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Keith Molden

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I know some of you folks are in a bad spot with not enough rain, but I'd sure like to get some hay done. We've had nothing but rain or the threat of rain for the past 3 weeks and yesterday there was flash flooding all over our area and we're supposed to get another dose of it today again. I have hay that is about to be past ready but I suppose it will still feed this winter.The only bad part of it is that with the first cutting so late and probably none or very little rain in late July and August, there won't be much of a second cutting. OH well, nobody ever said that farming was gonna be easy and without any problems. On a good note, I'm not spending any money on fuel and parts with the equipment sitting in the barn. Have a good day
 
Keith where are you located. I wish our locations would come up. I did my little hay yesterday and only got about a third of usual, very dry. Corn looks pretty wimpy almost like it wants to curl. Goodhue Co. MN
 
Keith im not terribly far north of you perhaps 100 miles. We had an awesome week during the 3rd week of May and I went out and did half my 1st crop. And then this past weekend including Friday was execptionally nice as well and I did the other half. the reason I say all this as many neighbors skipped the 3rd week in May cuz it was considered too early. I did have a lighter than normal yield. This past weekend was a arguably a very short window and I know of at least one guy that did not want to risk it. I came out smelling like a rose and that means my second crop will probably get rained on. I do feel sorry for those in our area that have not gotten to their dry hay yet. It is quite late now and forecast is not looking good.
 
Rained every day for last 9-10 days in central alabama. More coming. Getting lots done in the barn........ Don't even want to think about hay, even if it stops raining today, the hay field will be way to wet to drive on.......
 
Same here in Tennessee over 4 inches in last week and more today ,they are predicting dry hot next week .
 
Having been very wet here for the last 3 years and then bone dry this year,I'll take the wet over the dry anytime.With wet cattle have plenty of pasture and there is hay to be cut with dry poor pasture and very little hay.
 
Dry as a bone out here in eastern Oregon and not looking good for the summer. We had a terribly low snow pack this year in the mountains as well. Going to be a rough one out here for sure. They are already predicting shortages of hay and high prices for what can be found.
 
I've said it before, I don't know what's worse, too wet or too dry. Too wet is frustrating and leads to anger in a hurry if anything sets me off. Too dry is just a daily grind that gets a little more depressing every day. When it gets in to late June and there's still corn to plant, every day just puts me closer to going right over the edge. Watching the grass turn brown this early in the year, well, that's a different matter.

We've had a chance of rain every afternoon this week. There's been some all around us, but none here. I finally cut some poor hay yesterday thinking maybe I could bait it in to raining.

We've been wet every spring for the past 25 years, so this drought is something I haven't had to deal with in a long time. The drought monitor this morning showed we're in a moderate, edging in to severe drought. One good deluge would make a big difference in the pastures and the corn, but after tomorrow, it looks like our rain chances are going away. The alfalfa is starting to bloom, so I might as well cut. I hate to do it because the second cutting will start back then bloom again while it's short and if we do get some rain in July, what can we do with it? Cut it and let it lay because it's too fine to rake? Then if it dries up again, the third will do the same thing.

I guess it all goes back to the old saying, Be careful what you wish for, because when I've planted corn the third week of June several times over the past 20 years, I was sure wishing for a year that I could get it all in in a few days in early May and be done with it. I did, but now what?
 
Hopefully some rain will pop up for you.They'd been calling for some rain all week, all we had were a few good sprinkles then yesterday afternoon weather issued a flash flood warning.Say what?!
Started raining last night about 9PM with a big thunderstorm,then a good steady rain all night ,local news said over 3 inches, more rain total than we had in the last 3 months.
 
Many in NC, especially in the eastern half of the state, have gone from drought conditions to drowning crops in the last week. A band of 6 inch rain fell about 30 miles south of me last night. Here I have seen an inch of rain from light showers since last Sunday.
 
Wind wind and more wind . Hooked the mower up hoping to salvage something of the crop I cant
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Too much rain here, N Texas.

Lakes are overflowing, mosquitos are swarming...

We've gone 2 days without rain now, first time since I can remember. Now the heat and humidity are on!

Better enjoy it while I can, once the rain stops, won't be any until Oct.-Nov.
 
WesternColorado is in the worst drought ever.Third year in fact.Most of our reservoirs are about half,some are already empty.None of them filled this year.We started out this spring at 60% water allotment.Talked to my 'ditch rider' this morning to order water. He said they had the biggest drop in river flows ever. Gonna get ugly.
 
Been wet here in southern Indiana since memorial day. Beans need sprayed and corn need some 28.
 
Really dry here in south central MN, maybe get some today, 50% chance. Lawn is going brown, corn is hurting. If it doesn't rain today, none forecasted for over a week and above average temps. Gonna get ugly quick.
 
I thought you were possibly getting some rain when I looked at the map......no rain here either but there was some not too far from us...as for haying weather it hasn't been a problem for me this year ....for the first tine in over 60 years I'm not doing hay this year. We told all of our customers last year that was the end and we sold all of our hay equipment this spring.I've been to two parades and a plow day that I normally would have missed because of haying
 
The last time we planted any corn in April was in 2001. Getting started in the later half of May is getting to be quite common place. Would not be so bad if loamy soil that required one or two passes with a tillage tool. This year I thought we might get by with two or three passes on the clay but was right at the normal four. Exhausting when it is a one man show trying to cover a few hundred acres.
 
There was a cell popped up in N W Gratiot county the other day. It moved over in to N W Montcalm and fizzled. Kim was talking to a friend of hers that night who lives out east of Stanton, she said they had half an inch. That same evening, there was one popped up down by Belding, looked like it might have spread over toward Ionia. I could hear thunder for over an hour, but it was either sitting still or moving away.
 
Wow. I had all the ground going into corn chiseled last fall. Once over, and plant, starting May 16, and I've got a perfect stand. Even where it's corn after corn, where my stand is usually not as good as corn after wheat.
 

We've had a pretty wet hay season in central Ky so far, got 1 field cut and baled 3rd week of May but it rained before we could get it all hauled , cut some the 28th that got rained on that night, temps dropped and it stayed cloudy over the weekend so it was still to green to bale the next Monday so we tedded it again, got 50 rolls made the next day before rains showers arrived 6 hours earlier than prodicted
Finally got the rest of the field rolled last Saturday and it's rained every day since, next week is looking good so I may try to cut some tomorrow.
We're only a 3rd done and the hay is getting over ripe but it's turning off record yields so far
 
We have gone from wet and cool to hot and dry. The weather guesses are calling for rain late today and tomorrow but we will see. If the weather holds I plan on cutting hay Monday
 
Been a very wet spring here in Central MO. lots of corn and soybeans having to be replanted. Well, beans now, too late to replant corn. This week has been the first that it hasn't rain in several months. They are putting up hay like crazy. Getting humid as crazy. Now it will turn off dry as a popcorn fart the rest of the summer.

Gene
 
What's the old saying... A wet year will ruin you. A dry year will scare you to death. Getting to be where both will ruin you.
 

Gene - that's exactly right. Monsoon season mostly for April and May. I didn't get corn planted until the 13th of May and had to replant it last Sunday along with all my beans the first time. 2 years ago I had to replant corn in early June and it still made 150 bu for me. Not the best but better than expected.

Now it looks like we are dry for as far as the forecast goes. At least we have lots of subsoil moisture built up. As they say, always only 2 weeks away from a drought!
 
Right now between Camdenton MO and Lebanon MO we have a thunder storm. Don't know how much rain but it did come down hard enough to stop the TV and the internet
 
Its rained here in N. Tx. for the past 4 months, bar a couple of days at a time. Thursday the weather channel said no rain now for 10 days. Get out the cutter and squish squash through the fields but at least I get it cut....first day of the so called dry spell a big cell just sits over N. Tx. all day....seemed like there wasn't any rain anywhere in the US.

So This AM I got out my new tedder (wore out the old one) and got the hay all scattered, nice and dry, sun was out all day, temp 80-90, light N wind meaning low humidity. Now if the ground will just dry out so I can get the big tractor and roller on it, I may make something of this mess after all.

I'll tell you this.....Tedders are worth their weight in Gold.
 
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