Re: Not a Tractor

Posted by paul on January 07, 2021 at 03:05:54 from (66.60.215.13):

In Reply to: Re: Not a Tractor posted by Texasmark1 on January 07, 2021 at 02:43:51:

That’s a good average, 10-1.

We are so wet around me, I sure wish we could have shared the water we’ve gotten the past 5 years with those in the dry areas. I sure didn’t want to horde all this!

My farm is a lake bottom more or less, from the last glaciers melting. I’d prefer a little less than average moisture, I do well in a dry year.

The past 5 have been so wet, there are 2 county roads, several township roads, and one state highway that have suffered long term closings this past summer due to washouts, slumping sidehills, or long term flooding, all within 10 miles of me. The 2 county roads are still closed, detoured by me.

All the drainage ditches are sluffing in, the sidewalks of the ditches are crumbling and falling in wrecking the ditches. This makes drainage worse of course, so our fields can’t dry out.

Now, if it gets to be August and it’s too dry I’ll be right there woe is me the crop,is stinging...... but, we could use a good dry spell here to let things dry out once.

My best years in farming were 1988 and 2012, the two driest we have experienced. It was tough to watch my crops suffer, but in hind sight the crop prices went so high, and even in such extreme drought I get a half a crop, I made a good income and had very low costs to produce it those years, no weeds, no mud to fight, less breakdowns, little drying cost, less fertilizer needed the next year.

I understand, in the arid regions is the opposite, and I don’t envy those of you struggling with a dry climate and looking at an extra dry year coming up. It is the inverse of what I face, and neither extreme is any fun at all.

My tile are still trickling water into the ditch, even with the ground froze up since November. We don’t have heavy snow yet, but what’s here will do the typical spring melt and create ponds in the fields, most will run off the frozen ground and down the ditches and rivers. We typically get heavy spring rains to charge up the ground and make a muddy mess of spring.

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