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Where did all the global warming go?

We could get frost again tonight - - - I think the corn is still small enough to survive but this is ridiculous!!!

I can't believe the horn flies are taking over! I will spray again the next day we don't have rain. We are about the only ones around with corn out of the ground, we started on the 15th which is when we are normally finished - - - the cattle seem to be fine with it if I can spray for the flies!

I think we might hit +60F tomorrow, what a heat wave!
 
Wonder how many people besides Al Gore are getting rich off not much more than taking advantage of the 'global warming' fanatism?

I'm just thankful for global warming if that is what took away the Ice Age. Or even the era when so much of what now is the USA was a sea. Don't think I would have liked living on the edges of the one that covered western SD, either, since all those various dinosaurs and other creatures were part of the eco-system.

Why don't the 'powers that be' just work on making the best of what we have now, cleaning up the messes people have made, and leave the 'global warming' to God? We would be better off working to store and spread around the rain, or possibly even figuring out how to control where and when rain and snow fall, for starters, instead of controlling every minute aspect of our daily lives and taxing us to death trying to cut out the use of lowest cost fuels substituting the highest priced ones making the Al Gores of this world ever richer. Use practical solutions, not the ones most lucrative for liberals.

mrj
 
And here we go again - - - the weathermen said today would be a high of mid 50s and it is now 79 - - - I guess we will take what mother nature hands out - - - the cattle look great and the corn is jumping out of the ground - - - if we get about 2 more dry days all our corn will be planted and we are over 1/2 done with soybeans. The grass hay in the area is tall enough to bale if we get the weather.

We are supposed to get in the low 60s most all week but I feel it will be about 10* above the predictions.
 
Something along these lines which is improving, tho too slowly, is weather forecasting. There is little that would help us (on this ranch, for sure!) more than really accurate weather forecasts. To really know within a reasonable percentage how much moisture we will get in a week, month, season, year, ditto for temperatures, would be a tremendous asset. We could manage to deal with that if we had a decent 'heads up' on what to expect and could better withstand the below averages as well as the better seasons. Even knowing about a blizzard a little more in advance than we do now would enable us to get the cows fed and into better locations (I'm not talking sending them way south, just the better sheltered areas of our ranch). And managing the haying.....maybe planting some sorghum or other drought tolerant crop if that is the best option available to us, for instance. Mostly we rely on prairie hay, with some alfalfa interplanted into some of it. These cover crops we are hearing about in recent years might be a good idea some years, but we usually don't know early enough to do that now. We don't raise any grains, just hay, but I can imagine significantly better weather forecasts would be a big boon for grain farmers, too.

mrj
 
Last night after the 79* evening we got over an inch of large hail - - - the state had to plow it off some roads - - - now back to cold and rainy
 
Global warming in full swing up here. 29 degrees here today again, fires popping up here and there. Crop is all in, earliest I can remember for that. We haven't had a cold day since December.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Silver said:
Global warming in full swing up here. 29 degrees here today again, fires popping up here and there. Crop is all in, earliest I can remember for that. We haven't had a cold day since December.
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You bragging or complaining? :???: :D
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Well, we broadcast 46-0-0 on a quarter section on the promise of rain in the forecast a couple of weeks ago and I suppose we lost that now in this weather so maybe I'm complaining :shock:
Might be bragging a bit about the crop :D
 

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