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Custer County, Nebraska | I can sure feel your pain. Here in my portion of Nebraska, I have crops that still haven't come up. Pivots been running almost constantly, irrigating the crops up and activating herbicides.
I have never seen it like this in my area. I am usually concerned about making June with my dryland, some didn't make May.
Only crops that amount to anything are under pivot... even the gravity irrigated crops are spotty with some seeds not having germinated yet.
In one dryland field that I no-tilled, I had a patch of bottom ground so tough I couldn't get my planter in. I disked that area ONCE, planted and waited. The area I no-tilled came up, the area I disked, still waiting. That is how close I am running on moisture, the difference between one tillage operation and germination.
Since the beginning of April, I have had, count it, a total of under .50 inch total. Almost all my moisture I am running on came from snowfall back in November and February. | |
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Rain event a bust here in the western corn belt
