Been a fairly dry Spring and Summer here.

Sat around more than one night watching the radar and praying for one good soaker.

Nothin'...

Of course now that a guy is trying to hay and cut wheat and move cows the weather decides to get squirrelly. Just when you don't need it...

Damnit anyway.....grin

Sammo, I'll come up to do some shooting. That oughta get it to rain�.

Keep smilin' Sam

Never met a farmer/rancher that wasn't bitching about the weather and driving a brand new diesel. grin

How you doin' Sam?
Greetings from NW Ontario!

Good luck with the hay'
Big rounds?

Poobs, do the sun dance!

Mark, always!

FG, farmers whine way more than ranchers, most of the time....grin


Richard, your back up north?!



The hay is starting to grow up through the windrow....
Luck would be nice, luckily just 30 acres of a new stand of alfalfa. Not the best. Made a couple bales today, 25-40%...

Big rounds, gonna be chopper hay but more than anything just be nice to get the field cleaned up before it gets any taller. Getting a little wooly!

My and my peeps are on it!!!!!

I could strip down & dance like that - if only they made enough eye-bleach!

I do that all the time inside my house!

Yeah, weather's a little backwards this summer, ain't it?

Just as long as I stay inside, and in town for the next 7 months, I'm happy!

Sam,

That 'Hundred Year' rain we had last week put the schit on a lot of the farmers here. Jerome, which is north of us, declared an 'Economic emergency' hoping to get some relief from state/fed sources. Estimates ran from 50-70% loss of the barley and alfalfa crop. We raise a lot of barley here for Coors (I think).

Left the shop headed for the gravel yard and turned past a grain storage/transport facility. Second day in a row they've had about a half mile of trucks lined up ready to load. The grain got too wet, apparently, and can now only be sold cut rate for feed or some such. Bummer.

My grandma and uncles on my dad's side still farm in Northern Illinois and the last few years it seems they were either losing crops to drought or swamped out. Can't say as I envy you farming types. Too much chance for this guy...

Good luck to you and your family. Hope you get just what need....

That reminded me of Monday, which we were scheduled to do on Friday...Then it rained 2 nights in a row. One time was 0% chance...


Trailered in 5-6 miles from an 'all' weather gravel road(after things dried out).

Old Fords barely pulled the hill..........grin







And it did green up a little(slight tweak on the pic). Fire danger dropped for sure lately.

Who has the fire? Smoky the other day.

We had a wet start in the spring, then it was showery throughout our haying season (June,July). But its been dry all month.

We just have some second cutting left and a bunch of mulch hay.

Relatives?

That is him in the middle...Ingwe was born a poor black child....

Dude, untimely more than anything. Oh well.


How's it over there?!

(it is almost Sept, feathers....)

Damn Mojo, hate to hear about something like that!

Now that rain would suck!


Chit...



Ben, I remember you guys had a little trouble with your first cutting.

Haying could be so simple but can turn into a headache.

Nothings easy around here... Grin

Corns been above average any way. Here's a piece behind the barn.



Couple random's from the summer.

Ahh, the short pudgy one.....Makes sense.

Rainy! They just started cutting that big field accross from the hospital yesterday and bam, rain shut 'em down.. Other section just up tye street still has some green in it, but they planted that late.

The smoke is probably from Washington or Oregon. Last week the loggers got a call for their clipper to Ellensburg, so while they were doing the paper, I cleaned it up. Fastest ever for me, only about four hours, but the current operator tries to keep it clean.
Passed inspection lickety split and off to E burg they went for a week, sat on the lowboy the whole time as the weather gods dithered. Got rained on on the way home.
The timing is sure off this year, tho. Glad to see the wet, but not now as everything is ripe and as grown as it will get. Get it in the barn, I don't care what happens after that.

Ben, great pics, lookin' good over there!

Everything looks healthy, the forest is thicker than hell.



We had a bunch of Russian olive die for an unknown reason. Really odd, those 'trees' hardly ever die.




Dude, I just looked and the green blob is headed this way.

It won't amount to much, just enough to screw things up....



That was a pretty good farmer whine.....grin

Amen....

Ditto. Just had the neighbor swath a small field for me that I always put up in idiot cubes. Of course, now that it's down, it rained lightly over night and have more coming through the next few days. It will still feed, but I won't be able to sell any of it to the local horse people.

My tomatoes are kicking ass.




Travis

Hope it rains

I know what it is like to be that dry...

and

It is not good

Snake

No one likes a braggart.

From this evening.

Dumped jungle style for an hour.


(more rain than we got all Summer)

BLT's!

Lawn is lookin' pretty green!

Just got 3/4"-1" in the last half hour here.

UBER shot glass....fuc} ounces, drink in inches......

I know it's a life of hard work.


but damn I miss farming

was just asking someone about those rain gauges the other day Sammo, they didn't have a clue what I was talking about


we used to monitor those things on the farm like our lives depended upon them.

and of course they did

I don't have a clue(or a rain gauge)either. I just look at how much water is in the feed tubs in the horse pen....

I check mine all the time. Especially because most years we're an inch or two away from being too wet.

Best August weather here since I moved up in 2010. Damn, we're having summer!

If'n my outboard hadn't gone bust...

You bastids can climb on a horse and go anywhere. Our moose ain't broke to saddle...

But freeze-up is coming!

Perspective is all.

sorry Sam, musta followed me to Montana from Washington and South Australia

Rancho, the 'lawn' aka weed patch is a little green but not for long. Douched it in Banvel and Roundup last Sunday. Hopefully it's yellow in a week!


Ben, we are scheduled to get another 1-2" over the weekend. North Dakota could get 2-4". Bet the farmers are getting nervous!



Bubba, that is an UBER idea!!!



Randy, big equipment makes life easier most of the time but there is still work involved.
One of our pump sites started to wash out after last week's downpour so we had to haul in dirt and redo some spots. Couldn't get the dirt around the pump with the loader so I hand shoveled and wheel barrowed it in. Took a couple hours, good exercise!

Gonna drive down this morning on the 4 wheeler and see how bad things are. Hopefully nothing washed.



Don, feed buckets/tubs work great until a critter drinks out of it before you check it. My parents have a little 'gauge' in their yard. The heeler knows where it's at and I caught him slurping the other day.

Some old timers won't have a rain gauge on the place....

Bad luck.



Las, horse might be a good way to get to the river this morning, gonna be muddier than hell!




Rattler, you back in WP?

had another 3/4 inch in the tubs this morning....I hate having to slosh out the water afore I grain the ponies. Oh well, I gots the cleanest grain pans in the country.

I don't have a rain gauge, but my lawn looks every bit as awesome as my tomatoes.

If farming didn't involve work, I'd be awesome at it.



Travis

My lawn is dead. Perfect. I don't have to deal with it again this year. Raining here right now�looks like a reloading day�

Should be heading your way Sammo!

yeah im back for awhile Sam, planning on sticking around untill atleast after the first week of rifle as a buddy wants me to go elk hunting down by Lewistown with him....have a couple carpeting jobs lined up with Karge to get me through cash wise till i figure out what im doing long term, or atleast whatever im doing through the winter

Got a call from my friend in NV that's up in ND helping his uncle with their harvest.
Rain's got them shut down too and naturally he's whining about it even though he'll probably have to rent a U-Haul to get his harvest money home.

It's raining like hell here in ID right now but I don't farm so I could give a chit.

Got 2 1/2 MORE inches this afternoon. Been on this place 5 years and have never had water over the road this far from the creekbottom....

This water gap will be gone by morning...I've replaced it twice already this summer. And this crick only runs when a big rain hits....



I think the road in, where it crosses the creek, will also wash out tonight. 3, 4 foot culverts aren't keeping up... Good thing I got groceries today.

Flave, show lawn!

Poobs, dead lawn!

Rattler, time to get a [bleep]!

Don, time to get a canoe!


It is turning into biblical style rain here.



Pulled one of the pumps yesterday but at least we won't have to irrigate again this year.









Did someone mention haying?

There is a windrow there somewhere...










I killed my camera yesterday but did manage to capture an uber vid. Took 3 tries, some shoveling and fancy words but we got it out.

Sam,

After viewing your home movie, I honestly think I'd be really good at this farming stuff. I have a lifelong talent for watching other people do stuff, critiquing the methods they use, and using profanity.

Also, check out my lawn:




Travis

hunts,

Hopefully God doesn't order you to put two of each type of critter in your boat.

Because you already fuggin' killed 'em all.




Travis

Flave, that is UBER grass!


To be fair the tractor man couldn't hear my yelling.


It would still be sitting in the douche hole(or in the river by now?) but I actually did break out the shovel and did do a little work.




Do you know how to dry out a G15?
(they aren't as waterproof as one would think)

A good neighbor would help his neighbor get an �ber green lawn, as well...

(Or least critique his methods and tell him how to do it)



Been a damn soggy August on this side of the rocks, as well...

Sammo!

Every morning I look at my grass, my wood gets hard'er.

The critiquing out of ear shot got me REALLY interested in your line of work, but then I got to the shoveling part of your story and now I have lost interest.

Put it in a bowl of rice. The rice should draw the moisture out to some degree. It sounds stupid, but I have saved two phones using this method.


Travis

I'll have you know I yell across the street to inform them how much better my house looks than theirs on a weekly basis.




Travis

LMAO!

Sammo sounds like Buffalo Bill! It puts the lotion in the basket or it gets the hose again!!!!!

Kinda got me randy.

Called my rancher friend a couple weeks back. Told him I was BBQ'in' and getting drunk and having people over. He said he and his wife would love to come by.

Next day he calls and explains that his baler broke down, he had to move some cows out of pasture X and into pasture Y and when he got done with that he had to weld something on his flatbed and sew a horses leg back on and move a barn and wire his shop and hopefully get all those square bales put up and maybe if he has the time get his son to fence that north side after he gets done with the south side and he also has to get his tractor out of pasture Y before the cows are moved into pasture X and....

I was thinkin' 'Fugg...that...[bleep]....'



Travis

Like the song goes Sammo: " How do you like me now?"


Im looking for a smiley face emoticon wearing a snorkel, the monsoons are here!

Dude!

This guy treats objects like women.

Sickening.



Travis

Yeah? well check out MY lawn.....



I don't mow, because I'm too tired after caring for the boss' grass....

I think there is something wrong with your left nipple.




Travis

Raise the [bleep]' bucket!!!

For the record...

Sam let me sleep on his couch one night. He only raped me once and I was allowed to leave the next morning.

So you may want to tone down the "Buffalo Bill" references.



Travis

only one headlight came on....

It's not rape if you passed out face down. That's called consent.


And this is my fantasy, don't ruin it.

Dam Samn, same boat for the pharmers round here around the casa. Pulled off the pees, and just got started on the wheet, and then solid rain for like a [bleep] weak.

p.s. If you need a winch just shoot me a pm.

Holy chit dude, this is insane for the desert in August., think we're up to 3.5" with another 2-4" predicted.


Sitting inside for a couple hours and I'm already starting to go nuts!


Went to the grocery store with the boss, riced my camera(thanks Flave), took a crap..... Almost ready to crack a Guinness.


Had to look up the Buffalo Bill reference, TFF!





And I was thinking about a certain winch when I was digging out the tractor....grin

Just checked the rain gauge here. 2.5" this week so far. I'll take a pic of my uber corn, just to make everybody else feel better.

Whole famdamily is sick here, so it's hot toddies for this guy.

I would love to see a pic of your uber cob!


haha



Give the kids a little drink, they'll feel better with you.




I'm putting on the rain suit for a walk down to the other pump.

Hopefully it's not uber washing out.



Later.

It looks like everyone's getting hammered.

Just came in for lunch, its been drizzlin all morning. Probably got a .25", its a real washout...grin

It finally let up.


I walked down to the river and there was a flock of geese floating on one of the fields.

Pump should be okay provided the entire bank didn't get too soaked and decide to sluff off all at once. Don't think it will.



Million little earth worms on my driveway and sidewalk. Poor bastards got drowned out.

Lots of rain in Wisconsin. So much rain ya can't go outside at dusk there are so many skeeters. It dried out a bit in August but still get 3" so far. The corn is looking so good. The farmer to my north sais there are 3 cobs on the stalks and big ones too. Soy beans are nice and dark green leaves too.

Hookem, here is some of that Wisconsin rain you are talking about.

How you boys been getting all the rain?

We've had one decent rain in nearly 2 months out here. I've only mowed maybe 3-4 times this whole damn year........I ain't complaining mind ya.

Though, some how Mosquitos still suck.

Wisconsin is like most states certain parts are dry, some are wet at times then it is reversed. Never know what we are going to get. When it comes to crops and farming there are times when I feel I would be better to take my chances at a casino.

It stopped raining this morning.

If it kept up, I think my vagina might have floated down the street.



Travis

White chit on the mountains around here!

Clear here today too�little dust on top of the hills!

Had to go all the way down to teepee creek to throw a line in the water. Gallatin looked like a flour truck crashed into it. Lots of wheat getting layed down by the rain..

You went outside in the rain? FTS.




Travis

I made my dog go outside in the rain.

The street's not big enough.

Don't bully me.




Travis

Puzzy

Now you're on ignore.

Boom...




Travis

I can live with it.

The sun is peeking here today as well. Now if it just stays cool and cloudy forever and ever life will be good.

9" of rain at my place south of the river. Had a 10 mile stretch of 20mph 4x4 until I made it to the blacktop. The mostly dry creek below my place is 200 yards wide in places now. Hoping the county decides to blade the road after it dries out a little - ruts are pushing 18" deep at some points.

There is a rainbow at the end of all this......



more rain yesterday and another flash flood warning again today....

Must be a gay commune.




Travis

A double rainbow!


I haven't hardly done chit since Saturday. It is still so frikkin' muddy everywhere.


Wheat fields have a weird look to 'em, at least the sun is out finally and the heads will start to dry.

I'm not a wheat expert but some people were worried about straw rot(the stem collapses) and sprout(the grain actually sprouts in the head).

Major problem if anything like that happens.


Little breeze now and sunshine could save the day!

It already sprouted here.......and we only got an inch.

You're just trying to freak me out...


Right?

Sadly, no.
They have mostly white wheat here.
If you grow red, maybe it's more resistant, I don't know.

Chitty dude.



Red here, it better be tougher or we're screwed...grin


Actually I think it is.

Not uncommon for a few little rains in August but 5-9"(depending) in one rain is absurd for this country.

Unheard of for such a huge area.



County roads are soaked, nothing over 12 ton(?) GVW allowed. Even the train track that runs by the farm got a little washed.

I thought Idaho had gumbo......

Then I was on the Hi-Line in rain and I found out what gumbo really was. I was in schit on a 4x4 atv and it wouldn't move on flat ground.
Unbelievable.

What is this "rain" stuff you guys are talking about?

John

Wages, I have about 400 gumbo stories and they all involve 1 common theme. Your ass is stuck...grin



Hondo, wish we coulda shared some with you!

Next drought you farm boys call me and I will plan a fishing trip your way. All f'n summer it has rained on the weekends I plan on fishing the river. my lawn looks about like huntsmans. The deader the better with the lawn I had rather have sex with a chainsaw than waist fishing time mowing, hate it worse than prison sex.

I was up in Brusett country last Friday working cows just before the storm hit. Glad I got out of there before it did. I've been rained-in in that country before and had no desire to repeat that. No way with the highway tires I have on my truck would I have gotten out of there if it had rained even .25 inch of rain.

One thing about being dry is the bugs aren't bad.


I just went outside and walked around my backyard(in town)....


No-see-ums by the hundred. Took a minute before I noticed but those little bastards were all over me.

If you have ever been bitten by a black widow I hear the mosquitoes won't bother biting you, Sam. It may work with those suckers too.

Storm which brought the west some rain. Hurricane Marie

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-hurricane-marie-in-the-eastern-pacific/

I got bit by a fat widow........

It apparently didn't work.

Nor did skinny......

I'm still lookin'.

Vinny

I'm thinking it was a good idea to pull the old pump.



Very glad I drove down last Friday to check on the erosion.

Went back today and the river is way up. We checked the flow data online and it's running twice as much water as it was last week.




I got a little nervous thinking about the other pump upriver.

Major chit coming downstream, big logs and random debris and I was paranoid a snag floated down and hung up on the floater.

Luckily the spot is right off the main channel's path, positioned just behind a little bend and the junk shoots past about 50-100 yards away.


Not much room left though, hopefully the river has crested. The Milk must be fairly full to raise the Missouri this much.








Absolute jungle, gonna be like June in September for a week or two.

You've been posting about all the work you did to those pumpsites all summer. Would have been a bummer to see them washed out the 1st summer

Easy(hopefully) fixes and at least with all the rain we are done irrigating.


The plan was to spread decent soil over the sites this Fall and plant grass. I have a $500 bag of 'native' grass seed laying in my garage just for that project.....

Get them sodded up and it they shouldn't wash near as easy or bad. Of course we got 5x the normal August rain in one storm beforehand.


Always a monkey wrench in the plan!

I guess the plus side is you didn't use the seed and have that get washed away aswell.

If everything goes as planned we should have our hay done by Saturday. Then we can work on other projects til our corns ready.

How's the corn lookin'?


Ours needs a few more weeks, cutting it kinda close. Was about 40F the other morning.

Man, farming seems like a hell of a way to make a living sometimes..

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.co...9b840b6-2d6a-11e4-8f20-001a4bcf887a.html

Sorry Sam but more headed your way. Came through here today but we needed it

That was a good story, pretty much described the situation.
I'm sure the big farmers are nervous. Tremendous input costs and bumper crop and then right at harvest the chitstorm hits....


We checked fields this morning. Little funky but at least it's almost 90F and breezy now.


And the pasture should green back up. Hell out south of Glasgow the dams filled in a little. One big one washed out....


Good deal for the cattle and sure dropped the fire danger.

We were scary dry here for awhile.





Keith, I think it's sunshine here for the week and then who knows!

Hope you get dried out soon Sammo. We finished our cucumber harvet last week...that's usually our nail biter on rain.

They're finally getting at it around here.. Going to be sleeping to the sounds of the harvesters for a few nights.

I hope it works out for the best.

Cool pic.

Pretty crazy pic.



We're having an above average year so no complaints here.

Around here most don't start chopping corn til the last week of September and usually everyone's done by the end of Oct. But it varies year to year. If we get an early frost or not.

This morning (5am) my dad said it was 41 or 47 down by the creek. So falls definitely around the corner.

That pic is uuuber.

Combines and grain trucks running like a mofo here today.

Rained all night here, boys can't get a real break in this chit!

Raining here right now (this thread makes me feel like a real farmer by the way).

'Slave, did you take that pic?]



Travis

I'm going to do a sherp_a_knee and not go outside all day..

Except I'll do fun stuff instead of blowing hot air on the innanet.

No.
I just knew it would put a tingle in Sam's COCK, after he woke up on the sidewalk this morning....

Deputy Sam?

I'm lovin' it.


Travis

(Uber)Cool pic.

I heard round bales were floating around fields upriver on the Milk.

Rained here ALL SUMMER....and been raining for two days!

It didn't rain here for basically 2 months straight then unloaded 6" in 2-3 days. Right at harvest.

First time in my life we didn't get field baled. Windrows disappeared in new alfalfa.

And it's still sprinkling a week later. Farmers cut for one afternoon in the last week.


Fairly odd situation.

June in August.

SamOlson: The Dillon area set records of several kinds for rain in August - including most days rained, ever recorded, at 17 (seventeen)!
Sorry if your crops were harmed.
Should stave off forest fire dangers though.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I don't think sam is worried much about forest fires.

Prairie fire yes, forest fire not so much.


It seems like we're the only ones who haven't had a fire yet this summer. Not complaining!

More rain today. This is looking pretty chitty for our local guys..

Chitty.

We got another tenth yesterday. Just enough to screw things up.


Honestly not sure what is gonna happen.

Thats some fugged up chit.

Farmer Loco. LMFAO. You're doing great.....

We finally got going yesterday afternoon.







Machines showed up and it wasn't more than an hour out in the field and one almost got stuck.

Big storm passed through yesterday as well, we got lucky and it missed us.






You can see the hail coming down in the tail.






Funky clouds.

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Great pix...

They were cutting out around manhattan and logan today. Lots of layed down fields out there..

Nice pics Sammo.
Yield?

It's a frikken mess but what the hell, I don't have to run a combine....grin

Our wheat is fairly short this year(ran out of moisture in July..).

Short wheat means they have to cut it lower. Lower header means your down in the sticky halfway muddy ground. They were having to get out and manually clear the draper headers about every 20-30 minutes.


Slow going to say the least. Oh well, we don't have many acres to cut compared to the uber farmers. They are worried.


Quality is way down for some fields. The wheat has bleached out in the head and loses value by the day. Moisture really zaps it.

Winter wheat is sprouting in the head. And like you mentioned the wind has layed some down. Great crops north of here and they took a hit yesterday in the wind and heavy rain/hail.


So far our grain is taking about a $0.40/bushel discount.
Cannot complain, thank god for a few cows....grin





Wages we are at 30 bushel so far, only cut maybe 100-120 acres so it's a real early average. Not great but not bad for this country.

Break even basically with the current price........grin