Weather

[Mortenson]

Com-ed is saying power restoration for my town on Saturday. Thank God for generators. All for a piddly .3" of rain.

 

[chucker66]

Drove back through the Ames area. I heard estimates of 1 million acres of corn and beans lost. I have never seen corn so flattened. On another note looks like upper MN is drowning in rain. Over 9" near Fergus Falls in the last 3 days.

 

[BuckSutherland]

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu...ated-37-7-million-acres-of-farmland-impacted/


For some perspective MN has about 8 million acres of corn annually, Iowa has about 13 million acres of corn, Wisconsin maybe 3 million. A lot of the corn broken over in Iowa is just going to rot in the field. Most of that corn was likely in the dough stage right before the kernels begin to dent. Now that the stalks are broken and injured their will be no way for the plants to fill the ear. I have seen LOTS of images on Twitter of moldy ears of corn already. If I had to bet today I would say the minimum loss of corn from this storm is north of 500 million bushels, and likely closer to 1 billion bushels. Total crop nationwide was estimated at 15 billion bushels before the storm. I really REALLY feel bad for anyone that needs corn to chop silage for their cattle and now a 36 county area is basically wiped out. This is gonna crush some livestock guys hard.

 

[scott44]

I spread 160# of gypsum on Fri. and we recieved about .5 " yesterday and last night, first good timing all year.

 

[H20fwler]

We thankfully got a little over six inches early last week and another inch last night, ground soaked it right up. Before that we hadn't had much for a couple months, driest summer in five years here.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

Well it looks like my food plots will have to rely on winter rye and clover this year. It got down to 26 last night, I had planted turnips and radishes in July, but nothing really came from them. So I let it ride until Labor Day and planted an oats, sunflower, and winter rye mix into all of my plots. Pretty sure if the sunflower, or oats even came up, they would be done now. Good thing it is a heavy acorn crop year to get them into the rut.

 

[Mortenson]

Wow 26. Is that earlier/colder than normal for your area? Seems awful cold for Sept 18. We are supposed to get to 39 tonight.

 

[scott44]

Not sure on the actual temp here but we had frost this A.M.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

First frost is usually mid September- early October, so it isnt out of the norm. But I was just hoping to get a few more weeks of growth to my newly planted seed.

 

[trampledbyturtles]

Snow hail.?.?.
That's a new one for me.
Pea sized snowballs pelting me as I feed the spring chicks.

My poor pears dont stand a chance..

 

[H20fwler]

I don’t like this at all. Two inches of snow on the ground and more falling, supposed to drop to 28f tonight and 25f tomorrow night.
Cherries have already set fruit, pears just starting and half my apples in blossom...CRAP!!!!
Not again this year...dang it!

 

[H20fwler]

Nooooooooooo....!

 

[Buckly]

4-6 inches predicted here with a winter weather advisory. How can you have a winter weather advisory when winter‘s over???? I guess there’s no such thing as a spring weather advisory LOL.

 

[Turkey Creek]

To say that the weather has become anything less than frustrating would be an understatement! I am pretty sure I called Mother Nature alot of nasty words yesterday. These weird ass weather anomalies are getting old. Pick one and stick with it! We only got to 30 degrees two nights ago and 33 last night, but they are calling for 29 degrees tonight before we begin a "warming" trend. With the amount of cloudy, dreary, cool days I am starting to think we live in the Pacific NW.

 

[Barndog56]

Snowed off and on all day here. A third night of mid-20 degree lows tonight before it warms back up.

Plums and pears are the most advanced trees, both at first white, so should be good.

 

[bigbendmarine]

I'd brag about our lovely weather in North Florida right now and/or moan just a bit about it being a tad bit nippy @ 48 degrees this morning... but... only a month or so before hurricane season kicks in, so...