Global Warming - Isn't. We are getting colder.

And why - really isn't due to anything Gore had in his fictional fear work.




25 Jul 2009
Kingston Whig-Standard
MICHAEL WOODS mwoods@thewhig.com

Farmers feel the heat — or lack thereof

Unseasonably cool temperatures are affecting the agriculture sector’s financial picture
With this July almost four degrees colder than the average, farmers are feeling a pinch on their bottom line, says one Battersea dairy farmer.

“We’re unable to make any dry hay at all,” Ron Sleeth said. “We have to either put it all in the silo or wrap it and bale it with plastic ... and that’s a very expensive way to handle it.
“It’s more than the hay is actually worth.”

Sleeth figures he’s about three weeks behind schedule in gathering hay. The first cut would typically be stored by the first week of July or so. Instead, he’s scrambling to collect the first and second cuts of hay at the same time.

“The nutrient value of the hay goes down so dramatically that you have to buy protein supplement,” he said.

“We milk about 30 cows, and it probably will be somewhere in the order of $20,000 difference in what we have to buy versus other years.”

It’s a strange phenomenon, he said.

“I’ve farmed all my life, and I really don’t remember two years as significantly different as far as moisture and as cool as it’s been.”

Corn and soy beans are doing amazingly well, Sleeth said. He added he hopes the weather warms up, since it’s the heat that causes the crops to grow.

“ Last year, we had sunshine and heat, in between rains,” he said. “But this year there’s virtually no sunshine.

“ Last year was bad enough, but this year is even worse.”

According to Dave Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada in Toronto, farmers are desperate for the heat and humidity typical of Ontario summers.



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