It's too cold and too wet to plant across the northern Plains

AgWeek ^ | 5/9/22

[DownInFlames]

42 this morning in Raleigh NC. Yesterday the high was 51 in May!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wisconsin is behind, too. Wheat is usually in by now - mostly the farmers are just NOW tilling their fields. It’s been a bonus for dairy farmers, though - still had time to dump a lot of manure on everything, so that’s good. :)

Supposedly, we ARE in a ‘Solar Minimum’ which explains the cold spring. No explosions (sunspots) on the Sun, so less warmth for us.

That said, I’m pretty sure Nature is beyond anyone’s control, so we just have to roll with the punches if we want to live on good old Planet Earth! ;)

[kiryandil]

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.

"Global Warming"

[Rio]

Southern Oregon high desert:
We generally plant most of the vegetable garden on Mother’s Day. Not this year... been raining all week and then snowed all day long Mother’s Day.

[VeniVidiVici]

Finally warming up here in Missouri.

Should be high 60's here in MD today. I'll suffer. Moving back to FL in three weeks :)

[Vaduz]

To warm to go ice fishing to wet to plow end of looks good for planting.

[nomorelurker]

“And here we are in S Texas going through another drought”

Sure starting to look like a drought. Don’t need that. Wind has been blowing since March also so things are really dry. A few places had some spotty rain and are ok, but most of the corn, milo and cotton don’t look good. Was down in the Valley last week and they don’t look too bad.

[shotgun]

Not any better over here in the Yakima Valley. Near freezing this morning and it just refuses to get above 63 degrees. We’ve only had a couple of nice days in the mid 70’s but their still forecasting high 50’s to low 60’s for this week.

[jmacusa]

Minot. Just curious, isn’t there a USAF base near there?

[nascarnation]

My wife’s nephew just retired from the USAF. He was stationed out there for a number of years at the missile sites. He was one of the guys who would have put in the codes to launch if it happened.

[jmacusa]

Whoa. That’s got to be an awesome responsibility and a heavy thing to bear in mind.

God bless him.

[BBQToadRibs2]

Yep, Minot AFB, 10 miles north of town. Home to the 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing. (minuteman III)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_Air_Force_Base

[jmacusa]

Thanks.