Quick aside: How are crops proving down there? Jeez, we had 6 weeks with no rain and just a piddling before and after until just about harvest time. But yields are normal. No one can believe it, but the proof is in the bins. Local elevator has bunkers filled and heaped like golden mountains, and then some piles growing on the ground. We are down to the last 25 acres of corn to combine. Unbelievable situation. Corn and beans. Hay pretty good, too, for that matter. Happy head scratcher.
SW Wisconsin is STILL in drought conditions and we had great production this season, too...with NO irrigation.
I asked Beau about it and he said that so many corn and soybean varieties now have great drought tolerance, so that’s why yields are still up even in very dry years.
My own garden benefited from us having a drought season. I will ALWAYS take a dry season over a wet season. :)