Are you experiencing the 'drought'?

We are in Central NY. Everything is so dry...when you walk on our farm it sounds like your walking on corn flakes. Didn't have a successful garden at all this year. I agree we need it to rain for a couple of days & not a heavy hard rain either, just a couple of days of sprinkling. Cooler temps would also help so the rain won't evaporate before hitting the ground.

I am in SW Ohio and we have been on the edge of the severe drought and it has been dry. We started irrigating our produce farm in April this year and we have never had to start irrigating until late May at the earliest. Our produce crops are doing Okay, though we have had a few failures with cabbage and broccoli. But have found Onions love hot dry weather as long as they are on drip.

But the corn fields around me are for the most part shot and some have already been disked under. the hay fields yielded a decent first cutting but because the pastures are all gone people are already feeding hay and the second cutting was poor. If we get some more rain (we have had around 2 inches in the past 10 days around here, not that you can tell as it is so dry that even after getting an inch of rain yesterday the ground soaked it all up so there weren't even any puddles within 30 minutes after the rain stopped and the ground is still hard and there is almost no mud) than maybe the hay fields would have a decent 3rd cutting.

I am waiting for the fall rains to show up so our winter market garden can thrive. Frankly, the past few years we have made more money growing and selling out of season (October through May) than we do in season

Southern Michigan.

We haven't even had a second cutting of hay yet because of the lack of rain.

The soybean field next to us is doing terrible. A lot of the plats on the edges have died & none of the plants are doing well.

We've had rain off & on for about a week now. So things are starting to grow.

I'm in central MI, and it's dry. Thankfully as of now it looks like we still have a crop. Second cutting hay was pretty thin, third cutting is not taking off at all. As of now we still have a corn crop, although if we go much longer without rain that might not happen either. Go about 50 mi south and it looks way worse. From what I hear from salesmen and others who travel the state it sounds like we're the lucky ones so far. It's much lighter than average, but thankfully at least we have a crop still.

I'm in eastern NYS (18 miles from Mass.). Until tonight, there hasn't been rain for 3 weeks. Tonight there are thunderstorms with modest rain, the kind mentioned by another respondent. And, yes, I've been praying for rain. Prayers are answered.

The best thing is to conserve water as much as you can.

Avoid running taps unnecessarily, e.g. for washing dishes or cleaning your teeth

Take shorter showers

Don't use the hose or sprinklers on your garden

Install rainwater tanks to catch whatever rain does fall...!!!

yea badly