Thank you for responding and I do appreciate when people or an organization admits they were wrong. It's a rare commodity these days and refreshing. I'm not a farmer who relies so much on the weather but I don't know how anyone in that position could make huge financial decisions based on these forecasts regardless of track record.. Also in my list of how bad the winter was I left out the second coldest day in Chicago history in late January at 24 below I think. That "polar vortex" may have not lasted long but most of the Midwest was below zero for awhile. Even Minneapolis broke snowfall records and that's hard to do. It was a brutal winter and there is still snow on valley floors of the of the Pacific Northwest. Oh and lastly the immense Flathead Lake in Northwest Montana froze completely over for the first time in 35 years! It's 25 miles long and 15 miles wide and you could walk across it. That's a fact.