On 8/6/20 11:07 PM, micky wrote:
How come Georgia is going back to school so early. I thought it was a
farming state, and they didn't go back until after the harvest.

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Farmers are using combines now that cost maybe $700,000 or so
instead of horses and mules. I'm in my 60s and school was always
starting around Labor Day or so. Harvest in my area started mid October
or so depending on weather.
Planting season for corn starts in early April with soybeans
following. Winter wheat sowing starts in mid September if my memory is
working. Harvest for it would be late July. Grain sorghum (milo) is
planted in the spring and harvested in the fall. It's mainly a dryland
crop.
School has to start earlier than when I was growing up since kids
aren't nearly as smart now as my generation is/was.