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Have a friend who has 4 rain gauges on 6000 ajoining acres and said i should do the same you will be atonished at differences at times. Basically 14 inch rainfall and can vary by over 1.5 inches in a year.
Im yet do it, yeah thunderstorms for sure but general rains i doubted him but he said not so even then huge differences.
I bought a farm in 1996kms from "main" farm just on top of a range of hills and history according to my father who was mates with owner twice removed and used to travel to meeting together etc.
Dad said you have to buy it get a inch more rain up there well aint happened consistently yet but time will tell.
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Oh and my crop report much below average but but with forecast a "huge" rains over next 2 to 3 weeks which may turn things around.
I really dont know how im gonna piss and shit and wipe my ass with me fingers crossed for 3 weeks guess i will find a wayLast edited by malleefarmer; Jul 29, 2018, 04:01. Reason: profanity removed dont want to upset those who are politically correct
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Originally posted by AlbertaFarmer5 View PostVery true, we are the last place anywhere to green up. In fact around our yard is slower even than a few miles away in most directions. Trees, grass, soil temp, snow melt all later, it is a disadvantage for sure. I seem to recall a few months ago, me insisting that a short growing season and lack of heat units was our biggest restriction, and you insisting that drought is. Yet you knowingly moved two provinces away to a zone with less rain and a longer growing season/more heat units. I would argue that it was a very wise career move, especially with the ever present threat of cooling ( global, local or otherwise), but runs counter to your stated concerns.
Moving here was purely to escape the oil patch and it's industrial pollution problems. We can argue about how much rain we need for our differing types of agricultural enterprises but if you don't have safe drinking water you don't have anything.
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On variance on rain fall ... we have a huge rain fall difference and most of our land is within 5 miles of main farm ..... not just once , at least 50% of the time .
We get more rain along HWY 4 , north of us 3 miles and east of us is a strip that gets 25% more rain than the main farm 80% of the time .
It is very , very rare we get a general rain that covers everything, once a year .. maybe
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Furrow I agree 100% with you.
We have one farm north of town that every one laughs no sign of rain and pavement wet some days, freak shower over night.
It always rains at Garth’s place.
This myth that a area is all the same is bullshit.
Valley changes storms.
Forest area attracts rain.
Hot dry week coming up will take yield down a bit as crop won’t fill as nice as it could do. Others who are short will see early maturing.
Like farm link said it’s a huge crop bigger than last year coming. Ha ha ha
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