Sweet Sorghum, days-to-harvest, weight-lifting standards

Bulk Sweet Sorghum seeds

Available as Treated Seeds HERE and as Untreated HERE.

Prices are $10/lb for untreated and $12/lb for treated. Della is probably a solid choice south of the Ohio River. Sugar Drip and Mennonite are probably solid choices for farther north.

A pound is a lot of seed. You can share with your friends and like-minded neighbors.

If you don't want to boil it down for syrup and if you have large containers then it can be fermented and distilled into "rum" or tractor fuel.

Days to harvest

Full-Season Sweet Corn: 75-80 days from 65F soil temp date (Bodacious, Iochief)

"Field" Corn: 100 days (dry-down time extra)

Early Potatoes: 65-80 days (Dark Red Norland, Yukon Gold)

Mid-season Potatoes:   (Kennebec)

Late Potatoes: +100 days(Red Pontiac, Russet Burbank)

Storage and Winter Cabbage: 100-120 days from transplant (seed planted May 15)

Turnips, greens: 30 days

Turnips, roots: 60-90 days planted August 1

Carrots: 75 days

Back-to-farm Holstein bull-calf: 660 days (22 months) when most feed is from pasture

Meat chickens: 42-60 days

This data is not written in stone. It is for planning purposes.

Weight Lifting "Standards"

Lon Kilgore Strength Standards  Placed here for future reference.  Suggested by Anon on November 26.

Physically Active – A person who exercises or plays a sport(s) at least three times a week for more than 45 continuous minutes each session. No goal or programming of exercise need be apparent. Activities done during work hours and household chores are not relevant to this definition (neither are accumulated steps, i.e. step counting).

Beginner – A person who has begun weight training at least three times per week, has learned basic lifting mechanics, and is following a defined program to achieve a defined strength goal for at least four weeks. This group of trainees are able to adapt to small to moderate increases in intensity (more weight) or volume (repetitions and sets) in every training session.

Intermediate – A person who has continued to train with weights according to a program intending to achieve a defined strength goal for at least six to eighteen months. This group can no longer adapt to daily increases in loading (intensity or volume) but do adapt to small weekly increases in intensity or volume.

These are not “norms” which are reflections of what the average human is currently doing (remember that nearly 75% of all humans do not meet the low
recommended public health guidelines for being physically active, and that only about one in ten persons exercise enough to gain fitness). These are “standards” which are reasonable expectations of human performance capability at each level of training progression, from simply being physically active (my definition below) up to elite performance.

Using Kilgore's Copyrighted data and definitions, a man in his sixties between the weight of 150lbs-and-225lbs or a woman in her sixties between the weight of 125lbs-and-175lbs who uses proper techniques can be reasonably expected to single-rep max lift this percentage of their body-weight: 

Data extracted from data-tables and converted to percent-of-body-weight by ERJ

These are not guarantees. Consult with your doctor before using these standards. Many people in my age-group have underlying conditions that make this kind of work-out a non-starter (osteoporosis, bad back, family history of aneurysms and so on.)