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Post by Beerwiser on Feb 3, 2021 0:23:40 GMT -6
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Post by nvw on Feb 3, 2021 0:29:26 GMT -6
Personally I think there is a lot to do with moon phases and ag operations. The only one I really abide by though is weaning cattle. I swear up and down it just goes smoother when the moon is in the right phase. I'd love to do everything by the moon but it just isn't practical. Then talk about the effect a full moon has on people... that's a whole new game. What is the right phase of the moon in regards to weaning? I haven't heard that before. |
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Post by bob123 on Feb 3, 2021 0:43:17 GMT -6
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Around here the weather changes about 6 miles away from us. Harvest 2019 we combined for close to a week while east of us 6-10 miles had fog and rain showers. They also get a lot more rain then where our yard is also... can be good or bad at times [/quote]
Microclimates have really interested me lately, I never used to pay attention to how small a weather pattern could be. Living right on the red, it seems like as the storms blow in from the west the air cools crossing the river and the east side of the river usually gets more rain then the west. And then this year we were in a 3 mile pocket that missed about half the rains of everywhere around it. Seems like once your ground gets hot and dry it's just a loop of the hot air pushing off the rain even more. I've read about ranchers in Mexico who use intensive grazing to start getting the grass to revive and if they can get a couple miles in a row like that they can pretty much create their own rain clouds in the desert
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Post by slipclutch on Feb 3, 2021 7:20:53 GMT -6
Hoarfrost. Three months or 90 days plus or mins you will get some kind of precipitation. Ether snow or rain. Some guys would say then another 90 days after that more precipitation. My gramma would say full moon shining on the bins on Christmas Eve. No crop.
Take it for what’s it worth.
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Post by meskie on Feb 3, 2021 7:51:48 GMT -6
Around here the old timers always said 6 months after a hoar frost for rain.
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Post by cptusa on Feb 3, 2021 8:58:23 GMT -6
Personally I think there is a lot to do with moon phases and ag operations. The only one I really abide by though is weaning cattle. I swear up and down it just goes smoother when the moon is in the right phase. I'd love to do everything by the moon but it just isn't practical. Then talk about the effect a full moon has on people... that's a whole new game. What is the right phase of the moon in regards to weaning? I haven't heard that before. Basically you're supposed to wean on the full moon and new moon, I'd have to look at the almanac but its a couple days before or after to be accurate. |
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Post by jvdl on Feb 3, 2021 14:30:00 GMT -6
Wifes grandmother always would say 90 days after first thunderstorm would be the first frost, always seemed pretty close.
The hoar frost thing has been a good way to tell the number of rain days in the next year, but not amounts
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Post by kevlar on Feb 3, 2021 15:08:04 GMT -6
My sex life seems to work around the full moon, and god forbid if it's cloudy on the full moon!! lol
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Post by garyfunk on Feb 4, 2021 11:27:37 GMT -6
Moon phases and farming is kinda like moon phases and fishin'. When you get the chance to do it you giver! As far as frost and precipitation 90, 100, or 200 days later? Well, thankfully observation of others' mistakes has me not counting on that any time soon, ha.
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