Darrel Shaffer

Western Kansas dirt farmer, After 40 years of practice realizing I'm further from understanding what we're doing everyday.

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@NiehuesBrad You are welcome to any rain we might get over the next ten days. Can’t believe I’m at that point but we’ve had enough here.

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@WW_ksu @kraigsiruta @BrianBledsoe Man, I need more rest! Western Plains Energy.

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@BrianBledsoe Dighton

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@BrianBledsoe Plenty of ice with last nights.
The garden is a memory today.

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@kraigsiruta @BrianBledsoe I'll ask where Campus Ks. is because Google doesn't seem to know.

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Old enough to have experienced it.

[Tom Leffler @866GoToTom]

Good Morning.....
The Way It Used to be Done

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@scottwestacre Full tillage…….

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@CBKimbrell Idk, I was concerned they had been Cruelly abandoned there.

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@scottwestacre Ornamec 170 works well in a fescue lawn. Of coarse buffalo grass would be off label and I have no real experience with it on buffalo. I’d glyphosate it. Buffalo grass can survive it. Kind of like chemotherapy. Makes the buffalo grass look real rough but usually comes back.

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@speerman42 Ding, ding, ding , we have a winner. I’m so afraid that this is going to get f’d up. Nothing wrong with the status quo.

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@scottwestacre I’ll have what Clay’s drinking!

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That should just about cover it!

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@hedgeit I’ll take the under!

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We just think it’s dry now.

[First Alert Weather Team @DakotaNewsNowWx]

On this date in weather history, our area was dealing with The Dust Bowl era and it lead to one of the most infamous events deemed "The Black Blizzard". Check out some facts and photos:

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@BradyD78 Several inches of rain short of being the 2023 nightmare.

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@BrianBledsoe

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@AMillershaski 6 wks ago I thought we were looking at record yields on our farm. Still some respectable wheat here in Lane Co. but an equal number that won’t see a combine.

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@LowBoomLowDrift @HarrisonKrey 1. Palmer Pigweed
2. Palmer Pigweed
3. Palmer Pigweed
4. Palmer Pigweed
5. Palmer Pigweed

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El Niño is that you?