Lunar and planetary periodicity of failure years in Finland and in Sweden

• Main Author: Tauno Mannila
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland 1980-07-01
• Series: Agricultural and Food Science
• Online Access: https://journal.fi/afs/article/view/72041

Of the 47 failure years in Finland between 1347—1929 40 % have occurred in years that correspond to the lunar period 4.9035 years. The result of a study of 77 failure years in Sweden during 1526—1772 was similar. When the positions of planets in a failure year have been repeated or the angular distances of the four giant planets have been isogonal the failure might also have been repeated. —The amount of spring wheat crop per hectare in Finland during the years 1920—1979 has been reduced in relation to the foregoing and/or the following year in years corresponding to the lunar periodicity of 4.9035 years as this scale LR—agr. has been started from a growth season during which the amount of rain has been below average. Still greater reduction of crop and frequency of 9/10 years has occurred in Finland in the years corresponding to the planetary scale P32agr., which covers the period of 5.5613 years. Scale P32agr. represents a growth season in which the temperature was below average during 61 % of the time and the amount of rain in May and in July was below average but in August exceeded the average. A meteorological scale P32 completes scale P32agr. — With the scales predictions of years could be made in which reduction of crop can be expected.