If excessive moisture is the new "normal", what does your farm look like in 10 years?

[blueversi]

I agree with Klause, it is a cycle, a rather sickening one. The 50's were extremely wet in this area from what I've been told. If this continues for another 10 years I will sell a couple quarters to some nature lover/hunter type and go to work simple as that.

[Hopalong]

Can recall the cycle of the 1950's.
Quack grass was a big problem.
Intensive tillage was only control.
Lots of wind and water erosion.
Forage and livestock helped,at least until 1961 when everything dried up and there was no feed.
Thankful for the things we have today and confident that adapting to change is a better solution than resisting it.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Hopalang, thanks for the history. 50's must have been mostly dry here, as that is the only time Grandpa ever farmed what we now call the lowland. Cows can barely cross it most years, grandpa had oats there in I think 55. Neighbor said there was a year in the 50's when it rained so much they lost all of the hay, it floated away, fields didn't dry for months, lost grain crops at the same time.

[craig]

We had one bad year of excessive rain and now have been fighting a high water table for the next three. Don't see us getting out of this situation any time soon. We have resorted to tile drainage and feel we will have short payback based on first year experience.

[farming101]

It will look much the same or worse. It has looked like this example for 4 years.
Battle plan-Write off wet areas and fight to save buildings.
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[Hopalong]

Just been looking at old recommendations from Sask soil test lab from fifteen years ago.
Reports used to say only 25 percent chance for nine inches or more growing season precipitation,only 50 percent chance for 6.8 or more.
Do not think the past and current five or six years have been under the nine with current year just over nine including this weekend.
A guessing game to expect and plan based on past five years or on longer term.
Won't get into discussion on climate change but not impossible.