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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1760950" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>Cutting down aspen trees daily was common here during the great depression. Less forest and more concentrated livestock operations make this difficult today.</p><p></p><p>Annuals are always one of the drought management ideas from the talking heads A big issue is that annuals don't grow well w/o rain, and you don't get much rain in a drought. Hummmm... I planted a lot of them last year. Spring and summer seeding were money losers. Got lucky with fall rains and some of later seedings paid off. All in all it was not cost effective. I would not seed UNINSURABLE annuals again until after it starts raining.</p><p></p><p>I did plant some insured corn this spring. If it rains - - combine the corn and then graze the stalks. If it does not rain - - have the insurance adjustor look at it and then graze it out. Should have done that last year.</p><p></p><p>A hay shed, a corn field, some poly wire, and a stock trailer are some of your best drought management tools.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1760950, member: 1715"] Cutting down aspen trees daily was common here during the great depression. Less forest and more concentrated livestock operations make this difficult today. Annuals are always one of the drought management ideas from the talking heads A big issue is that annuals don't grow well w/o rain, and you don't get much rain in a drought. Hummmm... I planted a lot of them last year. Spring and summer seeding were money losers. Got lucky with fall rains and some of later seedings paid off. All in all it was not cost effective. I would not seed UNINSURABLE annuals again until after it starts raining. I did plant some insured corn this spring. If it rains - - combine the corn and then graze the stalks. If it does not rain - - have the insurance adjustor look at it and then graze it out. Should have done that last year. A hay shed, a corn field, some poly wire, and a stock trailer are some of your best drought management tools. [/QUOTE]
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