Finally starting to rain
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Topic: Finally starting to rain
Posted By: LeonR2013
Subject: Finally starting to rain
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 8:04pm
| Here where I live we've had about a half inch of rain since the first of June. It hasn't done much yet, but I hope we can get a good amount because I want to plow some sod this fall. And we really need to add to grass hay bad. |
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Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 8:11pm
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Yes we finally got some rain here in Eastern KS. I was two days away from baling up soybeans for hay. ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 8:25pm
| Still in dire need of rain here. Some early crops in some areas did all right around here, but anything late, and in a lot of places, even the early crops are terrible. I have corn that is everything from pretty good to pretty terrible, all within about a six mile span. Darrel |
Posted By: cabinhollow
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 8:38pm
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Here, it has not been dry enough for the last three weeks for me to cut hay. I have had 130 sheep on 12 acres for the last two weeks and they can't keep up with the grass. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 9:35pm
| no rain here, which is o-k with me cuz I don't hafta cuts the grass a lot. weather woman says it was sposed to rain here all day today. never got a drop, but it did wash the concrete off 20 miles south of me. |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 9:53am
| About 1/4" total since Sunday. Moist all days between Sunday and today. I have hay down. It was not supposed to rain until Monday, according to the weather forecast. Never trust a meteorologist. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 1:01pm
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We've been dry here for about 2 weeks I guess. Maybe you other fellas will get some of ours ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 1:04pm
The only time I really trust a meteorologist is when I think he will be wrong. 
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Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 1:09pm
| It's been about six weeks since we've had rain we did get .02 last week most we've had all summer. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 3:43pm
| The rain has passed on both sides of us supposed to get some tonight and tomorrow. hope so |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:39pm
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Rains turned on here last few days, consider it a day late dollar short as corn already started dry down. North of here Laddonia and Eolia had brutal straight line winds, hundreds to thousands of acres corn flattened and green, stalks broken off in many fields where that may have toasted any return for those fields. Beans were just starting to really fill up, rain came at a good time. |
Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 9:23pm
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DEMiller, yes my brother farms at Farber and VandaILIA his corn was laid down but not totally flat and salvageable ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 10:53pm
| Looks like silage being put into bags here. No rain in the past month. Don't drop anything on to the ground. It might disappear down a crack. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 10:56pm
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Got 6/10" last night, first rain since we got a half inch on July 24th. Some areas only 20 - 50 miles away have had hail, inches of rain and tornado's. Had three bad hail storms earlier in the summer but none since late July, hope it stays that way. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 11:17pm
| I no more than spoke yesterday, and a couple hours later it started to rain here, we got about a 1/2 inch, can't tell it, but the grass greened up! PffffT! |
Posted By: Brad in WA
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 5:38am
| Here in "rainy" NW Washington we've only had 1.4 inches in the last 120 days. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 2:44pm
| we have gotten .15" of rain so far today, they keep saying more rain tonight. we'll wait and see. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 1:48pm
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FINALLY got some yesterday. We really needed it! All the grass in the yard is BROWN, dried up and I don't know if it will come back or not. The ONLY thing growing is the weeds. Farther to the north things are good and farther to the south they are great. It's just in the middle where we haven't had any rain since the end of June. It looks to be too little too late. We'll see.... it's worse for me because I am on nothing but sand... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 2:57pm
| We finally got 2" today and it came down hard and fast, like a old cow P____ing on a flat rock. |