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<blockquote data-quote="luke strawwalker" data-source="post: 543562" data-attributes="member: 7455"><p>No rain here in 5 weeks. We got just enough of a shower yesterday to wet the pavement. The raindrops turned to dustballs as soon as it hit the driveway. Sandy spots burning up, the rest is green but SHORT. Not a thing I can do about it tho... </p><p></p><p>Could be worse... I could have crops in the ground. Everything around here was a little late, because it was SO wet back in January and February. Corn is tasselled out and the silks turned brown, but the stalks are only about 5 feet high and I've seen some already drying down on the bottom foot or so of the stalk. Sorghum looks fairly good on heavy soil, but rolling it's leaves on sandy soil already, most is in mid-bloom to finishing out blooming, with little exertion. Without rain tho that grain isn't going to fill out; be about like birdseed... Soybeans near here are about a foot tall, not growing much at all, and turning real dark green but you can tell they need water, or will real soon. Not wilting yet but showing the early signs... Most cotton here got planted right ahead of some cold fronts that came thru and dropped temps down in the mid-high 30's at night. Took forever to come up, and we had a COLD April here with several fronts pushing temps down into the high-30's low 40's at night, and cotton don't like that! I think it's got chilling injury because it just doesn't seem to snap out of it. We're hitting the mid 90's for the last couple weeks and the hi 90s are getting close (probably a week or two at most) and then we'll REALLY start to burn. These crops are getting to the high water demand phase and there isn't much to break the pattern. We're getting high pressure ridges and it's keeping the storm systems pushed north of us and preventing much in the way of thunderstorms. May take a Gulf storm to really get us some rain in here to break the cycle. With high pressure cells around though that ain't likely anytime soon. </p><p></p><p>Yall take it easy and be glad if you got rain... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> OL JR <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="luke strawwalker, post: 543562, member: 7455"] No rain here in 5 weeks. We got just enough of a shower yesterday to wet the pavement. The raindrops turned to dustballs as soon as it hit the driveway. Sandy spots burning up, the rest is green but SHORT. Not a thing I can do about it tho... Could be worse... I could have crops in the ground. Everything around here was a little late, because it was SO wet back in January and February. Corn is tasselled out and the silks turned brown, but the stalks are only about 5 feet high and I've seen some already drying down on the bottom foot or so of the stalk. Sorghum looks fairly good on heavy soil, but rolling it's leaves on sandy soil already, most is in mid-bloom to finishing out blooming, with little exertion. Without rain tho that grain isn't going to fill out; be about like birdseed... Soybeans near here are about a foot tall, not growing much at all, and turning real dark green but you can tell they need water, or will real soon. Not wilting yet but showing the early signs... Most cotton here got planted right ahead of some cold fronts that came thru and dropped temps down in the mid-high 30's at night. Took forever to come up, and we had a COLD April here with several fronts pushing temps down into the high-30's low 40's at night, and cotton don't like that! I think it's got chilling injury because it just doesn't seem to snap out of it. We're hitting the mid 90's for the last couple weeks and the hi 90s are getting close (probably a week or two at most) and then we'll REALLY start to burn. These crops are getting to the high water demand phase and there isn't much to break the pattern. We're getting high pressure ridges and it's keeping the storm systems pushed north of us and preventing much in the way of thunderstorms. May take a Gulf storm to really get us some rain in here to break the cycle. With high pressure cells around though that ain't likely anytime soon. Yall take it easy and be glad if you got rain... :) OL JR :) [/QUOTE]
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