Are we headed for a dry spring/summer?

[monte]

Here is my spring weather order...

A little dry during seeding.

Some nice regular rainfall when needed by the crops for high yields.

Nice dry weather during harvest.

This the opposite from the miserable weather we had to deal with this year.

[FarmRanger]

No snow in southern Alberta. Plenty of wind and
a couple of fires today. Hopefully things will
improve by spring.

[malleefarmer]

Dumb question but do you guys dry sow cereals
wait for them to emerge then get weeds later or
always wait for weeds and sow into clean
ground?
So different than aust the saying here is were
there's mud there's money it's just the opposite it
seems on the orators a tad on the dry side
doesn't seem to bother you to much

[malleefarmer]

Typho sorry but you got the idea of the post.

When does it get critical April may?

Here we have had a decile 3 for our growing
season but produced best yells ever but we had
7 inches of rain last harvest which got the crops
through

[TOM4CWB]

malle,
Seeding ends about June 1, sooo near
perfect conditions are rain on the
Victoria Weekend May 24.

We do have an old saying:
'Seed in the dust... and your bins will
bust'!!

Put more hours on tractor plowing snow
last year, than seeding... so we are
frozen up with no moisture loss to start
till April.

The guys are just getting itchy feet for
spring to come!

Cheers!

[freewheat]

Mallee, it depends so much on WHERE you
farm here. Some areas think wet is 12
inches during the growing season, some
think that is very dry. Some areas that
are consistently wet, hope for a bit
less rain, while some that are
consistently dryer, hope to heck they
get a rain!

I have never seeded and been concerned
about dryness. I have usually been
concerned whether or not I get stuck. I
have never worried that "we need a rain
soon, its getting dry". With regards to
weeds and seeding, where I am from,
spring comes later usually. By the time
we are able to move, many other areas
are done. But we spray most everything
before seeding or shortly after. Seeding
here usually extends to mid June a lot
of years. We simply get more snow, and
have cooler conditions.

Take right now. everyone almost is
breaking records for warm weather, but
we have a foot of snow, and our high
when Maple creeks was plus 16, was -2.

[Burbert]

Duhh no, cause its rainin now outside.
Weader will be normal. Heavy, heavy rain
in Saskabush and Southeast Albertie. Dry
in Piece River. Bumper, blooper crops in
central Albertie. Butt then agin who
cares? Cousin there Gagstability and Crap
insurance ta make up the diff, right?

[Jay-mo]

I hope the snow goes away and stays away. 11 here in SW Manitoba.
I think my O.M. is gonna be higher this spring from all the dirt drifting off the neighbors black fields. I guess they wanted to dry out the ground and it worked!