i swear

Between the price of gas and the rain I might get my hay in by Sept. if I'm lucky. We got another 2 inches last night and its raining now. We have been in a drought for the last 4-7 years but we don't need to make it all up in just one year. Last I heard we where 12-14 above what is normal for this time of year and they are calling for more.
Hobby farm

had that problem last year. took me 3 months to finally get it done.should of took a couple of weeks.Had some get rained on for 3 weeks. it was worthless. just a big ball of mold by the time i got it rolled up. But had to get it off the field.

Send the rain to florida... I still don't have grass in my pasture!!

soundguy

It's called global cooling. Embrace the rain and head out to the barn to start building an arc. Remember, only big enough for two of everything and needs to be wind or solar powered.

Mark

I'm with soundguy send some to south GA on the way to FL we have been in that same drought and this year isn't starting out any different we are as dry as powder. and not much chance of rain in the forecast.
Larry

Get a tedder. It'll save your crop.

I've had 4.3 inches in the last four days. Everyone was talking drouth for our area (NW Iowa) this year. It is probably a GOOD THING that we cannot control the weather.

What are we gonna do when gas hits $8.30/gallon here? I'm told by the talking heads on the radio that that's what it's going for in Europe.

By then I hope I have a 50 horse electric motor installed in my skid loader, and an electric lawn mower. That's where I seem to be putting most of my gas.

You're in the same rut we were in '03-'06, maybe even '02, the amount of and frequency of rain was quite a bit more in those years than '07 and so far this year.

I've mentioned this before, I've noticed a distinct pattern, northern air is always pushing the southern tropical air out seems to be more prevalent. We are having dry spells of 2 weeks + or -, the soils have dried out quite a bit in these last 2 years at the same time of year when in those other years things were still wet. It seems most of the rains are to the west and we get the broken up storms, more isolated rains etc. I've also noticed that when the humid air rolls in, it does not always end with violent thunderstorms, in those other years it would, but many times with no relief except cool rain, humid air comes right back. Lately the northern drier air seems to win and has seemed to push the humid tropical air out, without incident. We just had our 1st t-storm of the year yesterday, dry for 2 weeks prior, needed it. In my opinion, it's been as close to perfect weather in the last 2 years in the spring/summer as it can get.

The hay grasses in the field next to my house are not nearly as tall as in those rainy years.

One thing is for sure, older conventional haying methods don't give you enough time in that kind of weather, anything you can change to reduce dry time is key to it.

I'll also bet the weather patterns will change again.

I would not complaing about the rain if I were you. It is better to be 15" over than 15" under as we are here in my area. At least you have good hay to mow when it does dry up. My hay is so sorry that I can't even get too excited about mowing it. I have not mowed any either. I am waiting for some good rain to grow it a little bit.

I'm in the same boat here in central Oh. Just need 4-5 good days and nothing breaking down.