Texas freeze

[glasshouse]

Is this affecting the wheat crop?

 

[mwj]

Probably not having much effect. It could help from the extra moisture from melting snow cover.

 

[Cowcalf]

BE VERY HARD ON THE TYPE OF CATTLE ESPECIALLY THE ONES WITH LITTLE SHELTER

 

[Devil's advocate]

BE VERY HARD ON THE TYPE OF CATTLE ESPECIALLY THE ONES WITH LITTLE SHELTER

Exactly what I was thinking.

Very sad for ranchers & farmers, just like the fires in Australlia last year.

But look at the price of lamb now. I mostly regret the loss of life though & the devastation of wildlife.

I do hope world wide weather settles down a bit.

 

[Captain Slack]

Exactly what I was thinking.

Very sad for ranchers & farmers, just like the fires in Australlia last year.

But look at the price of lamb now. I mostly regret the loss of life though & the devastation of wildlife.

I do hope world wide weather settles down a bit.

The weather will likely get worse, chuck in a big volcano or two and it will get interesting, don't think it has much to do with Co2

 

[wanton dwarf]

Exactly what I was thinking.

Very sad for ranchers & farmers, just like the fires in Australlia last year.

But look at the price of lamb now. I mostly regret the loss of life though & the devastation of wildlife.

I do hope world wide weather settles down a bit.

Wind direction just a little bit more important than CO2 and CH4.

In fact wind direction can give a change of over 30 degrees whereas the two above do literally nothing at all.

But LOTS of people subscribing to the CO2 faith .. just ask for proof CO2 causes warming, despite not having any evidence plenty of people lining themselves up to take punishment.

 

[DrDunc]

Exactly what I was thinking.

Very sad for ranchers & farmers, just like the fires in Australlia last year.

But look at the price of lamb now. I mostly regret the loss of life though & the devastation of wildlife.

I do hope world wide weather settles down a bit.

Isn't the lamb price more to do with the complete destruction of the Chinese pork industry after they slaughtered millions to stop swine fever?

 

[Chae1]

Isn't the lamb price more to do with the complete destruction of the Chinese pork industry after they slaughtered millions to stop swine fever?

I thought it was to do with Brexit!

 

[DrDunc]

I thought it was to do with Brexit!

Hadn't realised brexit had such an effect upon the worldwide price.....

Most definitely Covid related then

 

[czechmate]

I thought it was to do with Brexit!

I don’t have sheep but all my neighbours that do have had big smiles for a number of months now. Whereas beef goes down and down

 

[fgc325j]

Isn't the lamb price more to do with the complete destruction of the Chinese pork industry after they slaughtered millions to stop swine fever?

That's my understanding, based on reports from our Aussie posters stating that lamb prices are at record levels over there. So we can only
assume that since no lamb is coming to the uk, then there is a shortage in the uk. = prices go up!

 

[Devil's advocate]

Isn't the lamb price more to do with the complete destruction of the Chinese pork industry after they slaughtered millions to stop swine fever?

So why is there no market for 100,000 pigs sat on British farms?

Why are there so few australlian lambs to sell, maybe something to do with droughts & fires.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Wind direction just a little bit more important than CO2 and CH4.

In fact wind direction can give a change of over 30 degrees whereas the two above do literally nothing at all.

But LOTS of people subscribing to the CO2 faith .. just ask for proof CO2 causes warming, despite not having any evidence plenty of people lining themselves up to take punishment.

Where in my post did I mention CO2

Although most science would suggest wind direction is affected by global warming & a lowering salt content of the oceans.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Anyway back on a round globe & down to earth.

Diseal engines waxing & cracked sprayer pumps will be a new issue for Texas farmers. I know they get frost, just not so much.
poor huggers i feel their pain

 

[czechmate]

Anyway back on a round globe & down to earth.

Diseal engines waxing & cracked sprayer pumps will be a new issue for Texas farmers. I know they get frost, just not so much.
poor huggers i feel their pain

It’s alright for the rich ones that can fly off to a luxury resort in Mexico (during a pandemic !)

 

[wanton dwarf]

Where in my post did I mention CO2

Although most science would suggest wind direction is affected by global warming & a lowering salt content of the oceans.

I was implied by your comment about worldwide weather.

Salt content of Oceans will rise and fall with each Ice Age .. we are currently coming out of the last Ice Age, in fact for about 25,000 years the temperature has been increasing and the oceans rising. Who would have thunk it ?

And it's happen time after time after time .. will also mean both Ice Caps will melt, just as they have before. In fact the Earth doesn't normally have Ice Caps.

 

[Roger Perry]

It’s alright for the rich ones that can fly off to a luxury resort in Mexico (during a pandemic !)

Lots' of people flying down to Cancun right now, America is not in extreme lock down, predicting "herd" immunity by May, vaccinations running close to 2 million per day we are told. Out of the large metro areas life is largely back to (almost) normal.

 

[Wellytrack]

The irony of Ted Cruz taking himself his wife and his family of to Mexico for a better life..

 

[Chae1]

I don’t have sheep but all my neighbours that do have had big smiles for a number of months now. Whereas beef goes down and down

Beef prices haven't really dropped here. Somebody must be expecting them to rise given current store prices.

 

[Timbo]

Beef prices haven't really dropped here. Somebody must be expecting them to rise given current store prices.

Dont count on it.