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What's in Farm & Barn
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- The coop call (October to March): an afternoon email before single-digit nights and bitter wind chills, on the fall’s first hard freeze (time for a heated waterer), and before sudden cold snaps
- Hot, humid days for animals, by the livestock temperature-humidity index (May to September), with its own switch
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- County fairs in Massachusetts and New York only, two weeks before they open
- The blanket call: tonight’s low, wind chill, rain or ice at your barn, with the blanket weights for clipped and unclipped horses (September to May, on the afternoons the call changes)
- For bees: flight days after a cold spell, calm days to check stores, swarm season, the main spring honey flow and the fall’s last week for syrup
- Hay windows: three or more dry days in a row (May to September), when growers near you can cut and bale, and a note if rain moves in
- Hay prices every week from the two Lancaster County, PA hay auctions (New Holland on Monday, Leola on Wednesday), the nearest USDA-reported hay sales: grass, timothy, orchard grass, alfalfa and straw, per ton, in your Sunday email
- Livestock prices from USDA-reported sale barns within 100 miles (Pennsylvania and New York), in your Sunday email
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Most coop calls come December to February; the fall’s first hard freeze comes once, usually in October or November.