Gonna be a cold rainy one

Richard G. · Jan 31, 2020

It started raining a little bit ago and I went out and parked the 8N under the shed.
There were little snow flakes falling on me and it its not going to warm up but a few degrees.
Richard in NW SC

Richard G. · Jan 31, 2020

Just looked out and big flakes are falling.
Richard

grandpa Love · Jan 31, 2020

Please keep it up there! We may get a little bit of rain today......but not much

fixerupper · Jan 31, 2020

Up here in northwest Iowa we do not have rain or snow coming down, but what we do have is white. Yes, just plain white. The ground is white, the trees are white with hoar frost and the air is white with light fog in the air picking up the white from the snow. I need to wear sunglasses on a cloudy day, I almost need sunglasses to look out the picture window. In a month Marilyn and I will be in northern Mississippi. Being where there is no snow will literally be a sight for sore eyes.

jm. · Jan 31, 2020

So where in North Mississippi are you going? Getting close to me ..

Jim in NC · Jan 31, 2020

Nothing here yet outside Winston. It is raw though.

fixerupper · Jan 31, 2020

(quoted from post at 08:29:19 01/31/20) So where in North Mississippi are you going? Getting close to me ..

Clarksdale. Going to visit Marilyn s brother and hopefully go to the gin show in Memphis. That s cotton gin for you who are thinking otherwise. LOL are you going to the gin show?

jm. · Jan 31, 2020

Fixuper I worked that show for 20+ years, might run bu but pretty much know what will be there.

fixerupper · Jan 31, 2020

Marilyns brother took us to the gin show five years ago or so. I enjoy seeing machinery and displays for southern farming. Yesterday I was at a show like the gin show in Des Moines Ia only the Des Moines show is twice as big, a little too much for me. Last time I was at the gin show I got to talking to a banker who had a booth set up there. It was interesting to compare the cost of farming in Iowa to the cost of farming in Mississippi.

NC Wayne · Jan 31, 2020

Here in Concord, NC, we had rain with a few snowflakes for about an hour. Then, around noon, it turned into just a cold rain.

Thankfully I was able to move enough stuff around to get out PT Cruiser all the way in the shop to change the radiator. Thankfully my wife was within a mile of home when it blew,so I was able to top it off and make a mad dash to the house instead of having it towed.

The folks that invented aluminum radiators with plastic tanks crimped on should be tortured and hung.....but that's a whole 'nother story...LOL...

Richard G. · Jan 31, 2020

I could not agree with you more on the radiators.
Richard

jm. · Jan 31, 2020

I would assume you are going to say it was or is less in Mississippi, land cost probably lower and
hired labor should be less. I have no idea how you boy do it up there in those big fields , here
with 4,000 acre crop 80 acres is a big field and nothing square always point rows.

Bob Harvey · Jan 31, 2020

Raining hard here. Don't have a gauge, BUT, the forecast is for 3+", I believe it. Just had my driveway 'tuned-up' a month ago. 4-5" deep cross /angled ditches, they were FULL wen I went down this AM. If they weren't there, it would look like the Grand Canyon.

fixerupper · Jan 31, 2020

(quoted from post at 13:41:23 01/31/20) I would assume you are going to say it was or is less in Mississippi, land cost probably lower and
hired labor should be less. I have no idea how you boy do it up there in those big fields , here
with 4,000 acre crop 80 acres is a big field and nothing square always point rows.

In the end the bottom line on the ledger is the same in Iowa as it is in Mississippi. We have higher land cost and less flexibility in the crops we can raise but we generally have higher yields in the crops we do raise. Southern soybeans are really coming along in yield though. We do not need to irrigate so that is an expense we do not have. It all seems to work out the same in the end. My brother in law works for a farmer in the delta and I have seen farming in the delta but I have never been in the central part of the state.

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