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Ryan Renko 
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Location: Edwardsville, I
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 Topic: Save some of this rain for August!!
Posted: 01 May 2025 at 8:16pm |
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Our farm is 35 miles northeast of St.louis and April rainfall set a record of 10.84" for the month!!! I only know of two corn fields that have been planted in the area. More rain is in the forecast. Ryan
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 01 May 2025 at 9:19pm |
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You are not alone....think less rain here but once soaked it don't matter if it's 2 or 10 more. Remember 2012? No rain.
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ekjdm14
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Posted: 02 May 2025 at 6:34am |
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Send a little bit our way if you've some spare, it's been drier than a nun's nasty here in the UK and temps in the mid 80s
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 02 May 2025 at 7:58am |
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It’s one of those years.
I can remember more than once, not finish corn planting until June 10th or so. The corn that did get planted early, languished for weeks with constant ‘wet roots’.
Traded the bags of seed corn in for shorter day varieties, 90-92 day. Come harvest time, that late planted corn yielded just as good if not a bit better that the early planted longer day varieties.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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AC7060IL
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Posted: 02 May 2025 at 10:37am |
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Ryan Renko, it would appear that your farm has just received 25% of it annual rainfall in the month of April? Annual average rainfall for your area is approximately 43.2” ?
Perhaps your area’s best 2025 corn yields may still reside inside their seed bags?
Edited by AC7060IL - 02 May 2025 at 10:40am
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ac hunter
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Posted: 03 May 2025 at 1:53pm |
We are right in the center of Ohio and the gauge says about 2.4 inches in the last 48 hours. A little pea-sized hail yesterday afternoon. Doesn't look like it will stop raining any time soon. Several local farmers were busy planting last week when the weather was nice. A couple fields of soy beans that I know of too. Wonder how that seed will fare with all this rain and temps forecast in the 40's at night. Lots of fields sprayed before planting too. Hope it doesn't run off.
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 03 May 2025 at 2:14pm |
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Yes, last report I seen said rain through Tuesday and one weather station was calling for 2" to 3" Monday & Tuesday.
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