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<blockquote data-quote="1982vett" data-source="post: 701901" data-attributes="member: 7795"><p>You are to generous Jogee. The drought situation has hurt a lot of people and have them scrambling looking for hay. Not a lot of local hay is for sale. A lot of them are fighting armyworms now to keep the grass they do have. Reducing my numbers looks to have made a big difference. I did have to supplement pastures with hay in June and part of July but I haven't had to since. The millet and haygrazer I tried to grow this year, any other time I'd call them failures, did make enough to graze occasionally to take pressure off the pastures. Even now, the millet being waist high (not 8 foot high like AC's was) is going to fill in where I would normally have to feed hay. It is going to let me rest the pasture for a week or two maybe more. So I'm really not in to bad of shape right now. </p><p></p><p>Just found out what a "cloudy" forecast means now too. Yep, stop the cotton pickers and hay balers. :lol: Just had a light shower run thru. Since I went to bed and getting up, they changed today to "isolated thunderstorms" and Saturday from partly cloudy to "scattered thunderstorms". Might not get the hay in dry but maybe the oats won't come up and blow away either. </p><p></p><p>No the drought hasn't been fun. We just thought the dry spells from 1996 - 2006 were bad. If the long range "el nino" forecast is correct maybe we are in the clear now (for a few months :roll: ). I don't know, the pattern I've noticed is roughly four-five weeks of some moisture and four - six weeks dry. We are about 4 weeks into the current wet cycle. We had 9.6 inches in September, total for the year is now 23.3 inches. Right now it is hard to see evidence of a drought (here). One thing for sure, with the economics of cattle the way they are now, I'm more apt to waste a lot of grass from here on out and not see that as a lost opportunity. I've just about seen all the short pasture I want to see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1982vett, post: 701901, member: 7795"] You are to generous Jogee. The drought situation has hurt a lot of people and have them scrambling looking for hay. Not a lot of local hay is for sale. A lot of them are fighting armyworms now to keep the grass they do have. Reducing my numbers looks to have made a big difference. I did have to supplement pastures with hay in June and part of July but I haven't had to since. The millet and haygrazer I tried to grow this year, any other time I'd call them failures, did make enough to graze occasionally to take pressure off the pastures. Even now, the millet being waist high (not 8 foot high like AC's was) is going to fill in where I would normally have to feed hay. It is going to let me rest the pasture for a week or two maybe more. So I'm really not in to bad of shape right now. Just found out what a "cloudy" forecast means now too. Yep, stop the cotton pickers and hay balers. :lol: Just had a light shower run thru. Since I went to bed and getting up, they changed today to "isolated thunderstorms" and Saturday from partly cloudy to "scattered thunderstorms". Might not get the hay in dry but maybe the oats won't come up and blow away either. No the drought hasn't been fun. We just thought the dry spells from 1996 - 2006 were bad. If the long range "el nino" forecast is correct maybe we are in the clear now (for a few months :roll: ). I don't know, the pattern I've noticed is roughly four-five weeks of some moisture and four - six weeks dry. We are about 4 weeks into the current wet cycle. We had 9.6 inches in September, total for the year is now 23.3 inches. Right now it is hard to see evidence of a drought (here). One thing for sure, with the economics of cattle the way they are now, I'm more apt to waste a lot of grass from here on out and not see that as a lost opportunity. I've just about seen all the short pasture I want to see. [/QUOTE]
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