On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:00:40 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Jul 1, 6:08*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:20:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Jul 1, 5:47*am, wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:19:32 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
With so much going on family wise (good stuff), and some lighthouse
keeping, taking up too much of the Spring, Last week I finally got to
fish my new place in SE Washington. Camping with the Mrses and dog,
learning more about alfalfa, pumps, bales, reacquainting with the
smell of pigs, and observing the place made for a busy week. Happiness
in the Pa loose is $8 + a bushel soft wheat, wind turbines, and $200 a
ton first cut alfalfa (we called it luccerne in Utah).

I fished every day, finding the basic holes, riffles and runs for its
half mile, getting realistic about where more shade planting should
go, sampling the bugs, and just feeling the place, the people, the
stock and the area. Lots of wildlife; deer, turkey, quail, hawks,
heron, beaver, coyote, duck.

I closed out each day at the biggest hole where the river bangs into a
rock face sideways and on into a pool about the size of a small city
lot. My best fish was an 18 inch bright "Rainbow,'' caught on a Coal
Train, steelhead fly. Most others were smallish Cutthroat, caught thru
out the day, mostly from shaded side, pocket holes and grassy bank
runs. Half on nymphs. The wife caught our first trout on the place, a
12 inch "Rainbow." (I'm thinking that these fish have got to have some
steelie genetics in them because they fight and take like steelhead.)

Dave

Sounds nice.

...and I'm glad you didn't have to mess with the Zohan...

TC,
R
PS - while the turbines are a good thing, the wheat and hay prices may
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Why?
Dave

Zee.
R- Hide quoted text -

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I am serious; why are higher wheat and alfalfa prices "not as great as
one might think", or a bad thing (especially after years of $3+ for
soft white wheat)? I want to see farmers succeed, pay off debt, buy
new equipment etc..

Because while those prices are up, so are all others. If you're a
farmer, you know $4.00USD gal red diesel takes a lot out of $8.00 wheat
and $200.00 alfalfa, not to mention what the price of everything else,
from your kid's shoes to the meat your family eats, even if you raise
your own. Most large-volume commoditized products are affected by and
affect others and among the few factors that can truly "control" them (
to the extent of temporary volatile large swings) is the entrance of
VERY large non-possession-taking long buy-and-holders in no way
affiliated with the underlying market, and usually against the interests
of the underlying market. That's why I laugh when I hear people say
that "oil companies" are responsible for _high_ oil prices (ignoring the
lows) and "speculators" aren't.

TC,
R

Dave