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rusty6

rusty6

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Clouds around today but only a spot or two of rain. Just enough to mess up the windows and make the dust stick even worse. Can't tell the worked ground from the unworked as its all the same colour. Have to rely on the Trimble ezee guide to show me whats done and what isn't in some parts of the field. I finished up wheat today and ready to start canola next. Its going into summerfallow which has a good moisture reserve and hopefully enough to germinate those tiny expensive seeds. Still going to need plenty of good timely rains to get us through the growing season and the drought shows no signs of letting up.
Some video from today.

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Seeding Wheat
 
(quoted from post at 21:12:15 05/16/21) I wonder when these timely rains will come ? For the time has nearly passed
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Yes, I'm afraid its going to take a major shift in weather pattern to start raining here. Probably too late for a hay crop but hopefully get enough to keep pastures going. Cereal crops going to need rain every week once its up.
 
We did get lucky here last year hopefully we will and you will
too: my pasture ground should be fine but thats a completely
different world from where the farm ground is
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It sure is a far cry from 2010 when I last visited Saskatchewan. At that time , they were busy raising the rail road tracks along 35 Hwy between Macon and Estavan so the train didnt have to run through water. The west is a world of extremes
 
Way too dry here in Iowa and Wisconsin, had a nice little rain in a spot in Iowa a couple weeks ago, but just caused the guys to have to rotary hoe their fields! My hay ground is in Wisconsin, been thinking of cutting but won't be many bales per acre if we don't get some moisture soon!
 
Fortunately or unfortunately, most of Kansas is wet, some extremely wet with 6-8 inches of rain in past few days. Lots of local flooding, but right where we are, wet, but not excess.
 
When I was a kid, the old guys always said it would rain 5 minutes before it was too late.
 
I had 3.25 in Central KS. 9 miles to the West a farmer I know got 10. In one rain Saturday night. That water is just getting here. We were lucky with the 3.25, which was bad enough.

No rain all last fall and winter, and even early spring, now over 6 in the last 2 weeks. Just when the brome is about ready. Must be Kansas weather. At least the pastures are growing though.

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This is my Mom's driveway off the highway, and the water had gone down several inches already when I took the picture. This is a few miles to the West where there was more rain. About 8 there Saturday night. Bob
 
It looks like a pretty good area across the middle of Kansas from east to west got 3-10 inches of rain in the past 3 days...The Salina got hit pretty hard....Even dry Leoti,KS got 7 inches..Here in western MO we got from 1-3 inches..Since April 7th only a few days have been fit for field work.
 
Thanks for reminding me what rain and high water looks like. Its not too many years ago I was complaining about that here but now we have the other extreme. Today even worse as its 80 degrees by mid morning and a wild southwest wind blowing. Its ok in the tractor cab but anything I have to do outside I'm fighting the wind and heat. And get this: possible rain Thursday with possible snow on Friday. Only in Sask.
 
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