Weather

[BuckSutherland]

Last winter was the most snow I have ever seen at the hunting shack. It was DEEP by us. It melted quickly this spring, and unlike other years it basically never rained this spring. This past week we finally entered into moderate drought. I dont ever remember seeing it this dry at the hunting shack. All of the normal little water holes are completely dried up. Looks like it could all change this evening headed into next week. We sure need it. I have lots of thirsty first year trees that are really stressed. My conifer plugs do not look good. Hope they can pull through and we take a direct hit. Been a LONG time since I prayed for rain. My attempt at switchgrass completely bombed cause of the lack of rain.

 

[BuckSutherland]

Back from the hunting shack. I'm happy to report we received about 2-2.5" of rain last week. There was water standing on Thursday. When I left yesterday (Sunday) all the water was soaked into the ground. Had a small cell pop up out of nowhere when I was there that dropped 4/10ths and a bunch of small hail in about 6-7 mins. The sky was damn near black and two mins after it was gone the sun was out.

 

[Telemark]

The weather here is amazing, which means I am constantly hauling buckets of water to the fruit trees and berry bushes i planted this Spring.

 

[BuckSutherland]

I have a very happy woods this morning. It was getting DRY. Hope it ends up being a couple inches. It was badly needed.

 

[Tree Spud]

We got a very badly needed 1" of rain yesterday. Storm came out of nowhere and was a welcome sight!

 

[SwampCat]

We are at our annual average for rainfall already this year. Right around 50 inches. I am sick of it. Cant do anything in the food plots. Next door neighbor should have harvested his six hundred acres of wheat three weeks ago, but it is now laying in the water and mud

 

[bwoods11]

In WC MN we had 1.2 inches of rain. One farmer in particular I talked with said he had only received 3 inches total since January, it saved him he said.

 

[BuckSutherland]

I like this site for rainfall totals.

https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours


Ended up with about 1.25". That should keep things limping along for a couple more weeks. The best rains just keep falling apart or going around as they approach.

 

[Mortenson]

Glad you guys are getting some. We have 50-60% chances of around half an inch tonight. Need inches desperately. One farm has .8" since a week before Memorial Day. Others are slightly better at 1.25-2" in the same timeframe. Corn fields are rolling in the heat of the day, but on lighter soils they're burning up already.

 

[H20fwler]

It was getting very very dry here, hadn't had a real rain in a month or more. With the heat it was starting to get concerning for the area farmers. Yesterday late afternoon we got 1.3 inches and then this afternoon we got another .75 inches, forecast says rain on and off tomorrow. That will get all the crops going great for the next few weeks, early August we normally get a couple good thunderstorms.

Corn is head high here now with beans over a foot tall, most of the guys that had wheat double cropped beans in behind the baler so hopefully those will jump and close the rows up fast.
And this latest storm front should get the wildflowers popping big time, the coneflowers will really come on now.

 

[scott44]

We got .5" of much needed rain last night, could really use more.

 

[Mortenson]

Yesterday was a perfectly slow .5-.9" across our farms. Things are looking up. Hoping for more next week. There are chances. Most corn is in pollination now. My sweetcorn got planted in June and is behind. I can see tassels peaking on the biggest plants.

 

[BuckSutherland]

Got an unexpected half inch of rain up north at the hunting land today. Good chances again tomorrow. About 1.3" in the last week. Another inch would be great. Crops down south need a good drink bad. They have just been limping along but still look great.

 

[BuckSutherland]

They are predicting some big storms for a widespread area this evening. I can rarely recall the storm prediction center putting an area in the moderate risk category. They must be expecting some real fireworks this evening.

 

[BuckSutherland]

I have friends in several spots up north. Power is out all over the place. Lots of 70+ MPH wind slamming northern MN this evening. Lots of nice deer stands gonna be demolished. Probably lots of new hinge cuts done by mother nature. On a side note we are getting a healthy drink and I might find a couple new spots to plant some trees.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

I just got my seed planted a few hours ago. And it looks like we will get a bunch of rain.

 

[DiSc0Rd]

I just got my seed planted a few hours ago. And it looks like we will get a bunch of rain.

Got mine in last Sat. Train came Sunday and Wed and they are calling for rain all week sometimes better lucky than good

 

[BuckSutherland]

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...-70-mph-winds-expected-metro-area/3334513001/


Sounds like Iowa and Illinoise got absolutely hammered yesterday. Farmers are talking like HUGE areas of crops were completely wiped out, along with all of the grain bins, infrastructure, machine sheds, etc. They say the trees of Iowa got trashed by this storm. Storm made it all the way to Indiana apparently. They are telling people they could be without power for up to 2 weeks. If you wanna make millions start a grain bin company and start building. Harvest is only 6-8 weeks away so you better work fast..... Mortenson, how did you make out??? I'm thinking you might have been in the path of this crap.

 

[Mortenson]

Iowa got the worst of it, but it was plenty bad here too. Small town less than 5 miles from our hunting farm recorded 91 mph, according to WGN last night. I've seen a lot of trees down. Quite a few semis turned over on the local interstates. Most bean fields lodged. Ours still have thin pods and I'm hoping they can stand up a little. I've seen a few cornfields that got flattened to a decent extent, but many more seem to be in pretty good shape. Can see greensnap on many edges. Here's an example from a field of ours. Was going to be probable high yielding, but took a setback now. Guessing power will be out for a few days.

 

[chucker66]

I actually drove through the worst of it yesterday after it happened. I have never seen so much corn absolutely flattened. I saw at least 10 semi's laying on their side. Drove through one small town and there were trees and power lines everywhere. Going to be pretty tough in that area.

Chuck