White Easter ?

[helmsdale]

Virtually all the snow gone here now.

Got first wheat treating done Friday… picking up fertilizer now…

Last 3 days really took out the snow…. 60km winds… warm nights….was 25c Friday

Cool this week…now the yard is dry… hook up seeder… haul Nexera to Bunge and bring seed/Fert back to farm….

No moisture forecast…. Frost going out of low areas.

Cheers

Have you made a decision on whether to delay seeding at all or not?

I think *we* at least in this neighborhood have no choice. Mother nature is certainly telling us to cool our jets quite literally as some models have us not seeing above freezing air temperatures until as late as April 21. I'm hoping we don't do alot of "freeze drying" here with frozen, exposed dirt and relentless winds.

We're only sitting on about 6-7" of moist soil and below that she's dry to the water table, so I think we have no choice but to wait for WARM soil temps that will promote quick germination. That said, quick germination is going to have to be followed by subsequent rainfall that matters. With no subsoil moisture, I think it would be a mistake, at least here, to seed into that moisture layer and waste it to cold dry winds.

On the other hand, I don't think I can wait much longer than the 5th of May or we're going to end up with a situation where one prolonged delay either from weather or backordered parts could put us into the back end of a reasonable seeding window.

[sumdumguy]

The way the satellite looks right now, the storm is headed straight for Sask from Idaho. Prolly all of Sask should get the snow blowers out of storage. There’s a lot of calving going on right now.

[jazz]

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