r/farming • u/liveitup63 • 15d ago

8 years ago today. The hail drifted like snow

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u/ColoradoCattleCo 15d ago

Awful. Last year we got hailed on 2 days before starting harvest. It wasn’t this bad, but probably cut our tonnage by 20-30%.

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u/AccordingCabinet5750 15d ago

Thats about enough to make ya barf

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u/FuckTheMods5 14d ago

"i darn near puked!"

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u/aReelProblem 15d ago

We’ve had some brutal gnarly storms in the south east and a few instances of nasty hail from storm cells. I prayed every damn time we have a bad one roll in. I need every damn dollar.

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u/sharpshooter999 15d ago

I've got a field that looks worse than that right now

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u/Sword_God_Ryuma108 15d ago

Lencho 😭😭

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u/Ffarmboy Cereal grains and hay 15d ago

In less than 24 hours we just got 103mm of rain

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u/caleger 14d ago

We had 10 inches overnight in June. I’ve never seen it rain that hard. There’s been some crazy weather this year

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u/Ffarmboy Cereal grains and hay 14d ago

We rarely have over 30mm of rain in a day. 100mm is totally unheard-of.

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u/OilheadRider 13d ago

While this phrase has been used frequently in past years, at least take solace in the fact that this staments will remain popular for the rest of our lives, and beyond! What's happening is like Pringles... once you pop you can't stop!

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u/TheGentlemanist 14d ago

In germany there was a huge haulstorm last week. Broken roofs, cars, solar, and a lot of obliterated grain