Who'll stop the rain

Here is one of my hay fields turning yellow as a pumpkin. I'm usually done with the first cutting before June. This year I haven't even started. It's rained everyday for a month. I'm glad to see the grass is still standing after the storm we got last night. I figured it would be beat down on the ground. I hope to get to cut Sunday.


This field is more fescue than anything else. Most of the orchard grass and clover has fizzled out. Any suggestions on how to improve it without working it up and resowing? I've been told clover seed will come up if you broadcast it on top of hard ground, especially if there is snow on the ground. Orchard grass I doubt will do as well. I was thinking about renting a hard land drill this fall and sow some new stuff in. Anyone had any luck doing that? Thanks.

I'm in the same boat-- I can't even get on the fields when it stops. I have alfalfa that should have been made in the early part of May.
As to resetting your field, fesque will most likely push out everything until the ground becomes poor. Fesque can still make good hay quality if made before going to seed and conditioned properly.

Didn't CCR sing that?

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Ranse,
Same thing up in VA. Will take a week of no rain just to dry ground out enough to think about cutting. Have part of a field to brush hog today that got flooded just so I can get the debris off it.
I guess the goat people will stil buy the hay.

Same down this way. A couple of farmers got a cutting in early May but has rained about every day since then. Supposed to have dry weather most of next week, hopefully I can get some bush hogging done towards the end of the week.

we had about 3 inches last night, lots of real bad wind. lots of trees and branches down, already hauled 5 big loads of limbs out, just from the front yard. have the rest of the yard to do yet. hear a lot of chain saws running in all directions from us. lot of the pioneer corn is laid down. no hail, just heavy rain and wind. saw quite a few trees behind our house that had been hit by lightning, they burned awhile afterwards too! gonna have lots of firewood, some is already split! I hope the weather straightens out for the rest of ya'll out there!

john(MI) wrote: Shameless,  You know that after a tree is struck by lightening it won't burn for firewood?

In the same boat as Gary, just across the mountain from him. Only 3 days without rain in May. Not the first bit of hay cut. 3 weeks behind at the moment. Chest high orchard grass finally gave in and is now on the ground. Geez, enough already

I heard an old timer tell my dad not to bring firewood from a lightning struck tree into the house,,, " It done drawed lightning once "

Last week I was complaining about a lack of rain,it kept going right around our area. We would get a tenth while a couple miles north or south would get an inch. Well in the last 24 hours we got over 8 inches in two shots,6 inches in the first round and 2 more in the next.

Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 10 Jun 2018 at 10:03am

North part of Mo, we need rain. Last time the creek threw my place ran any water was last October. Biggest rain this year was 1.20 inches.    MACK

MACK wrote: North part of Mo, we need rain. Last time the creek threw my place ran any water was last October. Biggest rain this year was 1.20 inches.    MACK

Same here Mack. Only had 1 shower since the first of may luckally it was the week after I finished planting beans. They are up and look good but it’s dry. 40% chance of rain kept me out of hay field all weekend but it was 95 and sunny. I looked at the hay fields this afternoon and they are starting to burn up. Clover is turning brown. Not looking good. 40% tomorrow and Wednesday. I’ll be mowing hard Thursday and Friday.

Edited by wekracer - 11 Jun 2018 at 5:22pm