Remembering '88

[stonepicker]

Ya i remember 88, in fall the cracks in the ground were so deep in the field that you had to be careful not to drop wrenches or you wouldn't be able to retrieve them. ( seriously ) Still remember the experts saying it would take years to top up subsoil moisture, when it did start raning we got 8 1/2 in. in one day, soil moisture was topped up in about a month.

[seldomseen]

Ya i remember 88, in fall the cracks in the ground were so deep in the field that you had to be careful not to drop wrenches or you wouldn't be able to retrieve them. ( seriously ) Still remember the experts saying it would take years to top up subsoil moisture, when it did start raning we got 8 1/2 in. in one day, soil moisture was topped up in about a month.

I almost forgot about cracks in the ground, we used to get then here before the last 15 years of playing in the mud. You are right about being scared to lose a wrench down them and if you swathed grain the ground was so hot and dry the grain would be dry in a couple days.

[walterm]

Got my seed bsck that was it. Then the grasshoppers of 89.

[SASKFARMER3]

Basically most of the farm has had piss ass showers. One 6 quarter block had a inch down pour and before that the foot snow early in may. So Yea i swear at rain but excess rain sucks big time. Dought you know not to spend any more on the useless crop. Wet you keep pumping every thing into it because it might make it.

Congrats.

[farmaholic]

In 1988, I would probably still be considered in the late stages of my apprenticeship. A little removed from the full scope of the issue, not as much skin in the game as now, young and naive, now old and naive!

[Hopalong]

As an old timer, can remember 1961 as a hotter, dryer year than any of the eighties.
A difference from eighties was that 1960, 62 and 63 were all good crop years and most profitable since before the wet years of fifties. Many or even most sloughs that had three feet or more of water in fall of 1960 were dry the next fall and a lot were seeded and grew crops the next two years.
Too early to write this year off but experience says be prepared for a dry one even after all the wet ones.

[sofa.king]

We seem to be kind of following a drought flood cycle that has a will continue to repeat itself even before the climate nazis came out of closet.

[furrowtickler]

Lol Sofa - true to that

[woodland]

We seem to be kind of following a drought flood cycle that has a will continue to repeat itself even before the climate nazis came out of closet.

I'll second that. Just sucks when you're stuck in the "depths" of the cycle.

[biglentil]

Wind is sucking the life out of everything. Brutalllll