Last week’s up and down temperatures, wind and general messiness may have left many north country residents with forward thoughts of salubrious summer days.
SACKETS HARBOR â In a few hours he will be in a tractor harvesting wheat, but Ronald C. Robbins is in his office in the meantime, rattling off the latest weather in different countries.
He has become a student of world weather patterns, which proves useful in such a volatile time during which grain prices have skyrocketed to the point where some smaller farmers are leaving the industry entirely. A bushel of grain could sell for anywhere between $6 and $7 today, and it was about $3.50 a year ago.
Mr. Robbins, the head of one of the largest farms in the north country, has an explanation for factors driving the price spike.