pics after a rainy night

Here, just outside Farmington Il, we havent had to bad of a spring. Lots of places have had more problems than we have. The crops are mostly planted and look really good, a few beans to go for guys but thats about it. Yesterday we got a hard inch of rain in the late morning. Didnt hurt much, no wind, no hail just rain. Then last night in about a hour we recieved 2 inches of rain. Lucky again no severe weather just a steady downpour. I took these pictures this morning while I was looking at the fields. Hasnt rained so far today but looks like it may be building in the west and we dont need anymore right now if we can keep from it.
bill


Kinda thought this one set the tone for the day. They wouldnt eat my corn would they?


This field is just a little lower than most everything around it so it catches alot of water. Got a rain on it like this last year and lost close to ten thousand plants per acre. If it doesnt rain again it wont be as bad this time.



The other picture was the farm north of my house this one is the farm my house is on about 80 rod south of my house. This water will get away in a day or so. There is tile in all of this. The outlet is about a mile away. My great great grandfather put most of this tile in by hand.


This a farm we rent that has 4 parallel terraces in it. Lots of water behind them still this morning.



This is another terrace on that farm and you can see the water went over the top sometime last night. I dont recall that happening before.


This waterway runs at an angle across one half of a 160. Lots of water comes down this waterway. There is a culvert under the road here as you can see the current coming from outside the picture. The water was still running over the road this morning while I was there and there is a 8 inch tile in that water way so in order to take pressure off of it they put risers in to let the water bubble up to the surface. We havent had to fix a tile blowout since.


Looks funny sometimes.

Looks like you have plenty of rain.Last Tuesday we got 7 inches in less than 10 hours here at my house in North Alabama.15 miles South along the river places got 10 inches.We were 25 iches below average for last year but are right at average this year now.Your Corn looks great.

Bill it looks like that around here also.Plenty of water holes for all the ducks and geese.

Your corn is a little ahead of ours.

Gary

Yea have that here also no big deal anymore to me as it always works its way out. Just be glad you still have your homestead. Nothing is a big deal to me anymore unit you lose that once in your lfetime. getting your homestead destroyed by wind or fire is really not fun experience. Nothing else can really compare if you have ever been thru one or the other. Rain here now also just take it one day at time. rains will still make grains dry weather makes nothing.

Wow, its cloudy here in North Tx today, hope it doesnt rain, wheat is almost ready.

Had a little rain on my garden also, down by the creek bed. Check out the tomatoe stakes to the right: