The talk lately has been the drought and co-host David Woodruff has Shawn Thacker on the line talking about the precipitation they received recently.
So we're talking to Shawn Thacker, Burdette, Alberta. How much rain did you get at home?
"Over the weekend here we're pushing about 2.2 inches now and it's still raining pretty good. I'm just in the office and it's basically sheets of rain coming across through the yard."
How are crops looking there at home?
"The dryland was still doing pretty good yet but it was giving me the rain within days. We haven't had a whole bunch of precipitation this spring yet."
So now this takes you out of the danger zone?
"Yeah, this will carry us for quite a while. Hopefully."
Have you heard anything from down in Texas?
"Just what I've seen online. I've talked to a few of my harvester friends and a lot of acres were destroyed out or zeroed out by crop insurance and a lot of them didn't start until a little bit further north into Kansas. And some are just leaving to go down to start in northern Kansas which will be coming on fairly quick from my understanding. Quite early."
Where do you normally go?
"We'll start in central Montana."
You've got a little bit of time then.
"Yes we do."
A couple of weeks ago we were at Great Falls and things were looking nice and green but then we got up to Conrad and whoa man it was all dried out and the Welkers are dying from nothing. Then last weekend when we were down it trickled on us most of the way back and then it really dumped. So it looks like at least for this area.
"Yeah it definitely was needed this precipitation that we got."
Shawn Thacker with our co-host David Woodruff on the Harvest USA Report.
