Along the Mo and Miss rivers there most likely wont be any crops planted this season.
Friend up in Wisconsin says that there is very few trying to work the ground. Even the hay is bad.
NW Mo is at abt 90% planted and the corn is up. Now if it doesnt drown.
Looks like 80 day corn for a lot of farmers...if they even get a chance to work the ground.
In 93 we couldn’t plant until the very end of June and first of July. Frost came about October 1 giving us a 90 day season.
Our forcast is for more rain Friday, Saturday, Sunday an then 40 to 50 percent chances all next week.
It isn’t a matter of when many acres get planted, because they will not. Anything close to a flooding river is out for the season. For the Missouri River, snow will be melting in Montana all summer, keeping the river up.
It really is not the best right now.
Thank goodness global warming a million years ago caused the glaciers to thaw which gave us the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and all the others.
During Aoril and May I spent six weeks visiting family in North Texas, East Texas, Oklahoma, Central and NE MO, Central and Northern Illinois, Indiana and Southern Michigan. Then came back to Phoenix and crossed Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Rarely have I seen so many flooded and unplanted fields usually destined for corn, beans and pasture hay. All of this before the big storms of the last six days after my return to the desert where I am experiencing the mildest May I can recall.