Our beans looked good, but only produced 40 - 45 bushels per acre compared to 55-60 in a good year. That is crazy low and due to the group. The wet spring allowed lots of early foliage, but the drought means pod production was way off. The with low prices, things are looking bad for soybean farmers.Haven’t had a decent rain here since early August. Local weather gurus say we are 9” below average for this time of year.
Has put a lot of stress on trees they are turning early, our pond is down a couple feet and I haven’t mowed the yard in over a month.
Didn’t effect the crops much they had plenty of rain earlier on, bumper crops with well over half off already and dry enough not to get docked right out of the fields. Double crop beans are stunted and turning now.
Had been very hot and dry, now cool and dry. Temps won’t even reach 70 today.
Most of my apples and pears dropped early.
We had great rainfalls through mid - August or so....then things got pretty dry. Rains likely totaled an inch for me in the past few days....and my brassica was starting to dry up in the sunny areas. I once again proved the value of planting brassica in areas that get some shade....as those areas seem to hang in there during dry periods. My sandy land needs rain each week....or two at most. Lucked out with recent rainfall. Blessed.