• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    It also never seemed to matter if the predictions worked, were accurate or even came to be … it was just another farmer thing … a farmer thing to talk about it. Everyone I knew who read it or referenced it, either swore by it or said it was no good … and those same people would turn around and say the opposite the next time.

    The best part of it all was just that it was there and always there.

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      9 hours ago

      I often looked at their planting tables and long term forecasts, but I’ve never seen any retrospective analysis of their accuracy.