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08/20/2023 Video Revitalizing Our Food, Farms, and Soil: The Farmers Speak

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is going to make agricultural policy a top priority to turn the nation's farms around.

How will he do that? He'll start by learning from some of America's most innovative farmers — and you can join him in this learning.
Inundation. 07/12/2023 Farm Log Innundation

Ferocious storm this morning, the tornado of yesterday afternoon was just a foreshadowing. We must have gotten four inches of rain in an hour. The water level in the backyard was very close to overrunning the foundation and coming in the house.

There are still two inches of standing water...
07/09/2023 Farm Log Wild Animal Predation

Mass predation of the opuntia ficus indica crop continues unabated. I set squirrel traps last night, but nothing was in them this morning. My two sightings of a jack rabbit in the past week narryow the smoking gun response to this one culprit. I will obtain a trap large enough...
07/03/2023 Farm Log Bugs Eating my Cactus

I thought it was animals eating all my cactus, though there are rat gnaw marks on a few of them. It turns out it is grasshoppers eating most of my cactus. I'm waiting for a combination of neem oil and surfactant to spray on them, it should be here Friday....
06/28/2023 Farm Log All pads growing

According to photos sent by my wife, all pads are growing quite will, though some watering was required in past days, as it was here due to the heat wave.
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