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loneranger

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Well, who got what in SE Iowa this week? I was right on about Sunday Night. Activity crossing IA from the west died twards Sunday Morn, died moving East. Bad time that usual moving in overnight. Ottumwa got 1/2 I got 1/4 and as I watched on my radar east got little. Now Tues night was a different story. That was the old ,"Ring of Fire", set up. Where a complex developes along a boundry of Hot air. It was 90' in Kansas City and St Louis Tues and only 80' in Ott. Storms formed along the boundry. Sounds like everyone got around an inch. West Iowa got the flood. I got 1 1/2 thank goodness! Back up here near DesMoines, where it has been consistently raining they don't need anymore. There is standing water in fields. Bottom line,,,this Summer will be touch and go for moisture. And in SE Iowa more of a watch it go scenario.
 
We got so sick of mother nature that we decided to go 100% irrigation on all our properties, I highly recommend it loneranger, you never have to worry about the crops again. Food plots have been beautiful and yields on the crops have never been better.
 
Des Moines County
missed everything over the weekend,
thankful for the 1.3" Tuesday, doubles the total for the last 6 weeks.
Could use that every week or two from now until September.
 
We had over 4 inches of rain in the past week in MN. More today, Grey Eagle, MN had 7 inches in one day.

Former Iowa Hawkeye & Viking Chad Greenway helped rescue a boat on Lake Minnetonka which almost went over a spillway. The water level is at or near all time high on some lakes. Water everywhere.
 
Well from what I can access, West and north is wet. SE Iowans thankful for anything we get. Another Summer similar to last. Just cross our fingers and hope.
 
I am not down there today but watching on the radar,,,Yea today,,for SE Iowa!!! We need all we can get.Could be in the 90's they say next weekend...
 
Yea I see that western Davis county had flood warnings. Since I have been in Iowa it seems either feast or famine as far as rainfall. Few years back when DesMoines river flooded two Summers in a row, it was so wet it actually killed 3 of my fruit trees. I have clay. Then the next Summer we started the repeated droughts???? When I first looked at land down in Se Iowa I was amazed at the scene of about every hill side grooved with Ravines. After the Summers of floods I understood why there were so many washed out ravines!
 
Everyone now has plenty of moisture now, and few will bother to read this,,,,but,,right now a big storm is skirting down around, and up, east of Iowa taking the rain with it. Another is up in Canada. Back to a Split Flow pattern that avoids Iowa with moisture. We are still not in a "wet pattern". Maybe that's good for now? But could turn dry easily again.
 
I can tell you South Central could use a skirting for a little while. Been right there since I woke up this morning. I still have corn that needs planted not looking good. Ground has been beyond moist for 4 weeks.

Fred's fault I guess he called it.

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We've had 9.5 in our rain gauge since Monday evening. Had to drive 20 miles out of the way to get home and find a bridge where the water wasn't over the roads. Ponds are now lakes and creeks are now rapid rivers. And worst of all fields are now ponds. Hopefully nothing crazy happens because I leave for Canada in the AM for 8 days.
 
bigbuckhunter88 said:
We've had 9.5 in our rain gauge since Monday evening. Had to drive 20 miles out of the way to get home and find a bridge where the water wasn't over the roads. Ponds are now lakes and creeks are now rapid rivers. And worst of all fields are now ponds. Hopefully nothing crazy happens because I leave for Canada in the AM for 8 days.
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Same here in parts of MN

Wood Lake, MN had 10 inches in one day. Crops washed out, terrible flooding.

We are ok here, but I am guessing 7 to 8 inches of rain in past 2.5 weeks
 
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We got 3 inches of rain this morning in about an hour.. Still raining now. Roads are washed out... People down south are going to get some high rivers in a few days.
 
I am very thankful I have all my crops planted except a few areas I need to patch in that I didn't get to for a variety of reasons- been 98% of the way done for a week now and had some beans in for over a month to month & half now, doing really great. Corn looks tremendous as well and I did that no-till in ideal conditions. & thankfully I don't have anything that really floods so it's looking really great. Now, I sure don't want to jinx myself here & who knows what July & August could deal us BUT I guess where I'm at, I'm very happy.

T - you get that corn in yet? You might wanna locate some very short maturity corn, like 90 day or shorter if they have that OR might think about just going beans for the grain route at this point. If you want to put the corn in the ground, go get some 90 day and grab my 4 row if you want :)
 
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