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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Jul 28, 2012 11:03:35 GMT -5
dave , I see little blue blooms on the beans. most are only a foot or 2 tall at the most. on the high ground or knobs some of the beans are 6" tall. the corn has definitly pollinated as I opened some ears. they are getting big yellow kernals. the low ground in the bottoms can`t believe how good the cobs look. the middle ground kind of knubin-ee and smaller, the high knobs no ears to speak of, just little fingers with maybe a few kernals. my guess is some fields might do 125-150 bushels, and others lucky to do 50. beans, I don`t know. chance to do bertter yet, but that chance runs out more every day. just 6 miles north they have had 4" in the last 10 days, and further north than that 5".
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Post by doyleflory on Jul 28, 2012 12:02:49 GMT -5
storm came in at the farm and gave us 9/10 but took about 25 more large trees as payment. I went 20 miles north last evening and it rained so hard you couldn't see to drive and lasted 25 min.Came home and nothing but with what i have got the garden is coming on and looks like the water melons will make it.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Jul 28, 2012 15:35:46 GMT -5
man, what we wouldn`t give for a rain down here. just can`t buy a rain, not since last early may.
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Post by Rwaddell on Jul 28, 2012 21:13:55 GMT -5
We have maple trees that have literally DIED. All the leaves still on the tree and all brown!
Neighboring farmer that I swap work back and forth with thinks his corn and beans will both do 15 bushel to the acres.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Jul 29, 2012 5:20:30 GMT -5
same here robert, some areas worse, some better. you lose a 1 year grain crop is one thing. you lose a 10 year nursery crop or a 100 year forestry crop is another. think of if a grain farmer lost a 100 years of grain. just to put it in perspective. you can plant corn again next spring. how do you plant another 100 year old cherry or maple tree?
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Post by Rwaddell on Jul 29, 2012 8:22:39 GMT -5
Bob, We don't have the big nice older timber like you have. With the exception of some white oak timber and the stuff along the creek bottoms alot of ours is brush in comparison to the type of timber you have.
The maple trees that I have seen dead are in the bottom of ditches and draws that are normally always wet areas, good mushroom type locations. Just hard to grasp that it has gotten this dry.
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Post by Rwaddell on Jul 29, 2012 8:23:32 GMT -5
Have any of you guys seen any grass hoppers yet this year?
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Post by doyleflory on Jul 29, 2012 9:09:01 GMT -5
we got some soon as the rain hit i think the eggs won't hatch with out some moisture.Not many but the grandson was after one yesterday and was amased that they could fly.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Jul 29, 2012 9:10:30 GMT -5
yes a few , but scarce. same way on crickets, hardly even hear any. not seen a fire fly yet. deer flys a plenty, as they breed in stagnant water, which is what the big stream and rivers are now, stagnant pools. the ditches and springs and smaller creeks are all bone dry. all those clams they wouldn`t let us harvest because they said they are endangered, well now they are all dead. another wasted resource by the gods in the protectionist dnr.
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Post by doyleflory on Jul 29, 2012 11:02:37 GMT -5
This was taken back before our rain but alot of ponds have lost the fish when the temps got high. The pot holes have caught a lot of fish in them and will die plus the otter are playing hell with bass and game fish on the rivers because there in the pockets of deeper water and easy picking. That is the way it works next year won't be any fish and the otter won't have food to raise pups so they will die .
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Jul 29, 2012 11:50:24 GMT -5
our creek, brandywine, looks just like that, well, minus the water part. serious. bone dry. happened in `88 too. but never before or after, till now. been out mowing a few weed heads, and man, lot of dead trees of all sizes in the field. a rain will save some of the big trees, but it`s going downhill daily now. and today, another day with no rain . I don`t se any relief till fall at the eaRLIEST. i BEEN WANTING TO RETIRE. GUESS MY WISH MIGHT COME TRUe.
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Post by doyleflory on Jul 30, 2012 19:15:02 GMT -5
Can't believe you will retire,you still have the farm and will keep planting for nate.That will give him a head start our grand kids are going to need a jump start if there ever to get a head some. I have decided that i will work till i die or can't get out of bed.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Jul 30, 2012 20:18:17 GMT -5
still no rain. more dead trees every day. not retire retire, just no more plant live things. too much dispair and disappointment. I`ll manage the woods still, what`s left of it. seeing a lot of pole size and better cherry and maple, 10" stuff 30 feet to the first limb and straight as an arrow and all free`d up to grow, now just dead. I`ll just trap more. if the animals all die from drought here, I`ll just trap more in other states. never was much here worth trapping without the live mkt. just cheap coon and coyotes and little else anymore. should have moved west 40 years ago. biggest mistake of my life.
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Post by doyleflory on Jul 31, 2012 16:57:22 GMT -5
Bob i ended with just under a half inch.Whated that storm head your way and brake up just as it got close. I really wish you had gotten 2 " or more i know how you fell just watching years down the tube.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Jul 31, 2012 17:18:15 GMT -5
yep and this 2nd one just now split , went both sides of us, and we got none again. could even smell the rain, but we gewt none. now be at least another week of mid 90`s. hard to believe.
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