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Sadly our gins are major employers in the area so there is some major trickle down impacts that are going to occur. We are being told the ginners are going to give it a shot, but we got another 1-2" in the last 24hours. It will be weeks before we even get to pick it.

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Don't know about your gins, but ours face a yearly "horsepower charge" for their electric motors. For those who have never had an electric irrigation well or other large motor, you get to pay a minimum yearly charge for being connected to the grid. If you use the elctricity, you use that up.

But if you don't run, or don't run very much, that money is gone.

So gins look at thousands, or maybe tens of thousands of dollars of outlay, just for the privilige of trying to run. If they only gin a little bit of cotton, that money is totally pooped off.


It's been a while since I had an electric well that big, so maybe it's different now.

All the cotton from Rosenberg to Sealy along 36 looked rained out yesterday. Corn was fried as of a few weeks ago. When it rains it pours.

In the past 10 days, we've received a total of 11.25" west of Easterwood.

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In the past 10 days, we've received a total of 11.25" west of Easterwood.

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That is an interesting data point for weather geeks that are aware of the Aggie Dome effect.
I know you are on the river, and I have always suspected the rivers on both sides determine the affect.
I'm a couple miles inside each river in Southern Brazos County and had a sum total of under 7" throughout the weekish rain.
I doubt there has ever been a 9 dayish rain even in August in recorded history. This may well be something for the record books.

Could you spray Sharpen herbicide over the cotton and fry everything? Sharpen can be used as a harvest aid in other crops. Or Paraquat. As a fellow cotton grower it kind of peaked my interest on what would I do in this situation? Or what options could I use?

We are so far north and don't start defoliation and harvest until October that we rarely if at all run into this.

I'm not a fan of Sharpen for harvest aid here on the coast, it sticks too easy in our humidity. Still tough to beat a Dropp Def Prep shot for defol. For cleanup I like 1pt/7 ac Dropp plus 3oz/ac Gramoxone.

Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant could you use sharpen or Paraquat to fry the seed sprouting in the bolls to make it stop

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Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant could you use sharpen or Paraquat to fry the seed sprouting in the bolls to make it stop

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The sprouting would destroy the seed, so I can't see that it would help.

For all you weather nerds...

http://tabsoft.co/2bMTclJ

This is a dashboard I created that geographically plots weather data over time. Using the slider on the right, you can view precipitation totals, max temp, and min temp during the selected period.

Hover over the area of interest for detailed information.

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Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant could you use sharpen or Paraquat to fry the seed sprouting in the bolls to make it stop

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Won't solve anything. The seedlings will die and dry down very shortly since they are not in the soil. Sharpen will just add $7/AC to the production at this point. It was the first thing we thought of though.

Sunny weather today.

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Were the wettest years due to tropical disturbances? This August has been extremely wet considering we haven't seen a tropical disturbance.

This last wave of rain we had on the coast, while not a named storm, originated in the tropics.

Port O to Corpus seems to have been on the receiving end of a lot the past week. Has much made it inland as far as Choke?

A line of storms sat over the Sabinal river today. Then it rained throughout the watershed all afternoon. I don't know if it was enough to get things flowing though.

The rains two weeks ago have brought Choke up about 3-4 feet. Still 19 ft low. Combined lake system is about 54%. Mathis is only 2 ft low.

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A line of storms sat over the Sabinal river today. Then it rained throughout the watershed all afternoon. I don't know if it was enough to get things flowing though.

The rains two weeks ago have brought Choke up about 3-4 feet. Still 19 ft low. Combined lake system is about 54%. Mathis is only 2 ft low.

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From the NWS San Antonio history books. I had not heard about this. WOW.

After this the Olmos Flood Dam north of downtown was built and the San Antonio river was tunneled beneath downtown. The riverwalk is actually a semi fake river.

I'll say it - I'm tired of the rain. I want about a month of dry weather so my yard can get down to 98% moisture and I can get out with a scythe and weed eater and knock down the tropical jungle that is my yard and ditch....

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I'll say it - I'm tired of the rain. I want about a month of dry weather so my yard can get down to 98% moisture and I can get out with a scythe and weed eater and knock down the tropical jungle that is my yard and ditch....

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I'll have to agree with you on that I am tired of trying to mow on what feels like a jet ski

Sheesh. Our annual company dove hunt in Coleman is Sunday through Tuesday. Going to be pretty wet and sloppy. The dog should have some fun.

I still enjoy the evening showers once a week.

Heads up Wimberly

I just herbicided part of my st. augistine because it was so thick I couldn't mow it.

Bring on the rain here in BCS. It's hardly rained in the past month

I could use it here in N. TX. I really don't want to water my lawn.

Was supposed to storm all day here in atx. Nada so far.

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Was supposed to storm all day here in atx. Nada so far.

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Got a small shower this morning and sprinkling now in Kyle.

Any first hand reports from the Nueces or Frio watersheds? Radar looks good for possibly flowing those rivers!

Rain reports with this front?

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Any first hand reports from the Nueces or Frio watersheds? Radar looks good for possibly flowing those rivers!

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