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MN Scott

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Finally got some rain here in SE MN, about 1 1/2. Thing is it came in about 20 minutes with high winds. Flattened alot of corn. So now the drought stressed corn in lying on the ground in the mud. Funny how things can change in a few minutes.

 

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rrlund

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• Jul 18, 2012

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We had a super nice rain this morning. Six tenths between 5:30am and noon.

 

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JMS/.MN

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• Jul 18, 2012

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I"m hr NW of metro, had .7 this am, 1.7 last friday. Crops look very good around here, on clay. Sand ground is very bad.

 

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teddy52food

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• Jul 18, 2012

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How far from the Freeport, St. Rosa area?

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jul 18, 2012

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I am happy for you rrlund, after the way you were talking last night I was worried about you sounding so depressed. We'll keep up the prayers. They announced today that all 114 counties in MO have been declared disaster area.

 

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JMS/.MN

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Bit South, just inside Meeker County, 2 mi from Stearns. Last Friday, neighbors lost an 80 x 200 beef shed, (new), bldg done, just pouring floor.

 

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tomtirediron

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Highway paving-rather tried paving today up West of Brainerd, MN. Watched my radar all morning hoping it would miss us. No such luck. Rained out but VERY happy to see it lingering across a good chunk of state today. Hope it helped a lot of you folks.

 

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samn40

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Well we could export rain, most of the milkers are housed again eating winter rations, I am selling 3 year old silage, shifted 70 ton today and 55 ton yesterday, all my first cut bales sold. Some neighbours have not got first cut off the fields yet and yet some second cut is already done, not a single bale of hay made other than some that I made last week of May, which is regarded too early here. Crops are starting to suffer and go yellow with stress and every time it rains it gets cold. I just wish we could get the Chinese to do something so that our weathers could meet half way. lol
Still as long as I have silage to sell, things arn't so bad for me!!!
Sam

 

Ultradog MN

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Location

Twin Cities

• Jul 18, 2012

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I left the wheelbarrow upright last night. Just guessing on the amount but maybe 3/4"?
Early storm. 4 AM? Thunder half woke me up.
Had another hard 20 min rain about 10 AM.
Forgot and was going to water my ficus this evening but it didn't need it.
Twin Cities.

 

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RayP(MI)

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Sorry to nnalert you, we had more like 2 1/2 inches! Six wagon loads of hay, bundled oats out there hastily covered with tarps. Hope they didn't get too wet. Another 4 to 5 wagon loads of oats still in shocks. Hope they dry out OK. Leaving tarps on for now, more rain forecast.

 

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David G

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• Jul 18, 2012

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150 miles south of you, dry as a bone.

 

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MN Scott

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Here are a few pictures I took of some of the damage. Damage was widspread. Going to be interesting harvesting this stuff this fall.

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rrlund

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• Jul 18, 2012

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I'm sure not gonna complain. Way better than getting poked in the eye with a stick again. Had corn starting to tassel and without that rain,it would have probably been barren.

 

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donjr

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• Jul 18, 2012

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We got almost an inch late last week, and I was out looking at our corn this evening. Getting a lot of stalks with two big ears on them. Certainly will be nice to see them fill out. The past two years have been dry around here, and yields were way off last year. We need a good year.

 

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GordoSD

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• Jul 18, 2012

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End rows will recover. Send some pics of the really nice cornn in the back. Looks like 170 bu corn back there. What's goin on?

 

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GNPfatboy

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• Jul 18, 2012

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1.7 " this morning around 8. 1.5 " last Fri. late afternoon. Corn here is looking good. Hope to cut grain tomorrow. We are 20 miles N of St. Cloud.

 

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pat sublett

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• Jul 18, 2012

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I got 1.6 inches Monday, West of Ft. Worth Tx. I don't ever remember getting that kind of rain mid July.

 

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Bleeding Orange SW Iowa

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SW Iowa

• Jul 18, 2012

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We didn't have the drought last year, but a lot of fields in SW Iowa looked like your photos right after a double line of t-storms swept through with high (80 mph) winds. Spotty blowdown, too--one of Pop's fields almost all down, my field 1/2 mile away had very little. Many (including me) thought: (sigh) disaster...

Ended up sifting 160 bpa out of the dirt. The stalks rebounded about a foot off the ground and held there. Combine had to run across the rows in some spots, but got it. We have not switched to all crops/no livestock, like some larger folks in the area, so the cows got the rest of the blowdown. Thank goodness we are too small to specialize, we have to keep the diversity of both crops and cattle for our income. Almost no volunteer corn in Pop's beans this year, where the worst blown down corn was last year. It seems like many fields in the area that had no cows on the stalks have a lot more volunteer corn in the beans this year.

 

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MN Scott

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• Jul 18, 2012

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Some fields came thru with little damage and some went flat. That field in back stood pretty well. Lots of variability this year. Seems to be related to different hybrids genetics.