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Wheatfarmer
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Not the best for farming, but the grass will grow an inch per day after this. Hope you have some dry fire wood.
Allan in NE
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What's it going to do to the wheat? Awfully close to first joint.
Allan
Allan
teddy52food
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Probably make it grow like hades. Snow like that has a lot of nitrogen in it.
Allan in NE
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But,
If it's jointed, will it start over?
Allan
If it's jointed, will it start over?
Allan
Dave H (MI)
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watching what you have going makes me feel a heck of a lot better about some wet ground.
If its jointed and froze, its done. Looks like you have enough snow to insulate it though, so you should be in great shape. I kinda feel sorry for the guys around here. One guy probably has 3000 acres of corn in the ground. A bit stressful to have snow and 32 degrees with that much corn laying out there.
Anonymous-0
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We had snow on our winter wheat the first part of June in the early 90's. It was already headed out when it hit. Laid it pretty flat on the ground, but it came back up. Turned out to be a pretty good crop, but about 10 miles away, they didn't have the snow, just the freezing temps, and they had lots of frost damage. Guess the snow protected ours.
Up here in the tundra of MN and spring wheat, a little snow was always good for the wheat. But our wheat would be about the size of a mowed lawn or less when it snowed on it, so we have a whole different world here. I understand older wheat can be sensitive.....
Got a couple small showers with thunderstorms so far, wife saw a couple hail last nite. I was too busy trying to make it to the shed with the tractor to notice the hail, sure was big rain drops.
No snow tho, I saw on the radar that bubble of the stuff over to the south west of me a state away.
Got the oats finished after supper last nite, was rumbling in the distance when I got done. Have a tiny field of corn planted. Wife harrowed down 50-60 acres so its ready for fertilizer when it dries back out.
Was a little disappointed I didnt get the fert on a few weeks ago, we had a tiny 1 day window at Easter. Now with all the rain, I'm glad it is not out there leaching away.
Lot of field work left to do here, we hardly got started.
No white stuff tho. Predicting it will heat up this afternoon and bring a batch of big thunder boomers. The weather guy said it could be a tiny concentrated patch that misses most people but really rips up one spot, or could stay more widespread and a lot of us get mild thunder storms.
Huh. Well that is some mystery in life to look forward to.
Paul
Got a couple small showers with thunderstorms so far, wife saw a couple hail last nite. I was too busy trying to make it to the shed with the tractor to notice the hail, sure was big rain drops.
No snow tho, I saw on the radar that bubble of the stuff over to the south west of me a state away.
Got the oats finished after supper last nite, was rumbling in the distance when I got done. Have a tiny field of corn planted. Wife harrowed down 50-60 acres so its ready for fertilizer when it dries back out.
Was a little disappointed I didnt get the fert on a few weeks ago, we had a tiny 1 day window at Easter. Now with all the rain, I'm glad it is not out there leaching away.
Lot of field work left to do here, we hardly got started.
No white stuff tho. Predicting it will heat up this afternoon and bring a batch of big thunder boomers. The weather guy said it could be a tiny concentrated patch that misses most people but really rips up one spot, or could stay more widespread and a lot of us get mild thunder storms.
Huh. Well that is some mystery in life to look forward to.
Paul
the tractor vet
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You got to be kidding me . But you did say you needed moisture . We have not even thought about trying to get in the fields yet . Barn still needs cleaned out , tractors need serviced , corn planter needs gone over , still working on fences and yes we are way behind . Get a couple days with out rain and a day or so of nice warmth then it is back to Carhartt weather and mud up to your arm pits.
That's unreal, I like to follow the weather maps and such,must have been another shot of cold air and the warm humid air from the south, always seems your area is the mixing bowl LOL! I would have to think this is beneficial, with nitrogen and moisture, the other thing is and maybe I am incorrect, but that snow will insulate if it stays, and whats accumulated on the plants, is 32 Deg F, seems you need to be under that by a few more degrees to really cause a problem, or burn the tops, which I saw in the field of hay grasses near my house, every plant is different, so....I'm betting there is a silver lining here, well positive thinking at least LOL !
Frustrating year! Here in MN too. Haven't turned a wheel for field work, have the cows out to pasture, not because there is any grass for them to eat, but rather the mud in the barnyard was knee to belly deep with another week of rain in the forecast. Almost out of hay, and the price of hay is really high right now. Aint farming fun?!
DaninKansas
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Last year about half of Kansas got a major snow storm on May 6th(?) or so. I remember covering fruit trees and waking to 4" of snow weighing them down.
I had someone (horse person) telling me that my brome hay was "too late" because it was getting cut in late June instead of late May. I had to explain to them in late May brome wasn't even headed out.
I had someone (horse person) telling me that my brome hay was "too late" because it was getting cut in late June instead of late May. I had to explain to them in late May brome wasn't even headed out.
Jimmie D. Phelps
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In 1963 in the middle of May our wheat was in the boot and it froze, about 25 degrees. Wheat looked like at harvest about 50 bu. Straw, it made 20. My uncle had pastured his wheat late and it was about 3 in. tall at the same time as ours was in the boot. Froze it back to the ground. It than stared raining and at harvest time his made 60 bu. Per ac. GO FIGURE.. This morning snow and 32 Degrees.
Wheatfarmer
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There is always that chance it will be OK. Hope the snow keeps it covered while it is a hard freeze. Then melts off and you don't have a more hard freezes. Does yours start to head out about mid-may. Mid June I would be thinking of Haying it if your not going to get enough grain from it. I think you will be OK.
ShadetreeRet
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And here in North Carolina, they are forecasting 90F for today's high!
dr sportster
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Are you kidding me ? [ note to self : never move to Nebraska]
BAnNC
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Not too many years ago, there was 48" of snow on Mt. Pisgah just up the road from here on MAY 15th!!
Allan in NE
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12:45 pm and still snowing. 10" on the level, wet heavy stuff.
Damn global warming!
Allan
Damn global warming!
Allan
Allen, Did you guys get any hail before the snow. I"m about 30 miles east of Cheyenne, we got a lot of pea-marble sized hail last night. My early planted wheat has a lot of broken stems probably about the same stage as yours. The late planted is about a month behind (thanks to all the rain lat fall) beat down pretty good. Guess we"ll see what happens.
Dave in Tx
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Know of several hundred acres in this area that got frozen in bloom and is done. 28 degrees. Burnt the leaves off of lots of mesquite trees and they say here that mesquites won't leaf out til all danger of frost is past. Not true this year.
Are you kidding? Its MAY, fer crissakes. Well, at least the naysayers have changed their mantra from "global warming" to "climate change", so they can be right, no matter what happens.
Wish I had saved the cartoon of several folks standing in a circle and barely discernible through the blizzard, spraying their spray cans into the air- and the caption said "The hearty residents of Chillblane, North Dakota do what they can to help global warming along."
Wish I had saved the cartoon of several folks standing in a circle and barely discernible through the blizzard, spraying their spray cans into the air- and the caption said "The hearty residents of Chillblane, North Dakota do what they can to help global warming along."
Allan in NE
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No, just a heck of a lot of rain until 3am and then it starts to snow.
Just talked to my neighbor who was down in Scottsbluff this afternoon. Says they didn't even get the rain.
Allan
Just talked to my neighbor who was down in Scottsbluff this afternoon. Says they didn't even get the rain.
Allan
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