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southern MN | Yup.
Never understood leaving crop in the field if you can get it? Saturday I was hitting the low spots, getting out the corn I could there. Now or never. The better fields should work someday maybe, but you can't get the crop even in freezing weather if water is standing there - you break through - the water insulates. Combine was skating sideways a few times, but I didn't sink it. Few years ago they were getting beans north of my by pushing the combine on a bracket with a 4wd through the low spots. You don't sit around and wait, fall only gets worse. If you can get in the field, you go. Four feet of frost & the plow fixes up most problems.
When it's this wet in fall, it will be too wet to plant in spring anyhow, so we just shouldn't farm at all. :) Work the heck out of the ground, only way to do it this wet & this cold.
I have 120 feet of clay. Straight down. Good thing is it was so dry there is less crop out there to try to mud out now.....
I'm sure we will have an average rainfall for the year.
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Minnesota harvest survey from the highway
