Waiting on the Weather

So I was watching the corn this morning and I noticed we have had 3 straight days of rain now and everything is really wet. The ground, the leaves, the ears that are just about ready to harvest, absolutely drenched.

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My neighbour has already started spraying fungicide on his corn as some mould is starting to grow on the lower stalks on his plants, that shit ain't cheap. That's a big hit to the pocketbook when you're buying enough chemical to spray on two hectares.

Last year I planted early when everybody said we were going to have light rainfall. Turns out they were wrong and we got heavy rainfall and it just kept coming. I lost about 30% of my harvest to rotting, but I'm still amateur learning from my uncle so no big deal and not that big a land, the lesson is worth it. Some of my ears looked perfectly fine from outside the husk until I opened them up and all the kernels were covered in a black powdery substance. Couldn't even use any of them as animal feed, they all went in the garbage.

Now the trick is you need the rain for the corn to grow and then you need the rain to stop so that the corn doesn't go bad. You could easily get frustrated when you plan everything you do based on what kind of weather you think we're going to get and then the weather changes.

Some farmers are now waiting until late March to start planting, which would be awfully late to most. They say they would rather miss the heavy rainfall altogether than take that chance. But then they are betting that we will receive sufficient rains during the month of April and during the month of May.

I'm out looking at the sky every day and checking to see if it's going to clear up. Corn has to dry off prior to the harvesting process or when I get into storage, that corn is just going to rot out for sure.

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