What is your weather like ... today

[crsublette]

Charles, How many acres?

255 acres that I'll have to abandon on my personal farm, but, on one field I might have enough irrigation allowance to do 50 acres or so of some dryland corn... maybe... if we actually get more than 4 inches of rain this year. Even dryland crops need some water to grow.

Yeah, it's pretty bad. All my neighbors wheat was hit hard as well. At breakfast this morning, I talked with a custom harvester who told me he already lost a couple of wheat harvest contracts due to folk abandoning their wheat. Very little wheat in my area has survived the cold. The COOP grain elevator I do business with is going to have an emergency session setup tomorrow to help farmers identify the extent of the damage, but I have a full time agronomist that helped to identify the damage and showed me how it is pretty much doomed.

Going to try to bail some of it, but the tips have already turned blacked with many of the lower tier leaves already brown and rolled up. I figure here in a week or so the wheat is likely going to be dead.

Yeah, the hard freeze on the 8th caught many farmers by surprise since they just weren't paying attention. After that night, many sprinklers have fallen down, which is a big deal, resulting in many thousands of dollars to repair and insurance does not cover this type of damage. Too many farmers around here try to get away with doing some silly stuff. My dad and I knew, with how hard the wind was blowing and how cold it was going to get, it was going to be very bad if we left our sprinklers running so we shut everything down.

Heh, now, upcoming Thursday the low temps are forcasted to reach 18*F :banghead3: , but looks like without the wind.

Corn planting has been delayed already by 2 weeks in my area. I think there are fellas getting impatient. I've heard talk of a couple farmers trying to plant this week, but, in my area, we have a big corn planting window all the way up to the middle of June; so, not really a big deal.

I'm afraid our last freeze might not be until May.

 

[MitchM]

That's tough. I hope your insurance company does the right thing.
I've been watching the temperatures for Dalhart lately. You guys sure get some major temperature swings there.

My understanding is that climates with low humidity are subject to larger temperature swings than areas with high humidity.

 

[HARO]

Sunny and warmer today.......57F right now. Hubby chopped down the tree today that was right next to the new wood shed he built. He had to cuz it was so close he couldn't even put the gutters on the shed cuz the tree was in the way. So tree was not supposed to come down on my little fir tree according to his calculations and chain hooked up to truck pulling on tree trunk while I drove truck away pulling tree...............guess you know where the darn tree landed.........yep right on my little tree. Fortunately it just bent a couple small branches but why oh why would not a person cut a tree down first before one builds a shed?

Hey, at least he didn't build the shed AROUND it!! :biggrin:
John

 

[HTH]

We had some gorgeous weather leading into early spring but these cold snaps are bad. The last few days have been cold and windy.
I live about an hour from crsublette and I feel dreadful about the weather and his crops. I was a farm kid and know what it means.

 

[brandonsdad02]

S T I L L R A I N I N G ! ! ! 3.65 inches so far just today.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Ya, it sucks here being a farmer too sometimes. I have farmer friends and suffice it to say, I never complain about the price of a loaf of bread!
Charles, this farmer along the river where I walk every day, is late getting started too this year. Some years I have had lots my greenhouse plants planted by now! I am a month behind with planting my Panzies, cause most years I plant the "alpine" stuff early March! Usually by the first of May I have almost everything planted, but that is just not going to happen this year!

But at least I got my pond, and in spite of the freezing cold temperatures last night, it still looked lovely!

 

[crsublette]

That's tough. I hope your insurance company does the right thing.
I've been watching the temperatures for Dalhart lately. You guys sure get some major temperature swings there.

My understanding is that climates with low humidity are subject to larger temperature swings than areas with high humidity.

Ugh, yeah, we have been experiencing 50~70 degree temperature swings. We are suppose to have a chance of sleet or possibly snow tonight or tomorrow night

 

[crsublette]

Ya, it sucks here being a farmer too sometimes. I have farmer friends and suffice it to say, I never complain about the price of a loaf of bread!
Charles, this farmer along the river where I walk every day, is late getting started too this year. Some years I have had lots my greenhouse plants planted by now! I am a month behind with planting my Panzies, cause most years I plant the "alpine" stuff early March! Usually by the first of May I have almost everything planted, but that is just not going to happen this year!

But at least I got my pond, and in spite of the freezing cold temperatures last night, it still looked lovely!

Yep, I hope this means this year is going to be different than past couple years being just hot and dry. Past couple years we had our last freeze in around February and would have been steadily hitting 80*F by March already.

 

[HTH]

My wife and I attended a meeting for gardeners by the county extension service. A gal from the gardening center in Elkhart KS was there to help us and pitch her products. They ordered in garden plants and lost them to a freeze. They tried to reorder but the grower is all backed up because many other customers have the same problem. They might get some plants in 2 weeks and the ones which take much longer to start can not be replaced. They use a small supplier to avoid the tomato blight problem.

Our little greenhouse is packed with water garden stuff and mostly tomatoes. There is even a tropical water lily in bloom.

It sure would be nice to see some green grass someplace other then a lawn. Heck even the number of watered lawns are down in town. I think I counted just 5 watered ones on my street which is 2 city blocks long.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Thin layer of ice in the shallow marsh side of the bottom pond. Does not feel too cold, at least we are above freezing right now at 34 degrees.

Been watching the news on the big explosion down by Waco Texas, small town of 3000 people will be devestated by this horrible accident, lots of people may be missing and hurt. Many homes destroyed by blast, now the air may be toxic....

 

[sissy]

Gosh i feel bad for you still in the cold and been wondering why the weather patterns are this drastic .Are we really damaging more than we thought .Yeh I just saw it on Yahoo and wondering about our Texas ponders .

 

[callingcolleen1]

I am having colder than normal spring cause of global cooling! Everybody get out there and drive a big gas sucking 1970's vehicle around for me and burn MORE fossil fuels please! Ha ha ha

 

[Big Lou]

Very chilly and rainy here.

The explosion in West, TX is a devastating tragedy. http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/04/18/texas-rocked-by-fertilizer-plant-explosion/

 

[sissy]

sad story lou and just seems like there are more and more of these things every year .

 

[addy1]

cold wet raining.............they said it was going to be 75..........don't think so