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It's getting dry
Posted on 6/1/19 at 12:25 am
Posted on 6/1/19 at 12:25 am
Real dry, in east Mississippi.
The forecast is showing some rain in the 40 to 50% chances next week, but this time of year I take rain forecasts that are under 60% and 3 to 4+ days out with a grain of salt. My luck though, we will be out of the states for a week on vacation, and so it'll come a perfect rain for freshly sown seed.
It's good for constant, unimpeded work, but to a certain extent and at a cost to other personal endeavours. It always seems like if we go without rain for more than 2 to 3 weeks this time of year that we are in for a dusty and dry summer and fall, which is bad for my current habitat management goals if that pattern sticks around for the next 30 to 60 days.
Last year was a fabulous summer for growing stuff and also for making money: We stayed in a rainy cycle basically all spring and summer, and the summer rains quenched the ground while also drying out plenty fast enough to allow for work and development.
All we need is one or two good rainy days to start a rainy cycle. The clock is ticking for me on acquiring a trifecta of available personal time, planting dates and suitable weather for some dove millet to go down. I like having plenty of early stands to draw birds weeks in advance, and that window of opportunity seems to be closing in more every day. We are having our first youngin in September 14th, so my availability to proactively manage some habitat for personal use will be drastically different for the first time in my life.
I tell ya, as much as I love the dog days of summer, time flies.
How is it in your neck of the woods with the conditions?
The forecast is showing some rain in the 40 to 50% chances next week, but this time of year I take rain forecasts that are under 60% and 3 to 4+ days out with a grain of salt. My luck though, we will be out of the states for a week on vacation, and so it'll come a perfect rain for freshly sown seed.
It's good for constant, unimpeded work, but to a certain extent and at a cost to other personal endeavours. It always seems like if we go without rain for more than 2 to 3 weeks this time of year that we are in for a dusty and dry summer and fall, which is bad for my current habitat management goals if that pattern sticks around for the next 30 to 60 days.
Last year was a fabulous summer for growing stuff and also for making money: We stayed in a rainy cycle basically all spring and summer, and the summer rains quenched the ground while also drying out plenty fast enough to allow for work and development.
All we need is one or two good rainy days to start a rainy cycle. The clock is ticking for me on acquiring a trifecta of available personal time, planting dates and suitable weather for some dove millet to go down. I like having plenty of early stands to draw birds weeks in advance, and that window of opportunity seems to be closing in more every day. We are having our first youngin in September 14th, so my availability to proactively manage some habitat for personal use will be drastically different for the first time in my life.
I tell ya, as much as I love the dog days of summer, time flies.
How is it in your neck of the woods with the conditions?
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Posted on 6/1/19 at 1:57 am to Bigbee Hills
quote:Central Oklahoma.
How is it in your neck of the woods with the conditions?
Saturated beyond belief.
Two consecutive sunny, hot days but more rains starting tomorrow night.
Although I love the rain and how it keeps the air temperatures down, wish we could have sent even 20% of our precipitation your way.
I'll take these soggy, relentless rainy conditions over drought conditions any day. But dams and levees of major rivers and reservoirs are strained to the max and lives are in imminent danger.
One of my vendors today told me that he's been living in a hotel since Tuesday and may not actually get to return home for two weeks (Tulsa area) because he's been evacuated due to two levees on either side of his location that are in critical danger of breaching. As I said, rains expected tomorrow night into Sunday, and then again for the majority of next week.
Wherever y'all are at, stay safe. And to keep it OB related, don't let the weather keep you from finding and catching fish. The wife and I are hitting some farm ponds tomorrow to try and load up on some crappie and bream until whenever the rains hit
Posted on 6/1/19 at 6:55 am to Bigbee Hills
Getting pretty dry in the delta. Been irrigating corn for 4 days and planted cotton about an inch deeper than I like to when I was searching for moisture to finish up a couple days ago. We’re alright for a few more days, but need that rain the latter part of next week to help some dry land corn and get the cotton really kicked off.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 7:04 am to prostyleoffensetime
like in 2011 when the river was swole either you had farmers with flooding fields inside the levee or parched fields outside the levee.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 7:51 am to TigerAxeOK
We really needed that rain that played out on Thursday. Ah well, we’ll irrigate in the meanwhile. The cotton has really enjoyed this dry spell so far, but even it wouldn’t mind a nice growing shower.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 7:54 am to Bigbee Hills
South central MS. I ran soaker hoses in the garden last. I’m prob gonna lose one garden of peas because I have no access to water there.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 7:59 am to Bigbee Hills
Small time gardener here. I am watering my in ground garden every other day. Raised beds every day. However being a few miles from the Mississippi I am very happy to remain dry and do not need any help from mother nature.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 8:34 am to sawtooth
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Small time gardener here. I am watering my in ground garden every other day. Raised beds every day. However being a few miles from the Mississippi I am very happy to remain dry and do not need any help from mother nature.
Same here. After all the rain we got in late winter/early spring, it took me a few weeks past my normal planting date to get things in the ground. Now, I'm watering like you with the raised beds and potted plants getting watered daily.
It always seems to be a case of too much/too little when it comes to rain.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 8:46 am to Bigbee Hills
Annual average is 12” where I live. Rained yesterday afternoon. It was wonderful. I don’t grow anything or have grass.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 10:17 am to Lefty Diego
Other than yesterday afternoon in scattered areas across Central Florida it's been very dry. Unusually so since our wet season should have started by now.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 12:44 pm to Bigbee Hills
Dry, SE Louisiana. We run cattle on Bahia in the summer. It stands up to dry spells pretty good.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 12:45 pm to Bigbee Hills
Dried up quick in swla
Posted on 6/1/19 at 2:33 pm to jimbeam
Yep, same here. It went from too wet to drive anything other than a UTV with a winch on it around our properties, to all of a sudden BAM...dry as hell.
I really hate to see the conundrum that the folks in the MS River delta regions are in; as well as extreme duress that the folks out in Oklahoma and Arkansas, etc. are in. God forbid, if something happens and those folks need some help, we'll head that way without a thought.
Like gumbo2176, it seems to be feast or famine with rain, and then when us folks in my part of the world get one of those years like last year, we get spoiled.
My buddy tried his hand planting corn for the 1st time ever last year. He usually plants 10 acres of millet for his dove plot, but decided to give corn a go. He lives in Mobile, but his patch is up here. He had no idea of just how incredible of a growing season we were having and thought his high yields were simply a result of his farming prowess. Fast forward to this year and pride becomes self loathing and has eventually spiraled down into embarrassment and lashing out at those who care about him...
I do not farm for a living, thank goodness. I say that because while I do not farm corn, cotton, beans, etc., as a way to make my income, I can understand a fraction of the struggle that farmers have in the battle against rain and for rain. My income depends on fair weather, and truth be told, my work can run non-stop without rain, while constant rain will shut me down 100% of the time- so I have it much easier when a full-on drought hits (to a certain extent).
That said, I and my guys depend on the fine line between enough rain and too much rain when we have to plant erosion control grass seed on developed properties- let alone wildlife food plots that I plant for my personal use. I feel some of the farmer's pain when I watch in horror as the skies open up and dump 3" in an hour on grass seed that was just freshly sown and cultipacked on heavy slopes, or alternatively, as I watch the birds pick off the remaining seed that the sun hasn't baked to a crisp in drought conditions and then watch much of that valuable soil wash away the following winter and spring knowing full-well that the money I'll have to spend to reverse it will be, at best, double the original cost.
Where I have it made, as opposed to a farmer, is that I don't have to get back in there and get it up in the fall to make ends meet like the poor fellows I watched last year had to do: As we hunted a buddy's duck lease in NE AR, we watched them destroy their fields and turnrows and they desperately tried in vain to get some yield out of the fields that would allow it.
If my seed gets washed away or doesn't take due to drought, then my money will have of been made already, but it will come at a cost later on down the road when more money must be spent to mitigate for topsoil loss & rejuvenation projects. That said, the income is there before the seed is sown- the seed merely increases profit margin.
I've got a dandy of a waterfowl parcel that I'm going to close on when I get back from vacation. I'm so excited about it that I would prefer to skip vacation and get that deal closed and start work on it (unfortunately my wife wouldn't oblige).
If I can stand to sell it after I develop it (the hunting will be awesome), then I know I'll make a lot of money back on it because it already holds birds en masse when a stout winter rain floods it. Throw in some impoundments, pumping, moist soil management and some grain being planting, and it'll be phenomenal: The birds have already imprinted on it, and it's located within a mile of a private 600 acre lake that we have part ownership of and that roosts thousands of birds in its backwaters.
The question is, will it stay dry enough to work the dirt, and will there be enough time to make headway before the season gets here with all of life's other responsibilities?
So is the life of we outdoorsmen who must also work for a living, and, ultimately, I reckon, mankind as a whole.
I really hate to see the conundrum that the folks in the MS River delta regions are in; as well as extreme duress that the folks out in Oklahoma and Arkansas, etc. are in. God forbid, if something happens and those folks need some help, we'll head that way without a thought.
Like gumbo2176, it seems to be feast or famine with rain, and then when us folks in my part of the world get one of those years like last year, we get spoiled.
My buddy tried his hand planting corn for the 1st time ever last year. He usually plants 10 acres of millet for his dove plot, but decided to give corn a go. He lives in Mobile, but his patch is up here. He had no idea of just how incredible of a growing season we were having and thought his high yields were simply a result of his farming prowess. Fast forward to this year and pride becomes self loathing and has eventually spiraled down into embarrassment and lashing out at those who care about him...
I do not farm for a living, thank goodness. I say that because while I do not farm corn, cotton, beans, etc., as a way to make my income, I can understand a fraction of the struggle that farmers have in the battle against rain and for rain. My income depends on fair weather, and truth be told, my work can run non-stop without rain, while constant rain will shut me down 100% of the time- so I have it much easier when a full-on drought hits (to a certain extent).
That said, I and my guys depend on the fine line between enough rain and too much rain when we have to plant erosion control grass seed on developed properties- let alone wildlife food plots that I plant for my personal use. I feel some of the farmer's pain when I watch in horror as the skies open up and dump 3" in an hour on grass seed that was just freshly sown and cultipacked on heavy slopes, or alternatively, as I watch the birds pick off the remaining seed that the sun hasn't baked to a crisp in drought conditions and then watch much of that valuable soil wash away the following winter and spring knowing full-well that the money I'll have to spend to reverse it will be, at best, double the original cost.
Where I have it made, as opposed to a farmer, is that I don't have to get back in there and get it up in the fall to make ends meet like the poor fellows I watched last year had to do: As we hunted a buddy's duck lease in NE AR, we watched them destroy their fields and turnrows and they desperately tried in vain to get some yield out of the fields that would allow it.
If my seed gets washed away or doesn't take due to drought, then my money will have of been made already, but it will come at a cost later on down the road when more money must be spent to mitigate for topsoil loss & rejuvenation projects. That said, the income is there before the seed is sown- the seed merely increases profit margin.
I've got a dandy of a waterfowl parcel that I'm going to close on when I get back from vacation. I'm so excited about it that I would prefer to skip vacation and get that deal closed and start work on it (unfortunately my wife wouldn't oblige).
If I can stand to sell it after I develop it (the hunting will be awesome), then I know I'll make a lot of money back on it because it already holds birds en masse when a stout winter rain floods it. Throw in some impoundments, pumping, moist soil management and some grain being planting, and it'll be phenomenal: The birds have already imprinted on it, and it's located within a mile of a private 600 acre lake that we have part ownership of and that roosts thousands of birds in its backwaters.
The question is, will it stay dry enough to work the dirt, and will there be enough time to make headway before the season gets here with all of life's other responsibilities?
So is the life of we outdoorsmen who must also work for a living, and, ultimately, I reckon, mankind as a whole.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 2:56 pm to Bigbee Hills
Georgia dry as a bone with 11 consecutive days over 90, a first ever for May. No rain in three weeks. I water my front yard and small garden plot but the backyard is like walking on potato chips. I watered it today, hopefully it's still got some life in it.
Posted on 6/1/19 at 4:39 pm to Bigbee Hills
Indubitably
Posted on 6/2/19 at 9:49 am to Bigbee Hills
I’m about three miles from the MR (as the crow flies) so the water table is up. The fricking grass is still growing like crazy and I’ve been able to do anything I want outside without needing to wear boots, so I’m good with it. I’ve spent the last six months enduring shitty weather every fricking weekend so I’ll take the long dry spell with joy.
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