Really, everything here is still very green. Large Ash trees around here are mostly standing dead or down. Everything else is still very green. That said we has a wet August compared to most. This summer was perfect though June and July, the right amount of rain and temperatures in the low to mid 80's. August was wet, which it is usually very dry. We have seen less than 10 day above 90°, and in year past we'd have 40 days plus above 90°. The field corn that I'm surrounded with is doing great. Seem like the last month or so we are getting what the northeast was getting all summer long. We've got 6.5 to 7' corn with 2 or 3 well developed ears now.
It was for the most part a cool dry early summer here as well, corn looks good, probably better than a lot of the stuff down in IL and OH that they were still trying to mud in in June after their swampy spring. It sure seems like all the warm weather has been here the last 30 days or so. If It wasn't for the daylight to go by, I'd think the calendar has slipped a cog, spring is later, and so are the rest of the seasons. Nov and Dec are really late fall the last few years here. Note - from a farmer's perspective, double and triple cobs on one plant are not preferred, because one if not all are a bit stunted and have small kernels that are hard to get off the cob, or barren spots on the cob. Some of the best corn I've ever seen had big fat single cobs - 16-20 rows of kernels, planted thick on irrigated sandy ground was almost 230 bushels/acre - excellent for up here where 125 bu is the county average.
A good amount of trees have changed colors here too. Will be glad to see em drop early this year makes for better bird hunting
If ya had the summer in Minn. we had in the U.P. maybe thats it....cool and dry. hell this week was the warmest 7 days in a row we had all year. In the high 70's and low 80's
Yoop-the tasty birds don't live in the woods, at least not ones big enough to eat. Pheasant season opens in a few weeks, all the reason to help my buddy combine corn...shotguns leaned against a fenceline tree when ya get down to the last couple rounds in a field. Grouse hunting is best done with full chainsaw gear on - otherwise you lose more blood than the birds you shoot. Our summer was about the same as yours - see above. If I could have this year every year, I'd take it.