The USDA this year has been as off as Stevie Wonder could be. In my area of Iowa just south of Waterloo stuffs looking good but it won't be a bumper crop. Lots of wet spots. Best thing is my early planted beans but I still don't think they will make 75-80bpa.

We were able to plant all our acres but there are quite a lot of fields up here that didn't get planted this year. A few thousand acres anyway.

How large an area around you is experiencing the same conditions? Thx

I just checked the market, must be getting rain in the western corn belt that was supposed to burn up this week😖 looks pretty ugly

I can't wait for USDA to come out with their reports stating how great midwest crops look!

Good to hear from you. Just plain old hot and dry here in Oregon. Hope your weather holds for a decent crop.

Where in Iowa do you farm?

I suppose if you just let them spots go they'd fill in with weeds anyway. Some of those were some pretty big lakes.

You definitely need to say Independence Day. Grumpy Farmer made that clear earlier this month. If it makes you feel any better I was patching in beans July 26th and I needed to do more in another field but it rained 2 inches last night so it’s just as well I didn’t now. I’ve never had so many drowned out spots in the bottom as I have this year. Kinda hoping the creek comes out before harvest and wipes them all out now. All my beans are short for this time of year. I was showing wet spots once on a video and a guy asked ain’t it tiled. You need to tile. Blagh blagh blagh. Obviously you need tile too. Hahaha

My jaw when you said “that’s not a creek”. The amount of water you’ve gotten is just crazy

I'm left a little speechless. Wow.

How does this compare to 93

How much rain have you got in the month of June, and also was the “flooding” water from the dakotas or just excessive rain?

Know how you feel this year planted a good bit of early beans that still haven’t canopied and look awful yet 1/2 of them had to be replanted, then it rained forever and got started with corn later than I like, then the 4430 engine gave up on me and had to have help to finish, dad had a stroke the same day, then it turned off hot and dry finally catching some rain but could use more. Now just watching the grain markets fall…

Boy oh boy...you guys have gotten some serious rain. If only the avg American realized all the heart-ache, angst, worry, determination, and prayers that go into raising their cheap mass-produced food, fabric, and household goods, they might not be flipping us off for being on the road and "in their way", or generally thinking we are lower than them in mankind's hierarchy of civilization. We've never had any decent success with pre's on soybeans it seems...the excuses of the reps "it's been so dry the chemical just isn't activating" or "its been so wet, its washed the chemical out". I think they take classes on coming up with excuses for failures of what they sell. This year a neighbor decided to use a sharpen and basis blend as a pre to help battle marestail and it's almost killed their soybeans...they even tilled in the chemical ahead of planting.

Man you just can’t catch a break this year. Makes you wonder what harvest time will be like. Thx

Can’t believe all the water you been getting. I’ve got the worst stands of beans I’ve ever seen in my 45 + years. Big bare spots where they never sprouted from being to dry. If it would ever rain I’m sure some would come up. Got a couple of 2 tenths showers this month is all we had. The corn looks pretty good for the lack of rain so far but that’s gonna change soon if it stays dry. But according to Bidens USDA, everything is just great. The speculators believe rain makes grain, doesn’t matter if everything is flooded.

Started out pretty good but kind of turned into a depressing spring. At least grain prices are getting worse also😆. If we can beat the fraud machine and get rid of Biden this fall it'll be a good year though. If not we're finished anyway😖

Looks kind dry there like you could use some rain................... Wow!

You got just a little too much water.. and we haven't gotten enough.. Hopefully everything works out!! We should have been cutting by now, but dragging my feet. Still working on the new to us baler.. it's in really good condition, but the previous owner didn't do 💩 for maintenance.. UHG

Well it kinda became a creek 🤦‍♂️🤣

Just wild the water you guys got on you! Here in my little part of Iowa things are looking damn good. Did get about 3 inches of rain though last night into this morning. It can stop raining, gotta get some oats cut and baled up before they turn.

It's amazing,we can get better seed fertilizer and weed control but it still all depends on mother nature

Perhaps, we should restore some of those potholes? Programs for those aren’t bad, I have part of my farm in it, got tired of the battles.

P.S. I am praying for you and your family. . .

Have you washed away? seen today a lot of your area was under water and towns were being evacuated.

Just quit as much as u complain

I think you need something "stiffer" than beer....liquor gets ya quicker. We are real hot this week...now I know how you guys feel all summer...we are mid 90's all week and heat index up over 100

I'm dry now an corns twisted. Wish I could get some to help you out. We could average it out I think to help us both. God bless

Oh wow. I’m really sorry watching this 😕 Wishing conditions would change for you.

Sure co has a programmable tarp to go so far and stop. It will adjust itself and keep tighter.

I replanted beans one year on June 29th, they went 65bpa. I have replanted corn as late as the 15th of June, yielded right at 200. I dont get to worried about it anymore..

Now stop you know we’re going to have record crops. Just ask the USDA 🤦‍♂️

I really hate replanting. My corn is all up. Last planted beans are up. If miss the rain Sunday I think I can be down to 20A of beans to plant that water has been standing on…to proud to take prevent yet but I’ll be down to the day I’d say trying to get it planted.

Sure makes life easier playing musical tractors. Jump from seat to seat and just hammer down.

What part of iowa im over hear in delco

I have mowed more grass this year than we have mowed in years, lol. Hay has been ready to cut for 2 weeks, just not long enough between rain to cut.

You should do a live at like 3:30 in the morning out in the field and see who's awake.

the all-nighter you pulled in the video...not quite the same as it was in college. Glad you're able to get things done; I had to replant some soybeans recently....time will how they come out. On a side-note...ya know you're a fussy guy when you keep a can of glass cleaner in the cup holder of every tractor!!

Enjoyed the video buddy.

i couldn't even mow the yard after the last rain. There was standing water in every dip & depression on my lawn & the ground just squished when you walked across it. There hasn't been any field work around me since the 19th of May. We have 260 acres of beans left to plant & I don't know when we will get back in the field. It will be a while though. The ground here is absolutely saturated now. We need some dry weather for a change.

Ya it’s been somthin this year hope you didn’t get too much these last couple days, I think at this point I’m not replanting anymore

To be young again and work that late 🤦‍♂️ I can’t do it anymore. And I can’t believe you get stressed 😂

Thqt was little bit of everything, lol. There was no rain for 7 days, and we were mostly dried out. We got .5" last night. I should be able to finish planting on. Wednesday or Thursday.

It ain’t any different down here in southern Ia

Looks like you've had your challenges this spring...if it make you feel any better, we have too. My buddy coined the phrase that "we farm in the armpit of the US" here in western NY, but it looks like every farmer is having a tough go this spring. These no-till "experts" think they've found the "silver bullet" for farming and fact of the matter is, as much as industry trends push farmers to the new-found objective, there is no "cookie-cutter" approach to farming!! We switched to strip till about 6 years ago and have had a miserable time getting ground to dry out this spring...you can only kick the can down the road for so long before you're planting 85 day corn and then you're yield potential goes right out the door...so light tillage is an answer to getting wind and sun to the ground to get it aired out enough to plant! Hey... on your 9200 does the quad range with the hi/low ever bother you from a user-friendly standpoint? Every time I bring up to my neighbor about wanting a 9000 series Deere, he encourages me to save my pennies for a 9020 series to get the powershift; to me, I just don't think the quad range would bother me that much...not enough to spend another 30-40k to get a 20 series???

Its just starting to dry up around here. We got our corn in and half the beans. If it was easy i guess everyone would do it. Always nice to see how other farmers do things. Thanks for taking us along.

Yeah, been a fun spring. Im actually glad i got all my stuff in early and its looking damn good right now but time will tell. We need it to raining for a week and get some warm weather. But i dont think the rain is going to stop.

I commented on your last video how we were wet but not as wet as you. Well now we are pretty close. We had 3 inches of rain in the last 5 days here & now there is a lot of standing water. It was only in the 40's today. It might be 2 weeks before we get back in the field. Glad to see you getting some beans planted.

Most times, the YT experts are young guys that have only ever seen or done things one way, the way they do on their dad's farm and they think it is the only way.