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If you’ve ever read George Washington’s journal entries, they’re about as dry as the wheat Washington farmed at Mount Vernon. But they provide an interesting look into Washington as an early adopter (pivoting from tobacco to wheat) and a patient farmer who obsessed over timing.
In the Washington Papers, we’re transported back to July 1770, where a month of harsh June rain had beaten the straw flat, yielding but a few grains per head. Most of Washington’s crop had either perished or was too mildewed to harvest. It was, in his own words, “exeeding[ly] bad.”
But George knew where it had gone wrong, and he waited… tallying the month’s losses in his journal and reaffirming his thesis. That is, a three-week harvest should begin before the wheat is ripe, or one might risk the entire loss of one’s crop.
More than two centuries later, that is the question we’re asking in our collaboration with Stansberry’s Director of Research, Matt Weinschenk… are you too late to the harvest?
