Woke up Friday morning to see that, in total, we'd gotten 7 1/2 inches of rain at the house, then got in the car and headed west to escape the water, and boy did we ever! Took a trip out to my hometown in NWKS -- took I-80 on west to Lexington, NE, then south there. I'm fairly accustomed to seeing that imaginary line where the tap shuts off, which usually hits west of Kearney, NE. But, wow, what a difference this year. That "line" actually didn't hit until well south of there this time around -- the Platte River is just gushing through there.
The corn in the western Iowa hills looks pretty good -- looked like it grew quite a bit, actually, in the couple of days between our westbound trek and when we were headed back east. Once we got out west of Lincoln, seemed like I saw a lot more yellowing corn. Anybody having a tough time getting N to stick around out there this year?
My hometown's just about 50 miles north of the line where it turns just disasterously dry. Talked to a couple guys who say they'll probably wind up with 40-bushel wheat. The continuous crop acres are far from that, but sounds like everybody who stuck to a conventional rotation will wind up okay. It was just starting to turn around there, but it sounds like the combines are moving into southern Kansas. Is it that time already?
My daughter got sick in the car on the way home yesterday, so as we were standing on the side of the road cleaning things up, I thought "This must mean JR is posting something in Marketing Talk right now." I think I was right!
