Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do to get the job done, and with the rain we've had in MI this year, I'll bet we aren't that far off from Jon's situation. I forgot to dump my 6" rain gauge 4 days after previously dumping it, a couple weeks back. After 4 days it was overflowing out the top. Rained 5 or 6 times since then. The dairies waited until drier weather to chop corn, which never came in September, never came in October. They resorted to pulling the semis through the fields with 4x4 articulated tractors, and also were pushing some from behind with the silage blade as well. We were lucky to get most of our soybeans out without being in standing water, but had to mud them out nonetheless. The beans were very tall, and yielded well, but were going down from the bottom of the stalks being saturated. The last 2 fields we of soys we finished last week were in 6-8 inches of standing water. No where for any extra water to go anywhere, and once the water freezes on top, might as well just leave the beans for the deer, the water will never leave. We'll mud out the last 2 corn fields. Did the worst one first thing, last week, during a couple day spell where it wasn't raining. Still had a foot to 18 inches of standing water in parts of the corn field while combining it. Dad says he's seen wet falls in his years, but can never remember one this bad.
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