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I know some of you have had far too much rain. But we haven't had a drop here for 35 days (a record) with temperatures 20F degrees above normal, 97F on October 1st. Everything in central KY is burned to a crisp. Farmers are culling already, and feeding hay 6 weeks early. Heavy rain started an hour ago, and sure sounds good. Forecast is 1 to 2 inches tonight, hope so.
 
I live in southern Indiana and its bone dry also. We had a few sprinkles so looked at the radar and wished I was getting the rain their getting in Kentucky!
 
We had 5.5 inches this past week -- Just getting started on the beans -- We could go a month without rain and it wouldnt hurt .. northwestern Iowa -- Roy
 
No rain here for about 6 weeks now, DFW area.

Weak line of rain came through, split to the north and south, not a drop here.

But the upper nineties are supposed to be done now, upper 50's in the morning!
 
In SE South Dakota we could skip moisture until next spring. I swear a heavy dew causes all the tile and creeks to rise and start running. Glad we didn't try to mud in the low spots after the initial planting. In my immediate area we are fortunate enough to have rolling hills so we don't get flooded every time but many more people are in an all or nothing situation.
 
I will be working at Paullina Monday and Tuesday then Garner on Wednesday.

Will be up your way.
 
I keep hoping for 4 or 5 days with out ran so I can finish up my hay. I do not have a lot of room to store it but want to do as many squares as I can and put up as many as I can. If I run out of room I many ask the neighbor if I can store some in his barn
 

I'm south west of you and the last rain we had was 1st week of August, We've gotten around 1.3 inches so far today and still raining.
Loving it!
May get that second cutting of hay now, still a couple hundred rolls short and hearing prices of $45-50 for 4x5 rolls of junk hay. I'd already looked at culling half the herd if we didn't get any rain in the next couple of weeks.
 
Here in Missouri many of us have more hay then we know what to do with but last year we where doing our best to scrap the bottom of the barrel to find hay
 
Here in East Central Wi., as of two weeks ago, we broke the yearly rain fall record since they started recording it. Everything is mud here. The few guys who can chop corn are using 4wd choppers and 4wd tractors with dump carts. It's a mess. Fields are torn up with deep ruts. Unless we get a very late frost, a lot of corn won't be near ready to be shelled. Can't even mow lawn it's so wet.
 
Hay is high this year due to last year being really wet all summer and fall. This year was wet all of June didn't dry up till mid July so everybody was late. Bone dry and temps way above normal since.
 
Live in Adams Co., OH about 20 miles north of the river...got close to 2" Sunday-Monday.

My pastures were getting pretty brown, hoping they'll come back enough I don't need to cull right now...seems like you always take a whipping when you HAVE to sell.

Fred
 
No rain here for just over a month, and even when that rainfall came in early September it wasn't much and it was already dry. For perspective, in that month we'd normally have received 4 or 5 inches.

And like you, it has been well warmer than average. Put the two together and we're quite dry.

Fortunately, from an agricultural perspective, much of the farmland around is irrigated.
 
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