Dry Dry Dry

cj in wisconsin · Jul 7, 2009

Mowed about 15 acres last night mostly grass hay with some clover and alfalfa mixed in. some in the low ground was not too bad but the high ground is only about a foot high, mowed about five acres that is normally under water hasn't seen water in about 5 years. I believe I could have raked and baled right behind the haybine, this stuff is so dry I am almost concerned about sparks if I hit a gopher mound, a few years back my buddy hit a rock and broke a guard and caught the windrow on fire. Thank God for cab tractors, a radio and cold beer or I don't know how long I could keep mowing this miserable crop without losing my mind.:>) PS Please send rain. I am all the way up to 2.5 inches since April first.

bigt68 · Jul 7, 2009

i helped a friend of mine by superior on sunday we did 1139 bales and i dont think i have ever seen such dry hay when unloading the wagons when the wind came you would almost loose sight of the wagon in hay dust

tbuzzard · Jul 7, 2009

Here is west central MN our BIG rain of the year is .37 hundreds. Hay crop about half of mormal. Corn and beans on the lighter ground are showing moisture stress. If we don't get rain in the next few days crops will be seriously damaged.

Ken Macfarlane · Jul 7, 2009

Wet wet wet here. 5 years of crazy wet summers, this year cold too. Today the high is in the 50's. Gonna have 2 not raining days later this week, but no wind and the high is about 72. With the ground soaked nothing is gonna dry in that.

bison · Jul 7, 2009

no diff here in north alberta,all spring cold ,dry and windy.
Hardly no grass,and hay apears 1/3 of normal,I did no cutting yet
Had 1" of rain in last 10 days since snow melt,came way to late.
Now insult to injury lots of little grass hoppers showing up to take whats left.

fixerupper · Jul 7, 2009

This weekend I bounced along in a small plane between Spencer Iowa and Garden City Kansas and the country down below looked green and lush the whole way. Some of the irrigated corn in Nebraska and northern kansas was just as green in the corners as it was inside the pivot circle. I darned near got the combine stuck in a field about 25 miles northwest of Garden. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Jul 7, 2009

Dry in SW Manitoba, too (or at least my part of it). We've had just over an inch since snow melt. Have had rain around us though.

teddy52food · Jul 7, 2009

I just noticed the corn leaves are curling here. ( central Mn.)It is about waist high. If we don't get rain soon, it will get knee high twice.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 7, 2009

We spent a half-hour on our way home sitting in the train in GC waiting for 2000 to arrive.

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