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[farmaholic]

Drew lerner the john deere qeatherman

More help please. What does Drew Lerner have to do with John Deere...come on man, I'm slow and need everything explained to me.

N i c e a n d s l o w

[Guest]

More help please. What does Drew Lerner have to do with John Deere...come on man, I'm slow and need everything explained to me.

N i c e a n d s l o w

Every day on the radio “this is your john deere weather report with drew lerner for cervus equipment ‘

[sumdumguy]

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a nice slow couple of inches like yesterday, June 1, 2018. It was powder dry all the way to China before that. I remember younger days, like 1965 ish when it would rain so much that the ground was moving with salamanders. Sures beats blowing dust filling the ditches.

[farmaholic]

Every day on the radio “this is your john deere weather report with drew lerner for cervus equipment ‘

I thought you were talking about those elaborate John Deere weather stations.

[seldomseen]

I thought you were talking about those elaborate John Deere weather stations.

CJVR 750 radio in Melfort has the Drew Lerner weather report every week day at about 12:30 and about 4:30 pm and it is sponsored by Cervus Equ. I always try to hear it.

[Sheepwheat]

Running off like spring here. Disgusting. Just have no words.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I hate to say it, but things are looking optimistic around here. All of the excess water from the massive snow disappeared almost overnight before the frost went out. Seeded every acre without getting stuck( still muddy under the trash). Started raining as soon as I finished seeding, having regular small showers since. Nothing excessive.

Compared to every spring for the past decade, this is ideal. But monsoon season is just starting so time will tell.

2017, pure mud
2015 and 2016, not enough moisture to germinate till July in places, but 2016 finished off as mud
2014 mud, took a month of no rain and into July to finally dry up the excess moisture from the massive snow melt. The year I learned how to get stuck on sidehills.
2013 mud
2012 mud
2011 mud
2010 mud
2009 mud very early (but no rain after seeding so it was a tremendous year for yields)
2008 mud
2007 mud
2006 mud
2005 mud
2004 nearly perfect
2003 mud followed by even worse record drought
2002 mud followed by record drought
then a few years where springs was actually too dry until it flooded in mid summer.
...
1999 deserves an honorable mention too, for the 12" of rain we recieved in 2 events over the course of 10 days.

[fjlip]

Wow! AB5, you are way more MUD than here! Wish you a NOT MUDDY 2018, you deserve it...
Is that how your years went sheepwheat?

[furrowtickler]

But I though S/F was the only one to fight with mud for the past 10 years ..
huh someone else was way wetter , and never complain much to boot .. lol just kidding S/F .

[grassfarmer]

I hate to say it, but things are looking optimistic around here. All of the excess water from the massive snow disappeared almost overnight before the frost went out. Seeded every acre without getting stuck( still muddy under the trash). Started raining as soon as I finished seeding, having regular small showers since. Nothing excessive.

Compared to every spring for the past decade, this is ideal. But monsoon season is just starting so time will tell.

2017, pure mud
2015 and 2016, not enough moisture to germinate till July in places, but 2016 finished off as mud
2014 mud, took a month of no rain and into July to finally dry up the excess moisture from the massive snow melt. The year I learned how to get stuck on sidehills.
2013 mud
2012 mud
2011 mud
2010 mud
2009 mud very early (but no rain after seeding so it was a tremendous year for yields)
2008 mud
2007 mud
2006 mud
2005 mud
2004 nearly perfect
2003 mud followed by even worse record drought
2002 mud followed by record drought
then a few years where springs was actually too dry until it flooded in mid summer.
...
1999 deserves an honorable mention too, for the 12" of rain we recieved in 2 events over the course of 10 days.

Funny that. We weren't too far away, in a very similar micro-climate and there wasn't a single year between 2002-2014 that we couldn't seed a crop in timely manner in spring, wasn't a year anything went unseeded or unharvested due to excess moisture. Grass seed sown in 2002 didn't germinate until 2003 though and the 09 drought was more severe than either 02 or 03 for us - these 3 being the driest years the area had recorded since records began.