rrlund and others (weather)

How wet is it by you in Michigan? I was just wondering how you are doing chopping corn, etc. It's wet as all get out in northern Wisconsin. Guys having troubles getting into fields let alone harvesting anything. Just curious.

Unrreal. I've chopped a total of about five days in the last month. We've had well over a foot of rain in the last four weeks or so. Out of total desperation,I wallowed some corn down and made a new headland across the middle of a field Monday afternoon so I could chop off one end. I put both duals on the 2-135 and was chopping small loads in a wagon with big 14.1 tires on it,then it cut loose raining again about 3:30 yesterday. We ended up with over half an inch again,and it's drizzling lake effect today. I threw in the towel today and went and got the plastic to cover the bunker. If it ever does get to where I can chop again,we'll probably be fed back quite a ways in the bunker anyway. I can roll the plastic back and push more in if we get the chance.

I'm taking melatonin to sleep every night. We've never sold any feeder cattle before,always feed everything out,but we're taking 20 to the special feeder cattle sale November 1. There's another special sale December 6. We'll have a better idea where we stand then. Might have to take more. I told the wife not to worry about money right now,we'll have plenty from selling off cattle,it's a year from now that we have to worry about.

When I went to get the plastic today,I hit a patch of road where I thought they'd removed the asphalt,but it was just mud tracked on the road where somebody had tried to chop yesterday. There's some corn been chopped around here,but it doesn't look like anybody's any farther along than I am,if they're even as far.

The edible beans should be done by now,but there's a lot of them out yet. I don't know what kind of shape they're in. I saw one field Monday that was under water. It was when we went to the sale barn two weeks ago too,so I would imagine they're shot.

I'm out of ear corn. I have some that's ready to pick,but I can't get on the ground,so the cattle are just getting what's in the silage. It's an awful helpless feeling. At least when we were wet this spring we had some heat and longer days so there was hope of it evaporating off,but this mess isn't going anywhere. If it does freeze up,there's so much standing water that we'll just break through the ice and in to the mud. I don't know what we're going to do.

I figured as much. I don't have any corn to chop luckily, but it's a nightmare just feeding hay at the moment. The guys around me that do, got a little chopped on a few nice days last week, but it's back to a swamp hole again now. Neighbor hooks up his skidder to his big new holland to help pull it around the field. The big farm up north has only half of its corn chopped. Some dry weather would be nice.....

The devil of it is,after all the flooding this spring,we dried up in July and August so the second and third cutting didn't amount to much. I need to bale some corn stalks to get the cows on through the winter,but if I can't pick,I can't bale stalks.

It's getting pretty wet here and had to wait to get wheat in but in the end that was challenging. When it was time back in September I was sick most of one week. Keeps on like it is now getting crops out will be very difficult. Could not get anything planted in the spring and got the insurance on the prevent plant. That is looking better and better as the days are cooling off. The nights are cool enough that we are within several degrees of having snow should precipitation fall. Close enough to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie that lots of days this time of year are overcast.

Bring your corn patch and chopper to my part of Texas and you could chop 24 hrs a day for a month and probably not get rained out. I've had about 1 1/2" since june.

That's the way it was here in July and August. We prayed too hard I guess because since Labor Day we haven't hardly been able to string together two dry days.

A friend of davpal was telling me the first of August,about a guy over their way that didn't get anything planted this year at all,not even on rented ground. One of the gals in the bank told me this morning that she had talked to somebody yesterday who had 300 acres of edible beans that he was going to disc under whenever he can even do that. They're spoiled.

I just read on USA today that this winter from Montana to michigan will be wetter than normal and temps will be normal.

The funny thing about this year was I thought we would get a jump on getting some wheat planted over here. About the time we had everything ready to go we ended up getting slammed with rain all over again so that's probably not going to happen now. I went over to Middleton the other day and got caught in that bridge mess over by Pompeii on M-57. Can't believe all the harvest trucks that are going to have to go through that thing this year. All the tractors pulling wagons, semis, combines that won't fit through it. They have drug that project on way too long and it's going to be terrible trying to get to the elevator. I usually drag at least 20-30 loads in wagons over there and I'm kind of relieved I don't have to deal with it this year. On the bright side I had a really good 10'X 20' garden patch this year for growing tomatoes and peppers. That was the highlight of our agricultural production this year!