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Bruce from Can. · Aug 22, 2014

One minute I am buzzing along cutting 3rd cut hay , and thinking , boy , sure glad I put the umbrella on the swather , this sun is some hot. Next thing I know , it is pouring rain, and I am thinking , boy I am sure glad I put the umbrella on the swather , or I'd really be getting soaked. 3 rains this week, we are supposed to get some sunny days coming. Well I sure hope so! I have 60 acres of grain to swath and combine , as well as this 3rd cut hay to chop. To say this has been a trying year , would be a understatement. It has been a son of a beachy eh!

rrlund · Aug 22, 2014

Same thing just happened to me,except I got done with the field I was cutting. I headed for home,saw a car coming over the hill down the road toward me and he had his wipers on. When I got to the top of the hill it was raining. I just checked the radar on DTN. There was a tiny little dot that showed up and went away,but despite the dot being gone,it's still coming down. I hope it's just falling right here at the house and not up in the field.

Bobl1958 · Aug 22, 2014

I would give most anything to have to put up with the rain you guys are getting. I'm watching my beans burn up more everyday. 100 degree temps and 20mph winds are burning everything up here in Central KS.

Had 1" of rain a couple of weeks ago and it was gone in two days. It clouds up and lightnings at night, but no rain. Some places are getting a little, but not here. They are calling for a little next week, so we will wait and see.

If you can, just send it here and we will put up with it for you...lol!

bison · Aug 22, 2014

Last rain i had was first week of june...not a drop since.
Pastures are burning up, no regrowth what so ever on hay fields or pastures.
Crops in the area look terrible.
At this rate i'm feeding end September.
One neighbor started feeding already 14 days ago.

rrlund · Aug 22, 2014

Doesn't matter which end of the spectrum you're on when it goes to extreme. You can't even begin to imagine how bad we need two weeks of dry heat. I don't think we've strung together two days of it this year. Some of the first cutting was junk,the second cutting that I have up so far is too. We're fast running out of summer. If we get to the last week of September and don't have this hay done,it's all over. The chances of even getting anything dry and baled in a normal year that late is about zero. The cattle might be eating snowballs. I'm just glad feeders are high as a kite,if I don't get more hay up,they'll be going down the road.

wolfman · Aug 22, 2014

I'm about halfway done building the Ark here in s.w. Pa. Going to try mowing some second cutting with the rowboat. I think that i remember sunshine, but I'm not sure.

David G · Aug 22, 2014

We finally got rain in Iowa after a wet 3 months, then no rain for a month.

bison · Aug 22, 2014

(quoted from post at 15:55:50 08/22/14) Doesn't matter which end of the spectrum you're on when it goes to extreme. You can't even begin to imagine how bad we need two weeks of dry heat. I don't think we've strung together two days of it this year. Some of the first cutting was junk,the second cutting that I have up so far is too. We're fast running out of summer. If we get to the last week of September and don't have this hay done,it's all over. The chances of even getting anything dry and baled in a normal year that late is about zero. The cattle might be eating snowballs. I'm just glad feeders are high as a kite,if I don't get more hay up,they'll be going down the road.

een there too rrlund. once 2 yrs in a row 24"+ rain.
I still prefer to wet over to dry,too wet, at least there's lots of pasture and one can still make silage or haylage if need be.
When to dry there's neither hay nor pasture, been there too, I had to sell all the cows that year..in a saturated market.'t was a good herd that had took 15 years to build.

NEKS · Aug 22, 2014

Its the second time in the last two months a area north of town received 2 or more inches and south of town we get 10 drops on a brick.
Took me six weeks to get my hay up and just got light sprinkle on my machinery. We need water bad.

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