Furrow is maybe right to think that this year isn't normal. Hell our total rainfall since break up is one inch. Yep that's what I wanted in may after seeding but were past the mid point in June. This blocking pattern is a worry to me. The USA is getting all the moisture and they can have it. Floods don't make grain and they will learn that lesson come fall. DAH why the low yields in the USA, Ah its called fricking rain.
Any way I digress. Flooding is awful and I never wish it on any one but the amount of area that's dry in the west is large and last weeks pathetic rainfall really didn't do much as it was hit and miss rain. 3 inches here ten miles south nothing at all.
So why am I saying maybe it should just warm up and speed this crop along. Its the fact that when a cold front comes in the temps drop real fast and like two nights ago frost comes into the picture.
This year reminds me of the 2002 crop year. We had the makings in our area of a crop that would make some of your 2013 crops look small. Wheat heads that were awesome and thick crops with every thing coming into play. Canola that looked so thick nothing would make it through the field and then on first week of August a cold front pushed in and BAM! We were done. It stunk the next morning. Some higher ground missed the frost or the canopy and elevation saved it other flat land whole sections had SFA.
That year every shower hit our area and the crop had roots. Similar to this year is its showers no general rain.
But again its how fast and how cool it can get in such a quick amount of time.
Time will tell if this is the final outcome for 2015 but unless that blocker moves out quick I don't see much in the way of improvement.
Cool nights after each rain event and NW wind all I can say is WTF.
Ah farming where you just don't know what's around the next corner.
Any way I digress. Flooding is awful and I never wish it on any one but the amount of area that's dry in the west is large and last weeks pathetic rainfall really didn't do much as it was hit and miss rain. 3 inches here ten miles south nothing at all.
So why am I saying maybe it should just warm up and speed this crop along. Its the fact that when a cold front comes in the temps drop real fast and like two nights ago frost comes into the picture.
This year reminds me of the 2002 crop year. We had the makings in our area of a crop that would make some of your 2013 crops look small. Wheat heads that were awesome and thick crops with every thing coming into play. Canola that looked so thick nothing would make it through the field and then on first week of August a cold front pushed in and BAM! We were done. It stunk the next morning. Some higher ground missed the frost or the canopy and elevation saved it other flat land whole sections had SFA.
That year every shower hit our area and the crop had roots. Similar to this year is its showers no general rain.
But again its how fast and how cool it can get in such a quick amount of time.
Time will tell if this is the final outcome for 2015 but unless that blocker moves out quick I don't see much in the way of improvement.
Cool nights after each rain event and NW wind all I can say is WTF.
Ah farming where you just don't know what's around the next corner.
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