Need to hire MN Rain Dancers….

If anyone that is a good Rain dancer with proven results like those folks up in MN, I sure could use your services. Looks as if my 2012 food plots will be a total and complete bust. It’s gut wrenching to see the bare dirt after all the money and work poured into these plots.
6 loads of manure spread out, $$$$ in fertilizer, $$$ in fuel, $$$ in seed, and on and on.
The ONLY saving grace to the entire drought situation has been my Dad. At 76 years old, he wanted a few rows of sweet corn planted. So we did 6 rows of sweet corn and 14 rows of standard field corn. He’s been filling the 50 gallon water tank and trucking it out to the corn rows and watering them…were he can get the atv & trailer between the rows. So far, very sporatic growth in 12 of the 20 rows, a few sunflowers are up about a foot, and two pumpkin vines that got water are kind of growing. Even if we get rain now, I can’t imagine anything growing to full maturity in the next 60 to 75 days.

Sucks to think all that work and money for nothing, but the fertilizer will be there for next year .

With the temps coming and no rain it doens’t look to get any better either. Hopefully we get rain by later this month so you could at least get some fall plots in. Good luck on the rain dancers……

Nut

Randy,

This is what we came up with a couple of years ago to combat drought. We had about $45 into making it. We bought the 250 gallon tank for $25 and had about $20 into PVC and fittings. For very little you can save at least some of your plots.

Well, here’s one idiot doing the rain dance out here. I guess if you can stir up enough dust, it will spark some rain somewhere……

I’ve got a 50 gallon tank on a tailer that I pull behing tractor/truck/atv….but I’m 110 miles away from there and booked out through the end of AUG

I feel for you. Last year we had such a terribly wet spring that I did not get my spring plots in until the 1st of June. I planted my fall plots the last weekend of July. The last half of the summer was so dry here that 75% or more of my fall plots didn’t even germinate (small grains and brassicas). The only plot that grew was one I used a 2,000 gallon tank and gas engine to spray twice a week for a few weeks.

I just try and keep in mind that the down years make the average and good years just that much better. I hope you get some rain to salvage your plots or get some productive fall plots in. Best of luck