Late summer drought

Sorry I found this post in the draft stage. Should have been posted in August...

The widespread drought is also taking its fair toll on the miscanthus growth. Any new growth was stunted as the grass ran out of water and coped with 100F+ temperatures. There has been some rainfall in the past few weeks that has allowed the crop to wake back up, but the amount of growth that was expected for year two seems again to be a disappointing year.
 

 The picture shows the field taken in the middle of August. There is heavy volunteer grass pressure as there was last year. The miscanthus grass is as tall or taller than the volunteer grass in most parts which is a big improvement over the previous year.