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  • farming101
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2011
    • 3954

    Remembering '88

    This is the week we lost the crop in 1988. Four days in a row over 35C and it was all over.
    I think one day we hit 105F here.
  • Ache4Acres
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2015
    • 816

    #2
    Originally posted by farming101 View Post
    This is the week we lost the crop in 1988. Four days in a row over 35C and it was all over.
    I think one day we hit 105F here.
    Wow..sounds too damn familiar!

    Yesterday's Data
    Max:
    34.5°C
    Min:
    10.3°C
    Total Precipitation:
    2.0 mm

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    • AC man
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2017
      • 192

      #3
      I remember that year from the wind and heat we had yesterday. The Hoe Grass that I sprayed did not work on the wild mlllet and it was like a carpet. The only thing good about the millet is that it made the wheat and barley swaths easier to pickup. Could not combine at night because you would not find the swaths,what a year.

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      • seldomseen
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2010
        • 2022

        #4
        Yes I remember it well. Wheat and peas were poor but canola was good because of some cooler temps when it was flowering in July. I got married that year and the only rain shower that we got all summer was a thunder storm while we were in the church! I do remember it being real hot in June and on the day of my wife's youngest bother graduated it was 40c.

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        • Braveheart
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2001
          • 3257

          #5
          I can't remember much of the seventies (cause I was there). I've tried to forget '88. Blistering heat, blistering interest rates, and no rain till fall when we got a 4" downpour in harvest that floated our little swaths around the field.

          We had hogs then and it was a struggle to keep them cool enough to stay alive let alone grow. Afternoon misting needed, but then worries about the well holding out.

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          • Klause
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2010
            • 3644

            #6
            I was born in 88... A drought year here and in Argentina.

            Kind of ironic our first {human} addition to our family may well show up in another drought year...



            Glad we. Didn't start seeding early... See if we will regret later.

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            • sumdumguy
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 11975

              #7
              I told SF3 not to swear at the rain. I hate drought more than anything. 1980, 1986, 1988, but 1988 we got lucky and lentils yielded like 50 bushel and price went crazy ( late-seeded Estos got an 1 1/4 shot just before bloom. All kinds of guys were trying to wiggle out of their delivery contracts and companies left the special crops scene because they had presold their production contracts. Weather can change pretty quick, leyt's hope.

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              • Guest

                #8
                Originally posted by Klause View Post
                I was born in 88... A drought year here and in Argentina.

                Kind of ironic our first {human} addition to our family may well show up in another drought year...



                Glad we. Didn't start seeding early... See if we will regret later.
                Congrats are in order , then ?

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                • seldomseen
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2010
                  • 2022

                  #9
                  The nice thing about the hot 88 nobody mentioned climate change then and my father in law told me "heck its just like 61" and his dad told him "heck 61 is just like 37"

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                  • blackpowder
                    Senior Member
                    • Feb 2010
                    • 9263

                    #10
                    They didnt have the internet then to make it 'true'.

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