I hope you had a great time with your families over the holidays. We sure did. We celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas because it takes about that long to get up to the Bay Area to see Sheryl's family and then down to San Diego to visit my family.
We all appreciate the rainfall this last month. That will give us some water to farm with next summer. Of course it takes about 125% normal rainfall for us to get a 75% supply. If you think I am kidding look back to 2006. Those were the numbers.
While the rainfall was nice, the wind is not such a good thing. The picture above are some of the 18 year old trees that went down in the wind last week. The ground was soft from all the rain and when the wind hit, that was it.
You can also see that the berms have gotten a little weedy. I would like to spray the weeds, but we have to get the brush out from the pruning. To get the brush out the ground has to dry out some more. We'll get it all done. It just might take a while longer.
While the almonds didn't like the wet and windy weather, the wheat is doing quite well. In fact, the rain got the last of the wheat germinated and the fields look great with bright green wheat seedlings on a sunny afternoon.
We are getting back in the field. We'll finish pruning in a few weeks. Then we will prepare two fields to put new almond trees in to next month, weather permitting. We are also pre-irrigating fields for next summer's cotton
There is always something to do on the farm.
I hope y'all have a great week.
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