We got a massive rain storm every other day for almost two months now. In the pic you can see remnants of the one from two days ago over Maine, the one we are getting hit with rn and another one over Rockies projected to hit on Tuesday. A lot of older homes in the midwest are getting flooded basements and mold issues. Really wish it would just stop for a while. Grain belt farmers had drought conditions for the last few years and now they are getting flooded and waterlogged fields.
For Scott Burger, this growing season feels like a race he can’t win. Each time his fields get dry enough to sidedress nitrogen or spray with herbicides, another band of rain rolls through. Overnight, on Tuesday, it happened again.
Burger, who farms in northeast Iowa, says his fields caught between 2” and 2.5” of rain in just a few hours — dumped on top of already saturated soils. The storms “rolled in again about 5 o’clock and are kind of sputtering,” he notes, adding that he figures his area has already logged rainfall in “that four- to five-inch range” for this month alone. The frequent rains are turning his usual mid-June workload into a logistical grind.
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