Monday, June 25, 2012

How Dry Is It?

Pretty damn dry:

Above is the current 30-Day Departure from Normal Precipitation map from NOAA which shows that much of the middle of the nation is lagging in rainfall by 1-4″.
Where we no-tilled corn into our wheat stubble, we've got some criminally bad looking corn.  It makes me feel ill.  It is so uneven and stressed looking, we're going to take a bath on those fields.  Most of our other stuff doesn't look hateful, but a lot of corn in the area is getting close to tasseling, so we need rain soon.  The forecast isn't looking good, either.  They're calling for 30% chance of rain tonight (two little cells in Illinois right now), then no more than 20% chance anywhere else in the 10 day forecast.  They're not even giving us the classic 60% chance on day nine.

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