All this July rain???
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Topic: All this July rain???
Posted By: Ryan Renko
Subject: All this July rain???
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 8:34pm
| We farm about 35 miles northeast of St.louis and are pleased with all the rain we are getting!! In July!! I don't know if this is part of global warming or just a system but we couldn't be happier. Hopefully you all are getting some. Ryan |
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Posted By: Boss Man
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 8:53pm
| Kinda disappointed that its all most the end of July and my grass isn't brown. Still have to mow on a weekly basis to keep up. |
Posted By: ocharry
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 10:11pm
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Yep...i am a little north of bowlingreen..mo...we got right at 3" in about an hour this afternoon....man it was raining...and then maybe a couple tenths later ...haven't looked at the gauge after I dumped the 3" and it is still drizzling out there.... Needed some rain but it could have spread it out some Ocharry |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 10:15pm
| We've had a whole 1/4" in the past 7 weeks. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 10:43pm
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Dryer than a popcorn fart, here in Midland Texas ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 10:49pm
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Other than it being dry, today was a beautiful day, mostly sunny, steady breeze, 96degrees, what more could a guy ask for with my clothes on? A lot better than last week, it was hotter than the door hinges of Hell. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 11:01pm
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Cooler here then it has been in the last few weeks, only got up to 93 today, 107 on Sat**day. Haven't had rain in over a month. Still have irrigation water in the ditch so getting by. Alfalfa is growing well still, grass is green but not growing very fast. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 11:28pm
| anything in the 90's is to danged hot for me. we did gits about a 1/4 inch this morning and yesterday morning...just wait an hour and it don't look like it did anything. guess i'll hafta go stea...uh borrow more hoses from Les this winter for your buddy! |
Posted By: GARY(OH/IN)
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2020 at 11:49pm
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Finally getting rain right now at about 1 AM. I'm going to burn a couple brush piles tomorrow. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2020 at 4:18am
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Got a quick downpour here last night about 1130 but nothing since. That was the first I'd seen in several weeks ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2020 at 6:58am
| Ours are marching thru in passing small storms, 1/2 to an inch per run sometimes as much as hour between and as Boss Man my grass has NOT let up where is normally dry right about now is quite the swamp. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2020 at 7:11am
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After the HISTORIC rain on May 18, and a few small rains in that same week, it then waited until July 9 to rain again. Meanwhile, got extremely HOT, 92-98 for 12 straight days. Would then cool off a day or 2, then right back up in the 90's. Stuff was baked DRY. Honestly, I began to think it would possibly put me out of farming, as this is the 3rd year in a row of extremely uncooperative weather, and prices suck to boot. Then we finally got some rain, and we've gotten 3 0.5 to 0.6 inch rains since 7/9. Little shower so far this morning. Crops look. . . ."better". We shall see. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2020 at 2:04pm
| We are hot high 80s to mid 90s and dry in this part of Ohio, got a .02' of rain yesterday and .14" of rain today weatherman keeps talking rain but it's not happening here. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2020 at 11:23am
| we got about 16" of rain in july could have done with 10" less. lots of crop loss. roads washed out hiways closed for 10 days. water has finaly receded from my place. it washed in lots of weed seed. and field trash. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2020 at 12:06pm
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No rain here at all. We are considered to be in drought. Crops look good. They are finally picking wheat. Wheat looked great, no blowdown that I've seen. I've been cutting my grass two Tim's a week. We currently have a Burn Ban in effect. I'm in SE MI. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2020 at 12:17pm
Sounds like some drought! No rain, but crops look good and mowing your grass twice a week! Wow, the agony!! 
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john(MI) wrote:Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2020 at 2:09pm
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Rain just about every day here since the middle of June. Crops look terrible, lots of water laying in the fields. I've got water in any low spot on the farm and anything above that is mud. Crops are being sprayed with aircraft as fields are too wet for any equipment. Roads are terrible with big mudholes and flooding. Seems like some one is praying "give us this day our daily rain" !! But, the grass is growin' like crazy! Have to mow every three days! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2020 at 2:54pm
| We have have 1.75" of rain so far this month and it doesn't look like much more is coming, 1" of that fell in about a hour and it was dry and most of it ran off. |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2020 at 3:15pm
| I'm tickled to death to be mowing green grass in July. The corn and beans need the water! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2020 at 3:48pm
| Corn is strong, tasseled and green stalks to roots here, Quite happy owners, same for Beans as the plants are full bushy and really leafy. |
Posted By: old farmer
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2020 at 7:16pm
| It’s dry enough here that all of the irrigation systems are going full speed including ours. Potato growers have been running Irrigaton nonstop for about six weeks. Potato need about two inches of water per week. |