How big an area...........

.... is [i:5dadf55c57]too wet [/i:5dadf55c57]in the corn belt?? We are over eleven inches for June, which is supposed to be an all time record. I know right here in the corner of Ohio, Michigan & Indiana we are swimming. The corn crop is really looking bad and the beans are going to be finished, if we don't start drying off soon.

I keep seeing posts about haying, good and bad, but I can't get a feel for how widespread this mess is. So what is it like in your area? Please include your general vicinity, don't just say "wet/dry here".

We had a solid week of dry the first week of June, first cutting hay got cut, picked up and put away without a drop of rain on it. W ehaven't gone more than a couple of days since without showers. Second cutting is ready, but no cooperation from Mother Nature.

Just wondering if this is a regional thing or really widespread. Trying to get any kind of weather info is getting to be a challenge. If it's not on teh east or west coast, nobody cares anymore.

Thanks guys,

Tim
 
Crops look most excellent in my part of southern Minnesota. We started very dry, which is typically wet, so we got an early start on planting,
rare for us. Got a little wet then just as beans were wrapping up, but only just to the limit, not over the limit like so many of you are dealing with.

Now it is nuisance rains that keep us from getting any dry hay made, but the grain crops are nicely watered, looking good.

Paul
 
90 miles north of paul...very similar conditions to his. Light ground looks excellent with excessive moisture, heavy ground some late planting, but better than last year when so much was PP. Haying was late with extra rains, but 2nd cutting starting now. Some fields better yielding than first cutting.
 
We had the same thing here in N. TX. but May was over 20 and it was nothing but rain all spring. Then the last 2 days of may and 10
days of June dried out and I got my hay in, late and a mess but salvaged some of it, and has been rain off and on since....too frequent to
get a crop in or out. Glad I am supplying not consuming this year. Raising livestock would have been a real challenge this spring for
me.
 
here in upper Michigan the corn is only about 10" tall. some farmers have chopped and baled wet but none dry that I know of. were supposed to get about 6 straight days of no rain, so when the showers stop this morning , were gonna start laying down some hay. first stretch of dry weather since early may.
 
In NEKS we have battled rain. It started in May and
went right through the first weeks of June. In May
we only had three days with no rain. I had 10 days
dry around the third week so I got all of the beans in
and one day of wheat cut. Then we had torrential
rains again. I hope to cut today but it is so wet out
right now you could wring the air. The weeds have
overtaken the 80 of wheat south of the house. I am
not sure I can even combine it and it is still a muddy
mess.

Just got word last night that the combine needs
$2000 in parts and the parts they took back to the
shop are not repairable. Not sure the wheat is worth
it. Beans are several inches tall and look good.
Corn got too much rain and is very uneven and
much won't recover. Some fields are starting to
tassle but I don't see one around that will have a
good yield. These are the years that separate the
men from the boys.
 
Well over here on the east side vary little hay has been made , for us None has been cut and due to my buddy's screwing around this year two fields of corn never got planted . Not sayen that it is wet but the frogs and turtles are moving to higher ground.Your lucky to get a day to even mow your swamp i mean yard . We can not get much done , even feeding is a mud bog not getting stuck is getting harder each day . And the sad part is that i do not see a letup in the near future just more rain .
 
It comes down to the square mile I guess. Where I am in mid Michigan,it's as near perfect as it's ever been.
I needed a year like this more than any of you will ever know. I don't even know how to explain it. It's like every guardian angel and good spirit in existence has moved in with me and decided they like it here.
The last several years,I've been so fed up with the weather that I've actually been HOPING for the straw that would break the camels back and make me call a realtor and an auctioneer.
For more years than I can even count,I've lost at least a half dozen calves out of the first twenty,due to mud and cold. This year I've lost one,and that wasn't weather related.
I finished planting corn May 22 this year. Last year it was June 6th and the year before it was June 23rd.
I started cutting hay June first this year,cut the last of it the 25th and baled it the 28th. It hasn't been steady cutting and baling,but the rains that have interrupted me haven't been so heavy that they caused any flooding problems. I was able to move bales off every week about as fast as they were baled while I waited for better weather to cut again. I didn't have any hay rained on except what I cut in the rain. The last two years I've finished baling July 9th or 10th. It was getting real discouraging being out there messing with first cutting when the big dairies around here were all done chopping second cutting. I was turning in to the old guy in the neighborhood who was always a month behind.
So far,this year has recharged my battery in a way that I had to have or I was going to quit. If I keep getting years like this one's been so far,I might never retire.
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Having been quite dry in April and May, NY now seems to be in the same boat (literally) as Ohio. Looks like we are about as wet here as California is dry.
 
Here in Central KS we are getting dry. Can't believe that in late April and May it rained every couple of days. Couldn't get the early hay put up due to very wet ground and forecasted rain every couple of days. A lot of wheat drowned out, coupled with extremely dry weather all winter and early spring, put a lot of the acres here are in the 12 to 25 bushel per acre yield range.

Now, it is drying out and the crops are needing rain. Several days of high 90 to 100+ degree days with strong winds have certainly taken care of the top moisture. Still have good subsoil moisture due to all the rain in May. Like they say - "If it was easy, everyone would want to do it"
 
thought about welding a hitch to the back of the boat and using that to try to cut hay last week, maybe next week it will dry off enough to work.
 
I live in S E Il. Close to the Little
Wabash and Skillet Fork rivers. Probably a
area 25 by 5 miles is under water. Corn in
hills looks all right. Beans are not
growing but water hemp is! Have sprayed
and killed at it twice, but comes back.
Haying is on hold. Not 4 days without
rain. But did get first cutting of Alfalfa
up without rain. Sold some of it all the
way down in LA.
 
I road scouted yesterday between Brownsburg, IN and Clermont, IN which is 5 miles northwest of the Indianapolis Airport. So far this month 8.3 inches with afternoon storms in today's forecast. Early corn is 4 feet in height, soybeans around 12 inches. In wet spots the corn is yellow at 2 feet. Soybeans in wet spots are toast. Way too muddy to even walk out into the fields. Very little hay and no wheat is grown in this area.
 
We just got back from a vacation across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, across northern Wisconsin and U.P. Michigan, and back down thru Indiana on US-31. The worst we saw was from just south of the Michigan border to just above Columbus Indiana. North of Indy, a rough guess would be at least 1/2 of the crops are likely done. And it is still raining. Some of the best corn we saw was at both sides of the Michigan/Indiana border. Then just a few miles south and it was lakefront property.
 
Here in central NY, we had a real dry May, which helped with planting, but in June we haven't been able to string together enough dry days to make dry hay. We have nice weather on and off, but it seems to rain every other day.
The forecast looks good for Friday Saturday and Sunday, so if it holds I'll be mowing like a man possessed..
Pete
 
In central Illinois, about 30 miles southwest of Bloomington, we have had over 16" since May 30th. You can see it all, good looking corn and beans and then a few miles away a yellow stunted mess. Not hardly any crops sprayed in the last 2 weeks. Lot of standing water.
 
I'm about 30 miles east of Paul in So. central Mn. and I have never has nicer crops. My hay on the other hand is a disaster.
 
This wet weather starts in eastern Kansas and goes on east...Here in western Missouri lots of early beans aren't planted,theres
lots of hay to bale,and lots of wheat to cut....The early corn looks decent and is tasseling and earing..To the northeast of us this
morning they got 4" of rain while we got .20...
 

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