Bigger ponds than the last wave of 4-5 inch rains.
The people saying we needed several months of these rains by looking at a map are completely clueless. Must be their first rodeo. Since this happen too many times.
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The people saying we needed several months of these rains by looking at a map are completely clueless. Must be their first rodeo. Since this happen too many times.
I don't think people were asking for THIS.
Just some consistent rain to get out of the drought.
Fwiw as of last week a small section of WI still had drought or 'abnormally dry'.
Iowa too.
Yeah, I said the maps are reluctant to step things down much. I had standing water and test wells showing ground water within a couple feet of the surface with all dredged, lakes etc to the banks and the map still said it was a moderate drought.
Went to a meeting that had Richard Brock talking about markets. He had came from Sioux Falls. Said it looked awful on his drive. He cut a million harvested acres and 2 bu/ac off his production estimate just from that 3 hour drive.
My parents deal with flooding a lot, so it's different than a lot of farmers who don't have rivers running through their fields. But they'd 100% prefer droughts to wet years.
All the heavy stuff went around us, but west, north, and south of us looked to have been nailed.
I think we are safe in Central Iowa this year as long as we don't get huge rains in the Racoon river basin. Most of the water from this year's storms are flowing into the Missouri via the Sioux river and the Des Moines which should be slowed down by Saylorville which was pretty low when this all started.
Anybody golfing today? last time this thread turned into a crop report thread it morphed into a golfing thread
In all seriousness, in my farming days it was always tough when things didn't go right weather wise in your immediate area but your neighbor a county or two away were mostly unaffected. Seems the markets were driven by your misfortunes and the neighbors benefited--you had high prices with nothing to sell and they ended up with bushels and price. A lot is helped out now with federal crop and price protection insurance that wasn't available then but every farmer I know would rather raise and market his best crop than have to rely on insurance payments to get him to his next chance to succeed, Hang in there guys (and gals) and I hope the sun shines on you in the future.
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"Road blocked due to flooding" notifications.
And that's just the highways.
And that's just the highways.
Is Terrill far enough west that their water heads west and hits the Missouri River? Then it would miss DSM. Not sure?
