This is what happens when you try to plant into an unfit seed bed.
If you dig in the soil to find the seed that didn’t grow, you find a wet, mushy seed that is rotting below the surface. The seed-soil contact was too poor for the strong little seed to grow. This is quite common in our area. There will be a lot of spotty fields this year.
It’s official! The drought of 2012 is over! Hooray! BUT, the flood of 2013 has begun! It won’t stop raining! And when it does, it only stops for a day or two, then rains again. The few days in between rainy spells won’t let the fields dry out enough for us to continue to plant. Here’s this week’s forecast:
Will we get our corn planted by the May 31 deadline for crop insurance? Will we get our soybeans planted by the June 15 deadline? It’s out of our control at this point. The weather is the weather and Mother Nature makes all the decisions around here.
Us farmers are never quite satisfied, are we?