Another Rainy Start!
As unfortunate as it is to be writing this for the second year in a row - it looks unavoidable at this point - planting will be delayed due to rainy weather!
While the current coronavirus epidemic hasn't affected our industry and operations like most (although we currently have 10 H2A workers unable to come over from South Africa due to travel restrictions), the current rainy conditions have shut us down more than we would have ever expected! Thus far - we have covered a little over 400 acres of planting in Arkansas, but other than that - have been shut out of the fields completely!
While these rains have kept us out in the fields - we have kept plenty busy working on our headquarters, our planting setups, and scaling up our other equipment and capacity to be able to handle the 43,000 acres we will be covering as soon as the fields are dry enough to get out into them!
We hope everyone is staying safe during these crazy times - always remember to stay positive, This too shall pass!
Back to the farm!
Comments
Rebecca Collier said:
Sorry to hear about your delays. I enjoyed your Dynasty show very much. My husband was the animal scientist at a huge Longhorn ranch in Louisiana. I participated in every aspect of the ranching life…even pushed for the Longhorns to be clean-up bulls for LA farmers especially dairy farmers. I stressed ease of birthing, natural resistance to some insects, and leaner meat. I even gave steers with very long horns to friends in the country; they are such a gentle breed. I would show how gentle they were by riding a saddled one. They were such a hit. I now live in Arkansas and hope to visit your coffee and carwash in N. Little Rock soon. I grew up on a racehorse farm and miss farming and ranching every day but I am fully retired now. I taught human nutrition on the college level many years. My husband taught animal nutrition among other things. Now, he trains pleasure horses which I also enjoyed doing. We are divorced now so if you know any 75+ farmers or ranchers needing a friend, give them my email address. Love and peace to all of y’all, Rebecca