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Dieselrider

04-15-2005 15:24:34




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A couple weeks ago I thought we would never see the sun. The last week and a half or so have been sunny and beautiful. Boy has it done a turn around. Most fields have really dried out- I do have alot of water in my lower pasture - dust flyin everywhere. never seen it dry off so quick. How about where you"re at?




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Mark - IN.

04-15-2005 21:39:10




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
Very wet snowy winter and the rivers and creeks are high here in Bristol. Last weekend was burning along the fence lines and almost got away from me. Breeze picked up and it took off like a wick. Scared the p... out of me. Ended up high tailing it towards a couple hundred acre woods and back burning towards the other direction. I didn't think that it was that dry. I was wrong. Soil's pretty hard, dry, and dusty when you plow. We need water pretty bad, worse than I thought.

Mark

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kyhayman

04-15-2005 20:36:39




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
Coming off the 3rd wettest year here on record, mild winter (lows in the high teens, highs in the high 30s) and wet. Everything was soup until first of April, dried out nice, I disced some, it was still too wet but needed to level out ruts. Rained again this week 3" total over 3 days, good and slow. Dry foreast for the next 5 days. I saw some rye cut today for silage. Expect to see some tillage work but it will be pushing it. I sprayed 2 wk ago, plan to notil some alfalfa week after next.

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jhill

04-15-2005 19:52:02




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
Really dry here in the Thumb of Michigan. Roads are really dusty.



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Fudd@work

04-15-2005 19:04:21




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
We had 31" of snow last week and now everything is melting. One of these days it will stop dripping off the house roof. It was good for the grass hay though.



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Farmer77 southern Ontari

04-15-2005 18:04:47




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
getting dry here to just starting to plant corn.



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Nor. Al.

04-15-2005 17:16:16




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
79% in North Ala. today we have had 2/25 hundreth in.of rain in April. Although it rained quite often in Feb & March.



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Nebraska Cowman

04-15-2005 17:13:50




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
I've been fixing fence. most places it is wet down a foot or two. Below that I can't get the dry dirt out of the hole.



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aaron from wis

04-15-2005 17:13:37




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
it is so dry in central wisconsin that we have a burn ban . plus we have to irrigate to plow we are so dry take care



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Hugh MacKay

04-15-2005 16:53:58




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
Dieselrider: Here in SW Ontario, soil has really dried out in past two weeks. We have been rid of most of our snow for 3 weeks now. Got you beat by a week on that one Jeff.

I'm planting my no till garden, and in this clay soil it's really only the top 1.5" dried out. I've been cutting a drill and putting seeds right down on the wet layer. Of course I had the garden hilled last fall, so if I have excess dry soil for small seed I just hoe it into the row. Then I use a starter solution, seal it up again. Hopfully the seeds sprout and put down root as fast as moisture drops.

I have another section of my garden, where I'm disking in some compost. I've got 6" of dust in that section. One good thing about that, got 2 or 3 stray cats around, making good use of the dust and not my gardening.

I was talking with a neighbor farmer, ( roughly 2,000 acres of corn, beans and wheat) who does conventional tillage. He said,"the no till guys got it made this year, if it doesn't rain in next week or so, we will have to run cultivator two acres ahead of planter."

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CBBC

04-15-2005 16:01:16




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
Feb and the start of March were sunny and dry out on the left coast. Water level was dropping good, just had to deal with the beaver blocking the outlet ditch. But now for the last three weeks it has been cold and wet. When the sun does come out it is warm, but we need a good 10-15 days of sun to turn the tables and catch up to where we were before.

When it does finaly change we can all start complaining again about water restrictions etc.
Grant

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Jeff In Ontario

04-15-2005 15:44:02




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
Dieselrider:
Same thing here in Central Ontario. 2 weeks ago there were piles of snow EVERYWHERE, now it's all dust in the fields, and you couldn't find any snow around.

Jeff



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Jay (ND)

04-15-2005 15:30:33




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Dieselrider, 04-15-2005 15:24:34  
2 weeks ago our fields were white, I won't even talk about the banks in the trees, now the tree rows are even melted off. I've never seen a nicer beginning of April.



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Jim Broughton

04-15-2005 16:15:12




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Jay (ND), 04-15-2005 15:30:33  
Here in the Willamette valley of Oregon...IT'S REALLY WET!!!!! Jim



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Larry In NW Colorado

04-15-2005 16:44:42




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 Re: Things drying out quick in reply to Jim Broughton, 04-15-2005 16:15:12  
Same here in NW Co., The Elk are heading to the mountains, the Deer and Antelope are playing and the fields are turning green. Sure nice, couldn't ask for more.



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