Weather....

[farmaholic]

My goodness. ...next weeks forcast still hot and dry. Seems to be alot of days of 30 degree plus days this year. Would seem to be more than average. A time will come where it will be too late for any rain to do any good for this crop....its coming quick here.

I realized I asked for a dry spell from heading to flowering of cereals but this is ridiculous already. Guess I should be careful what I ask for.

One thing I expected to see on here but haven't yet it the "Climate Change Crowd" saying; "see, we told you so". What? Don't want to rub salt in the wounds?

[helmsdale]

My goodness. ...next weeks forcast still hot and dry. Seems to be alot of days of 30 degree plus days this year. Would seem to be more than average. A time will come where it will be too late for any rain to do any good for this crop....its coming quick here.

I realized I asked for a dry spell from heading to flowering of cereals but this is ridiculous already. Guess I should be careful what I ask for.

One thing I expected to see on here but haven't yet it the "Climate Change Crowd" saying; "see, we told you so". What? Don't want to rub salt in the wounds?

Honestly don't think rain helps anything now but my soybeans. Wheat is filled and dead on the bottom except for the last 600 acres or so which after today will likely have abandoned any ideas of putting excess kernels in the head if rain arrived. Peas will go through a combine next week when it's put back together. Lentils will be a week behind that, mustard within a couple days of that, then its on to wheat and it'll likely come in quicker than the combine can keep up to mother nature.

Currently the sun is behind a cloud so it cooled off to 95*. Peaked out at 103* again today. Aside from monday and tuesday, next week looks to be more of the same. July was one incredibly cruel month around here. Likely took 30-40% off the pea yield potential, mustard and lentils hopefully unaffected, soy is down 50%++, wheat down 50-70% on some and hopefully only 40-50% on others. Quite the change since the last week of june.

[Guest]

we were lucky enough to catch a 1/2" last Tuesday and 9 tenths on Friday night , sure needed it .

[Guest]

Weathers perfect for the lake !

30 above and lakes like glass !

100,000 boat or ( 35,000 in USA ) !

Two stroke jetskiers dont care about polluting the lake !

I ain't paying no carbon tax !

Pour me another cold one !

we're you at Tobin ? I saw the same thing , jet skis and a cloud of blue smoke . every second boat is a $100k ranger fishing boat

[Oliver88]

To avoid Jack Frost hitting the crops seeded in June.....the heat may be needed.

I'm with what wiseguy is saying.....no carbon tax, pour me a cold one. 👍🏻

[fjlip]

Wadena to Bjorkdale then Tisdale and back, crops are great but late, so don't count the bushels yet. A frost and they could yield less value than all the dry areas. Isolated spots got 4" Friday, Archerwill very wet, nearly 6" in last two weeks. Such wicked contrasts!
Greenwater full of ships too, lots of $$$ on the water.

[farmaholic]

I'd buy a dinghy but I can't afford the paddles....just like farmin in the Slum of the Ghetto- up the creek without a paddle!

[Happytrails]

Asking for dry weather.

[QUOTE=farmaholic;351018]My goodness. ...next weeks forcast still hot and dry. Seems to be alot of days of 30 degree plus days this year. Would seem to be more than average. A time will come where it will be too late for any rain to do any good for this crop....its coming quick here.

I realized I asked for a dry spell from heading to flowering of cereals but this is ridiculous already. Guess I should be careful what I ask for.

You might be too young to remember 1999 when we got about 15" of rain in the growing season. The first week of August or so it occurred to me that if the rain didn't stop it was going to be disastrous. Needless to say it did STOP......for 4 years! You are right to be careful what you ask for.

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[farmaholic]

Rained for one minute with a clap of thunder this morning. I almost forgot what it looked and sounded like. Now to go and count the drops per square foot.

Blew all night and supposed to be windy for the next two days, so far.
Good thing we're not desiccating peas yet.

[danny W1M]

Just checking the WXMAPS this morning, the heat bubble will just not move east of the Missouri River.
The flow comes out of the artic, though Ont and Que, down through the Midwest, continues south to the Gulf, then turns east and north following the eastern coastline.

Won't likely get a "turn around Tuesday" if the rain they're forecast in the Midwest for Thur-Sat comes to fruition.

[Hamloc]

Yes the good lord giveth and the good lord taketh away. We received our first measurable rain since July 3 last night. About 8 tenths at my house. A bit of hail with the first storm but not much. My neighbor 3 miles west and 1 south got 1.5 inches of rain but also got 25 minutes of hail. He figures his barley across the road is 75%. So I need to go crop checking. My pastures were turning brown so the rain will help.

[farmaholic]

We are at 40 days without rain since the blessing we received June 14th. I cant imagine what it would look like here without it...but I bet some can. No need to call a Wahmbulance....just stating facts.

[farmaholic]

LOL.... when I look at the current forecast for the next seven days, I think to myself there is little to no chance of "disappointment". I guess there is always a positive way of looking at things, as warped as this theory is! Just think, if they were forecasting rain or a chance of rain and it didn't materialize how disappointed I would be.... this way....

I always used to say August was a good harvest month... typically dry. September can be a cooler drizzly month. Sure would be nice to get this smaller crop in the bin in as best quality as possible. Marketing good grain is easier than marketing poor grain.

Take care folks, harvest is on our doorstep. Remember to be safe.

[danny W1M]

We are very quickly getting to the point where, we won't be looking for rain. In our area, I'd say that point will arrive in 7-10 days. Considering nothing is forecast for the next 7 days, the window of opportunity is very narrow. Other years one might say that a rain may help the later crop(while effecting quality of the early),,,,not this year. The late stuff is ruined already, nothing helping it.

[macdon02]

Danny my weather guru is focusing on same event coming from Siberia. I'm using AFC, who are you using? I'll add that AFC says the rains in the SW US will be moving east in august getting rains into the bean belt. Biggest concern is that Siberia cold front getting us possibly in august but no later then the full moon on Sept 6.