[CSA Update] Welcome to week 3

Now you can see what the difference between a wet season vs. a dry season creates in the corn field. And I keep planting corn because it tastes like summer as a kid.

Eastern Connecticut has been declared a natural disaster as the drought grows. The last time Connecticut reached this level of drought was in October 2020. The US Secretary of Agriculture declared all of Rhode Island as a primary natural disaster area due to drought.

Corn is a common measurement to communicate the status of agriculture across the US. An acre of a corn field can yield 220 bushels and up on average. There are farms setting records in Virginia that are setting world records at 616 bushels per acre. Wallingford farms are producing 11 bushels per acre.

Hay farmers are not making a second or third cut that they would typically be making. Lack of hay affects many livestock farms that depend on high-quality, nutritious to feed their animals.

Did you find Timothy hay hard to find last year for your pets? Warm up your alternative sources for another go-around this year.