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Yesterday we got 2 inches of it! It has been since June since we got a measurable amount and all the crops were really showing it. Most everyone's corn is about in the tassel stage, and the millet and sorgum is boot high. Both should really go to town now.
 
We had an inch Sunday, A big wind/rain Monday that missed the gauge due to it being too close to the house. It was enough to make water run out of the fallow fields though. Then another inch last night. What a wonderfull country when it rains!
 
We got our first measurable rain in nearly a month last night with more forecast for today. A long way from enough but will take what is given.
No hay down yet.
 
i took some cows down to Belle last night for todays sale and the country around the hwy 85 & 168 intersection looks like hell. they got hail through there about a week ago i think it was. the grass is GONE. if them boys still had some haying to do, they can forget about it now. it looked like the storm covered a pretty big area. i feel bad for those folks, the country down that was was looking as good as i've seen it in years. i've got some cows summering near Redig, i'm lucky that storm slid just south of them.
 
Justin said:
i took some cows down to Belle last night for todays sale and the country around the hwy 85 & 168 intersection looks like hell. they got hail through there about a week ago i think it was. the grass is GONE. if them boys still had some haying to do, they can forget about it now. it looked like the storm covered a pretty big area. i feel bad for those folks, the country down that was was looking as good as i've seen it in years. i've got some cows summering near Redig, i'm lucky that storm slid just south of them.
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I drove through that area yesterday. You are right, looks bad. Not much for a cow to eat after that storm. Feel bad for them.
 
Send us any extra rain you got- as the hay is in the stacks- and the wheat and grass could use a good shot....
Yesterday I sorted and moved cows to differing pastures- and got drizzled on off and on all day with the little showers going thru...And during the day and night we picked up a total of .4 ... Predicting showers tonight and tomorrow-- would be nice to get another shot as some of the dryland wheat is just starting to burn....
 
We've gotten 2.40" in three rains over the past few days. Thankful the hail dodged us, tho we have had some take considerable hay and grass this summer.

First rain of more than a tenth or three since mid-June. Getting awfully dry and grasshoppers are thriving. Eating things in the yard they haven't liked earlier in the year, still hatching after a slow start in late May. There have been three to four diffferent sizes of them so far. Hate to spray, but maybe we should. We need all the birds we have, so what gets the hoppers but won't take the birds?

We are just over 9" total precipitation for the year. Still a pretty dry small area up and down Bad River a few miles, and south of Midland within a very few miles of I-90. At least we have had little wind damage and no hail in our building areas, unlike too many others in the area.

mrj
 

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