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massey harris steve

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The people in Iowa and North central Illinois more than likely think I'm crazy. After all the Rain this year, we need rain. The corn leaves are starting to roll, the yellow clay here has turned to concrete, grass starting to turn brown, and I'm going to start watering the garden if it doesn't rain soon. Just a typical summer in southern Illinois just a liitle southeast of St. Louis
 
I don't think your crazy, here in NE AR we are very dry even after the march floods. Much of the crops had to be irrigated just to get germination.
 
Some of White County near the Wabash & Little Wabash is still flooded but some of the small corn on high ground is starting to twist. It's been a crazy year and who knows what lies ahead. A lot of us might start to pray for rain in the weeks ahead.
 
Here in northeast Alabama, we haven't had rain since the third week of May. It is bone dry. All the grass in the pastures is basically gone, turned the cows in on the hay fields on Monday. Lucky we had a really good first hay cutting cause it doesn't look like we will get another.
 
don't worry we will be going to Bowling Green Ky on July 3rd. for a week so it will rain like he77 in that part of the country. never fails we take a vacation on the bike and it will rain
 
I go round and round and the mower is always cutting hay. Just a very short time on a corner when it is not. Maybe a second or less. So this has to be the most efficient. There are fields that are square that other than to do the back swath around the outside, the mower never gets raised. Mowed 18 acers yesterday that I raised once.

Gary
 
Same here. Can't complain, the more we do so, the MORE THERE IS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. truth.
 
Drier'n talcum powder on a soda cracker here now (Kentucky) Last fall we were more than 10" below yearly average for rain. By Mid April, we were 12" OVER yearly average. Now we're starting to go below average again. I actually cut my entire first cutting of hay without having any of it rained on this year. That's never happened. I was weeding the garden yesterday. The tiller would try to bury itself in powder dry dust 5" to 6" deep. No signs of moisture. Supposedly we'll be getting a lot of rain this coming saturday. We need it desperately. Just now heading into what is normally the driest part of the year.
 
For all the flooding just to the north and south of us,we were starting to hurt again here in mid Michigan. We only got 2.4 inches 2 weeks ago when others were getting 8-12. We got .4 yesterday,naturally,I had 25 acres of hay on the ground.
 
Here in south Texas I've had about an inch and 1/2 since the first of March. Cracks in the ground you could drive a pickup truck into.
Hay field? That's the brown patch with the dust devils blowing across it.
 
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