@evan Yup. Sudden weather can have terrible consequences - especially a hard rain near harvest. It’s happened! We’ve always gotten through it somehow.

I can get crop insurance now, but it’s calculated per acre and not worth it for the kind of small acerage intensive farming I do.

@evan one year the goats somehow managed to open a gate (I still don’t know how) and got into the hemp rows and ate about 30 plants in a few minutes. It was a disaster.

Luckily it was early in the season and some friends at another farm helped me out by giving me some starts. Those plants were about 2 weeks behind, so they were smaller, but it saved my butt.