What’s happening in your neck of the woods?
Spring fever has struck! Are you itching to get into the fields? Or have you been fortunate to start planting? Share with us what is happening in your area.
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April 20th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Here in northwest Ohio we have spring fever, but it is too wet to do much about it! Our temperatures have been above normal. The wheat has all been top dressed with nitrogen & it is starting to grow fast! The lawns haved greened up & are growing fast also! It is really too early to plant corn anyways. Soil temperature is now around 45-48 degrees on bare ground. It needs to be about 50 degrees to start planting corn. Most years we are lucky to get some corn planted by the last week of April. Some cabbage growers had transplants scheduled to get planted by the 15th of April. The wet weather has not allowed hardly any field work to be done for the last 2 weeks. The forecast is calling for more rain on the 21st, 22nd, 23rd; then more still on the 27th, 28th & 29th. It is not looking good for much planting to happen in April this year!
April 28th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I am in Iowa. Last week was great and a lot of corn went in the ground. I would estimate that almost 80% was done here. But we got too much rain over the weekend. A little was needed but not the 2 inches. Now it is colder too and got some frost this morning. Forecast says more rain tonight and tomorrow. Looks like we won’t get back in the fields this week until it warms up and dries soon. Thinking that seed rot could be a problem otherwise.
April 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
We had over 4.5 ” of rain last weekend…things are green but too wet to work up the ground just yet.Most of the oats are in. If the sunshine holds out we’ll be working up the ground and start planting before the weekend. Lots of folks in our area are cutting way back on fungicides. We’ve experienced a drag on our yields with some of the fields we’ve put late applications on…. Moisture has really made the pasture land take off… and we’ll try and get the most our of our hay and pasture land as we can this year.