In article <POGdndsUWrjyqofVnZ2dnUVZ_o6knZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
jbohren <dontspamjeff_bohren@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jan Flora wrote:
> > In article <GuOdnZqFQ5jBkITVnZ2dnUVZ_ovinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > jbohren <dontspamjeff_bohren@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> Bob Officer© wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:57 -0700 (PDT), in alt.culture.alaska,
> >>> jerry <GeraldCNewton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> My daughter who is married to a dairy farmer told me four weeks ago
> >>>> that they couldn't buy fertilizer for the spring planting. Now it
is
>
[...]
> >> I have a hard time believing that a dairy farmer doesn't have any
> >> fertilizer. If anything, that farmer would have a tougher time
> >> disposing of it. At least my family in Tillamook did!!
> >
> > Cow manure is good to spread on the hay fields, but unless you drill
it
> > in, the nitrogen off-g*****. We windrow-compost our cow poop, then
> > spread it, but still need commercial fertilizer to get the grass to
grow.
> >
> > There's plenty of fertilizer available, if you can afford it. We paid
> > $5250 for 15 tons of bulk 20-20-20 last year. This year, it'll cost
> > $11,490 for the same stuff. That doesn't include driving our semi to
> > Anchorage to haul it. Or putting tags on the Mack, so we can drive it
> > over-the-road. That's something like $900, just for current tags.
> >
> > Fertilizer in Alaska is cheap, because Agrium still has some urea in
the
> > warehouse. Farmers in Montana are paying $1500/ton this year.
> >
> > We may have to borrow money for fertilizer and fuel this year. In 60
> > years, this family has never borrowed money for any reason. (That
> > includes mortgages for houses. They build their own, out of pocket.)
> >
> > Jan
>
> In Tillamook, its liquified and then spread on the pastures through
> irrigation sprinklers. I also remember the good old honey wagon. In
> fact I know a bunch of kids that ran that honey wagon down the middle of
> Main Street on an August morning...
We don't irrigate on the Kachemak. It normally rains enough to grow a
hay crop. Sometimes it keeps raining during haying season and makes it
hard to put up a good quality crop.
You wouldn't have first-hand memories of the honey wagon on Main St,
would you? *smile*
Jan
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