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* Buying thousands of plastic bottles to protect EACH seed [https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/991748111109210112]
 
* Buying thousands of plastic bottles to protect EACH seed [https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/991748111109210112]
 
* Snowtill:  tilling the snow to decrease albedo, so that sun can more effectively melt the snow, so we can start planting! [http://www.iceagefarmer.com/2018/04/27/snowtill-coldest-since-1895-planting-on-hold-farmers-miserable/]
 
* Snowtill:  tilling the snow to decrease albedo, so that sun can more effectively melt the snow, so we can start planting! [http://www.iceagefarmer.com/2018/04/27/snowtill-coldest-since-1895-planting-on-hold-farmers-miserable/]
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* [http://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/apple-tree-netting-protects-north-country-crops/article_8bf157e8-daaf-586b-9d21-c0ba00b29d8a.html Hail nets around each tree in orchard]

Revision as of 13:37, 5 July 2018

Some of the measures farmers are taking to stave off the effects of the GSM include:

  • Lighting MANY fires in orchards to keep the ambient temperatures up [1][2]
  • hiring helicopters to hover above fields, pushing down the warm air [3]
  • Buying thousands of plastic bottles to protect EACH seed [4]
  • Snowtill: tilling the snow to decrease albedo, so that sun can more effectively melt the snow, so we can start planting! [5]
  • Hail nets around each tree in orchard