Posted on 05/09/2022 4:35:28 AM PDT by EBH
Cold temperatures and excessive moisture have delayed spring planting across the northern Plains.
Cold temperatures and excessive moisture have pushed back spring planting across the northern Plains and bumped the final dates for crop insurance coverage too close for comfort for some farmers.
April storms that dropped heavy snows and rains delayed planting across the entire state of North Dakota, and fields in Minnesota also were too wet and soil temperatures too cold to plant in April.
Seventy-one percent of North Dakota's soil moisture was rated adequate or surplus for the week that ended May 1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service said in its weekly crop report for North Dakota.
Even in areas of the state where it remains dry, field conditions weren’t suitable for planting because soil temperatures were cold.
Soil temperatures across North Dakota the week of April 24-30 averaged in the mid-to high 30s to low 40s, according to the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network.
There was only one-half day suitable for fieldwork in North Dakota during that week, NASS said.
The weather conditions further delayed spring planting. Spring wheat planting was 5% completed, 13% less than the five-year average and 34% less than 2021, the agency said. Planting of oats, barley, canola and edible peas, all of which were estimated at 1%, also lagged well behind last year and, to varying degrees, behind the five-year average
The five-year average for oats was 12%, canola, 4% and dry edible peas and barley, 14%. Last year, farmers had planted 7% of their canola, 18% of their oats, 21% of their dry edible peas and 35% of their barley acres.
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Back to Plan A, that being global cooling.
Yeah, this spring has been quite chilly.
Seattle has had a very chilly Spring.
March had below average temps. April actually had five straight days that were at least ten degrees below normal. May has already had six days at least 10 degrees below normal.
A couple days ago I could see snow on the front range of the Cascades, which is not common for the second week of May.
Durham wheat, the kind that makes pasta, is overwhelmingly grown in a small triangle of northwest North Dakota, extreme northeast Montana and southern Saskatchewan. Not just North America’s supply, but the world’s supply.
In Michigan it hasn’t been unusually chilly, but it has been very wet, and I’d say a bit more overcast than average. I still don’t have the garden prepped with how wet it’s been. If I started the tiller in there now, it would sink straight to China.
Minot ND here. We just had a blizzard 3 weeks ago that dumped 50” snow in 48 hours. Snow is mostly melted off but yep, going to be a late plant.
But...is it gonna affect the pot plants?....?!?!?!?
In Upper Michigan, the rocks haven’t finished rising out of the soil yet.
We’ve had cold Springs the past 5 or 6 years here in MD.
Finally warming up here in Missouri. From 50’s and lower to the 90’s today! WET, WET, WET! Pond has been overflowing for a month. No way to get in and cut the grass or plant the garden even in the raised beds.
Too bad. These farmers could use some Gorebull warming about now. Too bad there isn’t any.
The last few years have been cooler and wetter than normal here in Hoosierland too
Farmers started planting here 2 weeks ago, but the cold weather and driving rains have kept anything from popping up
I still can’t get my garden root plants in the ground
And here we are in S Texas going through another drought and thinning herds. Breeder cow numbers are already low and going lower. Feed prices out the roof so calf market prices are tanking.
It is getting harder to hold on every year
We reached 103 yesterday in S Texas on coastal bend. No chance of rain for another 2 weeks.
Same in Iowa. Too cold, too wet for
Soybeans and corn. Grandson started some planting the other day, while it was sunny and nice but it was followed up with rain and cold.
Ping
Meanwhile, in New Mexico we are having a hotter and dryer spring than normal. Usually we can get away with no heat or AC for April and most of May. We can cool the house with open windows in the morning and evening. It’s been so windy here, that you get a layer of sand/grit everywhere if you try to leave the windows open. The last precipitation we got was a heavy wet inch or so of snow the last week of March.
While I believe (because of mankind’s increasingly immoral behavior) that we are nearing the end times, tough springs in NW IL have happened as long back as I (67) can remember.
One sticks in my head really good: spring 74. We got rained out of the fields a day or two before we were going to start planting corn. We didn’t turn a wheel for 3 full weeks.
That was followed by an early frost in Sept and some of the soybeans got singed before full maturity.
Un-possible, I was promised the erf has a fever.
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