Anyplace dry enough to combine?

paul

Well-known Member
Sure getting tired of rain. Been 2 years now, more wet than dry. Get a bit of a dry spell each year just enough to hurt yields on the hill tops, but then it fires up the rain clouds again.

Hard for a farmer in my neighborhood to be sitting on my hands on October, this is harvest time!

With all the rain and relatively cool weather, crops are behind. Beans still have some yellow leaves on. Corn is in the high 20s for moisture, or 30s.

Just had another inch of rain yesterday. Can see puddles in the fields. More rain on the way the next 24 hours. Flood watches just north of me through 1/3 of the state.

Ground doesn't dry out easy this time of year. Not warm enough to evaporate any more, our clayish soil doesn't perk much.

Hard to sit and look out the window.

Paul
 
Got 4.5" last week. Got .95" yesterday morning and .80" last nite. More on the way till Wednesday. No beans are gonna be combined for awhile. E SD, 80 miles north of Sioux Falls.
 

SW WI is dry as a bone. Beans are getting harvested as fast as the combines will roll.

Dad come and got my moisture tester yesterday, and his corn tested between 20 and 25%.

Weather guessers are predicting rain all week starting tomorrow, but I don't think those guys can predict what they're having for lunch!
 
Its plenty dry here in my area Missouri..In fact the pivots are running on the double crop beans..We could use a nice 1 inch rain...Probably 25-35% of the corn is done and yields are all over the place..Maybe 10% of the early beans are done with good yields..The rest still has too much moisture...Most years harvest is much farther a long than this but a wet Spring delayed planting..Not too far south of me corn harvest is 75% or more done..
 
Has not rained here since Irma came through finished corn last week wettest was 16% moisture .Many have been in beans for the last 2 weeks
 
Dry in Michigan. Some areas qualify as being in a "drought". Good for harvest and fall tillage, which we haven't been able to do a good job with the past few years. Can pour on the moisture about 6-8 weeks from now!
 
Haven't had enough rain here all summer to produce anything, but what few beans are there are coming out, fast. South central Iowa.
 
Dry in northwest Ohio and running both beans and shelling corn, silo filling about over. Working ground as well.
 
no problem anywhere near combines rolling full tilt another good week several be done in area 35ft 40ft heads does not take long anymore
 

guy near Grove City, MN, with 3500 acres corn/beans- tried some beans last week...15.3%...but it"s only Oct 2nd.
 
Soy harvest is in full swing here, wheat is being sowed as well. Most soys are coming off dry, 11 to 14% and running 50 bushels per acre. But the stems are quite green and many low spots that flooded this spring have a lot of green pods on an otherwise ripe plant. Kinda frustrating. Ben
 
Poured another 3.25" of rain out of the gauge this morning.

90% chance of more on Thursday.

It's not funny any more, it's gonna be a mess and that's optimistic.......

Our clayish dirt doesn't set up, it just squishes, this time of year no heat or sun or growing crop to draw the water out, it doesn't perk worth a hoot here, so timing will be measured in weeks to get going decent again. Snowstorm season can start by holloween here....

Paul
 

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