Soil Moisture

Excessive soil moisture seems to be the rule this week.  We have had the good fortune to be able to sample every day this week except Tuesday.  We got word that Belleville area had around a half inch, so some customers were called to make sure we could sample on Wednesday.  Soil seemed much wetter than it should have been for no more rain than they got, but we were able to go without cutting ruts.  A few people actually ventured into the field on Thursday in the Belleville area,  but it seemed too wet for the most part.  Today we went to Jerseyville.  They had 3 inches of rain.  Soils were still very wet.  Sun and low humidity seemed to help drying today.  Some of the high spots actually grayed off, but overall, I don't look for much field work to be done in that area until Monday.  The good news is that the customer we sampled today was finished with planting corn and seemed to have nice stands.