Anyone willing to share crop pics.....

[farming101]

Diseased barley next to grass border, better stuff 100 feet into the crop

Barley standing good overall, didn't get the sustained big winds

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Breadwinner, how true. My wife did not come from a farm. When I come home and pronounce the end of the world due to a hail storm, drowning crops, frost, neighbors cows out, disease etc. I accept that I've blown it out of proportion, and life will go on, but its taken a while for me to realize that my wife doesn't see it the same way and takes it much more serious.

As for crops, this "event" has given us a few desperately needed tenths of rain. But apparently it is raining everywhere else, even a few miles away. Crops look amazing though, somehow.

[freewheat]

Good points on family issues etc. Trouble is, when you really ARE in trouble, you do need to let your family know what is going on. I gave my family the heads up that it is a pathetic crop out there that I have, you can't hide it forever. They need to know why you are doing what you are doing. Wife knows it is a crop insurance year. It allows us to be on the same page in our planning.

If the problem is not going to really affect how you farm, how you live, I guess you can be calm and roll with it. But if the affect is such that it is going to dynamically change things, you have to be real, and keep your family in the loop to prepare them for the tough choices ahead.

I do hate what these issues do to my family, but they need to know the real deal, they need honesty.

[newguy]

ha e been lucky with right kind of rains.going to pick up a pea auger for my header.

[newguy]

filling nice.

[fjlip]

From our area....Water logged 3" rain

[Rareearth]

And that's what happens to lentils. It's not how they start its how they finish.

India government is trying to suggest record production their crop is harvested in Feb. they are in the monsoon rainy season, trying to talk the market down. Careful what you wish for.