Too wet to seed 2020

[ajl]

If the latest forecast for this area (Edmonton region) comes true, we may get more snow in April than we had all winter so far. Not sure which inputs to cancel. Watch out for suppliers pumping costs, there will be unseeded this year especially fields that will not get harvested till June now. If the crop is standing there will likely be water in the field till mid may. Good luck to those trying to calve now.

[Sheepwheat]

Yeah. Our two week forecast is for a couple days above zero. Most days minus and right around zero. And we have almost normal snow, unlike most areas, so it’s looking late and with late comes too wet to seed risk. Like you said, the crap that has to be combined still is the corker.

If the forecast stays true, it will be trouble, big trouble.

[Guest]

Jeez , you guys this is not a farm forum
Try to stay on the three main topics

[GDR]

AjL and Sheepwheat, same worries here, almost half of 2019 harvest to do and no end of winter in sight.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Jeez , you guys this is not a farm forum
Try to stay on the three main topics

Nothing to fear, the most reliable of the posters on the three main topics posted a map today proving that the world is warmer, so obviously this snow and cold temperatures are a figment of our imaginations, go ahead and start field work on the normal date( or slightly earlier, since it is warming) No need to check cows every hour, no calves will freeze in a warmer than normal April. Book extra inputs, the longer warmer growing season justifies it.

[helmsdale]

I'd typically be in the field by now picking rock, working water runs, or harrowing places with heavy trash. Frost is still right to the surface, ground is white again after last night. Would typically be seeding by April 15-20th(typically closer to the 20th). Seeding is certainly going to be somewhat delayed here. Long range puts the remainder of April below to significantly below average temperatures.

I'll likely be waiting on soil temperatures this spring. I made that mistake in 2015, I wont do it again...

[Guest]

really crazy here, -25 to -28 every night , snow piled everywhere , no bare spots

[Sheepwheat]

Jeez , you guys this is not a farm forum
Try to stay on the three main topics

Its posts about climate change. Is that one of the three topics? lol

[15444]

Its posts about climate change. Is that one of the three topics? lol

Use to be. Now it's the virus, Trudeau and the dreaded Orange Man.

[sumdumguy]

Does anyone, of ‘old people are smarter’ (lol) age remember the end of April storm that buried us in 1966 or 67? We were at a broomball tournament at Odessa and our trusty Rambler Ambassador ploughed us home. It took Sask Power a week to run temporary cable above ground along 33 highway. SO April can be a buggar.