Starting To Need Rain

rusty6 · Jul 2, 2017

Thought we might get a good rain this evening but so far it is only a few spots. It looked pretty threatening around sundown when I took this picture. Lucky we have not had too hot weather or else the crops would be suffering a lot more from the lack of rain. Yes, I'm the guy that was complaining about too much rain for the past 7 years or so.

GreenEnvy · Jul 2, 2017

That's why I don't care how much excessive moisture we get, I never never never complain about the rain. We went from almost too wet this spring to now on the door step of drought. Our crops are starting to suffer now too. We and everybody else around here had to start haying 2 weeks early because the alfalfa and grass was going backwards. I'm about 2 days away from being done with cutting and usually I am just getting started on a normal year. I can work around too much rain, drought nothing you can do about it.

rusty6 · Jul 2, 2017

(quoted from post at 21:53:39 07/02/17) That's why I don't care how much excessive moisture we get, I never never never complain about the rain. We went from almost too wet this spring to now on the door step of drought. Our crops are starting to suffer now too. We and everybody else around here had to start haying 2 weeks early because the alfalfa and grass was going backwards. I'm about 2 days away from being done with cutting and usually I am just getting started on a normal year. I can work around too much rain, drought nothing you can do about it.

I will admit that where the crop was not flooded out or unseedable or unharvestable, we did grow pretty good ones. But we definitely lost a lot of acres to excess rain the past 7 years. This is the first year in quite a while I was able to spray without using the front wheel assist tractor. Didn't leave any ruts or get stuck either.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 3, 2017

Bruce from Canada got hit with rain every two days ,he hasnt been able to make hay

Gene Dotson · Jul 3, 2017

Ralph, wish I could share some of our rain. Have water standing in all the low spots. Have not been able to get the nitrogen on my corn. Always miss by one day. Just when I thought I would get it on the next day, it rains the night before. Only got about 8 acres sprayed and barely got through a wet spot with the empty sprayer leaving the field. West central has been getting more than our share of rain.

Bruce from Can. · Jul 3, 2017

Sure wish you would come and get some of our extra rain ,so far it has rained everyday in July , both days , lol. Been tough to get crops in , and many that are in either won't get sprayed , or are so damaged from excess water that they are not worth spraying. Very little hay has been made in Ontario , and what hay that has been done , has either been chopped silage, or wet wrapped. I have done 65 acres and still have about 150 acres of first cut still ahead of me , and the fields are saturated. While I am luckier tham some , as I can see no standing water on my place , many farms have water laying on them . Just not too sure I can cross some fields without making a mess. Bruce

Ranchingelec · Jul 3, 2017

Well here in the north west of the great province of SK. There has been a total of 3 days in June that we have not had rain for a monthly total of over 5 inches. Many unseeded acres. Some still not harvested from last fall. Lots of stuck tractors. Some still stuck with nothing but a track-hoe to get removed from the mire of mud. Lots of oats being seeded with a fertilizer spreader in hopes that we will get greenfeed. Unless there is a long warm dry fall maybe we can harvest some oats. On the positive side. The hay looks great!!!! And lots of grass in the pasture for the cattle. It will be interesting to see what July brings.

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Case Nutty 1660 · Jul 3, 2017

feast or famine it seems this year, we have not had 1 1/2" of rain in the last 12 weeks,, hay crop burned up I am lucky to do summer fallow on my ground and my grain crops are holding on and looking well though, just north of me there is Nothing even the pasture grass never grew, hay here is running 1/4 to 1/2 ton per acre

centash · Jul 3, 2017

Got 10 inches here in June. Too bad you are uphill from us in Ontario. Ben

Goose · Jul 3, 2017

Yesterday morning we got 4" in about 2 hours. Since the ground was already saturated from irrigation, most of it ran off.

GreenEnvy · Jul 3, 2017

I hear you. Sucks loosing land. Problem is I'm guessing you
would have to go through some dry years to get it all back.
2010 through 2013 was our wet years. Lost a little hay
ground in the low lying areas and a little farmland. But my
thinking had always been I rather look at ponds and ducks
then topsoil blowing away which still happens around here.
We will probably be under fire restrictions in a week.

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