Hey you South Dakota guys.

Our Coop Manager just got an email stating that a Coop in north central S Dakota is looking for applicators and drivers to help them get caught up with there fert, and chemical application.

Seems one coop is 80,000 acres behind.

How or why did one coop get 80,000 acres behind?

Just wondering?

Gary

Water! Saw a newer 12 wheel JD buried yesterday afternoon

sounds like everything north of US 212 and into Noth Dakota is a real mess, water everywhere and little planted, I have 4 acres of corn done so far and hope to get planting again today, worked in fertilizer last night and I probably shouldn't have been into some of it but more rain is predicted for the weekend starting Thurs. PM

Speaking of North Dakota being a real mess...

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This flooding in the Devils Lake basin has been getting worse EVERY year since the early 90's and no one knows when it may end.
Water

Very late, wet Spring. I"m on clay, an hr NW of MPLS- first day in the field was yesterday- latest in my 39 years here. Local fields still have water standing- a week of good weather before we can drive anywhere.

They had a big rally monday at Tolna Coulee outlet. The natural outlet if water continues to rise. Only happened couple times in last 4000 years. quite a geological event . If not regulated it could flood sheyenne river and Red river big time .

I did some reading on this <a href="http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/320016/">protest</a>. I'm having a hard time understanding what the controversy is. Could someone from the area explain?

It seems like the State and Army are planning on building emergency flood gates on the Tolna Coulee dam so when the water in Devil's lake does rise over the level that dam can old it won't wash out completely.

It seems like the protesters want them to build a "control structure" on that dam instead. Does that mean they want them to just make the dam higher so that it doesn't drain at all, or does that mean they want more water to drain out than what the Army and State are proposing?

"Drain, baby DRAIN!"

Wind, cold weather, wind, rain and wind!! We have had about 3 1/2 days this spring when we have been able to spray. The wind is blowing when the sun comes up and is blowing when the sun goes down. COLD at night, and we have had quite a bit of moisture. We have maybe had two weeks of good sunshine since last November. Sure been a hard spring to get the spraying done.

The Shyenne River has carp, and Devils Lake dosen't. Sport fishing pumps a lot of money into the local economy. If carp make it into Devils lake the sport fishing will be badly damaged. The "control structure" is to keep carp out of the lake.

The main stink is ,,Canada ..they don't want the water from Devils lake, which has high pophsat levels ,to get to lake winnipeg . sheyenne flows into the Red River by Fargo , and Red flows north to canada . They also complain about some fisheries population issues . don't want canadian game fishing ruined . The Corp of engineers has built a pumping station on the west end of the lake . massive electric pump and filter system. It is not enough . They want to build an East end station at milions of $$$ and est $400,000 month in elect to power it . The natural drainage of the lake flows through Stump Lake , then to Tolna Dam , then Tolna coulee to sheyenne river . at 1458 elevation this occurs . Problem being tolna outlet is silt material and will wash out causing a tidal wave effect ,some say . taking out most bridges and flooding Sheyenne valley . Logical solution, build control gates and let gravity do the work for FREE . corp wants gate level at 1458 ,,which will add 4 more ft to an already flooded city of Devils lake as well as farms and roads under water . they want to have lower level such as 1450 or so .Lake is at 1454 .3 now . roads are gone , farms are gone , lake has tripled in size . They say in the last 4000 years it has washed out the Tolna coulee outlet .

Compared to what is in the Red River I am supprised anything is undesirable. There is actually a treaty between the US and Canadia that says neither can cause a discharge of water that will injure the other. That is a huge concern for the US and the Army Corps. The fish like the carp will make it through the gate, no so likely the pumps. Once in DL they will make it upstream to Canada. So I don't think there is any simple solution. The fact is we are having worse floods and not worse moisture. This is cause specificlly in this area by the draining of the praire pot holes (over 1/2 of it is gone)and putting drain tilling in fields. Urban development also contributes (have you flown into Fargo lately ? all us small towners that didn't leave the state seemed to have moved there). I know of rivers and creeks in ND that used to run all summer, and now only flood and run for a few weeks in the spring. The acceleration of water drainage to all the great midwest rivers, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri ect are largly responsible for the flooding in North Dakota and the lower Missippi river. I have sympathy for the DL region but save massive plantings of grass, and plugging tiles and canals not much can be done. It would also recharge the aquifers, many endangered now, espically the oglala that sits under my farm.