Warm weather

DeltaRed · Feb 15, 2015

While you guys 'back east' are haveing all this cold and snow,we here are haveing the warmest and driest winter EVER. Not good! No snow means short/limited irrigation supplys.The snow that is up there will comeing down early,not gradually as normal.Warm temps means all the fruit trees are budding(way too early),only to get frozen.We will be lucky to get any fruit at all.This warm weather also is not killing all the bugs either.Yesterday was 60 degrees.Folks have been plowing for 2 weeks now.Not freezeing so there will be lots of clods to work down.All the city people are saying "how wonderful" this warm dry winter is.They have no clue....We would love to have some of your cold and snow!Can you send us some?

David G · Feb 15, 2015

I think a cold winter is good for everyone, kills the invasive insects, plants and viruses.

Janicholson · Feb 15, 2015

Here in St. Cloud the cold has us in its grip. It has been pretty normal this month, but Jan was warmer (in the just freezing zone). We also are way down on water. There is some up north to supply the Mississippi (2 blocks away from our house) but local moisture is 20% of normal. Crops are mostly dry land, so the soil moisture in central MN is poor. We are hoping for a wet end to Feb and a wet March. Wishing you wetness, Jim

Ultradog MN · Feb 15, 2015

We've got plenty of cold here so you can have all of that you want. Only +5 yesterday and about +13 today.
No snow to give you though. We've had maybe 10" all winter and most of that melted down so there's only about 1 1/2" on the ground. Frost will go deep this year.

David G · Feb 15, 2015

It has been dry in East Central Iowa also, JD Seller is about 45 minutes NE of me, so interesting to hear his take.

Bob Bancroft · Feb 15, 2015

I sure would if I could.

A few years back we got one of those early warm spells. Fruit trees pushed the buds, and, true to NY weather, the buds got killed. Some of the neighbors exotic fruit trees themselves didn't live through it!

That was probably the year I actually planted oats in March. Usually we're lucky to get them planted in April. Last year first planting of anything here was May 26.

Al Baker(pumpman) · Feb 15, 2015

Just came from town. -11 here and sunny. Took pictures of fence posts with about 8 inches to 1 foot sticking out of the snow. County is using payloaders to push snow back off of roads. Dont see this every year. Would this help you out? If so you can have it. Sick of winter, sick of lake effect snow. Western Mich.

JayinNY · Feb 15, 2015

Do you plant alot of acres in oats? I could buy crimped coated oats at a local feed mill for $14.00 per 100#, the last 3 winters they said no one around here is growing oats so they don't sell them anymore. They get them brought in from some were to mix in there sweet feed, heifer, steer feed ect.

rrlund · Feb 15, 2015

We're cold and dry. Like Al,we had -11 this morning,but we haven't had enough snow to amount to spit. It's all been lake effect and we're just a little too far inland. If we had gone this long in the summer with no more precipitation than this,the year would be a total loss.

teddy52food · Feb 15, 2015

When the frost goes deep it cracks the ground & if every thing else is normal, it makes a very good corn crop.

Bob Bancroft · Feb 15, 2015

Try to get in around 100 acres. As you indicate, there's a good market for them. Plus it gives me a good place to plant wheat. Didn't get any in last year. The seed is still here waiting. Hopefully this year!

JayinNY · Feb 15, 2015

Wow 100 acres! Must be alot of bushels of oats! Lol good luck this year.

john in la · Feb 15, 2015

I learned long ago the weather you want is dependent on where you live.

You need snow for summer irrigation and a inch of snow to us is a crippling disease. With over 60 inches of rain a year we dag sure don't need the extra moisture.

I see guys complain they got 6 inches of rain in 2 days and the fields are flooding. All I can think is what would you do if you really got a heavy rain.

We can not grow most fruit trees because we do not get enough chill hours. We do have mild winters (it was 73 yesterday) but spend a day down here when it just quite raining and it is 35 degrees and most of you would want to go back home to your 0 weather. Our summers are brutal.

You plant corn early as you can so it will mature before the first frost. We plant corn as early as we can to keep all the bugs from eating it. Our plant dates for corn are 2/15 to 5/15. Wait past 3/30 and you better be spaying it and spraying it hard.

Good weather to some is devastating to others. It's all what you are use to and prepared for.

JD Seller · Feb 15, 2015

Bob what kind of yields do you get? We used to raise a lot of oats here for grain but now I usually chop them for feed. The price of oats and straw dropped. They are not competitive price wise the last 4-5 years.

We where getting 90-100 bushels per acre.
Oats are higher priced this year. In the $-5 dollar range. That might make some more acre be planted but I doubt it unless we have excellent spring planting for Oats

Anonymous-0 · Feb 15, 2015

Google the words Haarp and see what you think is causing strange weather patterns.

old · Feb 15, 2015

Here in this area of Missouri they are calling for 2-6 inches of snow over night and that will be the first real snow we have had this year. Only other real snow fall was back in Nov 16th with 4 inches

fixerupper · Feb 15, 2015

Our soil moisture profile here in my part of Northwest Iowa is fully charged but we haven't had much moisture this winter compared to what we should get. We still have six weeks till the snow chances are pretty much gone though. Temperature wise I can't say if we are normal or not this winter. We've had some wide swings in temps. There was some field tiling done a few weeks ago. Usually tiling is done for the winter by Christmas.
We haven't had any good old fashioned blizzards for at least 25 years maybe 30 so we are past due in that category.

JayinNY · Feb 15, 2015

That seems to be the problem around here, it's been so wet alot of guys can't get oats planted in the spring., I remember 10 years ago cracked corn was $8 per 100# now it's $18 per 100#! And I can't get oats! Lol

Bob Bancroft · Feb 15, 2015

Mine is not good oat ground. Fairly heavy, wet- not early ground. Only hit 100 bu. once or twice. More like 80. Demand for straw here with all the mega-dairies is incredible now. Their chopped feed is so rich/hot/wet that they're feeding wheat straw. Of course it needs to be clean and consistent. In Dec. I heard of a dairy paying $260/ton getting it long distance.

Bruce from Can. · Feb 15, 2015

-20F here this morning , and we have lots of snow cover. Probably foot and a half on the level.

Bob Bancroft · Feb 15, 2015

Something is wrong there. High corn prices have killed my market. The mill where I used to go uses half what they did. Plus the locals there who could ramped up production. Any yield was better than paying the high price. I just saw some of my paper work from 2-3 years ago where I got over $300/ton for corn. Now it's about half that.

JayinNY · Feb 15, 2015

Bob, I'm buying it in 50# bags at a local feed mill, that's prolly why it's $9.00 per 50#. If I needed enought I could get it a little less buy the ton., my friend bought a ton ground from a guy, my friend added the minerals ect, the guy ground it and let him fill it into bags, he paid $220.00 I think it was for the ton.

Mike in Mn. · Feb 15, 2015

After the nasty cold and snow/windy Winter last year we to have little to no snow and very mild temps this year. I'm thinking hot dry summer, kind of scary.

Indiana George · Feb 15, 2015

Here in NW Indiana we got about 10 to 12 inches of snow the last 2 days with blizzard conditions last night,and it got down to zero last night.

retired farmer · Feb 15, 2015

Well, come on over then. We were out trying to finish stringing wire on a new electric fence this morning and got snowed out. Started getting cold so we quit.

Badger bob · Feb 15, 2015

Fixeruper iam about 60 miles south east of you and when we do git the big ol time blizzard, they will be crying its global warming. some people have no idea what it was like in the 50,s and 60,s Bob

Brown Swiss · Feb 15, 2015

How does the cold kill a bug? Maybe I need to Google it some time!

ShadetreeRet · Feb 15, 2015

Tom, I have always heard that "theory" myself, yet I have seen little or no evidence of such. Maybe in more northern climes where it gets much colder than it does here in NC, there may be some truth to that. BUT, I believe research has shown that any insect which is considered a pest or harmful, can survive longer under more harsh conditions than "helpful" insects. The same goes for seeds. Frankly, I consider it an "old wives tale". JMHO.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 15, 2015

DeltaRed, I feel your pain. Until I found these forums and made your acquaintance, I didn't know that farmers in your area depended on irrigation for your crops. Or I should say, irrigation from lakes and rivers. I have said for a long time that schools, especially city schools, should have mandatory classes about farming. Not how to farm, but how food is grown and how it gets to the grocery store. If more people understood what the farmer has to go through, they may not say,"How nice it is to have this warm weather." They might actually say, "This is sure gonna cause problems for the poor farmers." I dare say that farming is one of the least known and least understood occupations of today.

vscummins · Feb 18, 2015

Cuss the wind that brings the rain and snow cuss the rain and snow cuz its wet and cold. but where does our water come from o thats right Walmart sells it.

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