Combines drought

[agcoman]

I didn't hear anything about a draught except in the east. Right now up here in Wisconsin it is very wet and it doesn't sound like the rain is going to stop in time for a normal spring planting.

 

[Unit_2]

Whizz, My guess is that the combines are going to have it pretty easy this year in the wheat harvest. I'm a custom harvester so I work over several states. I try to contact all farmers that I harvest for around the first part of April every year. This year everyone of them said it was dry. The farmer in South West Oklahoma was probably the most optimistic, but he said if you go just 50 miles north of is place the wheat was very poor. In Northern Oklahoma the wheat is fair but it is very dry. Here in Central Kansas where I live the wheat looks pretty good for the most part but I cannot remember when it was this dry this time of year. In Western Kansas where I harvest the farmer said that he thought even a good rain would not help some of the wheat any more, it was just to late already. In South Dakota the farmer said that the wheat was still very dormant but that they had very little snow this winter so it was very dry there too. Most of the places that I mentioned did get a little rain this weekend, any where from a trace to about .75 of an inch. K.A.

 

[greenstrat]

send some of the rain over to my neck of the woods..SW iowa is pretty much powder. Saw some guys about 50 miles north of me friday getting ground ready to plant but I bet they are waiting for a rain to do it. Mighty Fine says all the holes he has dug have a whiff of moisture in the top foot or so but hard and dry from there down. GS

 

[Mighty_Fine]

You need to be careful when you quote Mighty Fine! There goes your credibility!!!!!!!!

 

[chuckm]

I was in South Western Kansas last Friday and saw 12 or 13 farmers breaking up very poor wheat fields. Dad farms around in South Central Kansas and we have a pretty good stand. We were out walking yesterday and it has stooled pretty well. The rain today will sure buy some more time!

 

[Farm_Kid2]

South Central KS has been extremely dry. Finally got a decent rain this weekend, but probably too late to get a good crop. The wheat will probably be short and well below average yield, but that's a lot better than dead! Some of it in Northern Oklahoma didn't make it.

 

[john]

Here in southern Alberta its really drygoing on three years of drought wont be able to seed until we get rain or wet snow

 

[AGCOfan]

Here in southern Ontario we've gotten inches of rain. Rained past couple of days. Supposed to stop soon. Planting will start soon. AGCOfan(Nathan Korpan)

 

[greenstrat]

when you quote perfection there is nothing left to be said.

 

[northernfarmer]

Here in east central Sask. we are getting our first real moisture since last July. It started lightly raining this morning and has kept it up all day. Might not amount to very much but it sure is lifting everyones spirits. If we don't get above normal rainfall this year the crops are going to be very short arround here. Good luck to everyone this spring. Neil