Are we seeing the end of El Nino here at the end of March? Temps have retreated to a somewhat more expectable level and now we have eight or nine inches of snow on the ground. Maybe the alliance between climate change and the Nino pattern is over for the time being.
So, on with mud season. It looks as if we will need to focus now on getting the machines ready to plant the crop and patch the pastures and hay fields. The corn markets have so far fallen out of bed as to make us question once again the wisdom of even planting the crop.
But our major possible alternative, grazing, is problematic too. It is impossible for us to project any real possibility of profit with calves and stocker animals at the price being paid today. Contract grazing seems the only way to go so it is going to be time to start looking for someone with more animals to graze than they have grass. Of course that means we must accurately estimate the amount of grass we will have.
No one ever said any of this would be easy.
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