Thursday, June 5, 2025

We awoke during the night (130 am) to thunder.  The lightning show was significant!  When we got up, it was still raining, and it’s still coming through in wave after wave.  Since midnight, we’ve received 1.73″ (44mm). There are stories around Knox County today of rainfall in excess of 3″!  All the typical places in our fields that experience spots of ponding are showing water on the surface.  If that can drain away in <24 hours, the submerged crops should be okay.  Longer than that?  Not what we would prefer…

We were hoping for a rain, just not this heavy.  A nice half-inch would have been welcome.  But there is someone greater in charge of all this, and He just wants us to trust Him.  That we will do.

We only have about 15 acres of soybeans that remain unplanted, but after this rain event, that is delayed for another week or more.

The wheat crop continues to turn from green to gold.  A couple weeks off now is my best estimate.  The combines are prepared for wheat.  There is a lot of spraying that needs to be accomplished before the wheat comes off.  We may need to hire Nutrien to do a small amount of it, in order to be in the best window of opportunity. One way or another, it will all work out.