Winter kill?
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Charlie Munger says "always invert", so:
...we should figure out a way to roll and square ice and snow, for the summer months.
On a more bright and supportive point swmnhay, i suspect most in your area will experience the same and that will level the playing field, with an interesting challenging twist for each to figure out how to best overcome it.
at first-early glance, what do you anticipate and what will you do about it?
we don't have stuff like that here and the option-decisions now upon you seems quite interesting.
...we should figure out a way to roll and square ice and snow, for the summer months.
On a more bright and supportive point swmnhay, i suspect most in your area will experience the same and that will level the playing field, with an interesting challenging twist for each to figure out how to best overcome it.
at first-early glance, what do you anticipate and what will you do about it?
we don't have stuff like that here and the option-decisions now upon you seems quite interesting.
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I anticipate it to winter kill in all areas the water sat and froze,80% ? Of the field.I’ve already notified crop insurance and discussing options.They will look at it in spring,do root digs.
id sooner have it totally froze out as partial so then I’d just tear it up and put to corn.And seed another field to replace it.Well 50% damage is as good as totaled out as you would just have a weed mess!
If it’s partial damaged say 25% I may thicken it up with annual ryegrass or Teff grass to get another year out of it.
my problem is I need 700 ton to keep my customers filled.
Not my first rodeo with winter kill so I know enough not to drag my feet deciding if it’s good enough to keep or get it tore up and plant corn.BTDT with insurance adjusters before when they said wait it may get better next week.Damaged crowns don’t produce very good and not worth keeping.!
It's going to be an interesting spring. We have had the snow totally melted off fields for a couple days each week only to get snow covered again. We have had a pretty good amount of rain for the winter so with the melted snow and rain, soils are pretty saturated. Can't do anything about it now. I think it will help if we get a stretch of warm dry weather this spring to get things jump started. If it stays cold and wet things may struggle. We had some good growth in fall and some guys cut fields outside the recommended, do not cut window,. Those may suffer more. Only good I see out of it as we had 2 good hay years here and hay auction have been OK but not great and I have held over a little hay the past 2 years so maybe that will lower supply and help the price. Corn price has slipped a little the past week.
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It wouldn’t surprise me to see alfalfa winter kill rather bad this spring. In our area at least we had about an inch of rain on top of snow back in December. all of which has been froze up till a couple weeks ago. Then some freeze-thaw cycles that left even more ice on the fields. Oh well. At least my brother’s alfalfa is due to be rotated anyway. And after the drought stress last year I’m not sure how many alfalfa stands around here were any good to begin with.
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