Early planters how is it going?

So for those of you that put early plots in... how is yours going? It seems many parts if the country are getting high heat and droughts. How are your plots doing?

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I planted Mid May and after about 3 weeks, I was pretty worried, but the 3 acres of Soybeans have filled out pretty nicely.

 

My plots are almost well done (toast). The trees have sucked all of the moisture out from around the edges, corn is curled up and stunted to 50' in. Beans hardly got any rain since planting over a month ago and came up real spotty if at all.

I'll probably disc it all up and plant a bunch of wheat, radishes and turnip mix early this fall and hope we get some rain for that. Last year I planted my fall crops and the rain quit right after I planted those. Radishes and turnips were spotty but wheat did pretty well and they mowed it off.

On the plus side: the oak trees around the edge of my plot look like they have a decent acorn crop setting on.

 

My irrigated plots are doing great. The others....not so much

 

I have a 1 acre plot of brassica planted with a 10' border of sorghum surrounding the plot. We haven't had rain in a while and everything is real dry. I hooked a sump pump up to our pond and have been watering the plot a few times a week. The sorghum is coming up good. The brassica is starting to sprout but that was planted a couple weeks after. The weather said rain today but so far it's not looking likely.

 

For those of you who have planted brassicas already...will you be tilling them up and replant mid to late august or will you just let them grow?I planted mine Mid june just so i knew it got some rain...Was this too early?

 

Planted a half acre in april. I now have an amazing crop of ditch weed. Gonna have to go spray and start over again.