The severe weather of this last winter and spring has prompted many cow-calf producers to evaluate the potential of moving their calving date to a different time of year. The following are a list of ten things producers may want to think through as they evaluate moving of a calving date.
Posted by Life is Better on the Farm on Thursday, May 7, 2020
Worldwide, 1 in 10 presidents and prime ministers has relatives who were already in politics. Europe and Latin America, both democratic regions, have the highest proportion of leaders who come from political families.
A few weeks back I was driving through Madison County smelling what you normally smell in farm country – dirt, mud, manure and fermented grain. Farmers hauling out their hundredth load of manure and bed pack from the barnyard, recycling the rich organic matter back into the earth so it can grow more corn and silage, more hay and alfalfa for high quality forages that power that cows thar make the milk and the steaks and the beef we all enjoy.
Dairy country has its smells especially during the fall and spring when fallow fields are rejuvenated with nutrients which help them grow. Fresh slurry can particularly tickle ones nose. But the smells of the working land represents a rural life sustained, a land put to use, a healthy and diverse habitat that remains largely open and green.
These buildings are in almost every U.S. city. They range from three to seven stories tall and can stretch for blocks. They’re usually full of rental apartments, but they can also house college dorms, condominiums, hotels, or assisted-living facilities. Close to city centers, they tend toward a blocky, often colorful modernism; out in the suburbs, their architecture is more likely to feature peaked roofs and historical motifs. Their outer walls are covered with fiber cement, metal, stucco, or bricks.
They really are everywhere, I discovered on a cross-country drive last fall, and they’re going up fast. In 2017, 187,000 new housing units were completed in buildings of 50 units or more in the U.S., the most since the Census Bureau started keeping track in 1972. By my informal massaging of the data, well over half of those were in blocky mid-rises.
Good morning! Happy Flower Moon 🌕! Been so cold fewer flowers 🌷 then normal this time of year but still quite nice. Sunny and 51 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. A beautiful morning. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around morning. ☃️
Beautiful morning. ☺. Started my day with a nice walk 🚶 around the super block and then I’m planning to work outside most of the day. 💼 Maybe go down to the library books 📚 where I can work with the faster internet and upload new stuff to the site blog. 🌸
Feeling quite well now 💊 with the doxycycline doing its magic. Aches and soreness in my legs are mostly home not as tired 😴. Lyme disease sucks. Heck even my phone 📱 autocomplete knows that now. I was told that the reason I was so much more tired and sick from the doxycycline this time was the Lyme disease infection was recent and the disease was much more of a fight. Pretty good now but still a bit sore.
Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 63 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 27th. Light northwest wind becoming west 6 to 11 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 66 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1930. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄
I’m thinking about going down to the Pepscanne Preserve 🐦 this afternoon if the weather is nice. I really enjoy seeing all the birds down there and sitting out by the river especially on such a beautiful day. Then get groceries at Aldi’s and gas. ⛽
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 64.4° from the due south horizon (-6.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:23 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (288°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (294°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:03 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 10 seconds with dusk around 8:34 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:14 pm. At sunset, look for out for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, then gradual clearing toward daybreak 🌧, with a low of 36 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 12th. West wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 44 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1968.
Mothers Day Weekend looks cold but Sunday might be slightly better. 😏 Saturday, a chance of snow before 8am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 8am and 10am, then a chance of rain showers after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees. Saturday is definitely a stay home day. 🏡 The internet will be happy 😊. Sunday maybe I can see if I can get another tick bite at Partridge Run? 👀Or not.
One month 📅 from now will be Strawberry Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm with dusk at 9:05 pm. The average high temperature is 32 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895.
