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I'll trade ya some dust for mud!

Frog snacks!

Sorry about that.


We once got a rain so bad that it washed the seed out of the field and into the coulees and barrow pits.

Raised a nice crop......in the ditch!

I sitting in the seeder taking my lunch now.

About an hour late.

Had to set the points on the fertilizer truck first.

Its like I am living in 1980's Russia.

The share croppers on my farm in western Oklahoma said it was so dry there was no wheat crop, they just bailed it into hay.

Ya I’m afraid definitely washed some stuff away. Not complaining pastures have perked up and the crops are really coming around.

Toad stranglin' gully washer!

North West Missouri and we are drier than a bone.

3/10's of rain today will barely save the late planted soy beans.For now.

The leaves of the corn are rolling up almost all day now.

The cells have been spotty and split around us almost all Spring.

The good news is that planting went easy and all the crops were in early.

Between the lack of rain and the pigs I am beginning to think we may lose another hay crop. Pigs trampled the oats into the ground and are trying to do the same with Sudan. I have people hunting them to at least try and keep the numbers down. I don't charge either. Looked out the back door last evening and there was a big boar down at the creep feeder. His mistake. 1 down and 500 more to go.

Jim

I hear ya.

We aren't going to hunt our way out of this problem.

Hunting hardly puts a dent in them.

Just picked son Jake up for dinner. Starting to cut the hay.

I was doing pretty good till this afternoon.

Really struggling now.



I was not ready to be burnt up two years in a row.

Drought weighs on a man like nothing else.

It's oppressive... Clear up until it ends.

Facing the same down here...

Hang in there Jim I hope you can catch some rains.

Sam is wet and Jim is still dry. I was kind of excited watching that big yellow thing cut northeast on the map the other night, but I guess Montana is a big darn state.
Feels like a "normal" June around here, getting hosed every other day, just had a thundersplash while I was over here working late. Soggy walk home but I'll take that over a dry June anytime.

We got 2 3/4 inches of rain in 45 minutes yesterday, 7 and 1/2 inches last week, we are azz deep in mud and watching the topsoil head down stream, WTF !

It was too wet early in the year, but now we're just about right. It was wet last week, but supposed to be dry this week. Here's a couple of pics from my farm.....corn and tobacco.

Ran out of fertilizer so I came home early. Sort of a silly day, yesterday too.


I was seeding out of the bin because the seed cleaning outfit was closed for the weekend. It was weedy so I quit about noon, deciding to wait for cleaned seed.

Came home......sort of twisted off. Dry, dusty and depressing.

Decided to take the semi load of wheat to Havre so it would be there first thing in the morning. Blew out a tire on the trailer half way there and limped it in to town.

Was going to stay in Havre and eat dinner but there was a fire alarm going off at the retirement home.

Turned out to be popcorn....thank god.


Went up town and had a crummy dinner.

Came home and found I had trapped everyone's favorite cat in a dog proof.

Frog snacks!

Tire shop put two new trailer tires on and we took it up to the cleaning outfit this morning.

Hired man called and disc tractor wont start. Cat mechanic says transfer pump. Three days.

Seeded out what fertilizer I had on and came home to my outside chair.

Got home just in time for this little bastard.


Daughter says the snake tagged her boot.

Beer time.

Hmm....so thats what tobacco looks like in the wild!