Life on a family farm
in the wilds of
Upstate New York
Thursday, October 19, 2006
How bad the corn is
This morning the sky was lumpy and dingy grey as if someone had stretched a dirty sock across it. For a while the sun tried to spill down between the lumps, but by the time we were done with chores there wasn't a ray to be seen.
It is plumb depressing. It just rains and rains and rains. A flood watch is on for all day tomorrow. Again. The river is already bank full from all the snow up west last week . Meanwhile the guys go out to try to chop corn and the fields are quagmires. They are getting two or three loads a day on good days and barely enough to feed the cows on not-so-good days. Yesterday the boss jack knifed both feeder wagons bringing them down the hill. Dangerous. Worse when it is the forage wagons that he is bringing down. I don't know how they are ever going to get the corn in if it doesn't dry up soon.
The picture is how bad the corn is in at least one field, from all the rain this summer. There are fifteen or twenty feet or more between the stalks on half of the field, none at all on part of it, then a good stand up where the drainage is better. Very worrisome.
2 comments:
Wow, we do have the opposite problem.
Yeah, your pond and our corn are both hurting because of where the water is....or isn't.
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