What is it?

[onefarmer]

Weather dude says we haven't seen any in over 50 days. Pretty dry for Michigan

 

[oldproudvet]

We've had a little over 2 since spring thaw and snow melt here in west central MN. We've been living on that................ Larry

 

[Tgrasher]

It seems weather patterns have changed this year, awfully dry here in So Illinois too. What rain we are getting has come from the northwest vs the usual southwest. Nothing new, we've had cyclical drought many times before, some worse than this.

 

[onefarmer]

I remember one rain that was 1/2 and none of the rest (2or3?) were 1/4 but none for almost two months. Only dryer spring in my memory was the drought of 1988. There were no spring rains. The snow melted and nothing until August.

 

[Richard G.]

WE just had a flood here.
Dropped from about 90 to upper 60's in a short time.
Richard in NW SC

 

[onefarmer]

AAAAAnd 5 mins later it's over. grr

 

[Jimmydog]

West side of the state, halfway between the Zoo and the lake: lots of beans not up yet, going to be interesting to see what happens. We got less than a quarter inch, had mist yesterday morning, hopefully they didn't sprout and dry out. My sunflowers did the same thing sat in the ground until I watered them. I'm no expert but it seems to me if the corn is small enough it can get through dry periods on dew?

Cow deer ate my sunflowers, why do I even try?

 

[rrlund]

I just checked. I got .7. I have a lot of corn that didn't come up. Still as clean and dry as when it came out of the bag. It'll sure be nice if some of that comes up in the silage corn. I'm hoping for the grain corn too. I'll deal with the effects in the fall if that happens.

 

[onefarmer]

In 88 I had one field that didn't sprout until August. Never made grain. Fortunately we still had dairy cows. It all went in the silo. Don't know what I would do now days. Clean up the silos again I suppose

 

[SweetFeet]

Dry in areas of MN too. Lawns are really brown here... not sure how crops have hung on - they are hurt some though.

We got a sprinkle on Saturday.

We got a bit of rain today... not sure if even 1/4. A few small chances of scattered rain mid to late week.

Glad we got a little... but we sure need more. SIGH!!

 

[caterpillar guy]

It has been so dry for the last 50or so days that the Wild life are packing canteens around with them. I saw a fox so dry he could hardly move a few days ago. If it wasn't s big cat. We have one running around almost that big. Old shag nasty looking thing been living on his wits since he arrived here by drop off probably.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

We were extremely dry until about 10 days ago since then about 7 inches,has really perked things up.

 

[504]

I have had .001 of an inch, and some of the corn is 6 inches tall.

 

[el6147]

about the same in the southwest corner of Mich . over in 5 minutes , had more this morning .

 

[paul]

Very spotty crop here. And small. And dry.

After the 6+ inches of flooding when we were supposed to be planting, its hard to believe it could get this dry this soon.

Had several .15 or less rains, last night got .35 which is something.

Need more in a week.

Paul

 

[Russ from MN]

We've gotten about 1.3 here in Bemidji MN, we needed it badly, we just hope we get at least that much up on the CA border where our tree farm is.

 

[Pete in Holland MI]

1-1/2 this evening in Hesperia, MI

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

It's going to be a bad summer for Michigan Thumb farmers. We got some T-Storms last night but not much rainfall. Tornado sirens went off til midnight. Some sprinkles the other day but not anything that'll help the crops. We had a similar season a few years ago. Corn ears were lean and not many on the stalks. Planting was done early because the winter was barren of snowfall and fields were not muddy. T-Storms today -14% possibility after 1 PM.

Tim Daley (MI)

 

[jon f mn]

I had nothing here since snow melt. Barley is pretty much toast. Maybe 25% of the corn didn't sprout. Things were real bad. But this weekend I got around 2 so things look better now. Will depend on how warm and sunny it is for the rest of the year to see if the corn that sprouts now makes it. Going to be close.

 

[55 50 Ron]

About 1 inch here in southern MN on Sat 24 and Sun 25 combined. .1 overnight. I think some of the problem is all the farm drainage tile going in. It's bitter/sweet as when it rains to flood low areas, the desire is to get it off quickly, so it doesn't drown the plants, then when it drains quickly and doesn't rain again for longer than is desirable, the complaints abound - too dry. Can't have it both ways. I do understand an advantage of farm drainage is to even out the yields across the varying soils.