Record wet cycle

[Hopalong]

If our land locked sloughs are a good indicator, we are coming off record water levels going back over one hundred and forty years.
They are getting back to what we might think of as normal levels, younger people might think this past wet cycle is the new normal but a record dry cycle would seem as likely as another record wet one.
Anyone placing bets?

[farmaholic]

We, in the Slum of the Ghetto, fair better when its "wetter" than when its drier.

Our dirt is a bit of a mixed bag of tricks.

Not alot of potholes here this year and the ones we have now are alot smaller than they were in the wet years.

One or two timely rains and everyone can get a respectable crop.

So important to get the crop properly established. If a crop gets off to a bad start....seems it lost potential.
Poor emergence, chem residue, disease, insects, frost.....

Good luck everyone.

[furrowtickler]

We have been almost as dry the past three years during the growing season as 2000-2003 . 4.5 in of rain last year was close to 2002 levels for us.
So I am hopeful the dry b/S is behind us but who knows , might be better to go blow 1/2 mill in Vegas lol

[sawfly1]

Our reserve from the super wet years is pretty well done.
Subsoil Not as dry as 80s but getting there.
So the potential for an 02 o11/2r a 88
Is all that much greater.
I still think the wet stretch
Was the anomaly.
If we could get average precipitation like an inch in may
2 1/2 in June. 2 in July and 1 1/2
In August.

The problem is one month will give us nothing.
Then reserve is make or break

[Hopalong]

Still finding lots of side hill seeps and high water table areas.
Guess we are betting on drier years by reclaiming slough margin areas, some with fifty year old poplar growth drowned out by wet years.

[seldomseen]

Feels like its turning dryer and I hope that's the case for this area. Dry has always worked best for us and so sick of doing everything in the mud. Optimism so far this spring but one big rain and its back to mud.

[makar]

Still shooting beavers and digging ditches with the cat driving in water.

[furrowtickler]

In the 30 plus years of farming , we have never ever been too wet .
It has been 4 miles west and more , but never right here other than a few high run offs. But too much rain , never in my lifetime as a dirt plower

[SASKFARMER]

Still wet for now and spring still running

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The proxy record seems to indicate that the entire 20th century, and particularly the early 21st were anomolously wet with very few and very short drought periods compared to normal.