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How would one categorize the last of winter, spring and how our summer season has progressed and how it resembled other years in regards to cropping progress and the weather? More than one person remarked that it was most similar to 1991 when in the northern third of...
June has arrived and the planting season is continuing. The planters in Iowa began operating around April 10 and continue operating for many growers in the Midwest in one of the most drug-out seasons since 1991. Similarly, as that year we received significant rain...
May is here and we are now at the point where many of us are wishing that the weather men or women would deliver a week of dry weather. A number of the people who noted the number of fog days in January were expecting a rainy April. The first part of the month brought...
April is here and the weather in the month can be very fickle. This was proven by the short periods of heavy snow which occurred on two days last week. Generally warm temps were the rule thru most of Feb and March with many days of record warmth. It almost felt like a...
Wow, oh wow. As the closing days of the winter season go by on the calendar we almost have to wonder what happened to our normal snowy and cold seasons we’ve been accustomed to. Except for the two big snowstorms which happened to be exactly the week before and the...
We now move into the latter half of the short month of February and there is not much happening on the national scene. We could talk about Fanni, but it has been recommended that I not talk politics. She must have had a miserable childhood where she was constantly...
Goodbye windchills of 20 to 40 below zero. There is no guarantee of us not having such cold temps as we had in early to mid-January, but as the weeks slowly churn and the deep snowbanks slowly melt away the chance of a repeat of those bitter temps become less and...
Thus far the new year’s weather would have to be termed unusual and erratic. We had 50 F temps until Christmas and New Years. We wore lighter jackets and finished our outdoor tasks until New Years. I actually saw new gopher mounds, which are more a harbinger of...
A new year has arrived and we can now view 2023 in the rear-view mirror. I will have to see any references as to when Kevin ____? who was a coworker with Cargill Seeds at the time turned to me in the hall during a meeting break and informed me that he promised the...
The Christmas season will be here before we know it and the first round of meetings and conferences will be in the books. Most dealers, retailers and companies know that farmers are in the decision and buying mode to take advantage of early discounts and to lock in a...