On 12/8/02 1:12 AM, in article , "Oz"
wrote:

Dean Hoffman writes

I like your idea of growing the drug producing corn plants somewhere
else besides the Corn Belt. The yields might be less but who would care? We
get tornadoes and some pretty strong straight winds in eastern Nebraska. I
don't know how it would be possible to completely eliminate cross
pollination.

Do tornadoes occur before the end of tasselling?


I live a few hundred miles north of Gordon so spring arrives a little
later here. Nebraska usually gets the most frequent and violent storms from
about April 1 to about June 15. Warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico
collides with cold air from Canada and can release a lot of energy. Corn
tasselling usually starts around July 4 in my area. That's a big holiday in
the U.S. you know. That holiday has something to do with an ill tempered
king from the 1770's.
We do get some fairly strong straight winds at times. The worst one was
in late July/early August of 1993. There were sustained winds in excess of
100 mph. These, like tornadoes, seem to come out of nowhere. Weather
alerts are getting better, thanks to the tornado chasers Gordon works with.
The latest occurring tornado I remember was, I think, in October of 2001.
It was just before harvest and caused a lot of damage. Corn harvest was
really tough as the corn plants were broken off below the ear. Some of the
ears were sucked right out of the husks and went somewhere. The farmers
combined as much as possible, then turned cattle in the fields to clean up.
Tornadoes can also result from hurricanes. The people along the Gulf
Coast and eastern seaboard can get hit really hard.
The strongest tornado I heard about was in Texas. It hit an area where
there were no basements. The soil was too rocky. News accounts said the
tornado ripped up a blacktop road.

Dean







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