***Severe Weather on Wed 12/15***Damn its windy
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My weather app shows that it's currently 72 degrees in Ames. I wouldn't worry about keeping your pipes warm just yet, unless you're talking about keeping your pipe at 98.6 with @FallOf81's ex-wife in Sux City...
They don't where I grew up. Most leave the cut bean stalk in the field until spring. The corn stalks just gets chiseled in. Lot of stuff on top to keep the soil from taking flight.
A family member of mine who works at Iowa State said that the university shut down at noon today, so I'd say this **** is about to get REAL.
I remember when I was a paper boy for the Ames Tribune and Iowa State, Ames Community Schools and Cyride all closed down for the weather one winter and I had to still deliver my paper route(s). That time and the -50 degree day we had in 2019 are the last times I can remember Iowa State shutting down for weather and I don't think I've ever heard of em shutting down for weather pre-emptively like this. in the 20-something years I've lived in Ames....
I remember when I was a paper boy for the Ames Tribune and Iowa State, Ames Community Schools and Cyride all closed down for the weather one winter and I had to still deliver my paper route(s). That time and the -50 degree day we had in 2019 are the last times I can remember Iowa State shutting down for weather and I don't think I've ever heard of em shutting down for weather pre-emptively like this. in the 20-something years I've lived in Ames....
If they turn it over black and it's dry that might look what is happening in Kansas right now and something I haven't seen since I was a kid if the winds do as advertised.
The vertical tillage tools are really blackening things up also. A lot of continuous corn in my area.
Storms already popping in south central neb south of Kearney.
Oh and only moving at 80MPH.......
At 106 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from Atlanta to 6 miles southeast of Naponee to near
Natoma, moving northeast at 80 mph.
Oh and only moving at 80MPH.......
At 106 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from Atlanta to 6 miles southeast of Naponee to near
Natoma, moving northeast at 80 mph.
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I farm in NC/NE IA and very few people turn it over black anymore. Bean stubble stays either untouched or gets NH3 or hog manure injected, which turns a little dirt, but not a lot. Corn stalks are generally ripped (turns the dirt over black but leaves a ton of stalks in the mix), or get vertical tilled (which turns over very little dirt and mostly just pulverizes stalks) and there are plenty of guys who don't do any fall tillage on corn ground.
Chisel and moldboard are sparingly used in our neighborhood (there was some chiseling last year when it was dry). It's usually the Amish, or guys who hobby farm a 1/4 section with 60 year old machinery;
Chisel and moldboard are sparingly used in our neighborhood (there was some chiseling last year when it was dry). It's usually the Amish, or guys who hobby farm a 1/4 section with 60 year old machinery;
Some moron a few houses away still has their trampoline out. That thing will be gone in a few hours.
Moldboard is turning it over black. VT is drastically less so.
I think about when I was a kid and everything got turned over black. It's not at all like that these days.
And thank all that is good it isn't because that crap finds every gap in the house to get in with winds like this.
I assume you all have heading your way what we are getting this morning.
No storms here but unbelievable winds. 70+ mph at our place with 100+ recorded on some peaks. So whatever it is, it is heading there in a hurry. Stay safe.
No storms here but unbelievable winds. 70+ mph at our place with 100+ recorded on some peaks. So whatever it is, it is heading there in a hurry. Stay safe.
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A severe weather thread turned into a nice discussion of current soil conservation practices throughout the state of Iowa, CF at its best today.
