I'm not sure that where this question belongs but will try here also. I live in Idaho and it's January and it should be cold but it's in the fifties and we have had over a inch of rain in the last month. Now the winter wheat has come up over two inches tall. What happens to it when it freezes hard again. Will the farmer lose the whole crop or does it go dorment or what? What happens to the growth it already has? Is there some site that would have that information and what do I look under?

Jsews, I live in Eastern Washington, in farm country, and the same is happening here--not quite as warm, but the wheat is still growing. It has happened here before,if there is a bad freeze before a snowfall (if it snows, the wheat is insulated from the cold and no damage occurs), then the farmer can indeed lose the whole crop. In that case, they replant with spring wheat, which doesn't make as high a yield nor is as good a quality wheat, but certainly beats a total crop failure.

I live on the west coast of Washington, and 3 days since Christmas I have been out in my shirtsleeves. We are going to have an early spring - my daffodils are up, and the other day the whole place was peeping and hopping with little birds! Don't tell me there's no such thing as global warming, I've been watching it get warmer and warmer since I was a kid.

Catty