extremely unusual weather

[beaverdam]

The shrink continues here from the 14th as a slow melt, little runoff, and the bonus of below freezing overnight so that we can pick our spots to load out durum contracts.

Yup, cold hard mornings, are great for loading/hauling, or getting other jobs done in the yard, without cutting ruts and ripping up the yard. But the slow melt doesn't help free up the drill and some other equipment I'd like to work on.

[Guest]

We are about 3-5 degrees colder than that for the next 10 days
Still quite a bit of snow

[blackpowder]

Our snow gone. Could use a rain.
Damn cold all week. But how often you see the damn wind blow non stop 20-50 for over 10 days? No wonder pioneers went mad

[Guest]

can walk on ice in ditches today , apr 13
normal, right chuck ?

[Hamloc]

It is a balmy -10 this morning, with a windchill of -16. Second year in a row that getting frozen ears on newborn calves in April is an issue. Before this latest cold snap the sloughs in the field were starting to soak away, now they are all frozen over. It has been colder in April than it was in March.

[Guest]

-14 hear with blowing snow
We are burning up

[shtferbrains]

It is a balmy -10 this morning, with a windchill of -16. Second year in a row that getting frozen ears on newborn calves in April is an issue. Before this latest cold snap the sloughs in the field were starting to soak away, now they are all frozen over. It has been colder in April than it was in March.

If climate changed lived up to it's billing calving season would naturaly move up?
Around here April 20 start even looking early for large groups.
Not just this year but this one might be the the one that keeps the bulls away for another week.

[WiltonRanch]

I’ve come to the conclusion start calving February or May. April is the worst month for calving and I like to be 3/4 done by first week of April before the melt and scours.

[Guest]

-16 here Sunday for a couple days
*** idiots and their *** global warming

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Stock waterers froze up here the last couple of days, had to turn them all back on again after having them turned off for the last month and a half without a problem.
Having to plug in the tractors and grain truck the last few days. We have been days on end without getting above zero. That rarely happens in the middle of winter around here.

But to be honest, this isn't unusual for April, just hard to handle after such a early mild spring.

And I still haven't figured out when the best time for calving is. Either deal with cold or mud or scours or overlap with seeding, or deal with predators and no facilities and hours searching for missing calves while out on pasture.