Holy Cow!

Have we got onions! I pulled 4 rows 2 days ago and loaded them tonight. It took 1 1/2 hayracks with a single layer....and I have 18 more rows to pull! I think 75% of them weigh close to 2#, 20% are larger than that . Every year they seem to get bigger. This year is going to be a real challenge to move them all....we grow yellow and red candies and white super stars. Probably have to move some tractors out of the shed to make room for drying them again.....

Herb(GA) wrote: Those Candy onions are our favorite.  Started buying them approx ten years ago from a vegetable farmer that sold produce at Portland, IN August show. Forty pounds would last until Christmas; seldom lost over a couple onions.  And they taste as good as vidalias.  Have never seen a double-deck hayrack; probably not worth the time and material?  Have only seen the normal onion color; what is benefit of the other color?   Herb

I don't know Herb, but people like different colors! I am down to about 1000# left to pull....I have 4 hay racks full under cover and 5 double decker apple bins full so far.  We have probably sold over 1500# fresh. This week we sold 400# for $40/100, otherwise we have been getting a dollar a pound. It's nice to get the field cleared and the weeds tilled under!

singingpig wrote: $40/100lbs is good money. Y

Yup, all veggies are bringing good money this year.  Gross income is up 44% over last year at this time....and that was a good year.

Horrible year for me here in MI. Too dry early. Fighting disease now. Oh well.

singingpig wrote: Glock, I feel bad for you and everyone fighting the drought and heat.  I understand the feeling of watching all of your cashflow dry up

I grew up in an area with a 10 year drought in South Dakota.....so I know your dilemma. I feel I am on top of the world here in Spokane living 60 feet above one of the biggest underground aquifers in the USA. We need heat...which we have plenty of right now.

We're pretty well set for water out here. I have a 720 gpm well with 40hp submersible pump that cranks out 400gpm at 120 psi, and 2,000 feet of 5inch buried mainline  and  a row of risers running N-S and another running E-W. I can water a several acres in one set.

How is everyones Squash and Pumpkins doing? Mine are sick. Started with downey mildew. Got that under control now they are just turning yellow and dying. Daconil helps but it isn't enough. I may try and retire this field for a couple years from vine crops.

Eldon (WA) wrote: One grower here wanted to use her water rights...so she got a well permit and dug a well.  It costs her $200 a month to pump the water....I get my 10 million gallons delivered at 80 psi for $375 a  year thru the water company....no pumps, problems or big electric bills! I have never gone over what I have needed in the 6 years I have been growing veggies. Fortunately they cater to the farmers around here.

Edited by singingpig - 09 Aug 2012 at 12:24pm