[AT] List quiet!! Everyone OK, or just waterlogged??? - - Frustrating spring/summer so far...

[Cecil Bearden]

That sounds just like Oklahoma this year.   Even the shade tree 
problem.  My shade tree got ruined by the ice storm last winter. Then 
the high winds and tornado this spring laid the tree in half.   One of 
those carports would be in the next county with our wind.  We have had 
more tornadoes this year than any before.  I had a little time this 
morning to put new tires on the new to me stock trailer.  We got rained 
on putting the last tire on.  We had to build crossings across the creek 
for the cows, they were getting stuck in the mud 10 ft before they got 
to the water.  A week ago last Wednesday we worked 60 head of cows & 
calves. Worming, ear tags, spraying, vaccinations and treating for 
pinkeye.  The fly problem is terrible this year and pinkeye is a bad 
problem due to the flies biting on the eyeballs of the cows. We now use 
a patch that keeps the flies off and shuts out daylight.  to doctor a 
1500 lb cow for pinkeye now costs about $65 in medicines.  The vaccine 
is less than $1 a head.   It is a new thing for us, I only found out 
about it 2 weeks ago.  Working all those took from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm 
with a very sort break.  It was 90 degrees and 75% humidity at 3pm.  I 
was seeing stars when we quit.  For 4 people all over 55 years old, it 
was a workout.
We have to re-vaccinate one more time within 3 weeks, so I get to look 
forward to doing it again.  Hopefully the humidity will drop.  I have 
only baled 40 bales of hay between rain storms.

Cecil in OKla

On 7/6/2019 1:05 PM, Mike M wrote:
> Sounds like here in Michigan, Farmer. So wet that some crops have only 
> been planted this last week. Many fields have been left to go fallow. 
> Corn around here is about 2"-3" tall.
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> Mike M
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> On 7/6/2019 12:59 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>> Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, 
>> rain... Then a short spate of decent weather and now hot, hot, hot, 
>> hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Not just hot but with mega humuggity. Real 4 
>> shirts a day hot and humid kind of weather... Days where every time 
>> you come in you hang your hat on the rack in front of the AC output 
>> so it will be dry for the next time.
>> Getting anything done here (just south-east of Indy) has been a real 
>> battle. The barn that is my farm shop is usually near impossible to 
>> heat but not too awful hot in the summer. Not the case this summer. 
>> That and it is so terribly full of stuff that I can barely move 
>> around in it. Not usually a big problem since I tend to like working 
>> just outside of the shop in the shade of a couple of trees. During 
>> all of that rain the trees leaked badly.  :-)  What kind of trees you 
>> ask? Ash, of course... this will be their last year thanks to the 
>> emerald ash borers.  :-(
>> I'm a little old to expect a tree I plant now to become a big shade 
>> tree for me. I'm still planting trees of course, but now I plant them 
>> for others that will follow. I may get one of those free-standing 
>> steel carports for that spot at the shop door. They are not a cooling 
>> tree but they are fast up and they don't leak as bad as a tree.  :-)
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>> Crops (mostly corn, soybeans, wheat and hay) are generally looking 
>> decent in our area. Wheat is at harvest here now and seems OK except 
>> where it has been standing water. I have seen a fair amount of straw 
>> being baled.  Lots of round bales of hay last week but sadly quite a 
>> few I've seen near here are off of old factory lots and there was a 
>> lot of trash in those lots that got rolled into them.
>> About Thursday we were down south-east of here near Cincinnati and we 
>> saw a "lot" of fields that were fresh tilled and planted in the past 
>> few days. They are usually a week or so ahead of us. Straight south 
>> of here we've seen a lot of fields still standing water or at least 
>> 50% or better in water. Here there has been a good bit of replanting 
>> being done.
>> Yesterday Diana came out to help me unload some light fence panels 
>> (she worries about me in the heat) and she almost passed out. I pace 
>> myself when conditions are bad, I learned that after my bypass. She 
>> on the other hand always wants to work like she is killing snakes... 
>> I usually make her sit down often in the heat but I hadn't been 
>> watching her close enough.
>> It's been really close and hot this  morning with the air dead still 
>> and I have been working stop and start. 95 and humid with no breeze 
>> gets tough on old people. I better get back out now since a decent 
>> breeze has come up and it's clouding up a little...
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>> Francis Robinson
>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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