the beans behind the big box store are in and at $305 a metric ton ( last price i saw...the trading today could push it either way ) i wonder how much of a profit/loss ratio is gong on...and on the subject of loss...
looking around i saw quite a few loose soybeans on the ground...
and any number of plant stems with pods seemingly still attached...so i stepped of approximately three feet of one row and took an census of beans..i found twenty-four in all...using michigan state um=niversity's calculator i come up with a loss of 1.6 bushels of beans per acre for farmer brown...loss is loss but in a time of depressed prices the harvester has hidden costs beyond the price of fuel and the intangibles ( and so externalized ) effects of greenhouse gasses...this is an approximation of loss...i did not have a tape rule with me for definitive exactitude...
the road to nowhere that i began commenting on in october of 2015 up to as recently as the last day of this past september has exploded in autumnal activity and it would seem that it verges on being utilitarian and fulfilling its roady destiny...why so late in the year i wonder...
while we ponder the lateness of the season let's note that some of the northern tepehuam teocintli ears in my yard have begun to open and shatter while others remain utterly green...i have begun to collect what seed i can..however...it is november and killing cold will not hold off forever...i am uncertain of how much viable seed will come from this ( these are second generation plants gown from last year's back yard seed ) and won't until i do test germinations ( and, if successful, basement teocintli again ) later in the winter...all the zea fans should stay tuned...
a final note...the wheat i planted on my birthday ( puddles' kids ) are booming along...i had to raise the light.
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