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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

A Viewer Writes: Buried to the axles

I do recall my father or grandfather saying, "You're going to bury it to the axles if you go there!" Well, it's happened to this poor farmer off of Rd 516 just east of Seaford today. With the beating of storms we have had, this is the last thing any farmer would want. Appears he was running a subsoiler to try to get the water to drain away somewhere. .Would be interesting to see how he's going to get the tractor out...and when....
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 12, 2018 at 7:04 AM

    Even if a field isn't underwater all the rain has made existing established crops susceptible to root rot.

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  2. AnonymousJune 12, 2018 at 7:38 AM

    I feel sorry for all the farmers out there. There is one field in front of my home that is totally under water like this picture. The corn crop is destroyed. Hopefully they can go back in when the flooding is over and fields have drained to replant. Even my yard is now like a marshland. Mosquito's are everywhere! Never had to deal with them until recently.

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  3. AnonymousJune 12, 2018 at 7:50 AM

    A real farmer would know better. He should fire the half wit employee who didn't

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  4. AnonymousJune 12, 2018 at 9:51 AM

    You can't "drain away" water from the top of the water table. That there is groundwater, not rainwater. The soil is saturated to the top of the ground, and above the ground. The farmer now has a pond, until the groundwater subsides. A lot of farmers are getting a reality check on how valuable their farmland really is. That low land isn't worth squat this year, or any year there is excess rainfall.

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  5. AnonymousJune 12, 2018 at 1:00 PM

    This reminds me of the property the new Bennett was built on. That property stayed like that until a drought came. Dry about 2 months out of the year. Has the foundation started cracking yet?

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  6. AnonymousJune 12, 2018 at 2:23 PM

    My father always said that farmers were the biggest gamblers in the world. Having to rely on the weather.

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  7. AnonymousJune 12, 2018 at 2:29 PM

    The field across from my house looks like a rice patty field

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  8. AnonymousJune 12, 2018 at 5:09 PM

    I feel bad for any farmer that has trouble...they are the salt of the earth, hard working and sometimes little return. Pray for the farmers.

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  9. AnonymousJune 13, 2018 at 10:27 AM

    I hope he had his boots on!

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  10. AnonymousJune 13, 2018 at 11:56 AM

    Tuff year for sure. Wish em luck because I sure like to eat.

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