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03/30/14, 07:09 AM
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Optimism
Tractor's ready. Monitors ready. Planter hooked up. Time to plant some corn.
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03/30/14, 07:39 AM
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Hahaa! I know the feeling. Looks about the same from behind the wheel of my tractor.
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03/30/14, 07:47 AM
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Parts of MN are predicted to get another foot of snow tomorrow.
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03/30/14, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by fishhead
Parts of MN are predicted to get another foot of snow tomorrow.
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We just got a foot of snow last night...after about two hours of freezing rain. What a mess.
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03/30/14, 09:34 AM
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Thats great. Now it looks like all you need is a few weeks of our temps . Low 80's to the low 90's
They are all but finished planting around here. But it's another year of preplant irrigation for them.
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03/30/14, 09:42 AM
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Thet Ain't Homesteadin'
Thets modern farmin'.. 
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03/30/14, 10:12 AM
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Here is what I'm expecting in Southern Pa. It will stay cold , windy and rainy till the second week of April. On the 13th of April it will be 90 degrees and stay there till the end of September without a drop of rain. How's that for a bit of optimism? Seems that is what happens here a lot when we have a long cold winter.
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03/30/14, 11:18 AM
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I'm afraid that MN is headed from this long winter to a hot humid summer like the last 2. I might as well live in Alabama at least there the winters are warmer.
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03/30/14, 02:27 PM
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Corn is up here in my part of south Texas.
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03/30/14, 03:08 PM
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Dale, even on a good year you folks can't plant corn this early, can you?
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03/30/14, 03:10 PM
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April 18th would be about the earliest we'd ever plant corn. We've planted barley or oats this time of year before.
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03/30/14, 03:34 PM
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anhydrous is in will be planting corn soon...
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03/30/14, 03:59 PM
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It is the winter that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends.
I am a winter lover, but enough already. We have had exactly 2 days since late October above freezing. My sanity is waning.
Dale, thanks for making me feel worse. 
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03/30/14, 04:00 PM
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I guess we should see if we can get this thread locked. These threads are not the place for modern, "big ag" after all...
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03/30/14, 04:51 PM
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Snow 3' deep in the fields here, optimism may be a couple weeks away still.
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03/30/14, 05:26 PM
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Snow 3' deep in the fields here, optimism may be a couple weeks away still.
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haven't tried the last couple of days, up until then 90% of the places I went had enough crust to hold the tractor up which I never remember seeing before. The odd place it didn't it would drop a couple of feet in a big hurry.
Disappearing fast this weekend.
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03/30/14, 05:38 PM
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haven't tried the last couple of days, up until then 90% of the places I went had enough crust to hold the tractor up which I never remember seeing before. The odd place it didn't it would drop a couple of feet in a big hurry.
Disappearing fast this weekend.
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More than ready to see it go away. It was 4' deep a week ago , couldn't see where the beehives were then.
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03/31/14, 04:05 PM
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No lockum
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I guess we should see if we can get this thread locked. These threads are not the place for modern, "big ag" after all...
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Nawww Let's jist give u an a+++ for the scale of PREPPIN' yer doin! 
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03/31/14, 04:33 PM
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March has always been a hard month for me. My downstate friends are without snow, while I generally have 2 or 3 feet snow on the ground. But, this winter, has averaged 10 to 20 degrees colder all winter long. In a normal winter, the snow is mostly gone in Mid April and the smelt run by late April. But this year, who knows. Bout ready to get my boat out.....
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03/31/14, 10:09 PM
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Half our snow melted about 3 weeks ago when we had about 5 days of warmth, and then we went back into the deepfreeze with no temperatures above freezing. It's way below normal temperatures, but it's supposed to start warming up tomorrow and be in the double didgets by the weekend. But I did hear a robin today!!
Seeding starts here in May but the hutterites are sometimes out there end of April.
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