Enjoying this drought

Keith Molden · Sep 3, 2018

This is our second day without rain and I'm grateful. The drought thing was just a pun. Thankfully we got some more 2nd cutting down yesterday and today, it isn't supposed to rain again till Thursday. The hay is making about 1/2 of what it usually does with wet spots in the fields to go around still. It has been so wet this year that the ground and the hay stubble is a brown color till the hay is off it. We could be in an honest to goodness drought like some of you folks are experiencing and I sure do feel sorry for you guys too. The corn and beans the guys have here look pretty darned good so all the rain and 90+ weather we've had all summer is good for something even if it's not been good for the hay. Just my thoughts, Keith.

Mike(NEOhio) · Sep 3, 2018

Having rain problems here too, Keith. Not that it's that much rain but just often enough that you can't get a three day window to do much baling. And the rains we got were real downpours that flattened the hay. Many of my neighbors and myself just brush-hogged most of it. I had 700 bales left from last year that I couldn't get rid of, glad I still have it now.

mj · Sep 3, 2018

(quoted from post at 15:25:49 09/03/18) This is our second day without rain and I'm grateful. The drought thing was just a pun. Thankfully we got some more 2nd cutting down yesterday and today, it isn't supposed to rain again till Thursday. The hay is making about 1/2 of what it usually does with wet spots in the fields to go around still. It has been so wet this year that the ground and the hay stubble is a brown color till the hay is off it. We could be in an honest to goodness drought like some of you folks are experiencing and I sure do feel sorry for you guys too. The corn and beans the guys have here look pretty darned good so all the rain and 90+ weather we've had all summer is good for something even if it's not been good for the hay. Just my thoughts, Keith.

Hardly any rain here...........VERY dry. No grass on the government ground, gonna be a lot of cattle sold off.

Keith Molden · Sep 3, 2018

That's the way it is down here too, just afternoon downpours because of the high humidity and temps with some of them causing flash flooding. Just one of those years where the hay's gonna be real clean when we bale it cause it sure has been washed enough. Oh well, next year will probably be a lot better (we hope LOL) We just keep believing that. Keith

Keith-OR · Sep 3, 2018

Lots of hay here in the N west, looks like they'll be shipping lots of alfalfa hay, South and east this winter. Had a real surplus last year. Hay brokers were sending hay back to the farmers, lot of large stacks 4x4x8 bales of last years hay still in fields. Been a drought here also, but most of our land is irrigated by circles or wheel lines. The lack of rain creates dry conditions in mountains, that is why we have a lot of forest fires.

paul · Sep 4, 2018

This is the third year in a row I?ve said, well can?t get any wetter than this... I need to stop saying that, man it?s been wet, yields are getting pretty low. Most corn is shoulder high and yellow. And that?s on the tiled ground, it really looks bad or drwned out on the non tiled ground.

Big part of the corn belt is in a flood watch today, with a hurricane pushing up behind. That?s a bad furred, those hurricanes often stall on us up here and dump more.

Have some 1st cutting hay left to cut, alfalfa I only cut once. Way too wet around here.

Beans that didn?t drown are late planted but trying to make something of themselves.

Paul

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