Will Swope

The heat moved in on us and hasn’t let up. Up until now we lucked out and haven’t seen many 90-plus degree days, let alone multiple days in a row. Seems like things really sped up and started to either die or change from growth mode to dry down mode rather quickly. I think some of the beans on the hot sand and gravel bars got some top-end yield taken off of them. For the most part, the corn is still in good shape, but we are seeing signs of stress and plants dying before they are actually mature.

By Will Swope September 05, 2021 at 2:30 pm CDT The rain hasn’t totally shut off for us, but it’s starting to get dry. I know some of you have been on the drier side of things this season, so I’m not going to complain. We are starting to show stress on the gravel and sand ground and the clay knobs are really dying faster than one would expect. There is a lot of irrigation around our area and up until last week you didn’t see anything run hardly all year.

We didn’t do much “farming” this week. My in-laws have always taken their family to stay in a cabin down in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. They used to take the girls down when they were all little along with a couple who are more like family than friends. It’s always fun to go up in the mountains and stay in a cabin with everyone and enjoy the views that the Smoky Mountains give you.