April is nigh, along with visions of outside farm work and the hopes that folks across the countryside will be sowing the year’s coming bounty.
Farmers in locales farther south might already be testing the soil temperatures, but the best seen in the WAXX 104.5 listening area has been the sight of a couple farmers chopping last season’s corn-stalks. Cool air and another weekend of rain calmed hopes for an early planting season.
Still, hope remains.
The grasses are starting to rise in shades of green, and spring peepers have been joining the choruses already being performed by early arriving birds. Horses and beef cattle are starting to turn away from the round-bale feeders to find the sweetness of a few occasional blades of greened pasture grass.
And, the forecast of a blue sky and the temperature in the high 50s for at least today and tomorrow bring the additional hope that farmers won’t be fooled when April arrives on Wednesday.
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