So Easter egg forecasters , what is in store for us weather wise this year??

[poorboy]

It was stated earlier that the Easter Egg forecast has been the most accurate the last few years. What is is showing for this year?

[Sheepwheat]

The winter pig spleen forecast was a flop.

I will take a stab at it.

May will bring rain to some areas, and less to others. Variable temperatures will occur. Most areas will be done by May 20th. Wet areas wont start before then.

June. Warm days, and cooler days intermingle, with good rainfall in areas, scant rainfall in others. A race against crop insurance seeding deadlines for some. Spraying completed for most.

July. Hot on some days, thunderstorms with variable precipitation.

August. The blessed will be harvesting their crops. The rest of us will wait for October.

September. Warm dry days to complete combining, and all fall work, except for the areas waiting for October. Those areas will be wet, wet, wet.

October fall work complete for most. Combining may start in the special areas. Good days to combine are those with freezing at nights to support the equipment in the mud.

November. Winter arrives in full force in late areas. Suntanning weather in the south.

And so on.

[Taiga]

You must write for the Famers Almanac.

[poorboy]

The prairies are quite diverse, some always getting more winter and too wet of summers, while others hardly get any snow and seldom have a summer that is too wet.

Not often that a year like 2021 shows up where the whole prairies are dry and hot.

[Guest]

yes we got a taste of farming in the south , probably a once in a lifetime chance for us NE swamp dwellers . was so relaxing . one weekend the forecast looked good , just quit combining and went fishing at only 2/3 done . usually hair straight back, scared we are gonna lose an hour or two to a breakdown that we can never recover. i could handle that again

[Sheepwheat]

The prairies are quite diverse, some always getting more winter and too wet of summers, while others hardly get any snow and seldom have a summer that is too wet.

Not often that a year like 2021 shows up where the whole prairies are dry and hot.

We had a few days of 30, hottest was 33. It was dryer than usual, which was a blessing for once. As case said, harvest was a breeze for once.

Today it is plus one At 2 pm. Talked to my sister in Saskatoon, she says it’s twelve there. This is unbelievable. Creek started running two days ago. Usually a month after it runs the fields are ready to seed. If the weather is normal. Plus one for a high at the end of April is only twelve or so degrees off normal.

Where is chuck? I wanna see one of those fake global maps with the red areas of warmer than normal temps.

[Sheepwheat]

yes we got a taste of farming in the south , probably a once in a lifetime chance for us NE swamp dwellers . was so relaxing . one weekend the forecast looked good , just quit combining and went fishing at only 2/3 done . usually hair straight back, scared we are gonna lose an hour or two to a breakdown that we can never recover. i could handle that again

ROTFLMAO! Isn’t that the truth!!! Twice in my 29 years farming have I had a pleasurable harvest. Last year, and 2003 I think. Good crops, dry crops, and dry weather! All the other harvests are the reason I ran out of hair to pull out.

[beaverdam]

Yup, it's nice to finish off the last third of harvest in a more leisurely pace, and know you have plenty of time to get lots of jobs done in the fall, but it doesn't happen every year for us.

Most here are loosing their minds as the drills won't be planting this week. Blessed(sarcasm) with two winter storms in the back half of April, who really wants to go through 3 spring melts and all the mud in one month?
One might say, "give us rain", well......
now the forecast has us in for 50-60mm over the coming weekend!

I'm starting to get deja vu of 2011, where we hardly planted any crop, many planted none at all.

Rain every 5-7 days is too frequent to get the drill rolling.

BTW, some will only get their power back on this afternoon, that's since last Saturday, 3 1/2 days.

[Sheepwheat]

Yup, it's nice to finish off the last third of harvest in a more leisurely pace, and know you have plenty of time to get lots of jobs done in the fall, but it doesn't happen every year for us.

Most here are loosing their minds as the drills won't be planting this week. Blessed(sarcasm) with two winter storms in the back half of April, who really wants to go through 3 spring melts and all the mud in one month?
One might say, "give us rain", well......
now the forecast has us in for 50-60mm over the coming weekend!

I'm starting to get deja vu of 2011, where we hardly planted any crop, many planted none at all.

Rain every 5-7 days is too frequent to get the drill rolling.

BTW, some will only get their power back on this afternoon, that's since last Saturday, 3 1/2 days.

It certainly is getting concerning. A few ill timed rains and it could be a disaster again.

We are lambing the sheep out on a pasture far from the barn because we can’t physically move them to the lambing paddock. Mud? No. Snow. I can’t even push a path through the blasted stuff yet. Too deep and now when it is so cold it is HARD A A ROCK. Which reminds me. The sheep walked over the fence yesterday morning. All of them. Thankfully I saw it happen and so was able to chase them back in and was thankful I was able to push along the fence(barely), and eliminate that escape spot at least. Lol. End of April and sheep walking over the fence. What the heck?

[beaverdam]

It certainly is getting concerning. A few ill timed rains and it could be a disaster again.

We are lambing the sheep out on a pasture far from the barn because we can’t physically move them to the lambing paddock. Mud? No. Snow. I can’t even push a path through the blasted stuff yet. Too deep and now when it is so cold it is HARD A A ROCK. Which reminds me. The sheep walked over the fence yesterday morning. All of them. Thankfully I saw it happen and so was able to chase them back in and was thankful I was able to push along the fence(barely), and eliminate that escape spot at least. Lol. End of April and sheep walking over the fence. What the heck?

Two things sheepwheat;

1) Your tale of sheep going over the fence, reminds me of "Clarkson's Farm" lol, have you seen it on Amazon Prime,,, you'd get a blast out of it.
2) Sounds like it might be too cold for your maple syrup runs???

Anybody watch Clarkson's Farm, on Prime? Pretty funny. life on a, (not so usual), British farm, operated by Jeremy Clarkson, a former motor and sport car mag writer. Still laughing from listening to the Welsh(?) fence repairman, lol lol lol

[Sheepwheat]

Two things sheepwheat;

1) Your tale of sheep going over the fence, reminds me of "Clarkson's Farm" lol, have you seen it on Amazon Prime,,, you'd get a blast out of it.
2) Sounds like it might be too cold for your maple syrup runs???

Anybody watch Clarkson's Farm, on Prime? Pretty funny. life on a, (not so usual), British farm, operated by Jeremy Clarkson, a former motor and sport car mag writer. Still laughing from listening to the Welsh(?) fence repairman, lol lol lol

Yeah we really enjoyed Clarksons farm. It was actually fairly well done and fairly true to life, all considered. Oh yeah the unintelligible fence maker! Lol. Might have to watch it again.

I broke a few maple twigs the other day when it was warmer. No drips at all. I’m no expert, but for us, when there is so much snow in the bush still, there isn’t much sap flowing. And yeah it’s too cold too. It may be a no syrup year, because when it suddenly warms up, (they claim double digits by Thursday, I’ll believe it when I see it), I presume that will be it. Plus five, minus five looks like it won’t happen.

When the sheep walked over the fence I was in the bale yard grabbing a bale and they just walked over the fence towards me. We got a cell tower up last summer a few miles away, so I just texted the fam for help. Before that tower, our cell service was third world, and I would have been building a border collie barking drone to chase them back in! Haha.

[GALAXIE500]

yes we got a taste of farming in the south , probably a once in a lifetime chance for us NE swamp dwellers . was so relaxing . one weekend the forecast looked good , just quit combining and went fishing at only 2/3 done . usually hair straight back, scared we are gonna lose an hour or two to a breakdown that we can never recover. i could handle that again

You should have tried farming in the south the last few years. Not fun. ever tried combining a 5 bpa pea crop , just for seed for next year? Durum was 10 bpa or less. that was last year for a lot of us in the SW corner of Sask.

[furrowtickler]

Is seeding underway in your area Galaxy ?

[Sheepwheat]

You should have tried farming in the south the last few years. Not fun. ever tried combining a 5 bpa pea crop , just for seed for next year? Durum was 10 bpa or less. that was last year for a lot of us in the SW corner of Sask.

Were you getting stuck with the combine? Was the grain needing to be dried? Did your soil lose all its nutrients? Just saying. Because I’ve had single digit crops several times due to extreme wet conditions. With pathetic (relative to recent rates) crop insurance coverage and low grain prices. It’s never fun, dry, or wet. But for equal crops, I’d take dry any day.

Now. Let’s hope you get some of our moisture this year, and we get some of your dry! I would like nothing more than to have some balance!

[fjlip]

Must be somewhere that is HAPPY? Warm enough, moist enough, on time with seeding dates?