Eastern PA Forecast: 35% rain from 1am-2am, everything else 0% precipitation. It's been raining steadily for 9 hours now, and we've gotten 1.5" according to my rain gauge. Less than a week ago, got 3" in 3 hours. I've never seen a summer this wet, or the weather man be this horribly wrong about the rain. How do you miss a storm that stays over you for 10 hours?
- Thread starter Fatjay
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Unfortunately our weather guys are pretty accurate, when they say rain, expect it. Where I'm at we've actually gotten less than the city, just 1 6/10" over the last two days, some parts of Central Ohio got that much in an hour. Crops don't look too damaged, except the usual low areas. Always wondered why they waste the seed and fert. on those parts of the field. They always flood and the corn or beans isn't worth running the combine through later, if anything survives at all.
Donald Lehman
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I can remember one other year wetter than this in our area. It was the late 1960's - early 1970's. We never put a bale of hay in until the second week of August that year. We baled hay until it froze then we chopped our corn and went back to baling hay until it snowed. Lottsa barns burned that year from wet hay. Cows milked real good on that crap all winter, too! If I remember correctly the average protein content of the hay was around 2.7. Our corn silage tested a bit over 3. Yup, made lots of milk that winter!
Tom in TN
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- Location
- Southern Middle Tennessee
It's been too rainy in Middle Tennessee also. I have 650 bales in my barns right now and should have twice that much. The grass that I have on the ground was rained on yesterday and it doesn't look too promising for dry weather for the next couple of days. I guess it will work out eventually, but for right now, I'm way behind on haying.
We have a real tall, stemmy "grass" around here that is called Johnson Grass. It usually shows up in the second cut, but not too much in the first cut. The Johnson Grass is about 2.5 feet tall in the fields that I haven't cut yet. The cows will eat the big leaves on it but won't touch the stalks. About 1/3 of the bale is wasted when it is fed out.
Tom in TN
We have a real tall, stemmy "grass" around here that is called Johnson Grass. It usually shows up in the second cut, but not too much in the first cut. The Johnson Grass is about 2.5 feet tall in the fields that I haven't cut yet. The cows will eat the big leaves on it but won't touch the stalks. About 1/3 of the bale is wasted when it is fed out.
Tom in TN
Mike(NEOhio)
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- Location
- Newbury, Ohio
I have 180 in from 7-6. Rained hard all afternoon yesterday and most of the night. I need a week of dry before I can even get in the fields. I'm about ready to give up for this year.
We're at about 35" YTD, normal for this time is about 30, however mid-March to mid-May we had nothing, and from mid-May til now has been nearly 30". Temps are below average as well. Making it hard to try and predict the winter we have coming. All the dirt I have been moving is washing away.
Tom, I too am from middle TN. The neighbor has cows and has a fairly good stand of Johnson Grass in several of his hay fields. He says he likes it and being a bit "stemmy" doesn't bother him. He says his cows don't have anything else to do all day other than sort through and pick out the stems 
Ha ha
Ha haI am from SE Ohio and baled about 350 rounds early last month. Haven't made another bale since 6/12. It's so wet now after .7" last 2 days. it's a mud hole everywhere.
The forecast for today and the next 2 days was for nice enough weather to begin cutting, but now it's like its been for the last month, soon as we get a window, the forecast changes or the clouds come out and put a stop to any drying. I see no end to this weather cycle we are in and have all but given up on getting any more hay made this year.
Right now if I had a big bat wing mower I'd start chopping up the weeds before they get any worse.
I guess that's the reason I had hay left over from last year, the first time in years. I have enough to get me thru next winter if it comes down to that.
The forecast for today and the next 2 days was for nice enough weather to begin cutting, but now it's like its been for the last month, soon as we get a window, the forecast changes or the clouds come out and put a stop to any drying. I see no end to this weather cycle we are in and have all but given up on getting any more hay made this year.
Right now if I had a big bat wing mower I'd start chopping up the weeds before they get any worse.
I guess that's the reason I had hay left over from last year, the first time in years. I have enough to get me thru next winter if it comes down to that.
Ellis Kinney
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Northern Kentucky about 30 miles East of Cincy. Had so much rain for the last 6 weeks that the ground is saturated. The corn in the garden
won't stand up, the tomatoes have rotted off at the ground. All I can say is that it ain't raining right now. Ellis
won't stand up, the tomatoes have rotted off at the ground. All I can say is that it ain't raining right now. Ellis
MARK ROBKE
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I'm in the same region,just 15 more miles south east,tobacco country.After it was set,most have not been able to get back in the field to cultivate(plow as some say).A lot of blue mold and drowned plants in the fields.Grass,pastures,etc.,are usually yellow or brown this time of year,but instead green as can be!Water standing where it never has in the summer,can't cut hay here either.I have a new hay field full of johnson grass too that will be too soft to drive on for a long while yet,that really needs to be cut.We had a windstorm Tuesday that blew out a lot of trees because the ground was too wet,and broke a lot of big limbs too.Mark
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