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I think it's just Dormant Oil, used for spraying trees.

It's a little soggy here. We could use a week off from rain, but it beats that mega drought we had 8-9 years ago.

I heard today on the way to work that it is too wet now, and planted seed will rot if surrounded by wet earth.

I doubt it, but it appears agricultural fake news has been around about as long as political fake news.

We were starting to get dry, but caught some rain.

That's how I am. Continual rain especially every weekend can get frustrating, but I'll take that any day of the week over being bone dry.

It rained enough for awhile, starting to lose money over it.

We're about to be washed away here, it's raining non-stop it seems. I've got mold growing in places I didn't know mold could grow.

If it follows true to the last couple of years it'll rain continuously until the end of June then it'll stop and we'll have a drought until the first of December.

Just about right here. I'm not hoping for a repeat of last summer/fall though. Worse fall I've had here yet.

Finally dried out here and been nice. 80's at the house today. But the Rose Festival low pressure system is moving in, so rain at the end of the week through the weekend.

It is beyond dry here. August in June type of deal, grass is going quick, lots of un-germinated grain laying in dry ground.


It's turned into the type of weather pattern where things are gonna be zero'd out on dryland farming. Disaster area.



We're pumping 7 million gallons a day for our flood irrigated fields.


Lots of wind.


And hardly a mosquito to be found....

I have to feel for you, and your neighbors Sam. Do you have crop insurance? I know if you do, it will only cut loses.

Richard, insurance should cover input costs.

We didn't seed much dryland this year and run old equipment so not a huge deal.


The guys with payments and leases could get stung.



We've got a little wheat in the bin, maybe the price will go up...


Pastures look like chit though. That hurts.

Sam, my older brother worked part time at the old Sioux City stockyards in the early 50's. He told of dry in the west, and better cattle coming in from the west as the dry kept up.

You, and your father have enough fodder to feed this summer if you need to?

We still have some haystack left but need to get these last 30-40 late calvers out of here and onto clean pasture.


I am tired of feeding damn cows every day!

Our local news just said if the rain can hold out another couple hours, it will mark the 11th day of measurable rain in Mobile, AL.

It is wet.

That's too bad Sam, hope you get some relief soon. It's looking like we will have a tremendous hay season here.

We've had a lot of hit and miss showers around here and we had a pretty wet stretch earlier in April/May that left us with some good subsoil moisture. Would never turn down a nice rain though.

It's been quite a few years since we've had a really tough growing season that caused a huge loss in yield. The hybrids that are available nowadays have taken some of the risks out of our life. They can withstand a lot of dry.

Muleshoe, I cut a little hay today and it might make a ton to the acre. Usually +2 ton ground.


We had good sub moisture but it literally hasn't rained in a couple months.


I think ND and SD are dry as well.

128 degrees in Pakistan today....

Yeah, at least I am not farming in Pakistan.

Gonna put some hat down in the next couple days. Try to salvage some of it.