Major breakdowns are never fun, or inexpensive, but when they happen this time of year they add an additional element of stress to the long list of variables that go along with farming.  This wheel shaft housing crack, along with way more than desirable rainfall will have us playing catch-up even more than usual.  The rainy stretch we have been experiencing is a double edge sword.  The blueberries, spring crops, and the Shiitake mushrooms are benifitting, but so are the weeds.  Wet soil makes it easy to hand weed the medium, and larger size weeds in the fields, but precice hoeing small weeds that are just getting a start around the vegetables is impossible because the mud sticks to the hoe heads.  We also space the vegetable rows for cultivating with our medium size tiller, but we can't till mud.