Glad I am not a Farmer

I swear every year I try to put out new food plots and it seems every Year after I plant them mother nature never cooperates with me and the rain stays away. I tried to do everything right this year I took soil samples and sent them in to get the right PH and fertilizer. I spread the necessary amount of Lime on my 3 fields to raise the PH in July then sprayed for weeds. When the weeds died down I disked everything in. waited for a couple weeks and disked again. I disked one more time late August and then i added my fertilizer and harrowed that in. I Then put a cover crop of wheat out and drug that in lightly. Then I cultipacked the fields and planted Imperial whitetail clover and cultipacked it again. This was Sept 3rd and we had an 80% chance of rain on the 4th. Needless to say we did not get any rain on the 4th and since then we have only had 3 10th's of an inch. Seems like the food plot Gods are always against me and I have been doing this for years now with about the same outcome. Plant and the rains dry up!!!!! Oh, well it keeps me busy I guess. Glad I am not a farmer because I would lose the farm.

PB we must be related...

I threw some oats down almost 2 weeks ago and checked it last night. Some high spots hadn't grown but the low spots had sprouted to 6". I planted them in normally wet low rutted old two tracks and raked some to cover. The dew and a little sprinkle got em going. Hang in there, it should take off. Nature definitely turned the spigot off lately, like night and day compared to the spring.

Don't feel bad PB. Totally redone an acre plus of clover. Put it in the 22'nd of August with a forecast of rain the next day, got nadda………..Got .4 on it last week, and it was so dry it just soaked it up. Germination is about 25% on the over seeded oats, and 10% on the clover. Hope this rain today helps!!!! If we get an early frost, it may be over for this year. It will be a redo again in the spring!!

I got lucky and put out the turnips and radishes then received a heavy inch the next day. After it popped up and shaded the ground, we had 2-3 other rain showers plus today's.

It is up to my knees now.