Much of Texas has experienced a wet spring and early summer, with some crop farmers hoping for a break in order to harvest corn, sorghum and soybeans and cut hay. In early June, Victoria County farmer David Hempel, who grows milo, soybeans and corn on 900 acres of bottom land along the Guadalupe River, and some 1,000 acres on high ground, reported one of the best, all-around crops he's had in years, thanks to the periodic rains. We haven't had any great amounts at a time, but a shower just about every week. We went heavy on grain sorghum because they were predicting a dry spring. I could have planted more corn instead.
Soybeans are a good rotation crop down here.
The crops are all doing great, except for a little midge damage in the sorghum. On June 19, Dallas County Farm Bureau President Harvey Parker, Jr., who farms near Wilmer, said his sudan hay is long and lush from so much rain. I'm glad I didn't plant wheat. Most all the wheat in this area was written off as a loss. You know how it is with rain here in Texas.