Weather

Well, it is cloudy, damp and 56F here in central Kansas. Lots of rain in the past couple of weeks. Need some dry weather so the farmers can get their spring crops in and some hay put up. The only crops I have seen that have emerged is some corn. Usually lots of soybeans planted and up by now. Only one day of sunshine (Thursday) in the past week or so. Light mist yesterday off-and-on and during the night. Wheat is looking good in this area.

Same thing here in Missery, From what I saw on the weather yesterday it is supposed to last another week.

Here in N. TX. I think the Month of May 2015 will go down as the wettest month on record. Nothing has been planted nor harvested here this year. Fields and pastures have been saturated all month since all the rain preceding May and May itself where it has rained almost every day. A week ago the weather forcaster said that where we usually get 7 inches or rain, forget the time span mentioned, surely not since Jan., this year we have 20" and that was before this past week where it rained every day with about every 3rd day being between 1 and 2".

My hay crop is starting to turn yellow having completely seeded out and moving on to the dormant end of life. A lot of it is down, like wheat goes down with weather related problems but it is not a harvesting problem for hay like combining would be for wheat. Going to take a week when the rain finally stops to at least get into the field and at least another to get the crop cured and up. Getting 2 weeks with no rain this year I think will be a total joke.

So it's feast or famine here. Drought or monsoon. Makes no difference from a crop loss standpoint. Glad I don't depend on this farm for my existence. Would be in the soup line for sure.

Mark

We are drowning in NEKS as well. I had 500 acres ready to plant beans. It will all either have to be resprayed or reworked. They are saying we will get between 5-6 inches overnight tonight with flooding. They have already rebuilt the road east twice as the runoff from my milo field washes out the road. Maybe this year I will convince them to fix the grader ditch. Until then I will lose another few feet of that field.

It's been a lot of years since I've seen it this wet. Even the yard is dying off in spots because it has been so saturated. I hate to complain - the last four years have been miserable drought. Thus is the way.

Its a little wet herein central Okla. We are going to break all time record for the wettest month on record. Sure hate to complain after all the dry years we have had. When it does quit raining we will have moisture for the crops.

We had here in Vermont a light frost this morning. But farmers are working hard to get corn in. It is dry here. Had light snow on mountain pecks also.

The corn crop around the north central Texas blacklands is doing just fine, almost 3 ft tall and looking good. The wheat crop will suffer as the rain and flooding beats it down, but it is not quite ready to combine yet anyway. Local BTO's say they will make about 1/2 a normal crop yield on most of the wheat if they can cut it in 2 weeks from now which is not likely with another full week of rain forecast. Most of the grass hay I see is full of weeds, and the professionally grown haygrazer and/or sorghum is ready like you said but fields are way too wet to get in, but it will get baled eventually, and several guys are buying wrapping equipment for the first time to harvest it as haylage. So they hope for good prices for the early corn to make up for loss of wheat money. The soybean and sunflower fields I saw last season are in corn this year. Overall, will not be a profitable season for most down here.

Wet in wichita too. Somewhere around 8 inches for the month and more on the way...

Where you at in Kansas?

I will be working in Mullinville week after next.

Here in south Jersey it has been dry for almost a month. Have mowed my lawns twice to knock down the weeds. Got about 1/2 inch Thursday night. Central Jersey about 50 miles to the north got almost 1 1/2 inches. Lawns up at the farm went crazy! Took me almost 7 hours to mow them.

Central Kansas, southern Ellsworth County. Isn't Mullinville in SW Kansas? Don't recall ever being there. Was out to Deerfield and Scott City last week.

I haven't seen anything planted and if it were it'd be yellow by now and close to, if not already there, death. Don't know where you are in the Houston Clay Blacklands, but not here.