Rain, hail and frost!

[cottonpicken]

Went and checked standing (late) durum,found some sprouts so stopped checking,dont need to ruin my weekend.Neighbors (early) spring wheat looked worse.

The possibility of all the cereals in the southeast slipping to feed grades is very real.

Major widespread ergot problems to.

[wedino]

Checked my standing durum this afternoon & don't think it has sprouted, however the germ end looked very swelled. I concur re: ergot problem. The durum I've harvested is grading #5. WIT is putting together a program to take it to a #2, I know who'll benefit the most out of it all.

Boarder, I've seen canola sprouted in the past, buyers never bother about it, is my experience.

[bgmb]

3 inches of rain in the last week.

standing hrs is just starting to sprout a bit (end is starting to swell) thank god we got our swathed barley off still have 500 ac of 2 row standing.

lots of swathed 2 row malt in the area it will be an absolute wreck. The heads that have broken off our standing stuff have inch long roots already.

our area is probably about 2-6% harvested