Full Moon on crop growth

I have never heard of growing crops by the moon, but when we used to castrate with a knife and dehorn we always picked 7 days before or after the full moon if I recall right. It is supposed to help reduce bleeding. Heard some old folks talk about booking surgeries like that too. Too bad the neighbor passed away a few years back, he knew all the old wives tales. Things like hoar frost gives you rain 6 months later, BS in my opinion. Sun dogs give you significant wind event in three days, this is true in my experience.

Frost and the moon are connected, same as the tides, dunno how it effects the frost but it does.

I will pick up a Farmers Almanac this year and see what it says. Where I am there is no chance of April seeding and a normal start date of around May 10 for our season is short enough already. Then like this year and the full moon is on May 26 is alittle late to start planting. It might be something to have in the back of the head though.

OK, we will do some scientific research here. If you say it will rain 90 days after a fog, we just had 3 consecutive foggy days here, one of them really foggy, so would assume that should be a heavier rain?? 90 days from now should be May first (first foggy day was January 31), so should be a 3 day rain from May 1st to the 3rd. Is my math right?

Nope, I'm holding it to you!!! lol

I remember one winter, probably 15 years ago now, we had fog every single day for close to 30 days, no kidding. Started a couple weeks before Christmas and went into the middle of January. Foggy to the point you couldn't see 100 feet, hydro crews were out almost every day and often 24 hours a day rolling lines. It was very mild, frost build up was crazy on everything, trees took a beating. It was eerily calm and quite out, never a breath of wind and the fog must have muffled any noise, it was getting depressing though going that long without seeing the sun. Of course I had grain to haul, so on some of the better days, I would haul a load, and was heading east with it all, would go maybe 10 miles and come out of the fog into clear sunny skies! Oh the joys of living where I do! Get to my destination, dump, head home and as I would get close to home I could look up and see the Riding Mountain area all closed in with fog, drive the last 10 miles home at 20 MPH. I remember the next crop year was brutally wet. I wonder if there is a connection.

I think there is something to this. I know late winter 2010 was super foggy and that summer was epic wet, also way back to spring of 1999 showed that pattern and a couple other years as well. I'm picking some extreme examples but my agronomist marks all this stuff on his calendar and feels it has merit. Not an exact science and sometimes fog can be more prevalent in an area and 40 miles away nothing. 

I personally think some of this is seasonal tendencies but the extreme examples I cited were of that pattern but not seasonal.

Never heard of the moon thing though. Early crops used to be the best around here to beat disease and heat, but in my career the best crops have been May planted crops that got a quick start and no frost. I go by the calendar now unless conditions dictate otherwise.