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The warmer weather we received this past week was very welcome and saved us from the misery of a very long and cold fall. Now winter has arrived. We have to think optimistically, as are most of the weather prognosticators who are calling for above normal temps thru...
Today and several days this week are supposed to hold temps above freezing, which has been a rare occurrence in the days following Thanksgiving. Maybe things are looking up and the toughest part of winter is over with. Not. Here we have been thinking and acting like...
Here we sit on the first few days of December, about a week after Thanksgiving, and we have often been able to do outdoors work in long sleeve shirts with a late Indian summer. Now in a time when we often get bombarded with wild predictions about global warming with...
First of all, we hope everyone in the Midwest is able to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday. It is supposed to be a time to be thankful for being on this earth and all the bounties it offers to us. For the weather we received this season on the northern part of the...
The reality that winter is upon us is soaking in. In the far out weather prediction by two noted meteorologists/climatologists foresaw major extreme cold air intrusions from either the Arctic or deep space proved to be correct. The -8 temps in N Dakota on Friday...
As the 11th month of the year arrives we get to say goodbye to the 2018 growing season and the tasks at hand to give complete closure except for hauling and marketing the grain plus cleaning up and completing any repair work on the machinery. Before we can deal with...
The string of decent harvest weather continues as our wishes and prayers seem to be getting answered. If we had only known this we would not have had to push thru the mud quite as as much, but the date of the first big snow and ground freeze up are still in question....
When the northern and central parts of the state got hit by two major snows in mid-April it seemed to be a harbinger of the wacky growing season we were going to have to endure. Already many of the long term records for annual rainfall have been broken in the northern...
It is now mid-October and winter conditions with snow have arrived in parts of the mountain and Great Plain west and the Northern Cornbelt states. In the years since 2009 we typically have wrapped up half or more of the bean harvest and often 50% of the corn by late...
What is worse than the satisfying task of working long hours under sunny skies and clear dark night skies harvesting the crops that we spent since last October planning for and since spring planting, spraying and nuturing thru to maturity? It would have to be sitting...