Posted by sixtyninegmc on November 01, 2011 at 23:40:30 from (209.112.184.162):
In Reply to: 69GMC-Alaska posted by DeltaRed on November 01, 2011 at 07:55:35:
I love showing the place off, I really do love this state. As far as being too cool, I`ve heard people say that Fairbanks, where we live, has the widest temperature range of anywhere in the world. Don`t know if it is true or not, but I have seen -65F for two weeks, and in the summer 105F.
As far as raising hay up here, it is the best cash crop I know of up here. We were on the low end of the price range this year at $400/ton or $10/bale out of the barn, and that is normal prices for up here, not drought gouging or anything like that. Land is spendy up here though, as is fuel. Corn does not do well up here, and wheat is just starting to get experimented with, barley and oats are the main grain crops, and the market is flooded with barley because of a failed state ag project in Delta Junction in the `80s that cleared thousands of acres and bought equipment for private farms with the goal of shipping barley internationally, never happened.
We are also a good example of global warming (not really complaining) by the fact that when my dad grew up on the dairy Timothy would not grow up here, only native fescues or brome, same with wheat, now our soil temperatures have warmed up enough for timothy to thrive, and now the university experimental farm has had success with growing wheat.
I can ramble on forever about farming up here, the more I learn about farming down south, the more I enjoy doing it up here, because it is like we are several generations behind agriculture in the lower 48. There is so litte ground cleared up here, 2/3 of the hay sold up here is trucked in from Canada and the states, younger farmers like me are still buying raw ground and logging it off and opening it up and building up a farm from scratch, not moving onto a place that has been farmed for 3 or 4 generations. Not for everyone,but I sure am enjoying myself.
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