Miserable western NY spring

Charlie M · May 23, 2011

I live a few miles west of Rochester NY and this has to be the worst spring I've ever seen (and we have had some wet ones). I haven't seen a single field planted although there was a few days recently that one could work ground. I planted 2 rows of my garden in the nice spell and it spent the next week under 6 inches of water for most of a week. My onions and peas survived. I'd like to plant about 3 acres of corn for my little operation but its not looking good - rain predicted for most of week at least into the upcoming holiday weekend. Hopefully it gets better for doing hay otherwise there will be a lot of horse people around here wondering where their hay is going to come from. This is why I farm for fun and not for a living. Fortunately I'm just PO'd, not bankrupt. How are the rest of you guys doing?

torwood9 · May 23, 2011

Not really any better here in Central WI. Just got rolling last week, but now have had three days of rain to stop us again. Cooler temps are coming as well. Farming is like going to the blackjack table everyday, just never know what the dealer has in store for you.

Crookedwrench · May 23, 2011

Western Ky reporting in with 3ft of water over 300+ acres for 21/2 weeks. Hope to have some planting time for soybeans in June? We get these floods (Backwaters) every 5-7 years, but generally in the Winter. This one was FOREVER going down. Crops should be good IF we get modest rains in July and early August???

oldtanker · May 23, 2011

Think you got it bad.....go talk to the folks in Joplin! Remember things could always be worse!

Rick

KenB_Texas · May 23, 2011

weather... ain"t it something.
I would KILL for some rain, And to think I moved to central Texas because it rained here.
Plowed in mid Feb and have been ready to plant since. I gave up, vacuum packed my seed and put em in the deep freeze.
The weeds aren"t even growing it"s so dry.

Just happy I don"t have to make a living at this farming stuffff.

Nebraska Cowman · May 24, 2011

It's raining here again this morning. I gave up planting any corn. The grass is growing and the cows are doing well. It will get hot and dry soon enough.

Bob Bancroft · May 24, 2011

Southern Cayuga County;
The one nice week we had(second week of May) I planted oats, and now I'm glad I did. I was considering forgetting them and planting corn. The oats are still struggling where the ground is still dark and wet. Some corn got planted that week around here. Some is up. Some is not.
We missed the heavy rains of Mon. afternoon. I almost had a field fitted when it showered me off. I was going to plant corn today! But with another .3"-.4" of rain that won't happen.
Wheat is OK, but has spots that just won't green up, which is very unusual here. First time ever- I've put nitrogen on it twice.
I have a brand new $60,000 drying bin setting here I may not need.

jcwag · May 24, 2011

we went like heck that second week of may and got all our crops in. 10 ac seeding and oats, 40 acres corn and 27 ac soy beans. alot of guys in my area have little or nothing in the ground. corn is all up, beans are popping up, oats look great!! we are in central ny on the onieda and herkimer county lines. im told nothing is planted in northern ny.

Miserable western NY spring

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