Soooo sorry to hear about the drought there. It's heart breaking to see the corn the way it is there, especially in a year when inputs were so expensive. It's amazing to me how we can have 2 different experiences while both living only maybe 200 or so miles apart. We had plenty of rain, and in fact now, we could use a little less. However, I won't complain. Rather have too much than too little. Hope next year is a better year for you. Always hope for the new year.
Good day from Ontario. Yea it was very dry here too, very humid. I am 72 & have serious asthma & this was 1 rough yr. I think up corn seems to be a 6ft. tall most areas. But pods on soybeans wow really loaded. Thanks It is too bad, it has been rough last few yrs. Thanks
Here in western Ontario it's been the same for lack of rain, until today of course, 3.5" in 4 hrs. The real kicker is it started raining in mid September 2021 and we had precipitation continuously until May 2022 so crops went in later than normal since the ground was so saturated. Then to add insult to injury mother nature basically turned off the tap only to turn it on again now that we're in September again.
Pretty much the same situation here in NC. Those that planted late pretty much lost everything. Corn was drying up at 4ft tall. 5" ears. Pretty much should've gone to silage, now it's too late even for that.
Worst drought I remember in western pa was 1988. Impossible to keep to cows in. Fences just couldn’t keep hungry cows in. Absolutely no grass and no hay.
Here in eastern Ontario it has been dry too,but we were lucky enough to get a couple of good showers and it helped bc of the high fertilizer cost I planted all beans and so far they look fairly good maybe not as tall as usually but will know once they are combined
The weather has been crazy this year, again... It's strange how a little distance makes such a difference. We were too wet to start the season, and have been dry the the last month or so but not quite to drought conditions. Corn around here looks normal. Everyone I talk to from about an hour away from here says it dried up months ago. We got lucky I guess.
It was like that here in central NC, too. We will be okay with the beans and tobacco, not great, but okay. The corn around my place has been burnt up since mid July.
