Jeff Wessels

@cattleNcrops83 Crazy

96 today with 6% humidity. Don’t do anything stupid 🔥

@efino87 Fantastic!!!

Today we did the Corner Mountain loop in the Snowy Range. Despite all the snow it the photos, it was a hot hike. I was putting snow on my arms to cool down by the end. We saw lots of Moose evidence but no Moose.

@KathyFortune9 @agronomistryan1 @AGRICENLIFER 😢

@agronomistryan1 @AGRICENLIFER I’m lucky it doesn’t bother me too much, but my husband gets sinus infections easily from it 😬

The cedar trees are blooming 🤧

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@DDFalpha @sizov_andre You will be going down the eastern side. The west is where it is desperate for rain. We have been 90° the past 2 days with forecast of 96 today and no rain forecast in the immediate future. Most wheat will not make it I believe if doesn’t rain within 2 weeks

@sizov_andre I’ll be going thru KS tomorrow.

Beautiful. ☀️😎🌴🐪🏜️

@WeatherNation @VernChronicles Looks a lot more like the Cottonwood fire than Morrill fire. Cottonwood fire has large amounts of red cedar trees in it.

The Morrill Fire in western Nebraska remains active, though great progress has been made in building containment lines. The fire is 98% contained, but critical fire conditions are expected to return to the state tomorrow. Stay aware and have multiple ways to get alerts! #NEwx

@heymooly 😢🙏

A few pics from my trip out to the Sandhills this week in the thread below 🧵 Destroyed building north of Broadwater

@molivier1A @edawson78 Most ranches have windmills like you see in the movies, miles away out in the pasture with a tank by it for summer use. Most cattle are in close to headquarters currently as calving season to watch over them so need electricity to water and feed them. Few generators

@FVCJeffW @edawson78 IDK. 1) I'm not a rancher; 2) your hypothetical doesn't define "a lot"; 3) Don't ranches and farms have standalone water systems/towers that can operate via gravity? 4) Aren't there back-up electrical systems linked to livestock watering and alarms of some sort as a JIC?

They want the Ogallala Aquifer

@BillSchammert I have been to it 2x. It is extremely moving. Go slow and read a lot

Husker fans… If you’re in OKC and looking for something to do today, I encourage you to check out the OKC Bombing Memorial and Museum. I’ve been to a lot of museums and it is at the very top. Incredible. Chilling. Informative. So well done.

@molivier1A @edawson78 What do you do when in this situation the wind was 50+ for over 48 hours and in that area are a lot of livestock that need electricity for water to drink?

@FVCJeffW @edawson78 That makes how many fires caused by live power lines hitting combustibles in high wind events? Lahaina, HI; Pacific Palisades, CA; Paradise, CA. How much does it cost a power co. to cut power in high-wind events for a few hours vs. fire tolls?

@molivier1A @edawson78 So you think the winds at 70-90 mph that day had nothing to do with the power pole breaking off starting the fire? You know there is almost 0 population in the Morrill fire area? It was mostly rangeland with grumpy landowners that will protect it.

@edawson78 The oldest trick in the book: Burn out the population to seize the land and everything under it.

@efino87 I think west of Centennial is beautiful. May be snow, or should say hopefully there is.

@FVCJeffW That’s a good idea, I have never been in the Snowy Range.

Windows down, sunroof open, iced coffee in hand. It’s going to be so warm this weekend, I can’t decide if we should go to the Lake or the Mountains.

@narj_15 @gpjohnson1 It is not looking good for sure. I have dug in some early planted fields that got some taller growth. Could push a soil probe in about 4” and I think that was only because it breaks into clods

HRW wheat just may be toast with 80° and 90° days and zero rain chances in the 10 day. Fun, just fun.

@JakeZwagerman @FVCoop No it is not but 🤷🏻 as the optimistic people say ‘every day we are one day closer to a rain’ Not sure much of the rain fed wheat will make it.

@FVCJeffW @FVCoop Not good. Years ago I combined a lot of corn there when I was on a custom crew. Nice area.

88° at Grant on March 19 🤦🏻 taking soil samples with no rain in immediate forecast 😢 ⁦@FVCoop⁩ we need rain.

@FVCoop @VernChronicles 🙏

Lack of significant moisture this winter has been impactful. Praying for a change in the forecast that brings some rain.

@Cornfrmr Awesome!!

Getting ready to blow this joint. #hospital Kathy had back surgery Monday, all is well so I get to take her home.

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