For those who do not believe wet is bad.

[tweety]

Definitely looks like farming401

[freewheat]

I was actually hoping that someone like grassfarmer would chime in. What a sad article, huh? Imagine losing 13 or 15 hundred acres? Crazy.

[Klause]

Not 1300 but we lost 900 when the lake came up.


The most helpless feeling in the world.

I feel for these guys living the nightmare.

[cottonpicken]

That is something rarely mentioned is the man hours and overlaps it takes to farm the shit.

[phoenix64]

And probably still selling for what? North of 1500/ac, mindless.....

[furrowtickler]

We were going to put sectional control on the drill this year for the liquid fert - kickin me arse now we did not.
I never thought we would have near this amount of water , there was not enough snow to snowmobile half the winter.
Your right on the time issue, takes about 30-40% longer on each field now.

[blackpowder]

Somewhere above, there's a teepee full of old cheifs laughing their asses off.

[sk_wheatking]

its going to take years and years to recover and get back to normal from this never before seen rainfall over the past 5 years. guys are figuring out ancient creek beds that will drain their land down to the next guy and are pumping water into them causing problems 50,60 or a hundred miles away. Every low area is full causing water to just keep cascading down the line. I can tell you for sure that no one alive has seen this kind of water or ever knew that land in their areas would ever be flooded like it is with no hope of drying for years. Think about it,bush that is 50,60 or 70 years old or more,dead,drowned out,all over the country side! People thought that 2002 was a catastrophy with the drought,well this excess moisture will make anydrought look like a joke down the road in history. and Alkali is slowly eating up the good land where it never was before because the water table wont go down.

[farmaholic]

SF3 didn't start or responde to this post so GF doesn't have to antagonize him... lol.

[freewheat]

Sk wheat king. I hear you on before unknown creeks and runs. I have a few that I never even knew were there, but now are running continuously draining marshes and lakes that are over full.