I don't know whether to send congratulations or regrets! I guess in twenty years, you guys can tell the youngsters you survived, ( I hope), the great drought and outrageous heat of 2011. Just got back from Pierce City, Missouri area, farmers shelling corn getting 8-20 bushels an acre. Irrigated got around 90-100, sprinklers never shut off. Lots of stalks, and they look o.k. but carrying a lot of nitrogen, so even grazing them will be a challenge. Lots of cattle at the Joplin sale barn, most from Okla. and Texas. Terrifying but no guarantee next year will be better. Rough times all around. As an aside that area used to be pretty good quail country, now quail habitat I could probably have fit in bed of my pickup! Lots of armadillos though!
Dodge sets new record for 100 degree days
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M. R. Byrd
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I hope we can break out of this weather pattern soon.
We are getting pounded by great gouts of rain and severe storms the last two nights. Rainfall and moisture all around you. I fear your in the dry zone. Old wives, ( farmer), tale that it takes ground moisture to attract moisture, obviously Dodge in short supply, wish one of these gulley washers would sweep your way.
cheesy
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A lot of the corn to the southwest of here (Joplin) didn't even get a combine, burned up and didn't make anything, most was just disced under and hope the farmer had crop insurance, seen more corn chopped for silage this year than I can ever remember.
A buddy's dad baled some corn up, sent it off to a lab to test, they said he could feed it, at a ratio of 1 bale to 15 or 20 bales of real hay.