| Gearclash - 9/17/2023 16:34 When central Sioux County had that toad strangler 10” rain, we got about 4”. Based on observation of the local tile fed stream, very little of that made it to the subsoils. Also, based on observing that same stream, next to nothing of that event ran off. We are dry dry dry. Intersting note. In the 1975 Sioux Center Centennial history book, someone observed that (as of that time) the common thought was that Sioux County crop production was, on the average, held back by inadequate rainfall.
I had about 3.5" that weekend. Not complaining about that but sure would have liked to have had the 6-10" that fell a few miles east and south of here. The reports I heard out of the 10" area is that very little of it got wasted.
As you likely know, up until recently the Corn Suitability Ratings in Iowa were adjusted lower in the extreme corner of NW IA to account for the fact that we get much less rain than the rest of the state.
IMO, the CSR2 ratings should have never removed that rainfall adjustment, or better yet, never happened period. The CSR2 numbers that they assigned to crappy ground are ridiculous. Any time you complain to someone about it they say "what does it matter?", well it matters when you pay your property taxes. Some crappy ground had the property taxes doubled (or worse) when they switched from CSR to CSR2 and it most certainly didn't become better ground.
CSR2 was a solution to a problem that didn't exist and all it did was create its own problems.
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