Dry and Cold

rusty6 · May 3, 2021

Made a quick circle with the drone over the dry stubble fields around my yard on the evening of May 1. Been a long time since I've seen that low amount of water
in the sloughs here. Its shaping up to be another 1988 although not as hot so far. In fact its in the 30s so far today and we could break a record low tonight.
Not real inspiring seeding conditions.

Dry May 1

SVcummins · May 3, 2021

Everything is still pretty Dormant here its been so cold grain had been planted for a month and its still barely out of the ground . There still pretty good moisture but if it turns off hot fast thatll change

Bruce from Can. · May 3, 2021

Things do look dry there, good job you reclaimed some of that wet ground a year or so back. Probably plant it this year.
Those locking steering columns are a pain. I had one in. Chev truck that only worked if I held the steering wheel hard to the left as I turned the key. While another Chev truck I could rotate the key, but it wouldnt shut the truck off, had to replace the ignition

coonie minnie · May 3, 2021

If I remember right, and I was 15 at the time, 1988 was very dry like this in the spring, but it started out cool like this... right or wrong?

4520BW · May 3, 2021

I was 13 that year and remember we got one small wagon of ear corn off of 30 acres. Dad was good about keeping a bin of corn till he was sure there would be a crop and that saved us from selling off cattle that year. This year is acting like 2012, warm and dry. I finished all my corn in April this year just like in 2012.

fastfarmall · May 3, 2021

But in 1988 we had a lot of those dirt devils,[little swirling winds] i haven't seen a one yet this year, or to be perfectly honest haven't seen many the last 20 years !

rusty6 · May 3, 2021

(quoted from post at 14:33:19 05/03/21) If I remember right, and I was 15 at the time, 1988 was very dry like this in the spring, but it started out cool like this... right or wrong?

I'd have to check my records on 88 but I'd almost say this spring is drier than 88. Very little runoff this spring because there was below normal snow. Seems like more extremes in temperature swings this year. We go from below normal to above normal in a day.

onefarmer · May 3, 2021

Here in my part of Mi in 1988 it went from winter straight into summer. NO spring rains in fact no rain until August. My wife planted flowers in mid-April never frosted. Got a fair first cutting, half on second. I saw corn fields that grew downwind of a woods where the wind didn't dry the land as much. The last field of corn we planted never grew. The seed stayed right there where it was planted just as good as if it was still in the bag. It never sprouted until the first rain in August. When it did grow it grew fast but never made kernals good enough to pick. We put it in the silo.

We put in tile that year, must have been July. The ground was dry all the way down. Only place they found moisture was in a hill side, There was a pocket of sand surrounded by clay. The creek didn't dry up but came very close.

jon f mn · May 3, 2021

Still too wet to work ground here. Where the soil is lighter they are going but my clay is too wet. Plowed some tonight on the rented ground which is lighter than mine but still had some mud. Tomorrow after work should be good there's.

SHALER · May 3, 2021

Jeez, please dont bring up 1988. I did happen to have a free moment to look at the US Drought Monitor map today. Was very surprised to see how much of USA west of Mississippi is in varying stages of dryness/drought on May 1.

Credysis · May 3, 2021

It looks beautiful. I wonder how would someone get such.

55 50 Ron · May 3, 2021

Rusty,

Does your video camera have any tone adjustments for the sound? My hearing is far from ideal and I hear your voice as very heavy bass. But it hasn't always been that way.

rusty6 · May 3, 2021

(quoted from post at 19:25:54 05/03/21) Rusty,

Does your video camera have any tone adjustments for the sound? My hearing is far from ideal and I hear your voice as very heavy bass. But it hasn't always been that way.

Ron, the voice recording part was done on the I phone which was all I had with me at the time. It does well on video but is very poor for picking up voice and also I sometimes get my hand over the mike pickup which muffles it. The Gopro does a much better job but I don't always have it with me.

coonie minnie · May 4, 2021

While there are similarities, we had much ore heat by this time in 2012. I remember I planted some barley on St Patty's day that year... it was 80 degrees, and the dust blowing like the grapes of Wrath!

rusty6 · May 4, 2021

Some video from yesterday's drive through the flatlands. Saw a few seeders working. Still way colder than normal. Well below freezing last night.

Flatlands drive

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