Crops under snow

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Looking for a bright side here !

I guess crops under snow are at least protected from the lower temperatures and chill factors we are getting ?

Is the snow actually a bit of a blessing ??
 

JCA

Member
Location
Fife
No snow here. Crops are being freeze blasted and shrinking by the hour. Bound to be loosing tillers and no let up forecast for this week. Not what we needed. :cry:
 

York

Member
Location
D-Berlin
Looking for a bright side here !

I guess crops under snow are at least protected from the lower temperatures and chill factors we are getting ?

Is the snow actually a bit of a blessing ??
a blessing from the point of helping the plants to get over the cold. even 1 cm of snow cover is a good insulation.
now if it doesn't let the air in, it will increase snowmold (trust you know what I mean), which poils down to nutrition of the plant how good she can "resist2 the mold.
The good is that after the snow goes the prices will increase, my expectation as then they will realise how much crops are gone, fullstop.
York-Th.
 

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