Ida kind of preferred

[timetippingpt]

she would hit Houston and bring the moisture up into the western belt for harvest 🙂   Recharge the subsoil for next year ya know.

[Hobbyfarmer]

Nothing quite like trying to harvest a drought damaged/shortened crop in the mud.

[Hobbyfarmer]

Not muddy here.

Southern Canada north of Montana.

https://youtu.be/pOSSVx8HTjI

[wrightcattle]

Some folks right bout I35 Minn Iowa line say they have had 9 inches of rain the past day and No mud puddles.  so darned dry everything  is just soaking in. 

[rsbs]

Here in Minnesota, by Mankato, we have had four to five inches of rainfall in the last week or so, with breaks in between each shot, so it is like mother nature is providing free  irrigation benefits to finish off the corn and soybeans. My beans were all green and just starting pod fill so it should be night and day as far as what they will be...and how bad they could have been. Corn was pretty much dented so the kernals are set, but some test weight should get added.

Some tornado activity showing up on radar, too, in the last storm but I have not heard of damage on the ground. High winds, no hail. The last thing you want is a bad hailstorm right before harvest. I know of one operation years ago that started harvest, had 50 bushel plus soybeans as they took off the endrows and got ready for the next day to hit it hard, and a freakish fall hailstorm shelled all the beans out in their fields.

[sw363535]

Hobby that kids description of a parts counter conversation is perfect---everyone needs to hear roar and realize how much we pay for techno9logy.  Just add to it 

"Oh ya it'll be here in the morning(because your at the only parts dealer that is not a conglomerate mega location dealer in the state),,,,,,, then show up and hear -- it wasn't on the truck....... regular delivery will be here tomorrow...... Then come back Friday and find it got backordered but since it is now on the weekly delivery list won't be there till next Friday,  which turns into a month.   Then get the bill two months away and see $100 in special order charges.

.......

But then you could be smart enough to go to the mega dealer and find after the 70 mile drive that when they say they have it, they mean it is in one of their other stores 175 miles northwest where they always stalk 3 and can't order another one in until they sell those. ====== you got choices. you can drive back to the single store dealer..... and wait. or you can drive 175 miles and be a fool...... but first you can pass on calling a friend and just before you leave the store sending you --procure the telephone # of the parts counter 175 miles away.  Then within the first 10 miles call and ask if they have that part number.  Then the yes comes ask if they will go have a look to be sure it is in inventory.... when the second yes comes then----you got 150 miles left to stay awake by planning how your gonna figure out which one of those four parts people  just lied to you.  

If your real lucky.......... and forget you need a left handed part.... there will be a pretty young parts person impersonator at the desk who will give you a map to the company store that stocks the left handed part and has set it out so you can pick it up after hours...............stay awake looking for gas to get you back home by thinking how nice she was.

Time .......Us folks out on the high fringe know that when your wishing for a Hurricane to finish a crop or help you plant one it is not a good year.     its a drought----- that probably was west or south of us all season.  Ida was way too Far East............  Send one up the mouth of the rio Grande.  Not an acre from Amarillo Texas to the Nebraska border will have enough water to start another wheat crop which needs planted in the next 45 days.  unless it has river water........

More  irrigated corn going for silage than usual.....   100+ degree days continue. August had more hot days than July.