Recently we returned from a trip to the southeastern portion of the United States. Several windshield observations were made regarding agriculture, but one observation was more frequent than the others.
Dry conditions are wide spread.
In fact Interstate 75 near the Georgia-Florida state line was closed due to dense smoke from swamp fires. This strip of concrete became a parking lot in a very short period of time. Regardless of which state we were traveling through it was very apparent that cleaning, reshaping and removal of the sediment from water holding areas had been completed or was occurring at a continuous and progressive rate. It is generally impossible for this type of construction to occur unless a time of reduced runoff has been virtually nonexistent for some time. If we get all of these holding areas cleaned we certainly will reduce some of the runoff when the rains do come.