Discouraging

showcrop · Jun 28, 2013

I stopped by a friends shop today. The family runs a pretty good sized trucking operation along with a pretty good sized vegetable operation. I am friendly with all three brothers and the father and various sons, daughters, in laws, employees including the five Jamaicans etc, but in particular the brother who operates the vegetable operation. We were talking for awhile and I asked him if not being able to plant any corn for eight days meant that he would run out come August? He replied that he may not get any corn at all, and strawberries are already a bust, and nothing is growing because the ground has been continuously too wet for too long. This guy has been always smiling and up-beat for the thirty-five years that we have been friends. Today he just looked straight ahead and said "It's discouraging." That, to me, is scary, I am very glad that I cut my hay way back this year.

Billy NY · Jun 28, 2013

One of those seasons, words just can't describe the frustration of many....

gtractorfan · Jun 28, 2013

For once - so far- this area (western Ohio) has had ideal conditions. Will have to get more pictures, never saw better looking crops at this stage. We sympathize for the ones who are suffering.

notjustair · Jun 28, 2013

We just got an inch last night. A year ago we were so dry it scared us all. This year we will struggle to mud the wheat out. There were fields that couldn't hold a tractor before last night and now need to hold a combine. I see some fun a'comin.

I think in honor of this year we need to have a forum for stuck combines (not just stuck and troubled) and tractors. If you don't laugh you'll cry. Thank the good Lord it isn't dry.

Billy Shafer · Jun 29, 2013

In my part of Texas. We have more brown than green. Hope James and Nancy are having better luck at their place.

Billy NY · Jun 29, 2013

Your area has been needing this rain, hope eastern Texas is doing better too, its incredible how the weather systems line up like air traffic and just concentrate on an area like it has here and this part of the country. Still better than a drought, our soils are reasonably well drained but the excess rain sure does make things difficult. The gnats and similar are out, mosquitoes too, but not so bad yet, I have a feeling they will get thick too.

Discouraging

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