We’ve been saying this a lot lately but it was a year of weather extremes. Got an early start to planting. Really dry early, and that was unusual. We had that 6-9 inch rain followed by a 4 inch rain four or five days later in July. That dry weather messed the early corn up and then we went t…
I think we wound up harvesting every day. There was a thread of rain midweek and it dripped in a few spots, but just a trace. I wasn’t able to have an early start on beans the next day, but I started right after noon. Cooler temperatures came in now. We had some frost several mornings in a r…
The 3- and 4-inch rain slowed things for a few days. We still worked five days last week. We jumped back in corn a little quick. The heavy rain was welcome but a little bit too much. It was needed. Most of it soaked in, believe it or not. The wheat sure needed it and any other seedings, gras…
I think we’ll get that freeze tonight and they’re calling for it the next three mornings. After today will mark the end of the growing season. We had a big rain — huge rain — 3 to 4.5 inches. It came over two days, Saturday night and all day Sunday. It came slow enough it mostly soaked in. I…
It tried to shower a little bit — got a tenth or two in places but mostly a trace. We’re a little over half finished — 55%. We’re getting into some of the low ground that had some of the water standing from the big rain. Low ground yields are not doing very well. They were not under water li…
We had a couple rain out events but it didn’t amount to too much. About a tenth of rain on Friday and then the temperatures have turned cooler. We’ll probably get back into corn today. We’re slower than most people seems like, but we’ve got most of our wheat sowed. That was the big thing las…
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Harvest is still going. Corn’s drying down some. Soybean harvest is well underway. Wheat’s starting to be planted too. We’re probably going to sow today or tomorrow. From that 9-inch rain when they went underwater in the low ground, beans are refusing to drop leaves and green-stemmed and har…
It rained one time, a quarter of an inch to a half inch, but it was kind of scattered and light. I actually cut beans the next day. There’s still a few guys making some hay, but not much. About all are in the field now. There’s several waiting on the corn to dry down, believe or not. Wheat w…
The past week’s harvest was better. They got into a little better moisture conditions and yields are better. They’re average — 125-130. I started some soybeans this week and they seem to be pretty good. So far it’s somewhere in the 50 range. They don’t look that good from the road but they’r…
We got in the corn pretty good this week. That was our earliest corn and it caught the drought bad wrong so it wasn’t very good. We’re going to get into some better stuff. Light soil, planted early and the drought hit early — it wasn’t a good combination this year. Cooler temperatures prevai…
It was dry all week. Cooler temperatures prevailed. It got hot in the afternoon, in the 80s, but there were two or three nights it got down into the 50s. We’re probably going to start harvest today. Nothing’s dry yet — there was one guy ran some early beans last week, and we’ve got some that…
With a little bit of rain here Sunday, just about a tenth or two, it ushered in some cooler temperatures. It’s been very welcome for sure. Maybe starting to get dry again a little bit. My neighbor made his fourth cut in alfalfa last week. They say it’s supposed to warm up again. There’s a fe…
That heat’s something — it’s awful. Beginning of the week, we were still wet from the extra rain, but it sucked it out. I don’t think we went back into drought mode yet. Everything’s still green, but it definitely cooked things. A lot of them haymaking were done last week. We’ve done quite a…
It was cooler temperatures for most of the week and we didn’t have any rain. Sunday, Aug. 13, was the last rain. It was a dry week. After heavy rains earlier in the month, there’s some dead crops in the low-lying areas that held water. Sometimes it’s just half acre patches and I know one far…
We got some more rain. The heavy rain we were supposed to get missed us — this last one we just got a quarter of an inch. No drying. On the bottom land you can smell it rotting in the beans. That’s not a good sign. I had some of my very last beans I planted, I never got a post spray on them …
All week it rained and we got about 5 and eight-tenths. More flooding. We hadn’t dried up from the other flood yet, now we got more. The decent crop we thought we were going to have, it’s turned it yellow from having wet feet. The corn’s hurt from the drought and the early beans are still sh…
We got about seven-tenths of rain in a storm Saturday afternoon. Even though we had the big rain two weeks ago, we were glad to get another one. We did have 60-70 mile per hour winds in places. Crops are looking better. Escaped waterhemp is coming through and johnsongrass and awful severe de…
We finally had some storms roll through — 6-9 inches. Went through a drought there for two months and then it caused some flooding bad in places. Route 37 was under at Olmsted. They may have had 12 or more there. Low-lying areas were under water, but creeks were dry and low enough that they …
We’re still a desert — haven’t got any rain. Pasture is burned into the ground. We got 60 mph winds in a storm that went through, but no rain. And when we were trying to clean up the damage, we found out we’ve got a burn ban. We’re doing lots of respraying now of Johnson grass and waterhemp …
I can’t believe it, we’ve missed most everything. We did get a half a tenth. We’ve had a lot of chances and missed a lot of chances. Corn’s really taking it pretty hard. There’s even some soybeans that can’t come up due to the dry weather, the double-crop beans. The corn is trying to tassel …
There was some rain got close, but here it’s still hot and dry. There have been a few pop up storms around — one in Indiana with six inches of rain and hail. Wheat harvest is about to wrap up for everybody. Corn and beans have been showing effects. If you’ve got sandy soils, the crop’s compl…
It’s going to be a bad week here. We missed the rain and we’re cooking too. It’s pretty dry, and especially this early corn is going to be hurting. Some of the earliest is trying to tassel now and it’s hard on it — it’s hard on everything when you get this flash drought. I think planting’s w…
It’s dry and getting hot. Over here yesterday we were all hoping and praying for rain. We got a little bit, two-tenths. But with seeds sitting in dry ground, that won’t do it. It takes about an inch as dry as it is for crops to emerge. Wheat harvest started in our area last week. Moisture wa…
We got a little rain in most places. This was getting critical. A lot of this latest planting was just lying in dry dirt. We’re hoping this will be enough to bring them up. Most of our area got somewhere from an inch and two to six-tenths, which we’re really thankful for. Fertilizer that had…
We’ve been spraying corn and I sprayed my first beans, post-emerge corn and side dressing corn. It’s getting awfully dry now. I don’t know that everything’s going to come up on this last planting because it got so dry. We’re not in a desert, but we’re losing our topsoil moisture. There’s bee…
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