Awful weather continues...
Aug 18th 2002 | 8:27 am
#16
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Re: Awful weather continues...
Originally posted by Siena:
"newstartnz" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Originally posted by Judith:
> >
> > Wait til you see what wine and olive oil cost this year.
> >
> Garbage. This year is a great year for grape and olive crops.
Tell that to the people in the south who lost most of their olives to the drought and
the heavy winds we had. Tell it also to the people in the north who lost both crops
(there will probably be no franciacorta at all as the
1.5 pound hailstorms obliterated the vines). There are some $50 million dollars
worth or agricultural damage to Italian crops because of the past month. The grapes
in Tuscany so far are okay but who knows what will happen next.
Cristina in Siena
"newstartnz" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Originally posted by Judith:
> >
> > Wait til you see what wine and olive oil cost this year.
> >
> Garbage. This year is a great year for grape and olive crops.
Tell that to the people in the south who lost most of their olives to the drought and
the heavy winds we had. Tell it also to the people in the north who lost both crops
(there will probably be no franciacorta at all as the
1.5 pound hailstorms obliterated the vines). There are some $50 million dollars
worth or agricultural damage to Italian crops because of the past month. The grapes
in Tuscany so far are okay but who knows what will happen next.
Cristina in Siena
At least the farmers are happy to be making so much money in such a good year for grape and olives.
Aug 20th 2002 | 9:44 am
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Re: Awful weather continues...
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:27:08 +0000, newstartnz <[email protected]> wrote:
>You can't have it both ways I guess!
>At least the farmers are happy to be making so much money in such a good year for
>grape and olives.
This doesn't sound like a farmer speaking. In a good year there's plenty, so the
prices go down. In a bad year there's little, the prices go up but there's not much
to sell and get rich from.
Maybe it's different with wine and olives, but I know it well with fruit and
vegetables.
And the farmers I work with in our village farmers association are never happy
anyway. Either they don't earn enough for a living, or they earn well and complain
about the taxes.
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Rachel
>You can't have it both ways I guess!
>At least the farmers are happy to be making so much money in such a good year for
>grape and olives.
This doesn't sound like a farmer speaking. In a good year there's plenty, so the
prices go down. In a bad year there's little, the prices go up but there's not much
to sell and get rich from.
Maybe it's different with wine and olives, but I know it well with fruit and
vegetables.
And the farmers I work with in our village farmers association are never happy
anyway. Either they don't earn enough for a living, or they earn well and complain
about the taxes.
__
Rachel
Aug 20th 2002 | 9:48 am
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Re: Awful weather continues...
rachel cohen <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> And the farmers I work with in our village farmers association are never happy
> anyway. Either they don't earn enough for a living, or they earn well and complain
> about the taxes.
This is the essence of farming the world over. consistency is good, or then
again, is it?
> __
> Rachel
> And the farmers I work with in our village farmers association are never happy
> anyway. Either they don't earn enough for a living, or they earn well and complain
> about the taxes.
This is the essence of farming the world over. consistency is good, or then
again, is it?
> __
> Rachel
