and the paper said today that we are just under 10 inches for the month. I don't think my farm had that much all year last year. All that means dry topsoil flooded away on planting ground. Thankfully I grow grass hay so we are sitting pretty right now.
We are drenched here and we are not the areas with the most rain. I have friends who cannot get back to their farms and homes because all the roads are washed out and we have parts of highways underwater for periods of time that will only get longer the more rain. It is the same in many of the plains states, some are much worse.
The worst part is that last year broke a lot of farmers with the drought. Around here you could drive for miles and see nothing but dead corn, it was like a scene from a scary movie. This year we are pushed right up against seeding time. They cannot get in their fields and even if they could and planted this much moisture all at once will lift the seeds and float them away. Add that to the tariff debacle and I just do not know what will happen. I DO know we have to start farming responsibly. Even the farmers I know who do farm responsibly are still stuck with planting the only seed available to them that actually require them to not be responsible.
Because I feel required to post this, not all farmers and ranchers are Republicans. I know quite a few farmers who are as left as I am and maybe more, many of whom are women with large farms they manage alone very well. There are all kinds of farmers here, most small because of the buying of land for the corps but they are not all Republicans.
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