I don't think there has been a drier June in my lifetime in Perry Co, and May was almost as bad. I planted 2 acres of RR corn on May 11, and had decent soil moisture when I planted it. It came up good, but its had less than 2" of rain on it since planting. It was showing big time stress this past weekend, but would have still made a decent crop if it had started raining then. With no rain in sight the next 10 days, I don't think it has any chance now. I'm planning to bush hog it and disc the ground and keep it free of weeds until mid October, then throw some clover seed out. Maybe it will get some of the benefit of the fertilizer I wasted. At least I had enough sense to not put any ammonium nitrate on it.

It looks like our weather patterns have become similar to those of Israel in biblical days - get rains thru late fall and winter, and then its completely dry. Looks like winter crops will be all I can grow. Of course, ya'll get a lot more rain in west and north AL than I get.