It isn't just the farmers, a lot of tree growers are suffing too.

Corn will do amazingly well inspite of many major areas being very dry. Projections for yields are going down each month as even if it rains enough now damage is already done to many crops and crops like hay will really be short in supply. Not just farmers is right. Landscapers, nursery businesses trying to landscape properties, put in lawns etc etc. The long term looks like a smaller beef herd for a long while as we are now having drought in much of the east cow-calf areas along with the west. Good crop growing areas are shifting not just due to moisture, but also heat. Corn basically shuts down at over 86 degrees F and thus if we get really warm weather during pollination there can be huge losses in yield. A lot of genetic research has gone into breeding higher yielding corn in cooler areas like ND, northern MN, WI and also drought. There may need to be a (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) in finding genetics that needs to function well in higher heat. Most garden seed genetics and commercial produce genetics has not been bred for high heat as well.

Bryce

Maybe scientists can come up with a better formula for root gel to improve things for tree farmers

Dry as always here. Only thing growing is under irrigation and it’s struggling

Seems to be a more wet than usual around here. Stormed again yesterday power was out when I got home at 7 and didn't come on tell about 430am.

Driving home from my wife's aunts funeral there were 2 vehicles off the road thet lost control in the down poor.

Still a drought here

Very bad

It's rain here in Northern Wis.

This post was started June 8th it looks like. Hope you got some rain by now.

June 8, 2021. I’m sure he did, lol.

Been pretty good here. Our dove fields (browntop) look amazing. Just hoping to get it cut and burned then the rains hold off so it doesn’t reseed right away.

Corn is looking like them agave plants in Mexico, all dry and sad looking. Hay is definitely hard to grow this year

Wow, 2021. Resurrected from the dead.

Lol, yeah.

The only thing is here it hasn’t changed much since then, getting just enough to keep things going, last year and this year I’ve been shipping all my hay to Rock Valley to the hay auction because they have the best price.

I'm not sure how late into the summer/fall I should keep watering my new trees

Moderators, please delete this old thread, it's embarrassing!

western Alaska raining for the past two months getting tired of it.

Pray for sunshine not rain!

Even the fish are praying for a dry spell here.

We are catching up here but still well below the normal. Water table (ground water level) is still low. We have had about 2.25 inches the last two weeks. Much larger amounts north and south of us during those events. Still very spotty.

Bryce