Field Work

Heard on the radio yesterday that 3% of the corn is planted.

Is that in your area? It's sure not in mine.

Gary

FYI, Make SURE, if you have crop insurance to report PP acres to your crop ins. agent. Make 100% sure you get a copy of your report. Best to report to FSA first. Compare the reports. When you get your Declarations, or Summary of coverage from the crop ins. company, that you have not made any mistakes or ommisions. If you find any, contact the agent and or company immediately,

Gene

Weather man is give'n us a chance of rain every day this week, I ain't even got pastures fertilized yet. Should have gotten tobacco ground turned 2 weeks ago or more, don't see it happen for another two weeks. This is going to get bad, mid May is going to be here and I am going to be try'n to plant, cut hay, and set tobacco at the same time. I feel alot of sick days come'n on here at my night job.

Dave

Dave

If you guys do not slack up on the snow the mississippi river is going to top the banks.
They have been talking in the past few days about opening one of our spillways to relieve some of the presure from the river.
While they have not opened it yet there is still 9000 cu ft of water per second leaking threw the gates. This is just a drop in the bucket though since when the gates are open it allows 200,000 cu ft of water per second threw. And that is just a drop in the bucket when you consider the river is running at about 2 million cu ft per second right now.

The river is a 16.1 ft right now. They will not open the spillway until they perdict 17' and rising. The levees protect us to about 23 to 25'.
It is nothing like St Louis or Memphis though. We have 3 spillways we can open to drain the river to prevent a flood. One of them was opened last in 1997 (I think) and the other 2 have never been opened.

I haven't seen anyone working soil yet in Middle Tennessee. It's still too wet here. According to my little rain gauge in my back yard, we've had more than forty inches of rain since the drought broke last October, plus we've had two snowfalls of more than two inches of snow each. Our reservoirs are starting to catch up from what we lost last year. If we have a "normal" year, we ought to be in good shape.

I plowed my garden about a month ago, but it's still to wet to work.

Tom in TN

Gary

But it is cloudy and COLD! High temps only in the upper 50s and low 60s. Should be in mid 70s now.

Some notil corn ground has had burndown herbicide applied, but that is about all the field work that I have seen been done.

Want to start cutting hay next week but it will have to warm up a bunch to get it cured.

chooch