Finally today the sun came out, after a very light rain this morning. For the first time in what seems like forever the ground dried out on top, and you could begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel, in other words without anymore rain we might be in the field by Saturday....but...we have heavy rain forecast for tonight.
The grain trade seems to be taking this all in stride, understandable if my mainly pasture corner of the world was the only part of this nation unable to plant, but that is far from the case, wet unplanted fields stretch from here to Indiana. Moreever in Texas where the combines will soon be rolling if they aren't already the USDA rates the wheat crop at 75% poor to very poor according to the radio at noon, and our Kansas crop is forecast to be 330 million bushels, off the average of 350 million bushels. The grain trade figures US farmers pulled a good crop out of a disasterous start in 2008 and we will do it again. Of course, we were helped by cool wet weather all summer, if we get a severe hot dry snap in July or August, the summer grain markets could be very interesting and very wild.