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Just got back from watering my trees . fields look like Oct after a good frost! Most of the native WEEDS, are dried up. Only golden Rod is hanging on, and I bet that will go next week. Looks like my trip to New Mexico. Iowa is not adapted to Mexico or Texas weather. I believe most Iowans are in denial . Some are still thinking surely it will start raining and all this will be over. We had 500 yr floods, for 3 yrs. This condition might last for some years also. Other states have had it,,and are still in it.Is a strange looking world. Coarse I have not been in Iowa all that long. Maybe this situation is not that unusual? Radio said worst in 50 yrs though.
 
Mother nature will do what mother nature wants! The Bucks are still growing there racks just like every other year. But the heat really sucks though!
 
I care more about my trees, than the bucks.Nature has been ravaging itself since Noah went into the Ark ,and it is a test of endurance for all life, and our resolve, as well as my wallet! The climate has changed before, and it could be in the process again.
 
No change just a cycle that happens. Ask some elders about the thirtys. There will still be native plants alive next year.
 
Not worried about native plants, their roots survive. worried about my fruit trees,Paw Paw,Persimmon, etc. Talking to a friend farmer, who has farmed all his life. who keeps records on these things, says his records show this is similar to 1977, when 2/3s of Iowa lost a crop. This yearit will be more . Worst he has ever seen. He is an oldtime farmer in Iowa as well as John Deere retiree, so I repect his opinion. If no one thinks this is so bad,,his or her,,area must not look like my area. Friend says he willl be chopping or picking, what he has come Labor Day, and he got 2 rains last week, but says the hot temps have finished his crop.
 
Some trees look like early Sept, I think your right on the denial for Iowa its worse here like the 50s or so my dad says. 100 degrees for most of all next week ! Ouch !
 
The old man and I went around to our farms last night to check out the corn. Every field but one looks pretty good. The one field of corn does not have any kernels. The rest are filled out all the way up. Granted they will shrink down to very little if we do not get a rain but it will still yield some. We are shooting for 100 bushels an acre if we get a rain. The beans, now that might just get mowed down and baled
 
Different areas got different rain, but my area,,in and around Ottumwa, the corn looks like Oct, after a freeze. No rain for 30 gays and 100 temps,that is what you have.
 
Glad there are decent crops somewhere, were gonna need em, but I have diven 163 from DesMoines to Ottumwa for the last three weekends and belive me the crops look poor, especially the further south you go.
 
Went down to memphis Mo and the beans look pretty good down there. Ottumwa area is the worst around. This is a very bad drought by iowa standards. But does not compare to texas or SE states in past years. They get droughts every 5 or 6 yrs. IA gets one this bad one this bad every 15-25 years. The corn crop will still average above the averages for many other parts of the country, where 120 bushels per acre is a good year. I am amazed how well the crops did with so little rain. The heat is unbearable, Kansas is even worse.
 
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Yea,,Memphis MO got an inch of rain week ago friday. My bro-inlaw lives there. Ottumwa got 0, you are right,,this area about the worst you can find.
 
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