Watthour
Member
With the sustained heat, humidity, rainfall, and intense sun we've had out here in the rolling pastures, growing conditions have been nearly ideal, and almost rain forest-like. Tomatoes and peppers are loving it. Beans and corn are getting all they need and not stressing. The big commercial growing concerns around the area are reaping fresh and freezing/canning harvests that need rail cars instead of wagons. I'm seeing corn that's so tall the tassels are invisible in the morning fog.
Being less than 6 miles from the paint on one of the 10,000+ foot runways handling more than 3½ billion pounds of freight a year, there is an old VOR station and microwave link just over a small rise from the acreage, set there back in the day for shooting ILS approaches.
Given this year's growing conditions and our typical A/B soil all over the region, the corn is so tall they are trying to determine how to put clearance lights on it to warn aircraft. I thought I could maybe offer them some suggestions.
Being less than 6 miles from the paint on one of the 10,000+ foot runways handling more than 3½ billion pounds of freight a year, there is an old VOR station and microwave link just over a small rise from the acreage, set there back in the day for shooting ILS approaches.
Given this year's growing conditions and our typical A/B soil all over the region, the corn is so tall they are trying to determine how to put clearance lights on it to warn aircraft. I thought I could maybe offer them some suggestions.
