15% up by Sharpsville got 1.4" - making 3" since planting April 11th.
(Rainscout is a great bit of technology. Call Beck's and sign up)
10% close to Tipton .7"
50%around Arcadia got .48"
15% around Arcadia got .3"
10% further south got .6" - makng it 9 tenths since planting May 5th.
To say it is suffering is kind of an understatement.
So, the dry and poorer soils that have had less all year, got less this time as well.
The great soils in Tipton county got more. We have concluded after farming in this area
for 142 years that the reason those soils are better is that the topography or something
always gives them better rains than the fields 20 miles further south, thus after 10,000
years of so, the soils are just a lot better in that area.
I'd still rate our beans a 5 out of 10, but like you, not much moisture left down deep.
We hosted an NRCS state training session last week, dug a few soil pits, beans roots
were down over 4' deep to reach into moisture, of course the well drained soils just
don't have any water that deep 🙂 With 6" of rain in the next 6 weeks we could
easily grow 60 bu beans. The math for us would be 10 bu per inch of rain from here
forward. And, yes, starting from zero because the tank is indeed empty.
The corn is just too hot and the moisture too late. And for anyone in the trade
reading this, I am writing from one of the wetest parts of Indiana. If the high tomorrow
was going to be 74, we MIGHT be able to get last years yield, since it is going to be
96, last years yields are going to look very good vs. this year. Too early to do yield
estimates as percent barren is so high and so variable, it is just too early.
We have really been blessed with this event while many were completely missed.
Our thoughts and hopes for relief go out to those in greater need.
