soggy and erosive

i have remarked that it has been a rainy winter and an inch of rain over the past three days has done little to dry the fields hereabouts...it is wet and muddy out there...

surveying the fields, i checked up on some erosion points that have been in existence for a number of years and found them active still...

this one i discovered last year i believe and it is still slowly washing the edge of the field down to the road...

and some jaunts down county roads i hadn't been on before revealed some that have clearly been established for a while and which had escaped notice until today...one presumes there are more and that, while the topsoil here is deep, the soil is not inexhaustible...even though these are not massive cuts in the fields they are a sign that soil conservation could use some tweaking..it is only the latter part of march and the planting season is still a few months away and climate/weather is only predictable to a less than exact point...still i am wondering if this is the beginning of another sodden spring much like last year's around these parts...and that had a significant impact with fields still overgrown after laying fallow last season...we will keep a weather eye out and track rainfall in the yard...and if we get ten inches of rain this coming may i will let you know.