In the north-central and northeast half of the US, the season is shaping up more and more as one of the springs where we go from winter to summer in less than a week. Snow one day, short sleeve shirts two days later. The longer-term forecast just a week ago had this region as colder and wetter than normal. The forecast has now been changed to hot and dry. The supreme irony is that by the middle of May we will probably be at average growing degree days. This will mean that the manure that couldn’t get spread because it was too wet, the corn that couldn’t get planted because it was too cold and wet, and the winter forage and haylage that was growing very slowly, will all switch to “need to be done now!”