There won’t be much corn or soybeans in this country if the weather doesn’t settle down soon.It’s the 4th of May and there is nothing planted yet here in central Ohio.The rest of the midwest is the same-too wet and too cold.
We were making humorous comments (at our regular Tuesday night card game) about putting 'smoke pots' out in our gardens.
“It’s the 4th of May and there is nothing planted yet here in central Ohio.The rest of the midwest is the same-too wet and too cold.”
Same here in southern Wisconsin. I kind of thought they’d at least disk these past two days, but...nothing. There are 700 acres around me just aching to be planted with sweet corn, but the soil is still too cold. And rain again, tomorrow!!
This is a 500 year flood. (Which doesn't mean it only happens every 500 years ~ rather, it could happen every year but in 500 years it would usually only go this high).
Among tributaries are the Ohio, the Wabash, the Miami, the Monongahela and that other one eh.
The Corps of Engineers is currently at work figuring out how to STOP THE TENNESSEE RIVER in its entirity.
Soybeans are of secondary interest as a source of food ~ fancy beans are primary, and that Delta country being "saved" (Not Likely) is a chunk of bean country, as is the area they just flooded, as is Mississippi County Arkansas, and Southeastern Indiana, and Western Kain-tuckeh.
This is an incredible disaster for Mexico!
For us it's a quite ordinary disaster.
My asparagus are normally up in early to mid April. It is May 4 and only the purple tips are showing at ground level. With rain and warmer temps forecast, they will be popping soon, but nearly a month late.
As soon as the weather warms and it isn’t raining, my neighbors will be planting their row crops 24/7 to get it done. I remember bean harvests that went on all night, or so it seemed, with flood lights on the combines.
Hoping for a long enough season, this year. In a cold Spring year, an early frost will be devastating to tender garden produce.