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How bad has the rains affected your farm?

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Quite bad for me, Think some areas are going to take a hit on crops this year. Seems many farmers a re behind. For me roughly 2 weeks. Lets hear your comments.
 
i got 80 acres of corn in before all the rain. other fields were too wet to plant. running out of time pretty quick..
 
Never been so much so far behind like this year. Nothing done whatsoever on my place. I walk the fields every other day in part to report to the insurance company when that time comes. Water standing in a number of places which is unusual for me. A couple of guys mudding stuff in. One guy just flat out scared and the other too stupid to know any better. Got two different rains yesterday totally just under half an inch. Normally a half inch of rain is no bid deal but when you are already wet and the nights get down into the 40's you are talking about waiting another week. Crops planted after June 5 typically don't amount to much for me.
 
Nothing planted for us, don?t know if we will get planted at all. Water standing everywhere. The few guys that are getting any planting done are doing it on the high ground that has sand. And even then they are rutting it up bad. What little got in early before all the rain got drowned out so there is a lot of re plant needing to happen.
 
Mine are mostly in, but it's really wet. Started raining within a couple of hours after I got done and rained most of a week and over 5" total. Ground is just muck and I'm worried the seed will not before it sprouts. But now we had a couple dry days and nice and sunny today, might be enough to get it up. Other than some light rain next week don't look too bad. I would say most got about 1/2 done around here.
 
I don't have a lot of hay ground to bale. I don't have any livestock, but I supply a small cattle operation. Even if we were to get 4 days without rain, the ground is so saturated I would rut up and tear up the hay field. So probably a couple weeks til I can even think of making hay. Totaling 6.5 inches in the last ten days. Soggy soggy soggy. Rain rain go away, not forever just for now. gobble
 
Most years I would have already started baling hay but not this year. Red clover has flower which is the best time to cut hay but not this year. Bumper crop of weeds in the garden due to so much rain and cannot go out and weed or mulch the garden due to being to wet to mow grass of pull weeds
 
Well with the deadline for Insurance pupose's, was yesterday, 5 - 25, i would say we are all in deep do do, maybe they will extend it,but still wont be a big crop, and chance are it will be wet !
 
Yep old Johnny could make a song out of something bad,my dads farm was right a long the James River, that flooded real bad in 1951, i can just barely remember that, but in 69 or 1970,it flooded again, the old timers said it was about equal to the 51 flood, but didn't have to move out either time.
 
Not a farmer. But I deliver feed to them. From what I have seen. Fields are still to wet to do anything with. Many are not going to plant anything this year. Tractors are getting stuck all over the county. Some land is still under water. Going to be a bad year in this part of Texas.
 
Over 25,000 acres of farm land will be flooded when we open our big spillway next week to relieve pressure on the Mississippi river levee system.
They have been moving cattle; tractors; hunting camps; and everything else that will move day and night for the past few days to get everything out of the waters path.
 
well we are behind, but not as bad as some of the rest of ya'll. The neibors got most of there grain and Taters in.. we usually wait to put grain in, when we plant grain it usually is a nurse crop for alfalfa..The price of alfalfa seed, we have found it better to wait until there is no chance of frost.. I had 30 acres of lower ground plowed and disked, waiting to triple K it and drill it. In order to get to a pivot of higher ground that is established hay (that is turning yellow from too much rain) you have to cross part of that lower ground.. well dad took a chance with the 3010 with duals and flotation fronts... now I need lots of chain and a couple of dry days.(anybody want to wallow 1/4 mile in waist deep muck and hook a chain?). Im at the point now that the alfalfa seed is going to go back in storage.. and if/when (god willing) things dry up im going to drill a crop of oats and cut it for hay.. well thats the plan anyway.. you know how those go...
 
Most farmers try to be done planting by May 25th at latest, here localy. Most are from 1/2 to 3/4 done, and we seam to continue to get rain showers every 24-36 hrs, bringing things to a halt. Also planting around lots of wet spots. Just to our north on heavy clay ground there is no sign of anything planted, and lots of ruts in fields, and mud on the roads from trying to spread slurry.-------Loren
 
Normally finish small grains (and hay seeding) by the end of April or first week of May, then get the corn in asap. Usually in good shape as long as everything is planted by the end of May. I haven't opened a single bag of seed yet. Tried the disk-chisel one day, but it was too wet, so I quit, and its been even wetter ever since. Haying normally starts on the last few days of May or first few of June. Even if I wasn't concerned with rutting up the hay fields, the hay isn't tall enough to mow yet.
 
95% planted by May 16 , some was planted too wet and emergence slow in those areas. Struggling to get weed spray on no till corn and some cutworm damage. Wheat is slow and some damaged by fertilizer burn. Remaining wet areas aren't drying out. Grass hay ready to cut June 1 . S WI
 
finished corn a little over a week ago. i had to leave about an acre on the rented ground but that acre is usually always wet. left 2 acres on my farm a little more than usual. started to work ground for beans on my farm only 10 acres but could only work half. worked 20 acres of rented ground. i put the dualls on the 1086 this year glad i did got through some tough spots. got another 20 acres to check out but rain is coming all week. been cold here this is only the second night i havent run the pellet stove. the hay isnt growing to well either.
 
Not farming any more so not personally affected but driving around country most fields with water standing. Nothing worked and no sign of spray working if it did get sprayed, April 15 time to start planting corn and be finnished by may 15 when time to start on hay. Northwest central Ohio. The 1913 floods that ended shipping on the Great Miami-Erie canal did not destroy the canal like this spring rains have.
 
Don't know if anyone here is done with corn Lots of ground not touched. I personally haven't turned a wheel and am looking seriously at prevented plant on corn. One thing personally in my favor is I don't have any inputs down yet.

jt
 
Many areas of the Midwest are in much worse shape than me, so I shouldn?t complain.

This is the 4th wet year in a row, getting very old.

Mudded in another 15 acres of corn yesterday, would have 20-25 left. Haven?t started beans.

Rain started a couple hours ago, we are in a flood watch/ warning, supposed to get over 2 inches.

It gets old. Fourth year of this....... we aren?t the worst off, but so constant, rain rain rain.

Southern MN.
 
This a good year for grass based/Permaculture farming,plenty of grass and other greens growing for the cattle and goats.Grapes,Blackberries,Plums,Pears,Apples are all loaded and growing.Too wet to make hay but it'll dry up with the 90+ degree weather this week.Wet weather is giving me time to finish up some projects and tractors and not be rushed.
Sure beats drought/dry weather.
 
I don't think so when it washes away buildings, roads, bridges, fence and the dirt in the field. With drought you still have those things and no crop but with the rain you do not have the crop pluss all the buildings, roads bridges and fences to replace.
 
We've had our share of high water in my area Tropical storms,Hurricanes etc.Hurricane Camille killed over 200 people in one night but overall give me the wet over extended drought anytime.
My 'crop' is grass never had so much rain it hurt that.
 
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