Pretty dry around Spokane too. I think we are about 3 inches below the usual average Which is nearly a third of what we usually get, but we seem to have got the precip when we needed it. I suppose it helped that the Winter was fairly mild and the moisture we got then sank in rather than just running off.
The wheat crops look pretty good, as do the lentils. I think most of the dryland hay is done and the bluegrass is pretty much done.
That heavy rain we had earlier in the week sure shut things down. We got over 1 inch in 24 hours. I have seen some wheat fields that have been harvested, but most still have some green showing, so I doubt that many will start combining wheat for a couple of weeks.
There is not much irrigation around my area SE of Spokane any more. I guess we usually get enough moisture from the sky to do OK, and it could be that we just don"t have the ground water to support it. I sure don"t miss fooling with sprinkler pipes like I did when I was a teenager. But the guy I worked for got great hay crops from his irrigated field. And I earned a few bucks.
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