What a tough spring?

Question

Anyone else having trouble getting their crops in or are we a small area? It's been so wet we can't get in the field yet talking more rain in a couple days (yikes) we haven't turned a wheel yet, about 3 weeks to get corn in before we get penalized on our insurance premiums. This sucks.

Answer 1

It's STILL snowing off and on in Idaho.  I'm in the very heartland of potato country.  The wheat is doing ok.  Nobody has gotten to plant any potatoes yet however!  Most of them are already planted by now.

The first cutting of alfalfa should have already started on some of the fields.  It's bairly an inch out of the ground on most of the fields this year.  

We are having an extremely cold spring.  The local farmer's markets are "open."  of course nobody has anything to sell....not even rubarb yet.

I'm glad we are moving back to a much more temperate climate.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 2

South jersey farmers are

getting great $ for veg crops.

leeks 18$/doz endive/escarole 15/17$

Asparagus was 80$/30lbs

now 40/50 $. Cilantro 24 bun.12/14 $ Basil FLA 15$/12 bunches. If they don't get

these prices this year, Land

will be sold for more money than they would make in 10 yrs.Many VERY RICH X

FARMERS sorry to say.But

Money is needed more than

ever these days. When you ***** about the farmer, Don't

talk with your mouth full !!!!

Answer 3

South Dakota, having a tough spring too!  Got some corn in a little too early, (no till) and it is finally starting to crack.  Manure didn't get put on like usual, and last week we had a foot of heavy snow, hail 10 miles west the size of softballs, and 20 miles east had tornadoes!  Crazy weather!  Seems like we get good rains every 4 days, so things aren't getting done in a timely manner around here either.

Not much you can do about it.  You just got to take a deep breath, and be glad to be living the good life and not working in a stinking factory somewhere.

Answer 4

In the north east we have not had enough rain over the past 6 months to maintain water tables. It's feast or famine all over, mostly too much or too little rain.

Answer 5

Central Wisconsin, here. . .It's wet. wet,wet.  Rain just keeps coming.  Nothing planted, forecast looks terrible.  Visited the southern part of the state yesterday saw the most amazing thing. .dust!!  Farmer out working his field and there was dust!!  Haven't seen that in about a year.  That part of the state is beautiful rolling  country side.  We're very flat in our area.

Answer 6

Ditto for northeast Texas.  We are still planting soybeans.  Our usual cutoff is bout 24 April.  Corn was late too.  We had several acres planted on 15 April, the insurance cutoff date.  2008 will be an interesting year.  Let's hope we can get our wheat out.  Wheat harvest was rained out last May/June.