Iowa needs some rain too!
June 19, 2012 at 4:33 pm
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Come on Ma Nature!
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June 19, 2012 at 4:59 pm #1077084
Time for another off the wall event?
June 19, 2012 at 5:05 pm #1077089Bk you should take up golf this year
the last thing we need is more rain. Most crop fields in the area have standing water and another 3″+ forecasted for tonight and tomorrow! 
You might be able to take a boat from Evert’s up the Trimbelle almost to Ellsworth 
I heard the cats are going crazy up there (or was it cougars) 
June 19, 2012 at 5:13 pm #1077092
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Bk you should take up golf this year
The pooper is, I’m actually considering it!
I thought the Cedar Rapids area was dry. Well then NE needs it!
June 19, 2012 at 5:19 pm #1077095We have finally been getting some much needed rain in Sparta. I might even have to mow yard again this year now. Just wish you guys would stop sending your rain to us via river
June 19, 2012 at 5:39 pm #1077098Quote:
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Bk you should take up golf this year
The pooper is, I’m actually considering it!
I thought the Cedar Rapids area was dry. Well then NE needs it!
If you could send it a little farther south that would be great. We are in a drought here. They said on the news that 70% of the farmers are reporting corn growth to be severely impacted if we do not get rain in the next 5 days.
June 19, 2012 at 6:14 pm #1077105My lawncare crew was in the leroy,greenleafton area and said that it was dry as heck down there.
June 19, 2012 at 6:15 pm #1077107We better get some rain. The old saying is corn should be knee high by the 4th of July. I don’t know if that will be the case this year. It’s been VERY dry down here.
June 19, 2012 at 6:21 pm #1077110Quote:
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Bk you should take up golf this year
The pooper is, I’m actually considering it!
I thought the Cedar Rapids area was dry. Well then NE needs it!
Dry isn’t the right word. Hadn’t mowed in a month at least… ran the mower around the yard on Friday just because…
Nasty dry. Corn is starting to curl up and it’s finally getting to be knee high on average. Sholders around July 4 seems to have become more the norm. Dry dry dry. Cedar River is more like a stream of cow urine at this point…
June 19, 2012 at 7:04 pm #1077140Quote:
We better get some rain. The old saying is corn should be knee high by the 4th of July. I don’t know if that will be the case this year. It’s been VERY dry down here.
I saw saw some knee-high corn up here on June 4!June 20, 2012 at 12:11 am #1077217Woohoo
my sheephead hole will be producing again this weekend. 
Have to think positive
June 20, 2012 at 9:30 am #1077285I would love to see some rain down here. I have cracks in the ground over 1/2 wide please rain. I know you don’t need it up north please send it south. I too have not mowed the lawn for over a month now. At least the fishing is good.
June 20, 2012 at 12:19 pm #1077306We have ruts over a foot wide from the running water.
June 20, 2012 at 5:50 pm #1050484Very dry here Brian, cracks in the ground, plants are wilting unless thier watered, its been so warm everybodys hostas are flowering way ahead of time. The rivers low and if we don’t get rain its going even lower, My little 6 horse is hitting bottom where it hasen’t in the past, forget going through there with a 25 unless the propwash is coming straight up the stern. If it keeps going like it is there will barely be enough to float my jon boat over a couple gravel bars.
June 20, 2012 at 6:00 pm #1077422For the love of God send that rain down here ! So dry so very dry ! So go ahead and tile another field , in two year the farmers will be bitchin about their wells are going dry .It’s nuts down here every and I mean every field is tiled . I just don’t know how the expect the ground water table to recover .
June 20, 2012 at 6:14 pm #1077431I cant stand seeing that. Especially when they run the sprinklers while or shortly after a good rain. I have never thought some people should have such control over everyones ground water. I suppose in the name of food but NOT in the name of individual profit. I have personally seen them destroy a water table.
June 20, 2012 at 9:10 pm #1077503I heard a report that the 2″ rain they got in south central Iowa a week ago litteraly was a billion dollar rain. The fields needed that rain very bad, it saved alot of farmers.
June 20, 2012 at 9:20 pm #1077507Quote:
I heard a report that the 2″ rain they got in south central Iowa a week ago litteraly was a billion dollar rain. The fields needed that rain very bad, it saved alot of farmers.
Who got that?
I know we didn’t get that at the farm. Looks like we got some rain on its way right now though 
June 20, 2012 at 10:17 pm #1077517Quote:
I heard a report that the 2″ rain they got in south central Iowa a week ago litteraly was a billion dollar rain. The fields needed that rain very bad, it saved alot of farmers.
Yeah who got that? We got 0.5″ last week and the said it didnt help a thing with our drought. They said it will feed the corn and beans for 4 days… 4 days of water from a month long wait on rain. I guess what I’m saying is that it didnt do crap and we are still in trouble down here.
June 21, 2012 at 12:56 am #1077573Someone told me that and at the time that sounded like alot, 2″ is alot of rain. I guess things aren’t so good, sorry guys and I hope you get some soon, we need it here too. Now I remember it was a crop report by a guy on NPR, national public radio, I do remember him saying it was a billion dollar rain.
June 21, 2012 at 8:54 pm #1077855Rain chased me out of Nebraska yesterday afternoon. Then I hit a real gully washer on I35 near Diamond Joe casino. Northern Iowa got some rain last night.
June 21, 2012 at 9:09 pm #1077866We got a touch last night… enough to get the grass wet, not sure it got to the dirt.
June 22, 2012 at 12:04 am #1077910Got 0.01″ last night here.
June 22, 2012 at 12:04 am #10779111.5″ on SW side of Rochester last night
June 22, 2012 at 2:01 am #1077947Had about a 1/4″ in the wheel barrow this morning with a few puddles in the street. I actually heard it hitting the roof,,,If we could get something like that once a week it wouldn’t be so bad. I actually open the window and leaned out to try to get wet and opened the door this morning to just feel the moisture while it was cool.
June 22, 2012 at 3:52 pm #1078083We picked up about 2″. That is the first rain we got all spring other than a sprinkle. Wow did we need it.
June 24, 2012 at 3:02 pm #1078334Ma and I were in central southern Iowa, lower eastern Iowa, NE Missouri and all along the Missouri-Illinois border for the last week and it is dry as heck in most of the areas mentioned. I didn’t see any corn that I thought was stressed with a lot of corn approaching 6 feet along the iow-Missouri borders areas but the soybeans are in real tough shape in most places and there were some bean fields just being tilled back into the soil. We saw one guy cutting a hay crop that stood maybe 6-8 inches. Sad situation down there.
June 25, 2012 at 1:27 am #1078409We picked up 7/10ths of an inch last night with lightning and thunder, we really needed it, whats that make for the last 6 weeks, about an inch… Im doing a job for a friend just 25 miles south of here and the corns shoulder high from thier previous decent rains, here its barely waist high and shorter in alot of places, beans are in awful shape, should be approaching 3rd wire up on a fence but aren’t, by July top wire, no way its going to this year.
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