Rain ........ Augh!!

Have we all had enough rain yet??? Started hay last Sunday evening, Chopped it on Mnoday. WAs going to cut more Monday evening, but showered. Has showered on and off between heavy rains ever since. I think the drought is over. Bruce

I just went on a little crop tour. Water standing everywhere. Some alfalfa is starting to go down. IF it doesn't rain yet today or tonight,I might be able to finish planting the one and only field that I have any corn planted in yet by mid week. The rest of it is a week to two weeks from being dry enough to get on. I drove the Oliver Super 55 out to check cattle last night and got it stuck in the pasture. Had to walk back up and get the 1365 FWA and pull it out.
It's getting to me. Here's a recent picture of me.

I was wondering why my drill pattern was so ugly in the last little field of oats I planted next to the house, then remembered in late April I was working in 85 degree heat, and a desiccating wind with its associated cloud of dust! In other words I couldn't see where I was going.
Finally got them sprayed this AM. A week or more later than I wanted to. Tracked a little mud out of the field with me. About 11 days ago the water was running down across this little field like I've never seen before. Thankfully the little oats held very well. The corn fields didn't do so well.

Gee Randy, you are a lot younger than I thought! That is rough deal about not getting the corn in yet, all the corn is in here. But it looks like everyone planted the little yellow kind. It has just started to pour rain again, so I am going to get wet going to the barn. Have a glass of that stuff for me will you.

And I thought you were 'wet' enough? At least you are still smiling...or is that the demons in the alcohol?
LOL.....Sam

My son called last night wanted to know if I knew the seeding rate for rice. He said he couldn't mow the lawn because it was so wet and mushy and very few farmers in his area have corn in.

I live about 10 miles as the crow flies to the family farm. Around here, things were still pretty dry and guys were planting yesterday and today. At our place, they just got about 3/4" 2 days ago. I managed to get back out there today with the neighbors offset disk to finish going over our new rental ground (was too wet last time so I quit, but it was dryer then than it waqs today) and finished the last few rounds in the rain. Had the duals packed with mud when I got to the road.

Last year hmongs had that field rented and had it in gardens. They hired my brother to till their plots. The only issue is that now it's still beat to a pulp because we didn't get the ground until late April, so we never got to fall plow it. There was absolutely no texture to help it dry out, and it is very mellow soil.

I got stuck 2 weeks ago but managed to get out after unhooking the disk, then just pulled that out with a chain. Today I got stuck again, but there was no hope of getting out. I was going along treading lightly, when all of a sudden the front sank in and I was screwed. Normally I don't go out in the mud like that, but this feild desparately needed to be opened up to breath. What I had done was nice and dry. What I did today was drying down fast. I figure 1 pass with the cultivator and drag and it'll be ready to plant.

Hopefully we don't get much rain tonight, so I can work it tomorrow and get something in within the next day or 2.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Local news station said that we sent a new rainfall record for May and the total was more than twice what we normally receive and this isn't normally a dry area. Tenant has corn planted but none of the planned 1500 acres of beans. That particlar area was been somewhat lucky. Generally received about half the deulge that many have suffered. Central Illinois. Beans that I drilled May 14th look very good although beginning to see the early applied residual herbicide is starting to lose some effectiveness. Likely will need to consider another residual on the second pass along with the RU. However perhaps we can get some hail in a month or so to blunt my advantage.