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showcrop · May 15, 2015

It is getting bad here in southern NH. Maybe not like in CA but I don't recall it being this dry since 1973. There is a part of my lawn that I can't usually get across with my mower until early July, but this year it was early May. My vegetable farmer friend has been irrigating for two weeks, at least he has the water to pump. If this keeps up much longer no one's corn is going to grow, and I can't see going out to top dress my hay ground unless there is rain predicted. We had a lot of snow on the ground in March but we have yet to have a rainfall that amounts to anything. It is getting scary.

cool hand · May 15, 2015

Here in SE IN I was getting very concerned that soybeans were not going to have enough moisture to sprout. Today we got 3/4" of rain, which should get them going IF they are still viable.

North Vale - PA · May 15, 2015

I square baled hay today, which is at least 1 week earlier than ever for me. Got 75 bales per acre, which is about half normal. What makes things worse is the late winter
and cold spring. It's been 4 weeks and little rain in SE PA.

Fordfarmer · May 15, 2015

I wish I could share some rain with you. Things have
been at a standstill here since the 5th. Oats are all in
and looking good. ... where they aren't under water,
but no corn in yet.

Billy NY · May 15, 2015

It is dry, orchard grass has heads coming out, fireflies are out tonight ! Those are weeks ahead, maybe a month. There should be decent fruit this year, the good weather allowed for great pollination. Last I saw the 2 streams were slowing to a halt, ground is dry and hard. I just replanted my entire front lawn, used the disc harrow back in April when it was soft, let the dry weather and that heat kill most of the old growth off, mostly weeds anyway, used the disc, then made a chain link drag to level it, broadcast, then the double roller cultipacker, now await rain. It'll be back, it always is, if this dry spell lasts, it will be quite odd for these parts. We have an excellent aquifer here, will take an awful lot to run that supply down, according to an old driller many many years ago.

Texasmark1 · May 15, 2015

Best I can recollect we're in our 3rd week of daily rain and sometimes frog chokers at that. More scheduled for next week. Oats I had
planted died off due to no oxygen in the soil due to being flooded for so long.

Fatjay · May 15, 2015

We haven't had any rain since March, and April was normally our wettest month. "April showers" never came.

notjustair · May 15, 2015

I also wish I could share some. I had all of the fields burned down to plant beans. We've now had
about six inches of rain in the last two weeks. Those fields are now getting bad again and will
need to be disked and cultivated before I can plant. The corn around here is up and about three
inches tall. Lots of it is starting to stress, though. We've had about five years of drought here in
NEKS and it's hard to remember how to deal with this.

Farmall43 · May 15, 2015

Wish I could send some your way. Here is in south central MI we have been rained outta the fields for about 11 days now. Went and checked to see if I could maybe get on some sand ground to cultivate. Nope still to wet. corn is starting to look a little yellow from all the rain. Showers and t-storms next 2 days then cooler and sunny for a few hopefully. Maybe I can get my beans in next weekend

Bruce from Can. · May 15, 2015

I never like to here about bad things happening to others,sure makes farming a lot harder when mother nature
doesn't hold up her end of the deal. I guess we are very fortunate here in Ontario, as we have had a very
normal kind of spring. Maybe a bit slow to start but , things are looking very good here now.Grain is all in
and up. Most corn is in and soybean acres are just starting to go in now. Looks like I will start hay around
May 26 as it is coming on fast. Outlook for this week is showers, and long range for June cool and showers.
Great for making silage hay, and getting regrowth.One thing I find so interesting about reading comments on
here is how wide the weather extremes can be across north America.Bruce

Chief 83 · May 15, 2015

In Washington state the governor has declared a statewide drought. It's very dry in eastern washington probably similar to July conditions. Wet
and green western washington is also much dryer than normal. I think the snow pack is at 38 percent of normal and dropping rapidly.

JerryS · May 15, 2015

Here in NW Louisiana we're mildewing. January to date we've had about 30 inches, and that following
a wet fall/winter. Got about an inch today.

CenTex Farmall · May 15, 2015

Very wet this year in central Texas, like in 2007. All this black dirt is completely saturated. Got the hay in first week of april
and hasn't quit raining since. Forget about getting in the field, no shredding either. Too wet to even mow the yard. All the corn
in the area was planted late, only about a foot tall. Low areas and behind terraces are drowning out. Not complaining though.

flembo · May 16, 2015

The seven day report say's possibly Wednesday some rain here in NH . We sure need it.

Nebraska Cowman · May 16, 2015

I sympathize with you. The floods and fires get all the news coverage. In a drought you just starve. It happens slower but the result is the
same. We are finally getting some rain here. But I make no apologies. I think it was about our turn. Now to all the guys hogging the rain, I
think they should turn loose of some.

Stephen Newell · May 16, 2015

I think most of the water has gone to Texas. It's rained here nearly every day this year with maybe a couple of days it won't rain next week.

James Howell · May 16, 2015

You describe exactly what's happening here on our farm in NE Texas and others in our community.

rrlund · May 16, 2015

We're in a drought watch here in Michigan because of such a dry winter,but I'm having the usual trouble getting corn planted because of it being wet.

Hammer house · May 16, 2015

We have got too much rain here in N E Tx. My Son plants sprigs and bale hay. It is too wet. Got hay fields with hay laying over, should have already been cut. Maybe the sun will come out one of these days and dry out. Most rain I have seen in Spring in A long time.

Hammer Man

larry@stinescorner · May 16, 2015

its dry in PA too,usualy cant cut some by the pond till Aug,mowed it all last week

Donald Lehman · May 16, 2015

It was the same here until a few days ago in Northern NY. We go a good soaker. Didn't last long, but it thoroughly soaked the ground.

Donald Lehman · May 16, 2015

I too find the great diversity of weather conditions in any given year interesting also.

Pair-a-dice farm · May 16, 2015

(quoted from post at 06:24:07 05/16/15) I sympathize with you. The floods and fires get all the news coverage. In a drought you just starve. It happens slower but the result is the
same. We are finally getting some rain here. But I make no apologies. I think it was about our turn. Now to all the guys hogging the rain, I
think they should turn loose of some.

I wish I could send some your way. We got 0ver 7" since last Sunday and it's rained all day today. I had ryegrass that was over waist high last week and it's flat on the ground now. The hay yield is sure to take a hit. Flooding is also a concern. I would rather have too much rain as drought but flooding is as destructive as it gets.

fixerupper · May 16, 2015

Here in my part of Iowa the weather pattern has changed to not much snow in the winter but plenty of rain in the spring and early summer when we don't really need it. Our good fieldwork days have been few and far between. I have had 7.35 inches since it started the first of April and I'm looking at rain drops on the window as I type this. We have no ponds or floods. The biggest rain in one shot was 1.10. The rest has been from .05 to .45 to .97 and not hard when it comes down. The lawns and pasture are lush for sure.

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