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[Listen] December Weather Tom Hoverstad SROC Tuesday I called Tom Hoverstad who is a Scientist at the Southern research and Outreach Center at Waseca to talk about the December 2020 weather. It was the fourth month in a row that was dryer than normal. There was a dusting of snow on December 19 that provided .03 hundredths of an inch of precipitation. That broke a 36 day period with no precipitation. It has been over 50 years since we have seen a prolonged dry spell like that. December 2020 was much warmer than normal as the average was 5 degrees above normal. On December 15 there was still no...

[Listen] Tom Hoverstad SROC Another Weather Record? Tom Hoverstad is a Scientist at the Southern research and Outreach Center at Waseca. Tom monitors the weather from their official weather station at Waseca. Typically I call Tom early in the month to talk about the previous month's weather. However, I had to call Tom Wednesday to ask about this really nice warm weather. As we approached the middle of December I saw pork producers still injecting manure, some fall tillage was still going on in addition to a lot of tile drainage being plowed in. I do not have any "official"l records other than...

Beginning on January 6, 2021 the University of Minnesota Extension Service will be hosting a multi-week series every Wednesday titled Strategic Farming 2021: Let's Talk Crops. The series will be held every Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:00 am. The Zoom sessions will be quite informal and are open to anyone that would be interested. There is no cost. The sessions will begin with about a 10 minute presentation from the discussion leaders on the topic of the day. Then there will be a 20 minute discussion "framed" around farmer and participant questions. One nice feature of this technology is that all ...

[Listen] Tom Hoverstad SROC Another Weather Record? Tom Hoverstad is a Scientist at the Southern research and Outreach Center at Waseca. Tom monitors the weather from their official weather station at Waseca. Typically I call Tom early in the month to talk about the previous month's weather. However, I had to call Tom Wednesday to ask about this really nice warm weather. As we approached the middle of December I saw pork producers still injecting manure, some fall tillage was still going on in addition to a lot of tile drainage being plowed in. I do not have any "official"l records other than...