Hello Hive

I almost cannot wait until morning to go check on the rice farm.
While we have continued harvest on another piece of the farm here on Saturday morning, the unexpected happened.

At about harvest of rice grains that are very much dried like the ones we have below here, it is often advisable to keep away every form of liquid substances that will come in contact with the grains. Since we would not be drying the grains under the sun to further remove moisture content, keeping away moisture in important. If anybody stores improperly dried grains they will go bad in storage become partly germinated and then get rust.
This happened to us last year and when we wanted to use the grains the grains at the bottom of the rice were all spoilt.

While our rice grains have all properly dried up and we are harvesting them by portions we didn't expect that another rain was going to fall in this month .

Every form of downpour stopped in the month of October and I had expected that the last rain for the year was the one that fell in the first week of October.

Low and behold after the days work on Saturday evening, we had a heavy downpour at about 8pm which lasted for almost 2hrs.
Meaning that the dried grains are now drenched.

Getting saoked isn't the complete challenge, by this time all the matured rice plants have falling flat in the ground.

We have planted long grain rice this year, the plants have grown so tall and the moment they produced seeds, the rice plant could hold the heads as they were heavy with grains.
Hence they have all fallen flats on the ground.

Now with the heavy downpour can beat the seeds down in which we can no longer be able to thresh them, or the farm may have become waterlogged and the grains getting soaked in them which will make it have foul odour after harvest as well.

Yesterday was Sunday and resting day, we couldn't go to farms to check on the level of damage and still we cannot blame the weather for unleasing yet one more rains at this time of the year.

I just hope that all is well with our grains.