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I have just about had enough cold and snow!!

J

JD Seller

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We got another 7 inches of snow last night. That is not too bad but it also is 2 degrees with 20-30 MPH winds. Snow drifting around.

Then to make it even better it is going to get 15 BELOW tonight!!! That will be record cold temperatures.

We had a pretty warm January and now February is in the ice box.

I just know there will be waterer problems in the morning.
 
Up here in the snow belt we've had almost no snow, now a very cold February. Its about 10 below now. Lots of wind, thank goodness little snow.

Its starting to show up on the water systems, the cold is seeping in deep now with lack of snow cover.

I was able to pull soil samples in the mud in January, was unusually warm in January for here.

I suppose by May we will end up 'average' from it all!

Paul
 
Its been darned cold this month here, and we got about the same amount of snow as last year, probably a little more. The temperatures have been lower this winter, and for longer periods of time, but it won't be long at all, daylight savings kicks in on 3-8-15, sun is higher now, and we have lost a lot of the snow pack from either wind erosion, evaporation and the other day it did get into the 30's and from my photos, its going away. Only days I have avoided the weather has been the really windy days or the periods when it was sub zero or just above, wind or no wind. Just knowing it won't be long at all, is a lot better than thinking back in November, you have 5 months to go.
 
Take heart, fellas.... we are only a couple of days away from MARCH!!!! Comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion.

I know, I got the saying backwards, but in reality, it is more accurate as I said it.
 
You said it like its always been said in MN? You can count on the worst weather of the year - heavy wet snow - during boys basketball tournaments here. Last week or so of March.

Paul
 
No snow in the desert, although it did get down to 50 degrees this morning. Sun will be out soon and it will warm up fast.
 
It was down to -20 here in southwest ohio this week several mornings....as long as the electric is on, we almost never have water problems. The Ritchie waterers do great, but they are in the bank barn. One of them has iced up twice now! Been a long time since that happened....
 

I have gotten asked the Question , how are
you guys still spreading manure? So I asked
you mean you can't spread with your 7130 4x4?
& the reply was heck no been stuck 3 times in
the last week.
I said to the neighbor Farmer, your using a
tandem axle spreader & it's loaded to the hilt.
We are using a single axle spreader & it's loaded
to the hilt if we wanted to.. So we are hauling
1/2 loads so we won't get stuck & tear up
equipment.. That's how we are still hauling
manure.. We have roughly 30+" on the ground
& it's drifted really deep. It's cold, it's been
cold & appears it's going to stay COLD. Are
we getting tired of it? Yes.. But it is what it
is, we do what we do, Because we are tough...
 
We only have 4 inches in the northeast corner of Iowa. Going to have to keep the steers inside tonight again. They like their cornstalk pile until 0, than they want in the barn.
 
I know how you feel, JD. So far, we seem to be okay as far as equipment and such down to -25 or so. The upper end of the barn will have some lightly frozen water cups at that temp. because the heifers don't give off the heat cows do.

-15 and windy is NASTY, though, no matter how you cut it! If the weather guesser are right we are supposed to be into the mid-30's for a day of two by the middle of next week. Gonna seem like mid-summer after a month of below zero nights.
 
I frankly don't see how you guys do it. I couldn't/wouldn't live in that climate even without cows to feed and water, equipment to keep operating, manure to spread, 20 cords of firewood to cut, split and stack, and nowhere to travel to on icy roads. That kind of cold too greatly affects quality of life---with the ever-present potential to affect life itself. Down here we're winding up two days of sleet and snow with temps in the upper 20s which shut down everything. It'll be in 70s next week and I'm ready. Yeah, July and August are challenging down here, but that's only two months, not five or six in the cold, slush and muck.

That said, thank God for folks like you who do buck up and do what it takes to keep the nation's larder stocked.
 
I think the reason we put up with the northern winters, is that it makes the summer seem so much nicer... I keep telling myself that anyway.
The stock tank has cooperated pretty well this year - I have to open a hole on the real cold mornings, but it keeps running
 
Its not too bad once you acclimate to the weather, you get breaks like today, its almost 40 here, no wind, nothing to that working outside, we get 2 months of challenging weather, in January to February, its tolerable well into December most years, though it did drop into the teens or 20's during whitetail rifle season, so it may have come a bit sooner, but the days are tolerable, its when that sun goes down, then its time to hibernate LOL !

I have almost every year made an ice rink for pick up games of hockey, used to ski quite a bit, there is a lot to enjoy on the good days and you look forward to it.

No, I do not like dealing with livestock so much in the winter, if the place is prone to problems being compounded by cold weather, that is no fun, one needs to prepare a place for winter operation, or shut down.
 
I think the news said the same thing, mild Nov, Dec, Jan and no snow. Feb is about 10 degrees below average, coldest Feb in a long. The other morning -15. More snow in Feb than the rest of the months put together.

I don't mind the snow and cold. I can always put on layers. When it hot, I can only take off so many clothes without people driving buy and pointing, especially the woman.
 
I drove to Storm Lake and back for work today, the high was 4. I was bucking the head wind on the way up and did not quite make it on what I had left for fuel, had to stop.
 
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