Will it ever stop raining?
Every day.
Sometimes only a 10th, or even a few hundredths. But with the soils so saturated and pounding, and the high humidity, nothing drys out. Mushrooms are growing in just bare fieldroad dirt.
We got a 10th of an inch over night, it started at 9:00pm and hasn't quit yet, too dark here from the overcast sky to read a paper without a light on at 11:00am. There is never any sun.
I have 1/10th of my crops sprayed; I should normally be on the second round finishing up. You can imagine what that all looks like.
Hay making is a joke for the third year in a row. There was a very small window early in the season the alfalfa guy's who chop or wet wrap their hay could get it done with only one or two light rains. Most hay is standing way ofpver ripe, or in brown moldy windrows, or was put up wet and brown. Saw folks wrapping brown alfalfa as a wet crop, that had been cut 10 days earlier. They were driving around ponds in the field that shouldn't be there. Here alfalfa is on a 30 day cycle, so they were mashing down 1/3 of the 2nd crop growth cycle.....
What a mess.
Next year I am going to plant weeds and try to intentionally grow them. Hopefully, with my luck, corn and soybeans will take over the fields.....
Paul.
Every day.
Sometimes only a 10th, or even a few hundredths. But with the soils so saturated and pounding, and the high humidity, nothing drys out. Mushrooms are growing in just bare fieldroad dirt.
We got a 10th of an inch over night, it started at 9:00pm and hasn't quit yet, too dark here from the overcast sky to read a paper without a light on at 11:00am. There is never any sun.
I have 1/10th of my crops sprayed; I should normally be on the second round finishing up. You can imagine what that all looks like.
Hay making is a joke for the third year in a row. There was a very small window early in the season the alfalfa guy's who chop or wet wrap their hay could get it done with only one or two light rains. Most hay is standing way ofpver ripe, or in brown moldy windrows, or was put up wet and brown. Saw folks wrapping brown alfalfa as a wet crop, that had been cut 10 days earlier. They were driving around ponds in the field that shouldn't be there. Here alfalfa is on a 30 day cycle, so they were mashing down 1/3 of the 2nd crop growth cycle.....
What a mess.
Next year I am going to plant weeds and try to intentionally grow them. Hopefully, with my luck, corn and soybeans will take over the fields.....
Paul.