This planting season has definitely been one for the books and I mean record books for sure. My husband has been farming all his life and has never seen a season like this. I have never either but he is older and wiser so I used him an an example..lol.
By this time of the year we should be enjoying knee high by the 4th of July corn height and green leaf soybean plants popping up through the ground. However, with the intense rains here in Indiana everything has been turned upside down.
The only thing in our fields this year that look good and give us a little hope is our wheat fields.
Which by the way ironically this year was the first time we have planted any wheat in years.
And so happy we did.
Family and friends have asked every day how do you handle this spring and how is everyone doing. We are doing fine as there are others in our area who have suffered major family losses this year and are facing much worse.
Whether it was a light, brief drizzle or a heavy downpour, it rained 17 more days this spring (March 20-June 21), than it did last season, according to a data tool that theNational Weather Service uses to get climate information. And these are peak days to get the crops in the ground. Central Indiana received nearly 19 inches of rain this spring.
https://www.indystar.com/story/weather/indianapolis/2019/06/25/indianapolis-weather-how-spring-rain-compares-to-past-years/1526543001/
Some days its hard to be positive and optimistic but we all just take it one day at a time. Most days I find our family practicing our favorite family saying...Unfortunately we came upon this saying when our grandson was fighting his battle with Cancer.
How do you eat an elephant?.....ONE BITE AT A TIME.
And that is just what we have been doing this spring by knocking out each day ...One bite at a time. And also maybe with lots of prayers....cigars....beer...wine and an occasional Starbucks!
