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flying belgian

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I can't figure it out. We are 12 inches below our average for this date in S.c. Mn. yet our crops look good and the grass is green on the lawn. Had good first cutting hay but not much second.
 
As below, timing. Dry early is usually good- roots go deep, finding water and nutrients. Dry late after a wet spring not so much...
 
We have been having regular rains throughout the summer and our crops are doing very well.
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As you can see in this photo I took just now, our corn is green to the ground and making ears
 
Around here rain fall is measured at the airport so that area could be way down compared to average and your area could be flooded. I think crops and the grass in your yard is the only way to really know what you have for moisture. It bugs me when weather guys talk about how much we are down on rain as its very relative to where you actually live and where they measure it.
 
We have been dry like everyone else since spring. A neighbor got some kind of an electronic gizmo that measures the soil moisture at certain depths and somehow is able to measure the corn root growth. When the corn was knee high this meter indicated the roots were down in the ground much farther than the height of the plant. For some reason four feet comes to mind. Our corn is looking pretty decent too for as dry as we have have been.
 
If you have clay subsoil, there may be moisture reserves the corn roots are tapped into the subsoil. You have a Pro Farmer crop yield estimate team coming into MN next week, maybe to Rochester, not necessarily your area. They count the rows on several ears and average kernals per row then estimate yield from that.You should have 16 row ears with no tip back on the ear end. Old timers say when a dry June happens it makes corn roots go deep for moisture. We have had adequate moisture here in IN.
 
I like to know what gives also. The west coast is short of water. China is short of water.Lake Mead is so low that dead body's are showing up. We got global warming and the ice cap is melting. Where is all the water gone. Do we have a leak somewhere.
 
It is similar over by Rochester, MN. Rains have been timely all spring and summer. The small creeks might dry up for maybe a week and then we get 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rain again, enough that the small creeks run for another two weeks. Everything has stayed green between rain/dry cycles, which is unusual.
 
Same observation here in western Pa but we had a cold very wet spring. These last two years have been just weird.
 
Its been about as good of a growing season I have ever had here on my farm,great garden,enough rain for excellent pasture all Summer but enough dry series of days to make hay.Few days in the upper 90's but not enough to worry about.
 
Not true.

The ice caps are melting from the top down, not from the bottom up. While there IS some minor geothermal heat present, it is measured in milliwatts of energy per square meter and has a barely perceptible effect on the rapid melting of the ice.

As any casual glance at satellite images from the last few decades will show, the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps, and Artic Sea ice fields are shrinking EXCEPT in the interior parts of Antarctica where it still cold enough to retain any snowfall it may get (its a dry, cold desert) and it is isolated from the warmer air currents and ocean contact.
volca NO
 
Antartica, in the interior slightly. And yes, that IS great news, BUT the same Glaciologists that study this phenomenon point out the difference between the addition of new ice and the subtraction of melting ice is dropping. If the current trends continue, those numbers will reverse, Antarctica will start pumping more water into the Southern Ocean than it removes and sea level rise will accelerate accordingly.
 
Thanks for posting this article, Jon. It is important information for anyone with an objective view. Unfortunately, we have some people with an entirely political view of the subject and are trying to force those views on the rest of us through nonsensical laws which spawn even more nonsensical regulations.
 
Agreed. Antartica ice cap is expanding, the Artic shrank from the 1970s ice age fears, but has been very stable the last 20 years.
 
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