Anyone get much snow?

[quadtrac]

Not much moisture in it. Same as ever when it snows when it is so cold.

[GDR]

We are white, a few drifts in the ditches and a few inches in the field. Not enough for the Skidoo yet or to proclaim drought is over! Cold enough though, glad the days are gonna start getting longer.

[Guest]

Snow won’t ever end a drought
Not ever

[quadtrac]

Snow won’t ever end a drought
Not ever

Agreed.
Just a nuisance is all it is.

[ColevilleH2S]

Only a couple of inches here (Kindersley). It would sure ease my mind a bit if it was a couple of feet. Sloughs that haven't been dry for 20 years were dry this fall.

[beaverdam]

Not much moisture in it. Same as ever when it snows when it is so cold.

Yep, just a bunch of fluff here, more pain in the *ss than moisture. When the wind comes up she'll be gone, will even blow it out of the canola stubble.

[Sheepwheat]

Was wetter here this fall than last fall. So we’re looking damp upcoming. More snow now than all last winter, and froze up pretty wet. Went and measured. Almost a foot. Lol liked my own post.

I was gunna say that our land is pretty sheltered so the snow stays put and doesn’t blow off very bare, regardless of the wind. So yes, in this area, snow equals moisture.

[AC man]

Every *** day
4” last night @-32, WTF?
Foot in last week
Really piling up

Had about 6” here. I can’t believe that it would snow so much at these temps. I don’t ever remember that happening before!

[BTO780]

Not a lot, but real happy for what I got and what i have gotten . Always room for improvement though.

Yes, I’m talking about snow. That or I’m starting to talk like a farmer. 🤣🤣

[shtferbrains]

We had about 6in + since Christmas eve.
Not blown much about 18 in in fields.

Good going for snowmobiles.

Using FWA on bale tractor.

Normal here is -14 day -24 night

We made -25 today forecasting -35 tonight

[fjlip]

Had about 6” here. I can’t believe that it would snow so much at these temps. I don’t ever remember that happening before!

Careful you are falling into the "climate change" rabbit hole. Happened 1/3 of my life here....

[seldomseen]

Remember years ago when guys would ridge fields to trap snow. PFR had guy over by Tisdale with that setup on his tractor to do just that. Lot of stuff on PFR looked innovative and well thought out in the day but now watched looks dated and pointless.

Yes I remember that guy and he is still farming. Dry years of the 80’s he mounted kind of like plow shers on the shanks of a cultivater. Pulled that around the fields making ridges. It might have been on the front of a bi directional. Can’t quite remember. He always got lots of snow piled up and he told me it payed good returns. I will have to drive over that way one day and see if he has had it out.

[seldomseen]

As for snow it’s starting to pile up. Likely 8-10 inches in the past weeks. Very fine light snow during this past week with really cold temps. If the wind picks up it will really blow.
I remember when I was a kid a listening to friend of my Dad whose family had moved up here after losing there farm in the south, He said some of the winters during the 30’s drought had piles of snow but still could not grow anything during the summers.
Snow here would get the crop started but we will need rain shortly after the crop gets going. No sub soil moisture.

[redleaf]

Had the opportunity to sit and have a cup of coffee with an old gent south and west of Coronach back in the early eighties. He told me they had snow up to the eaves of the house in the thirties but it wouldn’t grow a crop. It all ran down the coulies.

[Sheepwheat]

Of course the snow was up to the eaves and windows. There was no stubble to catch it!