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March arrives later this week and if conditions hold it will be coming in like a lamb. The big 6 to 8” of snow failed to materialize due to the temps hovering at or just above freezing as the drizzle and mist amounts on Saturday were heavy. It could have easily...
So how did everyone like this first taste of winter? A few different meteorologists have been predicting widely varying winter conditions. While one is saying the temps may drop and extreme degree after the first of November, others are saying the jet stream...
Years ago the Grateful Dead rock group out of San Francisco released an album entitled "What a long strange trip this has been." While we have yet to see how the last 2.5 months of the 2017 season turn out, a similar title could accurately describe this season. The...
A few weeks ago it appeared that having the same problem with combine and field fires as in 2012 was going to become reality. Now after a huge and general front move through the state and much of the Midwest over the last weekend and drop two to five inches of rain...
The year is now three-quarters over with as harvest gets a good start in northern areas and chugs on further south. This is usually a time to think back on the growing season and how things went very well and knowing that the chances of garnering a profit with the...
The start of the harvest season has or will arrive at different parts of the state already. After one of the weirder growing seasons that was a mixture of extremes few people have a good handle on what to expect when they begin running the combines. The very wet April...
Here we are now in mid September and harvest of our two major crops has begun in places. It has been a very strange year and growing season. In our immediate area the weather patterns have consisted of receiving 1.2 to 1.5 inches of rain every six weeks. Getting any...
Isn’t it nice to live in the Midwest where we only have blizzards and tornados? Wow, two majorwithin two weeks hitting the southern coast of the U.S. It made for great television viewing and press coverage during that time, with the cost of clean up, repair, recovery...
September has arrived and in a few weeks the fall harvest season will begin. A very safe bet is that there will be a lot few loads of grain coming out of each field in the southwest three fourth of the state. This is in spite of the seemingly official claims that we...
Here we are at the end of August and there is about a month to month and a half of the growing season yet. What a strange roller coaster ride it has been. Temps in February were warm enough to people were out in their shirt sleeves. April and May were so incredible...