Winter is here

Yesterday marked the end of fall field work after two or three freeze thaw cycles that saw a couple of inches of frost in the ground, then none again as temperatures warmed. Temperatures dropped from 50 degrees at 6 a.m. Sunday morning to about 12 degrees by noon. This morning we were down to zero and the ground is frozen solid. Some folks put down NH3 this fall. I worked at that until noon yesterday, but most are waiting for the price to fall. People here prepaid from $780 to $1200 a ton for fall applied NH3. Current price is $600. There's a winter storm watch on tap for tomorrow. One year ago we were waiting for the ice to thaw. There were still broken tree limbs in our yard, and ice, on the first of April.

I hope April '09 is better.