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This comes out every Thursday at 7am...This is the latest one..

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TeenageHunter said:
We just got a 1" of rain, saved our crops.
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Its been too dry to long for 1" to "save" the crop - may help out yield a little but the damage is already done (unless of course you are in an area to get some of the spotty rains over the last 6 weeks - I have received NONE)
 
Unreal....I live in Northern Tama co. and the area right around me has been very fortunate in the amount of rain it has gotten. We've gotten at least 4.5" in the last 4-6 weeks. Drive 10 minutes south to Tama-Toledo area and they have maybe gotten 2" in that same time period. It's been so spotty, its unbelievable.
 
Is this drought supposed to last several years? I know nothing about weather but I know there for about 5 years we just got slaughtered with rain and bad winters and was wondering if now the opposite will happen? Hopefully not!
 
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2.91" officially at Pella in last 90 days -and they got more rain than I have only 3 miles west.
Definitely not enough to make a crop.
I've had zero measurable rainfall here in last 6 weeks.
 
1.20" at my house in Corning last night, might help fill out kernels but the ones that aren't on the ear won't show up.....
 
South of Creston IA and had a half or less first rain in over a month here. I think its too late for alot of corn.
 
The chart is just clumping and averaging. I drove from Iowa City to Maquoketa yesterday and it seemed every 2 miles the corn would go from relatively "normal looking" to completely screwed looking.

All I know is that I'm going to seed crab grass because that stuff is absolutely FLOURISHING in the barren desert that was once my yard.
 
From watching every rain event like a hawk,,in general, north of I-80, there have been quite a few chances of storms,,albeit scattered,,over the past 6 wks. south of 80,,very little,,until you get down to the far Se corner that has received a couple shots. I drive from DesMoines to Ottumwa about every weekend and you can see the degrade as you go south on 1-63. Around Ottumwa,Eddyville, looks the worst. Up here north of desMoines I actually cut grass at work last week, and there still is green up here. Around my place by Ott- only scorched brown!
 
It's getting bad in the Sioux City area. I drove from Sioux City, IA to Norfolk, NE to Yankton, SD & back to Sioux City today. I saw many guys cutting silage already & some fields have been cut for a while already & I saw many fields that were bone dry w/ solid brown crispy corn stalks. Some of the beans were yellow or brown & dropping leaves. Looked like late October. Even some of the fields w/ irrigation looked baked & 1/2 dead. All of the rain lastnight started all around us. South, north & east. It rained for a few minutes & that was it for me.
 
gunrunr said:
Eddyville Bottom north of Ottumwa is the worst I have seen - Most of that corn will probably make 0
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Why is that, being a bottom I would have guessed that area finally would get a break? Those guys there have been screwed for the last 4 years that I can think of. I remember a couple years in there where you could drive a ski boat thru their field no prob. Finally a dry year and those poor guys are hosed again!?!
 
First yield check that I have heard on drought corn getting ready to be chopped for silage. Checked by insurance adjuster, at.........................23 bu/Acre.
 
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