Sitting waiting

I thought we lucked out overnight. Just got a trace of rain when they were calling for some serious showers. I needed to take a load of cattle to the sale barn this morning,then was going to get a pre emerge sprayed on the corn I planted last Tuesday,Friday and Saturday. I was just hooking on to the trailer and it cut loose. Another three tenths. Like I told them at the fertilizer plant,if it was dry,that wouldn't have been enough. But since it's so wet,it was way too much. Just a greasy mess again. Put me a few more days away from even attempting to get on the silage corn ground to plant anywhere.

Yep one big slop hole around here , can't get nothing done. Can.t get the 1066 back together as it is setting on the only concert and that is in the bunker and covered up with plastic. need to take the rolls out of the other haybine and cut out the bad shaft on the lower roll and weld in the new stub but that is also setting outside. Really could use a nice DRY 40x50 shop with concert floor .

Over 5 inches of rain in just a little over 2 weeks now. It's really getting on my nerves now. The cool temperatures are keeping the weeds from being a headache but now they are talking high 70's late in the week so now it will be a race with the sprayer. It's not like the farm lacks tile but could surely use more when this much rain comes in such a short span. Most of the crops look pretty good considering and if we do not get the last ten acres planted it's not the end of the world. Bright spot : I sure am happy that I upgraded equipment in terms of field cultivator and planter this year.

I hear ya, we just got a 36 hour soaker ending on Saturday, then this all day evening soaker showed up today, some of my garden plants are yellowing, soil was fertilized, lime applied, compost etc. but enough is enough LOL !. I did put a back up row of corn right against the house in my chain link fenced in vegetable garden, may have to hand pollinate, might be all I get this year, got the other on ready to plant just at dusk last night, figured I'd plant it today, varying day (64-90 day) corn in blocks, nope, now have to re-till, small or large operation around here, don't matter, better than a drought, but..... this year was a 10 day window of real dry, plant in the dust, or go bust, followed by heavy washout thunderstorms and 3 day soakers, oh and I forgot, we just got one of those over memorial day weekend.

I think all the farmers got the planting done ahead of all this rain, but if you missed it, good luck, all the fields have washouts, and all the hill fields of hay near me are quite stunted, grasses usually beat the weeds, but the dry spell, will short the tonnage a lot and my farmer friends ground certainly won't have the same tonnage, he has a customer that takes 45 bales a week, they have 1800 head to feed, all dairy. Had he enough ground he could sell it all year long.

I am sitting and waiting too. Finished ploughing a chunk off ground that I took hay off of, this morning. Had hoped to plant corn on there , later this afternoon, or maybe tomorrow. But they say rain till Wednesday now. Bruce

Same story here in n/w WI. I can consider myself lucky though... only 16 acres of silage corn left to plant, and 55 of oats that can be used for greenchop or silage bales if it looks like they won't make grain. My cousin's girlfriend is from n/w IA, and her Dad has about 600 acres to go for both corn and beans.

Big muck hole here too. Rained a bunch yesterday. Actually see some sun and partial blue sky today - but forecast is for more rain to come soon.

Talked to some guys who are not going to attempt planting anything more - just going to collect on their multi-peril insurance.

Can I pull up a chair and wait with you? Started raining just as I was getting home, bout 3 this morning. Been going going all day. sometimes purty heavy.

Just a few acres of beans left to go here, ones we sowed 10 days back are coming on as is the corn. The beans actually needed a rain to get them going, we had a dry spell for a bit. Now of course it wants to rain and the hay is aging fast. Two years ago we planted no crop in May at all, finished beans on the 22 of June.....they averaged 58 bu/ac!! Do not attempt this at home,results may vary, for professional idiots only

I'm beginning to think it'll freeze up before it drys up this year. We got over an inch again down here. Was hoping to get into some hay this week. Maybe not.

We got most of our corn finished up on saturday, and now it's on to hay. Got the haybine and chopper ready to go, just need to replace a bad hose for the remotes on our 1855 so I can run the hydroswing.

Our forecast, some how, dried up so we should have a good window for 1st crop.

Donovan from Wisconsin