Tuesday, September 24, 2024

I was awakened last night at 2am by thunder.  There was a spectacular lightning show too.  As I check the weather station in the farm office this morning, I see that we received 1.62″ (41mm) rain overnight!  That will stop the combines for a couple days or more.   Plus, if I read the forecast correctly, the path of the upcoming Hurricane Helene puts the path directly over Knox County this weekend!   Of course, we will see what happens.  This rain will help fill out the late-planted double-crop soybeans (DCB).   It has been many years since we experienced a muddy fall harvest.  We are praying it does not turn out this way in 2024.

The office weather station shows we got a pretty big rain in the wee hours of the morning.

The fields are definitely muddy today.  We will turn our attention instead to delivering soybeans to ADM in Newburgh, Indiana…an Ohio River terminal there.  It’s still cloudy this morning, with a small chance of more rain this afternoon.

Once the fields dry a bit, I think we will harvest corn for a day or so, then on a nice, dry and sunny day, we will switch back to soybeans.  By then, the 3.9 maturity beans planted in April should be ready to cut.  The soybeans that we have already harvested were 3.0 and 3.3 maturity.

Sunshine tomorrow?  Hope so!