Snow I have rarely seen in my life and never where we farm. In our case the we can have very serious soil drift problems over some of our winter cropping cropping areas as the soils, which are often light sandy soils as well as the heavier clay soils,can start to wind drift if we do not get sufficient rain and _ or the surface is rolled flat. In the lentil and pulse cropping areas of the states of Victoria, South Australia and southern New South Wales in south eastern Australia, rollers made from old truck tyres and sometimes steel are used to flatten out the soil immediately after sowing or shortly after emergence. This makes it far better for harvesting and can cut losses at harvesting quite dramatically. It also cuts damage from stones right down to a very low level. Our latitude south where we are in western Victoria is about the same as the latitude in southern Kansas but I have never seen snow fall here. You have the vast Canadian continental areas going up into the Arctic which your winter weather has to cross to bring it down into the USA. We have the warmer waters of the great Southern Ocean which our winter weather has to cross from Antartica and that is the difference. In fact, like most people around here, I have only ever seen small patches of dirty snow a few times in my life and that was up in our local small mountain ranges. For your info we start sowing in mid May, which is the start of our winter. Sowing starts earlier in other cropping areas further north in Australia's grain belt, and we start harvesting around mid to late November in our area. Again harvest will start in mid October up in the north, in the central Queensland grain areas. As one of your countrymen and contributor to this forum who will be in Australia in a week or so, has put it, we all look out of our own back door and assume that what we see is what the rest of the world also looks like! As I can also testify, it really is an eye opener to get off one's own little dung heap and get out and see how the rest of the world lives. There really are some surprises out there! Cheers!