it.

Incredible70 wrote:

Is it ever a good year for farmers? The way they complain, you would think they are all starving, yet every farm I go buy has a nice new house and hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment. I don't get it...if it is such a horrible way to live, then quit and go work for the Ag Department...I'm sure they are hiring...

Grow your own food then, don't eat any food from the greedy farmers. check back with me next spring to tell me how you're doing....if you're still kicking.

Fed up with bailing out wrote:

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Here's another question. You go into the orchard and the samples are positively delicious. You buy a bag of the same apples and they're nothing like what you tasted coming into their store. If I ever get apples at the orchard again, I'm going to want to pick them myself - fresh off the tree. I suppose they charge a lot that way too, even if you pick them yourself? I remember spending a lot at the apple orchard too. We never went back again. We've got a dwarf McIntosh apple tree that I'd like to start getting some decent apples off of and I want to plant a Honey Crisp tree as well. The apples have been falling off the tree long before they're ready because we haven't sprayed it like they say. I guess I'm a little afraid of the chemicals and haven't used any yet. This year inch worms just tore up the tree. Next year, I'm going to do everything I can to get my own.

We went to Minnesota Harvest in Jordan and got 100 pounds of cooking apples for $75. Same price if you picked them, or bought them already picked. I was shocked at the prices, to be honest. The Honeycrisp was a lot more per pound, but I think in-line with the grocery store.

I'm not an apple expert, but don't you need 2 trees at least to get fruit? I thought they needed to cross-pollinate.

Cole wrote:

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Grow your own food then, don't eat any food from the greedy farmers. check back with me next spring to tell me how you're doing....if you're still kicking.

Krist...I never said the word 'greedy', did I? I'll give you a second to read back and check...

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Ok, back? Now, if you want to understand my point, it is this:

Farmers cry every year about how tough it it. Its too wet...its too dry...low yield...high yield so low prices...etc...etc...etc. But it is pretty disingenuous when you drive a $50k truck, just bought a new combine, and live in a new house. That's all. If they can make good money at it, or if they just love doing it, more power to them. But stop whining about it...

Fed up with bailing out wrote:

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Here's another question. You go into the orchard and the samples are positively delicious. You buy a bag of the same apples and they're nothing like what you tasted coming into their store. If I ever get apples at the orchard again, I'm going to want to pick them myself - fresh off the tree. I suppose they charge a lot that way too, even if you pick them yourself? I remember spending a lot at the apple orchard too. We never went back again. We've got a dwarf McIntosh apple tree that I'd like to start getting some decent apples off of and I want to plant a Honey Crisp tree as well. The apples have been falling off the tree long before they're ready because we haven't sprayed it like they say. I guess I'm a little afraid of the chemicals and haven't used any yet. This year inch worms just tore up the tree. Next year, I'm going to do everything I can to get my own.

In late March spray some horticultural oil; then a couple of times after the flowers bloom spray some lime-sulphur spray. Pretty begnin stuff and works pretty well.

Incredible70 wrote:

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Krist...I never said the word 'greedy', did I? I'll give you a second to read back and check...
<Jeopardy music>
Ok, back? Now, if you want to understand my point, it is this:
Farmers cry every year about how tough it it. Its too wet...its too dry...low yield...high yield so low prices...etc...etc...etc. But it is pretty disingenuous when you drive a $50k truck, just bought a new combine, and live in a new house. That's all. If they can make good money at it, or if they just love doing it, more power to them. But stop whining about it...

you implied greed, pretty simple to connect the dots:

Is it ever a good year for farmers? The way they COMPLAIN, you would think they are all STARVING, yet every farm I go buy has a NICE NEW HOUSE AND THOUSANDS of dollars in equipment. I don't get it...if it is such a horrible way to live, then quit and go work for the Ag Department...I'm sure they are hiring...

Your comment that EVERY farm you go by (not buy) has a nice new house and thousands of dollars in equipment is completely false. Your comment makes it sounds like they buy a new house, new equipment and new truck every year. Most farmers have an old F150 and thousands of dollars in equipment. OF COURSE THEY WILL HAVE EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT, they NEED it. I'm sure your work doesn't have dollars worth of equipment, they have thousands of dollars worth of equipment. Like I said, if you're going to complain about farmers complaining about the weather, you start making your own food. Oh, and while you're so pious, make sure you never complain about your job to anyone you know because if those greedy farmers that buy new houses and trucks every year can't complain, neither should you! Simply put, don't bite the hand that feeds you!

I personally picked 25-Bushels of beautiful Honey Crisp apples off my orchard and never hired a single illegal alien. Who says you need illegal aliens to get the harvest in? Deport them all...No Amnesty!