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Showing posts with label wetness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wetness. Show all posts

Oct 7, 2016

Cutting Ruts

I sampled a very wet field.  The farmer got a neighbor with duals to finish the field.  Ruts were almost as bad with duals.  Needed tracks.


Jul 26, 2016

Jul 12, 2015

Clear Morning

Last night several storms moved through our area, but my rain gauge only had 1/10th inch.  I am sure that most people in the area had much more judging from the water in the fields as we drove home from Carlinville last night.  

Below is the past 90 days rainfall from NWS.  The red is 25 inches or moree.  The orange 15 to 20 inches.  It looks like southwest Missouri and Eastern Oklahoma are even more wet than we are.  Rivers continue to be high.  Corn and soybeans are both stunted because of the wetness.
90 Day Rainfall

Jul 7, 2015

West Alton Area

This whole field was flood damaged in St. Charles County.  There are lots of wet holes and swales.  The good news is that levees are holding.

Jun 29, 2015

More on Wetness

I went to Vandalia today to do  septic tank investigation.  The photos below give some clue.  Crops are drowned and yellow.  Soybeans remain unplanted.  Major rivers are flooding and levees are over topping in some places.  I could be mistaken but so far, even though the rainfall pattern is similar to 1993, the amounts do not seem quite as large and we do get  a dry day once in a while. However, consider that at least in St. Louis, we are nearing a top 20 gauge reading.  In some tributaries, gauge readings have exceeded 1993 records.
Yellow and drowned corn

Yellow and drowned soybeans

Unplanted

Planter waiting for dry weather

Jun 11, 2015

Oct 3, 2014

How Wet Is It?

Fields are extremely wet with 3 to 8 inches of rain.  Creeks were running bank full.  This will delay harvest.  I expect that most farmers will be trying to harvest soybeans when ground dries out. 





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