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southern MN | 93 was bad for planting, but it dried up some in September.
Early 80s had a real wet harvest, but the spring was ok. I forget the year exactly.
The mid 1960s were rough, mom would pull dad out and he would be stuck before she drove out of sight again. Think that was a several year deal, bad snows, springs, and through harvest wet wet wet. Might have been similar to the past several years a real struggle. The ditch was only a few years old and dad had just tiled some to improve the farm, so he had more ground to cover but it was so wet it didn’t go well. The tile was mostly just mains, helped in an average year drained out some wet meadows to create more fields, but was a mess in excessive rains just made it miserable.
As you say the wide area of it this year is the thing. And setting up for a wet spring already in much of the northern regions as we just don’t dry out over winter.
For me last year was worse agronomically. tho this year the growing season was cut much shorter, the crops still did better than last year. Why I don’t have a clue.
This year was harder mentally.
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Poor North Dakota
