Need Rain!!

[Auggie]

I planted soybean research plots by Riverdale and Crosby early last week. I looked at them yesterday and the seed has barely swollen. I'm wondering if the hypoctyl will ever emerge. Both plots are 10+ years of no-till. My heat plots that we're planted the first week of May are looking good. I pulled a few soil cores at each spot and it was 6+ inches to moisture.

 

[LBrandt]

Water bill for the garden is going up big time.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

As the old timers used to say "dry as a popcorn fart".

 

[Ponyroper]

Did some site inspections this week and some of the native pastures in Morton and Grant counties looked like someone sprayed Roundup on them. Walked through an alfalfa field down by Napoleon last Saturday and the alfalfa was about 4-6" tall and solid dandelions. The lots I cut for hay in my development north of Mandan are pretty much toast so this weather is affecting a large area. Crops could still come around with some timely rain but ranchers could be scrambling for hay if this keeps up. With all the CRP that was torn up the last few years there won't be much for them to fall back on.

 

[DirtyMike]

Thankfully my neighbor runs his sprinklers quite often. The backyard looks nice and green. The front yard looks like we're in the middle of the nuclear fallout.

 

[Livetohuntandfish]

I planted soybean research plots by Riverdale and Crosby early last week. I looked at them yesterday and the seed has barely swollen. I'm wondering if the hypoctyl will ever emerge. Both plots are 10+ years of no-till. My heat plots that we're planted the first week of May are looking good. I pulled a few soil cores at each spot and it was 6+ inches to moisture.

Been scouting our beans heavily... in the notill it's about 80% germinated and in the tilled bottoms it's maybe at 5%. They were all planted 3-6 days after the last rain.... bout the best decision I think is to fish hard and pray for rain!

 

[Big Iron]

Starting to Pop this afternoon. Skies in Jamestown looking very ominous to the west.

 

[Auggie]

have said before with the no till and taking out of tree rows long with beans we are in for an others 30 s

Tree row removal yes. But, how would no-till contribute to dirty 30's esque conditions?

 

[zoops]

Perhaps he means no-till has allowed for the mindset that trees are no longer needed?

 

[lunkerslayer]

It's raining in devils I can hear the farmers dancing for joy

 

[Sluggo]

It's raining in devils I can hear the farmers dancing for joy

Raining an hour south of Bismarck too! Hope it hangs together as it is moving north. Bring it on!

 

[guywhofishes]

looking good - fairly slow moving eh?

 

[db-2]

Got some up here but not a lot. Small hail and will take it. Hope for an inch but does not appear to be. Hope you got what you need as it was getting dry. Db

 

[lunkerslayer]

Raining an hour south of Bismarck too! Hope it hangs together as it is moving north. Bring it on!

It's a soaker

 

[pointer]

Yes good call on the no till, its the mind set that it will save everything, what with the loss of CRP in this area,and ditch to ditch farming and mile square bean fields with no tree rows when the beans are harvested there is nothing left to hold snow but the ditches when there is such

 

[dean nelson]

Perhaps he means no-till has allowed for the mindset that trees are no longer needed?

Theres some legitimate points to that argument. Didn't need trees to keep the ground from blowing away before we plowed it up. It's certainly no cure all but it does make the situation dramatically different the back then. Now we get three dry years and those no tills will start getting light on how much ground cover they have left if the fields fail a couple years in a row.

 

[shorthairsrus]

Bismark is in the greater chances of wetter than normal. Gf NOAA said stormy summer with some places with to much rain. Careful what u wish for. June can be a washout

 

[Kurtr]

It could rain every day in June and wouldn't was shit out from Bismarck south and west. Already a bunch of fires from smokers throwing out butts.

 

[watson]

Zero rain in the SE corner last night, just some thunder and lightning

 

[LBrandt]

Clocks were blinking and the ground is dry in SE ND.