A light rain is falling, hopefully ahead of the much-needed downpour they’re getting to the west. All Summer I’ve been eyeballing the radar and hoping the storm trajectory intersects our farm. We’ll see a nice red blob pass just to the south, they get an inch, we get nothing
The inch or so of rain that came with the Derecho is making the beans happy. while they look (to me) like they would be attractive to insects, soybeans are self-pollinating. And they are very accommodating to summer conditions. Only about 30% of the flowers will produce seeds, the rest aborting due to dry or … Read more
Here’s what the fields are looking like today. Wheat is still a bit green, but heading up nicely. Gonna get some rain!