Puddlesota

[Hobbyfarmer]

 Road trip.... yesterday's endurance contest.

Went up Interstate 35 from Des Moines to Albert Lea Mn then west to Worthington Mn.then north to Marshall, mn and back.

From Fairmont, Mn west it was not the land of ten thousand lakes, one million puddles was closer to the actual tally. Water standing in every low spot 

Fields planted everywhere the whole way, but from Des Moines to Clear Lake along the interstate people in the fields everywhere, spraying, working ground, and of course planting. On the way home we went down hwy 169 in Ioway, only one outfit in any field and it was a quad track in too wet for anything else conditions.

Visited with a young man (28) in Marshall, Mn that said his grandfather said it was too early to have all that corn planted in that area. Not time to plant til the swallows show up, and they haven't yet.

[gurly3801539]

Hey Hobby, when you went north out of Worthington on 59 you passed four miles from my place.  Planting is all over the range of done(very few) to not started.  We were up to Edina MN last week and it looked the same, from areas planted to areas nothing done.  That would be along the HWY 60 and 169 route.  Forecast is for up to two inches in next couple of days and yes we are kind of soggy now.

[Hobbyfarmer]

Going on the 100 miles on I 90, then the 60 mile drive on 59 it is very easy to see why Minn can be #4 on the corn production list.

Many areas a little too productive on the winter potato crop. JMHO.

[bruce MN]

Thousands of miles and millions of dollars worth of extremely effective drainage has gone in where youbdrove along over the past decade.  Systems, not just stubs and add-ons. Minnesota River and Upper Des Moines watersheds as ideally suited for staging as one could be.

I know there is tile everywhere, but the level of it around here is spectacular. Where a good deal of the excellent profits from the commodity bubble went.  Enough to make an '83 or '92 like scenario much, much less serious.

[BA Deere]

I don`t want to jinx it, but I can`t recall the last day it was too wet to plant.  It seems the predicted rain would go to Kossuth county and west, radar would show yellows headed our way, but split or peter out by the time it got here....which is fine, i`m not complaining.

[gurly3801539]

Are you dry today yet today BA?  We are 38 and raining lightly.  Forecast says rain today and tomorrow and again Saturday and Sunday.

[BA Deere]

Gurly, northern Hancock county dry ay 46 there's dark clouds but there re headed west. They say at noon 1/2" on the way.

[westernia80]

You guys have been lucky on that side of the state.  Wheels havent turned for more than a week here other than yesterday afternoon, and it was borderline then.  Now raining again and rest of week.

[gurly3801539]

I agree, Bruce, alot of tile went in and does a lot of good.  But it is surprising when you drive around and look how many over tiled their outlet.  Too many feet of stringers to be handled by too small of pipe on the bottom end.  As you drive around and look you see the water coming back up out of the ground.