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Tom Windsor · Jul 18, 2008

It is just heart breaking to drive across my area of NC. The farmers in my community grow corn on rotation with other crops. They planted it and it came up about waist high and thereafter no rain. Just burned it up. In the last couple days they are out there mowing it down getting the fields ready for something else. While out at Red Power in MO I talked with those farmers and they had been getting too much rain and could not get their crops in the ground. Those of you who work the earth for a living....seems as if my odds are better at Las Vegas...at least, I can control my losses there by simply going home. Someone on here said earlier that every farmer in MO operated a Casino...so it seems so in NC also.

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Steven f/AZ · Jul 18, 2008

Same deal here in SW ND, at least as far as a drought is concerned. Many farmers will not harvest a single acre of their crops this year. Some of us will be out there harvesting for less than the input costs... :?

old · Jul 18, 2008

Yep the rain out in Missouri caused problems this year. Took me till just last week to get all my hay done. Most years I'm done by the middle of June but not this year. Now its getting real dry, but at least tonight it did rain some but probably not enough. Common problem here in misery or as you know it Missouri. I just hope we get enough rian this summer to get a 2nd cutting of hay. Way back in the 80s we got 2nd cuttings almost every year but up till last year I had not got a 2nd cutting in about 5-7 years
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Jim in NC · Jul 18, 2008

It is tha same way here in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem area, Tom. Last week, if one was forturate to get rain, they got enuff to do some good. If one was missed, nothing. I finished haying in Mid-June and started feeding it the next week. The drought last year really set us up for this year.

James Williams · Jul 18, 2008

Here in WV weve had rain every week,Its made it hard on combining wheat and bailing straw,Its getting to late to plant beans.Corn and early beans are excellent.My friend mows about 1500 acres of hay a year and is just getting through the first cutting,and cattle has more grass than can eat

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RayP(MI) · Jul 18, 2008

I ought to complain about no rain, we've had very little this summer. Only problem, is that every bit we have had has screwed up my haying efforts. Trying to read between the lines on the weather forecasts is making me paranoid!

steelfronts · Jul 18, 2008

Thats not the case here in west Mich. For the lasst three years crops were hit hard by drought from late June till late August. This year we had to plant in the mud and it rains hard every week so things look good where they didnt drown out.

tcanthonyii · Jul 18, 2008

We had a lot of guys here in Eastern Neb on the rivers get flooded out and had to replant. On the bright side with the exception of a week or two we've had rain every week, and just about every Tues, Wed or Thrus. it's just plain weird. Lots of hail thought. Stripped the beans south of here a week or so ago. Just got 2-6 inches in the area the past 2 days. Rivers are out of the banks, again.

T.C.

Brent R. Weaver · Jul 19, 2008

We have a bumper sticker, I don"t know where we got it at, but it says: legalize gambling why let the farmers have all the fun. Brent

Dave S. · Jul 19, 2008

Received 1 1/2" of rain yesterday here in extreme NE Kansas, came down nice with very little runoff and no wind or hail.

Pale Rider · Jul 19, 2008

Years ago my brother"s army unit trained for a month in spain. It rained virtually every day and usually pretty hard. One wag in the outfit coined the phrase: "The rain in spain falls mainly when we train."

Chad Franke · Jul 21, 2008

I was out in your neck of the woods a couple weeks ago (Honda Power Equipment plant). The guys there were saying you are in a drought, need more rain, 15 inches or so behind for the year. In Colorado, we're way behind too, when I was getting my rental car at RDU, it let loose and they got as much precipitation as we've had this year...the news said they got almost 3 inches, we're at 3.26 for the year! Amazing the difference in what is normal across the country.

Very nice country there, what I could see through the trees was nice.

Jim in NC · Jul 22, 2008

Thanks for the reply, Chad. For about 3 weeks, there were scattered showers in the same general areas within 100 miles of me, but we seem to be in the doughnut hole. There were heavy local rains, but no general rainfall. We have managed .2 inch in that time. This year's dryness on top of last year's has made the problem much worse. My cows come to the barn everyday and remind me to give them some hay. I am very concerned about their water supply. Springs and creeks are drying up. We are about 17 inches below normal rainfall since Jan. 2007.

Wesley Stephens · Jul 22, 2008

Where are you fellows located in NC? I'm in southern Bladen County and we have gotten a little rain in the past week or so, but we are still hurting bad. Our corn is better than some and will be cut for silage so it's ok, but the corn crop is gone. In Brunswick county there are areas that got plenty of rain though.

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