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Woodbury county | Crops do look good considering how much precipitation we have received. Soybeans look like they have quit growing and are waiting for some rain. They seem to be able hold their own until moisture comes. Corn on light soils have begun to shrink in size and sandy soils the corn is dying. We are about a week and a half to two weeks to pollination and with moisture deficits at 6 inches below normal here the corn is going to have a rough time. Forecast had been for low to mid 90s the next few days with a chance of rain for Sunday. This morning the forecast now is for mid to upper 90s and only widely scattered showers now for Sunday. The heat this time of year normally has a lot of humidity, but the heat we have been getting has very low humidity and usually with wind. Pastures are really suffering. I have a neighbor with a large herd of stock cows and is concerned about not only no pasture, but no water. He has four large dams. Two of the dams are dry and the remaining dams he fears will be dry in a month without considerable rain. Hauling water I doubt would be an option. Evidently the grain markets feel confident that the center of the cornbelt can raise 11 billion bushels of corn without any help from the western cornbelt and the flood ravaged east coast. We will have to wait and see! | |
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Flooding....
