Rain-Good or Bad
A look at the way we look at weather…it’s like opinions, everyone’s got one, but they’re not necessarily alike, or to use a bigger word, homogeneous. There’s no question whether weather… was that redundant? No, two different spellings, but I digress…weather is as important to a producer as any other element in his business. And in terms of weather, precipitation is key…it’s the king. That said, there is a very rosy picture portrayed for us up here in the great Northwest, by national meteorologist Brad Rippey. Listen. “We’ve seen some good rains in the northwest and that’s a bit of a bonus because we have settled into an El Nino pattern and eventually we expect the NW to turn dry so the fact that we’ve had a good wet November there’s a jump start for the winter grains across the NW.” But then there’s Idaho wheat farmer Dar Olberding who feels there might have been too much of a good thing: “We had almost 2” of rain in a single day…that was the only problem we had.”
