[img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] We are getting some snow today here in SE Iowa. We have had such an "open" winter that we have been doing all sorts of outside jobs. Yesterday it was 53 and downright balmy; then about seven PM the temperature dropped like a rock. I'm concerned that we are so short of stored water in the soil profile. Last July we absolutely cooked and every vegetative thing pushed it's roots deep down to scavenge what little water was left in the root zone. We haven't had many serious rains to replenish the UG water, and definitely can't survive another short rainfall year like last year. We'll be taking the corn crop to town in a five-gallon bucket if we don't get some serious rain before it's time to plant. Of course we could always have a year like 2001, when it rained all through April and washed everything down the creek. [img]/forums/images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]