Its been so dry here that . . .

Brendon-KS

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Goessel, KS
. . . a few places in the oat field I planted in March are just now coming up. Up until a week ago the most rain that had fallen here at any one time this year was only 0.2" and it got soaked up before getting down to the seed. Last week we had 0.65" which isn't much but any amount is better than none. When I sowed there was moisture farther down from the winter but my old drill couldn't get it in that deep everywhere so the seed has just sat there for two months. Oh well, at least I'm not having to mow the lawn much! Good chances of rain from Thursday through Tuesday so we'll see what happens.
 
Maybe there's a happy medium half way between your place and mine. I'm right where I was last year. Coming up on Memorial Day and no corn in the ground. I got all the ground for my picking corn chiseled the last two days,had some of it disced,called yesterday to have fertilizer delivered today so I could start planting today and it stormed hard last night. Another inch on ground that was barely passable anyway.
I don't know when I'll be able to even try again. They're saying rain again later in the day Monday and Tuesday,So I'm guessing it'll be almost dry enough by Monday noon.
The silage corn ground is anybody's guess. Still water standing all over that.
 
Yeah, that sounds just as bad but on the opposite end of the spectrum. Not much any of us can do about it, though.

In all honesty it could be a lot worse here. The wheat is very short but at least in our neighborhood we should get something, maybe 20-30 bu/acre? We need another decent rain to fill out the heads and we should be OK. Typical yield is over twice that but it still beats nothing; we'll know more in a month when the combines start rolling. Some guys a few miles north of our place had fields zero'ed out due to severe winter kill and others have chopped what little there was. Down in the Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma things must be really bad. My wife's cousin is a custom harvester and isn't even making the trip south this year because none of his customers have any wheat to cut. Gotta be thankful for what we do have.
 
Ya I lost a new alfalfa seeding that I planted last spring. I think myself,that it was a combination of flooding after I planted it last spring and such a miserable cold winter. I worked it up Monday and Tuesday. I'll put it back to corn when it dries out enough.
 
Well, we picked up 0.3" or rain yesterday and another 0.7" today so things are looking promising so far. There's more in the forecast every day through Tuesday so hopefully this is just the start.
 

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