She would also like to encourage everyone to keep her in their prayers as this is the only hope she has for a full recovery. Today Journalists searching for a concise comment can count on Arlington farmer Tim Burrack who cuts to the chase quicker than Gov. Jesse Ventura, who pales in comparison. Plant in the dust and the bins will bust, Burrack quipped on Monday in the weekly phone interview for Iowa Farmer Today s last CropWatch of the 2000 growing season. But, Burrack says, the bin-busting crop didn t materialize in Fayette County. From mid-May through most of June, we were basically too wet.
Some people say it was too dry later on.
So when it got dry later on, didn t have a root system. That comment echoed across the state this year from many of the nine farmers who reported each week for IFT s fourth annual CropWatch. For most, this year was not the disaster of 1993 or 1988. But for many, it was not 1994 either, that fabled year when everything seemed to succeed and the rain didn t fall when the hay lay in swaths. In many ways, this year strikes many as confounding.