Terrible wet

grandpa Love

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• Jul 13, 2021

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Back in May we went 4+ weeks with no rain. Hay wasn't growing. June hit and so did the rain,it's continued into July. Haven't had 4 dry days in a row to cut hay. Actually need about 7-8 dry days, field is so soggy you could get a tractor stuck. I'm glad I ain't depending on hay to feed live stock. I bet we have had 2-2.5 inches of rain a week for the last 6 weeks. Most of the garden is drowned, tomatoes, squash, cucumber and eggplant have given up. Lots of the Indian corn is bent over. Watermelon, cantaloupe and pumpkins paper fine. Hopefully it won't be too wet and the melons rot instead of getting ripe. More rain forecast Evey day this week.... Soggy Alabama

 

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grandpa Love

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• Jul 13, 2021

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Well. Spell check and proof reading still got me..... 'paper fine'??? Lol. Appear fine!

 

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DRussell

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• Jul 13, 2021

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Did you know you can edit your posts now in Modern view?

 

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grandpa Love

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• Jul 13, 2021

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I didn't know that.... I will see if I can figure it out. Thanks

 

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fixerupper

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• Jul 13, 2021

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Its funny how our weather conditions can change so quick. We started the spring and summer terribly dry. We were on the brink of disaster. A little over two weeks ago the gentle drizzly rains started coming and in a two week time period I accumulated just a twitch under 5 inches. Last saturday I was riding through the beans on my side by side and suddenly found myself driving through water. Had to kick in the 4WD to get through. Two weeks previous to this driving through water in the fields was the last thing i would have expected.

 

formerly ny bill

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• Jul 13, 2021

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apparently our weatherman is trying to catch up with you. We have had 6 +/- in the last week. flash flooding- culverts washed out. forget trying to do hay. Over a month without any 3-4+ day stretches of nice weather. I had my first cutting done before the weather took a dump, but now 2nd cutting is ready and it has to wait. The first that is still out there looks like straw.

 

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TimWafer

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• Jul 13, 2021

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Sounds like its just about the same weather as here in NY. Dry earlier but nothing but rain lately. Humidity is so bad nothing drys out. Everything feels damp and clammy. Must be what its like in a rain forest. Rain in the forecast every day for at least another week. :roll:

 

Tgrasher

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Location

South Southern illinois

• Jul 13, 2021

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All I know is be careful what you wish for because things can be worse with the opposite of what you have.

 

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Russ from MN

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Location

Bemidji MN

• Jul 13, 2021

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It could be worse, it could be too dry and on fire, like much of the NW, from MN to WA! We are so dry on the Canadian border I don't dare use my Bush Hog!

 

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paul

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• Jul 13, 2021

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Im a farmer, so Im never happy.....

It was so hot and dry the crops were near failing, it was too hot to make hay, etc.

Now a week later we got a couple rains finally and the temperatures lowered into the 80s instead of flirting with 100s.

I need to finish hay and I need to cut the small grains and let lay a few days and combine. So now we have chances of good rains more days than not, and Im frustrated by the wet weather.....

After wailing and complaining about the drought 2 weeks ago.....

Yup Im a farmer......

Paul

 

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larry@stinescorner

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• Jul 13, 2021

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We are getting rain every day lately also,,bad for tomatoes

 

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old

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Camdenton Missouri

• Jul 13, 2021

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I'm about 75% done with my hay but have not been able to finish due to the weather guessers keep on saying rain in 3 days. I need a 4 day window to do the hay and be sure it dries. Plus the rain also has water in places I have to cross which make it harder also

 

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SVcummins

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• Jul 13, 2021

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You can drink water you cant dust .

 

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fixerupper

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• Jul 13, 2021

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Our first cutting was good but nothing to write home about. It is brome and alfalfa. Second cutting yielded about a third of what the first cutting because of the lack of rain, the heat and the brome part of it is a first cutting hay anyway. I was thinking about spreading two tons per acre of Turkey litter on the hay ground after the second cutting but decided not to because I was afraid it would not be rained into the soil. We have had a Twitch under 5 inches of rain like I had mentioned since the second cutting was taken off. Now I am kicking myself for not fertilizing. (Sigh)

 

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SVcummins

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• Jul 13, 2021

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When everything you have depends on the weather its hard to be happy . A citiot gets up in the morning oh its raining I dont like rain goes to work doesnt make a bit of difference to them either way .

 

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Buckeye Oliver collector

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• Jul 14, 2021

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Similar weather here, except there is a LOT of 1st cutting still in the fields. Just not pleasant. Soybeans look terrible around here where there are not ponds instead of beans. Some nice corn around though!

 

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72supr

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• Jul 14, 2021

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Last year we had thirteen inches of rain in June. This year maybe 3 inches all spring. When your livelihood depends on rain being wet is not terrible.

 

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Carlmac 369

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• Jul 14, 2021

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(quoted from post at 09:49:45 07/13/21) Did you know you can edit your posts now in Modern view?

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It seems many don't know that. Or they just don't care.

 

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coshoo

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• Jul 14, 2021

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We've been about 3 weeks without rain in the Pacific Northwest, and none in sight. Usually very little rain in the summer here- we have the second driest summers in the US, after southern Arizona and California.