So heres the deal...

[growalot]

no rain ...woodland ground looks like a deeply cut jigsaw puzzle....tons of beech with nice meaty nuts and I checked the oak flats...the ground is riddled with pea sized acorns ??? ...my beanss and corn have stopped growing....hhhmmm someone turned of the faucet and did it too tight ...lost 1/4 acre wood land plot to the drought and now even the grass has burnt up...how are you fairing?

[Dave]

no rain ...woodland ground looks like a deeply cut jigsaw puzzle....tons of beech with nice meaty nuts and I checked the oak flats...the ground is riddled with pea sized acorns ??? ...my beanss and corn have stopped growing....hhhmmm someone turned of the faucet and did it too tight ...lost 1/4 acre wood land plot to the drought and now even the grass has burnt up...how are you fairing?

I noticed the corn fields by me are still very low. Some one told me that corn should be knee high by the 4th of July. I think it is half that, why I don't know we did get alot of rain in June.

Dave

[Fantail]

Headed out to camp this weekend, almost afraid to go check the plots but it's time.

[cwhite]

Up here the corn seems to be good.  Due to the endless rain in May, a majority of the fields are just over a month old but seem to jump up an inch or two every day.  My soy and corn plots are coming great.  We had one stretch that was a little too dry, but for the most part we are getting good growing weather.

[Geno C]

we need a day or 2 of rain

[WNYBuckHunter]

Getting dry here, but the crops are doing well. Corn across the street is chest high, maybe shoulder high and the beans are probably 10 inches or taller. We do need some rain soon though, grass is just about dead.

[Doc]

Living in the middle of the woods, my prime concern is fires. It's been a long time since I have seen conditions so dry. They are now talking about the situation resulting in a record July for lack of rain. What a weird year for weather. First we get flooded out and then just a few months later we are tinder dry. Must be that global warming of Al Gore's .... eh?

[WNYBuckHunter]

I can remember years similar to this. We had one maybe 8 years ago or so. I remember having to water my lawn for most of the summer because I was trying to get rid of the weeds and build up on more actual grass, but had a really hard time of it with the lack of rain we had for most of the summer.

[Fantail]

Nothing like walking up on a new plot you meticulously planned, planted and worked a month later and find dry brown soil & a handfull of weeds.

Son of a $!tc^.  >

[WNYBuckHunter]

We are finally getting some rain. It hasnt been much yet, but its something. They are forecasting the chance of rain for the next week, so hopefully we get enough to do some good.

[Doc]

I can remember years similar to this. We had one maybe 8 years ago or so. I remember having to water my lawn for most of the summer because I was trying to get rid of the weeds and build up on more actual grass, but had a really hard time of it with the lack of rain we had for most of the summer.

I think I remember some "lawn watering" bans in some of the towns around Rochester a bunch of years back because of extended drought conditions. See..... I tell ya it's that damned global warming. Somebody call Al Gore for some help.

[WNYBuckHunter]

I can remember years similar to this. We had one maybe 8 years ago or so. I remember having to water my lawn for most of the summer because I was trying to get rid of the weeds and build up on more actual grass, but had a really hard time of it with the lack of rain we had for most of the summer.

I think I remember some "lawn watering" bans in some of the towns around Rochester a bunch of years back because of extended drought conditions. See..... I tell ya it's that damned global warming. Somebody call Al Gore for some help.

HAHAHA yeah, they are acting like weve never had drought conditions around here before.

[Geno C]

yeah rain, we got some today

[wdswtr]

ANd to think last year we had record rainfall all summer here and the Salmon River was running at 24000 cfs when its normal summer flow is 180cfs.  It doesnt matter if it cold, snow, rain drought, hot or none of the above its definately global warming, just ask Al Gores Ex wife. LOL

[WNYBuckHunter]

We got a bunch of rain last night. It was good that we got it at night too, because the little bit we had yesterday morning dried up in no time. At least this rain we got last night can soak in before the sun comes up.

[landtracdeerhunter]

We got 1/10" Monday morning. First, if you want to call it, rain since June 25th. Went out to disc the summer fallow land, made one pass, and decided to quit.  Turning up more moisture that I didn't want to loose.  The hay fields that I have harvested 3 weeks ago, have some alfalfa, clover, and trefoil coming up very slowly. Didn't even bother planting my plot blend. Fert. and lime already on it but, I'll put that into wheat early Sept.. Deer are feeding on some of the grasses, corn, and rape there. Had some extra corn seed, so I threw it on and disc it in.  The corn won't make ears, but it is good forage for them.( Wow, first time I see them eating rape.)  On the other side, it is great hay making weather.

[cboy18]

still waiting for rain.  check  the plots tomorrow. 

[G-Man]

kudos for makin hay...corn  needs rain... so does ost others..a slow soaking all day rain will do wonders.... the apple trees look good lots of  fruit still..not much deer movement ..down in the creek bottoms and  ravines i'm sure......