Last weeks rain

paul · Jul 29, 2020

This is a photo from 7 miles north of me.

I got 5.3 inches of rain Saturday evening.

This area very few have rain gauges that go over 6 or 9 inches so they don’t know, but they are figuring they got 12 inches of rain in there.

It’s all farm land, there is no body of water in that picture. And being July, the corn and beans are knee to waist to head high.

So, to see any water in the fields this time of year, there is a lot of water....

I’m gonna try swathing oats this afternoon if the swather battery takes a charge. We will see if I get somewhere or just get stuck.

Paul

old · Jul 29, 2020

On Sunday I got an inch in less then an hour and then Monday I got 2.5 inch of rain in less then and hour and yesterday we got a little bit say maybe a 1/10 of and inch and it is now raining here and has been since around 4pm but at least if is coming down at a slow rate instead of fast and hard

flying belgian · Jul 29, 2020

Hi Paul. We got 7.5" here by North Mankato. Tried swathing oats for neighbor late this afternoon. Got stuck half way down field first round then got stuck trying to get back to road. This was South of Nicollet.

rrlund · Jul 30, 2020

Thank God we FINALLY got 2.6 the night before last. The ground was so parched that the puddles have all dried up already. I sure hope it keeps coming and the pastures get ahead of the cows a little bit. I've been feeding dry hay for two weeks. It's way too early for that.

The corn is right at pollination, so it was critical. I've been baling second cutting. Some is half way decent, most isn't. I baled some late yesterday afternoon, awful light so it dried off quick after the rain. About 24 acres and I only got 14 round bales off of it. I rolled the same number of acres last Friday and got 54, so yields are all over the board.

old · Jul 30, 2020

Is that Mankato MN??? I have family up that way

paul · Jul 30, 2020

I’m by New Ulm, he’s by Mankato. Minnesota.

The photo is a pic of Lafayette, looking NE.

Paul

old · Jul 30, 2020

Well if either of you know some one with the last name of Marg then likely you know one of my relatives. The old home farm on my dads side is close to Mineska SP

paul · Jul 30, 2020

My neighbor dairies, the first cutting of alfalfa looked pitiful he had so few bales in the field. Looked that way all around. It was too cold this spring.

Second cutting looked better.

I bake mostly wet spots and ditch banks for grass hay, that went pretty good.

Paul

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