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Which is worse- Too much rain or not enough?

John, thats a hypothetical question if I ever heard one,I don't think there is an answer! In either case crops won't grow and produce the yeild you expect and there are other factors involved.
Light sandy soil dries out and in a dry year your goose is cooked,but in a wet year,that light land will come through and produce a reasonable crop. Our farm was a heavy clay loam soil base and wet seasons would kill you,BUT,in a dry year,that clay loam held the moisture and your crops survived and gave a reasonable yield. The type of soil and the weather together made your year if you were lucky to have the right kind of soil for the weather patterns.
An old neighbour of mine always claimed that in a five year cycle you would get one bad year,three average years and one excellent year,my experience was that he was probably right.
 
I have always figured it this way. To much rain and you can not do a thing about it. To little rain you can irrigate or water in some way. Either way both are not good but hey that is just how life is most of the time you either have to much or not enough
 
Depends on whether you're getting it or not. A "stuck" weather pattern gets old no matter which way it's going. Seems like it's easier to save the whole crop with a timely rain than it is to get things dried out from too much.
Like the milkman said one time,when it's dry,you usually get some pretty good quality hay,just not very darned much of it.
 
At first thought I would say give me sun over rain any day as I irrigate with cheap abundant water....but then again, why is it cheap and abundant???
 
I am not sure which is worst!!! Here in SW Kansas we are having fires and dust storms. Last two day we have received .11 of rain --- Pratically a flood. Wheat is showing stress badly -- Irrigators can hardly keep up.

We sure would like a little MORE!!!

Ken 46
 
Both are bad, but too much rain is worse than not enough in my opinion. Can still do some things in a drought, but when it's all under water, nothing gets done.
 
I live NW colo and we are setting at 190% of normal snowpac and we've had rain or snow nearly everday for the past two weeks.
But oldtimers say you never cuss the rain when you live in the the Great American Desert!!!!!!!!!!
It would be nice to get a couple dry days to brand some calves,most are getting tired of feeding.
 
It"s always easier to add water than take it away. Of course, living a mile from one of the worlds largest fresh water bodies may taint my perspective.
 
In all honesty I make more money in a dry year than a wet on. Given a drought I can always find hay to buy somewhere and sell it at a price to cover the hay and the freight but for me personally on the farm as long as its raining things are growing and it does eventually stop sometime. When its dry there is nothing. Sure I can do stuff but its stuff that makes no money unless Im trucking. Ultimately we owe our existence to 6 inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
 
I"ll take rain over dry any day. When I had cows, always said, in a wet year, crop might be hurt, but weeds still grow. We can chop and feed that...we can"t feed dust.
 
Dad always said "A normal year is just the average of ten abnormal years". One of my old farmer neighbors said"I worried to death in the dry years, I starved to death in the wet ones". I believe him!
 
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