Right here at the house we got a half inch tonight, even down at the corner a quarter mile I don't think it rained as much.  I am thinking now that my better half went to bed, I may drive to the farm 3 miles west and see what it rained.  A half inch won't go far, I will be in the field in the morning, but it might prime the pump.

 It didn't rain much on the other side of the section, let alone 3 miles west, where I got a tenth, might as well have been nothing.  More dry weather stories on the internet this morning, including a Farm Industry News article on planting soybeans in dry soil, the exact issue I am trying to figure out.  I even called the National Weather Service yesterday afternoon to try to get some idea when we might get an inch or two of rain.

 bovril, Why not use real fruit - and some sugar if you feel inclined? Cherries will be in season soon, and you can eat the cherries afterwards. Tinned peaches in syrup is a good one, but the peaches are not so good afterwards. I normally use cheap brandies for this sort of thing rather than vodka, mainly because I am not fond of vodka, and brandy is v.v. cheap here. It is legal to make your own.

I've tried various combinations of gin/vodka/whisky with sloes/blackberries/damsons (and rose hips, but not successfully). I just fancy the idea of the simplicity of Skittle Vodka, the fruits and sugars all in one plastic bag! I may have to do some little trials with jelly babies and Haribo sours too!!

 

          I am seeing the term "flash drought" used

 

That's a really good term, Kansas.

We had 12 ins of rain here in April and now, after four days' sunshine, the wheat's heading three weeks early.

I'm told it's all due to the extensive root death caused by waterlogging.

 

Just cancelled my new combine.

 Doing my noon weather check, NOAA has issued a special weather statement for us for excessive heat today.  Where I got the half inch I am able to put soybeans into some moisture, where we didn't the corn is curling up like it is the middle of July.  Quite simply, this doesn't look good.  The best chance of rain is Wednesday night, problem is every day they push the best chance back a day or two, that best chance never gets here.

They did have some bad storms in north central Kansas last night, tennis ball sized hail and several tornadoes, destroyed several houses and a few businesses, www.kwch.com or www.kake.com would have pics and information as it becomes available.  Might have a little info on wheat harvest as well.

 If you guys want to try to figure out what the grain markets are going to do over the next two weeks, take a look at the 6-10 and 8-14 day forecasts just released from NOAA.   That ought to give you some idea what our weather situation is looking like.............I am not going to say what I think the markets are going to do, just look at the info and decide for yourselves.

 

                                      Too hot for comfort, Kansas.

 

Just got in to round up today's prices with all the usual suspects.

 

                                Trader

                                Quango

 

In fact, absolutely nothing seems to have happened, all day.

Perhaps they all took an extra day off, knowing that the CBOT was closed.

If so, they should all be taken outside and shot, in front of their Porsches.

 

Edit:- at 18.22, sixteen minutes after my post above, HGCA finally put some prices up.

Must have been a rather good lunch. 

 

bovril, If you use Jelly babies remember to use only the boys - they have a little bit more to them. On the other hand, if you can get well-endowed older Jelly whatevertheymightbecalled, then the big girls could have more than the boys.

 I can report that as I type, my nearest neighbor is cutting his wheat on May 29, 2012, it is 12.4% moisture, the absolute earliest I have ever seen wheat dry enough to combine here is June 14 give or take a day.  That should give an idea how warm and dry it has been, as a rule harvest doesn't start here until about June 20.

 

Wasn't it Memorial Day?

 

Exactly.

Extra day off for UK Traders.

As we have our extra Jubilee Holiday coming up on Monday, Chicago will take an extra day off?

 Chicago won't have a day off, but I intend to drink a large tall glass of refreshing iced tea, and sing as much as I can remember of "God Save the Queen".  We like the Queen, ABC even had something about the Jubilee we taped last night to watch later, we just don't like the British Monarchy enough to support it with our tax dollars. 

 CBOT is apparently a whole lot less concerned about the broad area of hot dry weather forecast over the next two weeks than most farmers are.   Every time I think I have them figured out, I find out I don't.

Just needs the Fed and the BoE and the ECB to print some more money, Kansas, and at least two of those three soon will, and all the traders will suddenly be becoming very concerned again.

By the way, I've been told our Jubilee Holiday's actually Tuesday, so that's four consecutive days off trading LIFFE.

Wednesday morning could be interesting.

Smart money is on about £50Bn easing from the MPC next Thursday, and $500Bn from the Fed the week after.

A lot of this will inevitably leak into soft futures.

Of course, what the ECB might do to itself over the current weekend is an entirely different matter.

bankrupt, I note you did not mention the IMF. I read in a Portuguese news item last week that Christine Lagarde's salary is €438,940 - tax free. She must be some clever cookie to earn that sort of money, but a couple of things sort of put me off her - she was a member of the national synchronised swimming team, and is a vegetarian. And never drinks alcohol to boot.

Six more inches of drought this past couple of days.

An I see that some water companies (who benefit enormously from water shortages in that it justifies their ridiculous charges) are thinking of announcing that the drought is over. For now!

By the way did you see the pics of the transit of Venus shown against the sun as it passed between us and it? Venus is about the size of the earth but 68 million miles from the Sun and yet it looked so tiny.

Imagine if it were next to the sun it would be so tiny and no more than a speck of sand. That thought make one realise how tiny one man is.

Because our ancestors could see the wonders of nature and the universe in ways street lighting has obscured, there is no wonder that they had a different view of the nature of mankind to that held by most folks today.

I often wonder what they would think if they were able to come back for a while and each of us had the task of explaining modern life to them. I wonder who would learn the most?

 

 

i dont know about drought, but it is dashed chilly for june, and wet to boot.

glasshouse, There is an old saying "Flaming June". My father always reckoned it referred to the constant wet, not the sunshine, although when the phrase was coined it rather suggests fine, hot weather.

 It must be Spring in Redesdale

When the frost'll lift bi Noon

The weather it says January

But the calendar says June.

No idea who wrote it, but it was a long time ago. The Rede runs into the North Tyne, joining, guess what, with the south Tyne to form...the Tyne - as in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Thankfully it cooled slightly last weekend and we are just in the high 20s rather than mid 30s. It will not rain until October, but as I have said before, that is not a drought, just a dry spell and it happens every summer.

 

 if its any consolation il try send some water your way . .  20 m rainfall today 40 mm in the last week and this is ment to be the sunny south east !

anyone know where i could get some cheap water wings for my cows??

was like that hear last year baled silage and it was 90% water - we just had to do it

old mcdonald:

bovril, If you use Jelly babies remember to use only the boys - they have a little bit more to them. On the other hand, if you can get well-endowed older Jelly whatevertheymightbecalled, then the big girls could have more than the boys.

Midget Gems.    I like a bag of midgets.

Brown Cow, the mind boggles - Snow White and the 7 dwarves in reverse ie Brown Cow and the 7 dwarfettes.

Edit:Horrible thought. I do not know if you are male or female. I guessed male, but I might be wrong.