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Billy Shafer

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Does anyone live where it is not raining. Two days of sunshine and now they are calling for more rain today. I already have a lake in
the front yard.Afraid to look out back.
 
I feel for you Billy. For a couple of years In the ?90 it snowed more than I can ver remember before. The snow was so high the power companies sent letter out warning people not to touch the power lines. They also estimated our bills until the meters reappeared from the snow cover. Then when the snow quit, it rain almost every day while the snow was melting. We had so much water everywhere that no one could get to their field and often had to use alternate routes though a neighbors land. On top of that only about half the tillable land was above water. Then came ?The South Dakota National Holiday? Opening day of Pheasant Season. All the usual dry hunting spots were still flooded. Now we have had a couple of dry years. The last front predicted to drop 18? of snow only produced a few inches at best. So I?ve seen both severe drought and flooding in my life time on the same farm. I?d rather have it wet. At least something will grow. Not much grows without water
 
I seem to remember you guys begging for rain 6 months ago.
Even seen loads of hay headed your way.

The cane farmers are sure having a rough year with all this rain.
While the rain does not stop them it sure makes the crop muddy cutting the price they get and slows them down with all the mud. While they like to be finished by Christmas they are still cutting cane.



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Most rain in 2018 than in recorded history here. Last three years have been bad and worse. 2019 looks to be more of the same. Sooner or later a drought will come but right now I'm thinking about building an ark.
 
I am about 105 miles south west of Canton on I45. I had to do a service call in Canton. On Trade Day big mistake. I think that 10 minute drive from the highway to the nursing home. Took almost an hour.
 
That town sure changes on First Monday for sure. We go down about three times a year, thought if you were not too far I would buy you a meal.
 
Yes we have had some dry years. But not this year.I know how the cane farmers feel. I have liquid feed orders stacking up. Fields are to muddy to get to the feeders. I have been stuck more times this year. Than I care to think about. Spent three hours in one field stuck.
 
Used to work for a rice farmer when it?s muddy,and by that I mean no firm ground at all.it strains every piece of equipment you have trying to harvest a crop.up near the achafalya basin there?s no bottom to speak of .and this was one of those ?wet no bottom ?years.i remember 1 year we had to take the blade off the D-9 just to pull stuck combines and tractors out of the mud
 
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