Tile anyone?

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

At this point I am not even sure if tile would have helped some farms. Guy down mid Indiana told me something about twenty-some inches of rain in June alone. Only thing to make it worse is will all be dried out in late august when we need it.

rrlund · Jun 27, 2015

I didn't hear anything in the forecast until last night about the one that's knocking on our door right now. So much for that last field of hay that's on the ground right now. Guess I'll find something else to do today.

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

yep. Weather people tell you 90% chance and 2 inches actually = less than a tenth. They tell you nice for a week and it rains 4 of 5 days.

robgIN · Jun 27, 2015

Yes , I am about 20 miles south of Ft Wayne and we have had right around 20 inches in the month of June , some a bit more , seems like Ft Wayne and north missed out on a lot of it. The Wabash river and St Marys river basins seemed to get the worst of it , lots of flooding , lots of fields flooded and a lot of ground that won't be planted. Crops around here look the worst I ever remember . Won't be any record harvests in this area this year.

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

We in Michigan had a lot last year and cold temps on top of it. Lots of prevent plant or flood loss. I feel really bad for those people this year. Sounds like Iowa TO Ohio all got it.

Leroy · Jun 27, 2015

robgIN, Sounds like you are close to Decater. I get thru there quite often on my way to Ft Wayne. Last I was up had 5 state highways here in Oh closed due to the flooding. That was just a week ago yesterday. Thinking on heading up there tomorrow evening. I get to Berne all the time, was there last sat, tues, wed and yesterday hauling machinery. I am just down southeast of you just 3.5 mile off of US 33 and 5 mile east of I75. Do not know how much you had yesterday but none of the overload was needed. The Wabash River (I think) flood plain still looked like a lake.

NY 986 · Jun 27, 2015

I know some guys are not big on tile drainage but I would rather have the tile on the ground that I work even if there is one year out of 20 that the rain will be too much. That still leaves several years where the tile will make a large difference in the growing season.

Donald Lehman · Jun 27, 2015

Bill in IL · Jun 27, 2015

I am sure glad we have the tile we have. Yes the ground is saturated but it us helps to get things dried down. I think we have been somewhat spared around here we have only have 11 some inches of rain. The has not been a hay making window for the last month. Alfalfa is blooming and needs cut. There are no weather windows in the forecast to dry the ground much less dry the hay. At least for us hay is not real important. Got lucky this week and got one day of beans spraying in. Looks like east of here (peoria, il) has been really getting hammered. Lots of drown outs in fields and while driving yesterday east of Pontiac,il on hwy 116 I had 4 spots to drive through with water on the road.

Paul from MI · Jun 27, 2015

Still raining here in Branch County, no sign of slowing or stopping. Looks like an inside job day--AGAIN.

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

There are two things on average ground you have to have to grow crops. Either one missing is a major limit. One is PH and lime to regulate. The other is drainage. If you do not have it and need it no amount of fertilizer or high end seed will matter. Our muck tile pays for itself about every 1.5 years.

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

You guys over there been pretty wet? We have been wet but not like last year.

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

A friend in Iowa said where he is near De Moines they have had a ton of rain and very heavy when it does. Sucks for bad prices and then low yields too.

Stephen Newell · Jun 27, 2015

Usually here in Texas we are in a drought at this point of the year and they talk about banning fireworks for the Fourth. Last night we got 4 1/2" of rain. Last weekend I think we got 3".

K Effective · Jun 27, 2015

According to the MSU Enviroweather website, our local weather station has recorded 2.32" in April; 4.14" May and 3.01" in June, with measurable rain on 11, 14, and 11 days of each respective month. Being right on Lake Michigan buffers our rainfall a little and pushes it farther inland, and on some of those days with no measurable price, the grass never dried. We show just now at 999 gdd, with those heat units being right about average for 1981-2007.

IowaJohn · Jun 27, 2015

We've got tile that isn't keeping up, out at the ends of the laterals the corn is yellow never seen that before, it's just the year, before we tiled the whole bottom would be under yellow and stunted.

Dr. Walt · Jun 27, 2015

I chose the wrong profession. Should have become a Weather Guesser - only job I know of where you can be WRONG 50% of the time and still get PAID for it.

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coonie minnie · Jun 27, 2015

You know why God created market analysts, don't you??? Someone had to make weathermen look good...

Bob Bancroft · Jun 27, 2015

You can't get enough tile in the ground for all this flooding. The only place anything looks near normal is right over a tile.

RBoots · Jun 27, 2015

A buddy of mine farms higher ground. He wonders why we are always 3 weeks behind him in planting. When I tell him it's too wet, he says, "you need to put in some tile". Well, our good fields are tiled. I tell him, " when the river runs over its banks every spring and floods everything along it(some of our fields) 4 feet deep along the back until the river goes down, tile won't help.

Ross

robgIN · Jun 27, 2015

I am not sure how much we got but it was too much , the ponds that were almost gone in the fields are back up again and the river is pretty high again, it had gone down quite a bit after they had to open the dam at Huntington to lower the level as it got up to the overflow spillways . The only place the corn is green is right over the tiles, rest of the field is yellow or
dead from being under water .I am in Bluffton and have friends in Berne and Decatur also . Usually make it to the Van Wert plowday .

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

yep. cousin is up from texas and said whole mid to east side is wet or flooded.

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

50% if the time? Yours must be really good!

muckfarmer · Jun 27, 2015

hope it dries up some for you guys here soon. I know dead corn does not care if it is dry or wet.

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