Hot and Dry

[Sugar Creek]

We have had only about 1/2 inch of rain in June and more days in the 90s than we have had for several years. Grass is burnt up. I bushogged the ridges in late May to get rid of fescue seed heads. Sidling ground is still not mowed. Best grass is on north facing steep hillsides.

Any suggestions on how best to manage pastures in a drought?
Should I mow or leave alone?

 

[Crowderfarms]

We have had only about 1/2 inch of rain in June and more days in the 90s than we have had for several years. Grass is burnt up. I bushogged the ridges in late May to get rid of fescue seed heads. Sidling ground is still not mowed. Best grass is on north facing steep hillsides.

Any suggestions on how best to manage pastures in a drought?
Should I mow or leave alone?

I finished clipping our Pastures the other day. We are in the same situation here in Middle TN. Dry, hot, showers have been widely scattered, not a lot of help. Bout the only thing growing is weeds.Hope we get some relief soon. I'd still clip em' even though it's dry.

 

[Caustic Burno]

90's dang cold front must have came through we have been over a 100. Driest June on record since 1889, we are 20" behind.
So dry here cows starting to give powdered milk, had to go dip the catfish for fleas.

 

[Bama]

, had to go dip the catfish for fleas.

Just when you thought you've heard em all, someone throws in a new one. Now thats dry.

 

[greenwillowherefords]

Now that is pretty funny! Where do you guys come up with things like that. We are suppose to have 103 tomorrow. Summer is here are in full swing. Grass is dying. I mowed to garden down today, everything is gone in it except a few plants. Thomas said we are expecting rain on Thurday. If we don't get some soon we will be in trouble.
Greenwillows Wife

 

[Caustic Burno]

Bama one of the seed ticks I got off the catfish.

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[stocky]

caustic, now that is a real biting seed tick---wouldnt want too many of them on me, that is for sure---lol.
So dry here that we have frogs 3/4 grown that havent learned to swim yet and the fish going up stream in the evening stir up so much dust, you cant hardly see across the creek bottom

 

[Angus Guy]

Had a youngster ask me the other day why we were raising pineapples and not corn.

 

[flaboy]

Any suggestions on how best to manage pastures in a drought?
Should I mow or leave alone?

Sorry guys! So far we have had the second highest rain fall in June since they started keeping records down here. We still have a few days to break it though. Our problem is we can't cut our hay because of it.

 

[dun]

Any suggestions on how best to manage pastures in a drought?
Should I mow or leave alone?

Sorry guys! So far we have had the second highest rain fall in June since they started keeping records down here. We still have a few days to break it though. Our problem is we can't cut our hay because of it.

Don;t get too excited. We had the wettest January on record this year, about normal feburary and the driest march-june on record. All of that rain is pretty useless if it isn;t spread out when you need it.

dun

 

[jkwilson]

Sorry guys! So far we have had the second highest rain fall in June since they started keeping records down here. We still have a few days to break it though. Our problem is we can't cut our hay because of it.

Send it north, please!

 

[flaboy]

Don;t get too excited. We had the wettest January on record this year, about normal feburary and the driest march-june on record. All of that rain is pretty useless if it isn;t spread out when you need it.

dun

Agreed and that is my point too much is no better than too little. If we get a hurricane we will all need boats and our tree's will fall like dead leaves as the ground so saturated the roots won't hold.

 

[I Love Beefies]

Tropical storm Brett is churning in the far South Gulf of Mexico I keep wishing it would take a more north easterly path and visit me...... looks like it headed to Mexico.

 

[milesvb]

I really need to start shredding our improved pastures but not when it's dry like this. I'm going to wait until we get some rain or the grass will just burn up faster. I'll have to put up with the briars and brush until it rains.

 

[Campground Cattle]

Came in to warm up its 100 here today with a heat index of 106.

 

[J Baxter]

What I just can't get by is these dadburn skeeters. It hasn't rained a spoonful in three months and everything else is dead as a hammer, but the skeeters are thriving. You can see clouds of them in the evenings while I'm filing water troughs.

Anybody else got these new drought resistant skeeters?

 

[icandoit]

Yea, I hear ya Campground, 103 here with a heat index of 108. Hotter than blazes. If I'm not mistaken, we didn't have any rain in at all so far in June and it doesn't look good for the rest of this week either. My brother is coming from Ca. on the 14th of July, and I hope he brings some rain or at the very least, thunderstorms. You know the old joke: "I saw a coyote chasing a rabbit and they were both carrying canteens".

Dick

 

[dun]

103 for an hour or two yesterday. Friends in the Mojave Desert are giving me a bad time because it's hotter here then it has been there.

dun

 

[Crowderfarms]

Hot here too. Heat index is supposed to be 100 today. Wife says that three Bullfrogs and a Turtle were at the front door looking for some SPF 80 Sunscreen.

 

[Campground Cattle]

Hot here too. Heat index is supposed to be 100 today. Wife says that three Bullfrogs and a Turtle were at the front door looking for some SPF 80 Sunscreen.

I wondered where them frogs went to cool off.