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84* and windy.

Tornado warnings and high winds. Probably hail too. In two hours it will probably be blue skies.

Raining again, it'll be some time before we get back out there.

Too wet in Mississippi, it rarely stops raining.

Pouring rain this morning, surprise, surprise. Forecast is clear tomorrow, then more rain Wednesday-Saturday. We just can't seem to catch more than 1 or 2 days in a row without rain this spring.

Still more again the morning.

Wabi, I'm no big time farmer, but I got a couple of questions..... You stated that there was plenty of time to plant corn. Around here, N. La., the corn is planted where it's been dry enough. But if it floods out, which it does every few years, they always go back with beans, never corn. My question(s).... 1. how late can you plant corn, 2. could waiting for the fields to dry enough to plow and plant be the reason they go back with beans, because by that time it is too late to plant corn?

Randy, I have heard it said, here in Arkansas that there is a date where the yield drops off drastically. I do not know what that date is, but I can find out. Most farmers here plant corn before rice. Before corn became big, rice was the first thing planted by most big farmers. Milo sometimes, but milo has dropped out of favor here. Crops are very late here because of wet weather. Rained during the night, last night. My first ripe tomato ever was on June 5th, and I will be lucky to get them set out by June this year. miles

Miles, for whatever reason, everything is late this year. Mayhaws are usually ready the 2nd to 3rd week of April, no later than the 4th week. At a friends house yesterday and his will be ready by the end of this week..... mine will be ready sometime next week. We didn't have an unusually late freeze or frost that I remember, but the cool nights did seem to stay longer that usual. Maybe that's the reason.

I had a Uncle that farmed for a living and he said the planting time for cotton had changed at least 6 weeks to 2 months, from when he was a young man. His father grew cotton, so my uncle had been around farming all his life. Plant later now than they use to. The weather was the difference.

The word is, in this part of Iowa, yields drop off after May 10th.

It looks like more of the same.

About 45° and drizzle here. It's supposed to clear off to sunshine by afternoon, but then more rain tomorrow.

A beautiful day here, still waiting to plant.

Still raining.

Rain's s'pose to kick back in this afternoon. Good thing, it was starting to dry up around here.

56° and raining.

Grandson Justin's graduation is this afternoon. We won't miss out any field work.

It rained the nite of 5/1 and now its 5/5 and raining again.

Still wet here.

Still raining here, it hasn't stopped since yesterday morning.