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hurleyjd

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No rain since the last week in June. Nearly every day in July has been a scorcher. Today August 4 at 3:49 it is 102 degrees. Prediction next week is 108. Pasture about gone and will start hay feeding next week. Sure hope this is not the starting the mother of all droughts.
 
hurleyjd":p9udlkep said:
No rain since the last week in June. Nearly every day in July has been a scorcher. Today August 4 at 3:49 it is 102 degrees. Prediction next week is 108. Pasture about gone and will start hay feeding next week. Sure hope this is not the starting the mother of all droughts.
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Same here. I have actually been thinking about setting hay out. Cows haven't lost any condition and are grazing but this heat and no rain surely has stunted the grass growth, especially the last two weeks.
 
No rain since early May. While it isn't in the 100's we set a new record for the most 90 degree plus days in a summer. Cool season grass just doesn't work well with 90 degree days. Hay yields seems to be off 25-30%. People are stating to feed hay now. Hay will be scarce and expensive by spring.
 
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First photo taken middle of June.
Second today , same spot.
We still have a month's worth of dry grass. Feeding protein. As long as we get the usual September rains. We'll be ok....praying.
 
I despise the thought of having to buy supplement because my grass is burning to a crisp but I guess burnt up knee high grass is better than the Burt up overgrazed short grass we have had the past 6-8 years.
 
I'm sorry to hear you're hurting. It's been about that long since I've had rain too, but I was stocked light this spring, and between that and all the rain we had in late spring I'm still in pretty good shape.
 
I know my sympathy won't push you people one step down the road of life, but I will offer it. We've all been through droughts, and long story short it hurts. The pocketbook, and the mind. Supplement till you can't stand it, then sell what you don't mind seeing go first. Maybe it'll rain before you have to sell your front lot cows.
 
The moisture you had doesn't last too long with those sort of temps you have had and things go belly up pretty quick. I do hope you get some relieving rain pretty soon. Our summer is not too far away and the forecast is for a pretty tough one, I am not looking forward to it.
Ken
 
Every day since April, there has \been a chance of rain here. Guess I'm kinda complaining, sorry. Still haven't gotten the first cutting of hay up. Usually am done by June 20. Thousands of acres not planted, weeds 14' tall in the fields. Friend that keeps track said over 40" since May 1.
It's a general mess. Hay fields are actually too soft to carry a baler, water running out of the sides of hills. Got 9" a couple of weeks ago, they said around 5" day before yesterday. Grass is actually crap, too much water. My business has work backed up till next spring.
Sorry to sound like that, but the other EXTREME isn't too fun either. gs
 
Greg,

You mentioned the grass not being much good. I've noticed the same thing here. We also had an exceptIonal amount of rain late this spring. My cows stayed in good shape, but my calves didn't grow like they usually do.
 
Sorry to hear that. The only time we've gotten rain this year, and I'm not kidding, is when we've had hay down. I saw something about a month ago that said 100% of ID is in a drought. Last year we had a pretty good winter but the spring time temps were way too high and the snowpack started melting in early March. If that happens this year we'll be out of water about half way through the summer. There are some folks in Easter Oregon that were getting shut off, for the second straight year, at the end of May. It's not fun anywhere right now I guess.
 
Yes, this has been one weird year.Went from couldn't catch a day without rain and not being able to walk across the yard to drier than a popcorn fart.We have black gumbo ground here and it is cracking something awful.

With temps running around 100 it doesn't take long at all to suck the juice out of everything.I have a few young fruit trees and having to water them-i almost let them go too long and a couple of apricot trees got pretty rough looking.

I hate being in drought mode and deciding what stock i might have to sale or start as you said having to feed hay. :x
 
crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch
I'm probably going to put a couple of older bales out today just to get them used to eating it.

Temperature 95.5 °F
Dew Point.... 79.7 °F
Humidity... 99%
Precipitation 0 in

Forcast thru the weekend---more of the same and then some.
 
we put out 2 test bales last nite to see how fast the cows eat them.the pastures might have 2 more weeks grass ion them.then the cows will be turned into a 90ac meadow to graze.im hoping we get rain soon.not ready to go into another bad drought.
 
It seems like here lately you can't buy a drop of rain in July and August. That is why I refused to complain about the flooding this spring. Hope it start raining no later than September. Last night the weatherman said it was changing and some front were slowly forcing their way down here dang high is holding them up. I got plenty of hay thinking about putting a bale out and filling up the syrup tank. Noticed calves are not growing like they were earlier may get them some feed.
 
wacocowboy":48ekeo90 said:
It seems like here lately you can't buy a drop of rain in July and August. That is why I refused to complain about the flooding this spring. Hope it start raining no later than September. Last night the weatherman said it was changing and some front were slowly forcing their way down here dang high is holding them up. I got plenty of hay thinking about putting a bale out and filling up the syrup tank. Noticed calves are not growing like they were earlier may get them some feed.
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Yeah the highs are changing .... from 97 to 103.....
 
1982vett":2q0pc9s9 said:
wacocowboy":2q0pc9s9 said:
It seems like here lately you can't buy a drop of rain in July and August. That is why I refused to complain about the flooding this spring. Hope it start raining no later than September. Last night the weatherman said it was changing and some front were slowly forcing their way down here dang high is holding them up. I got plenty of hay thinking about putting a bale out and filling up the syrup tank. Noticed calves are not growing like they were earlier may get them some feed.
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Yeah the highs are changing .... from 97 to 103.....
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Yep we are going under a heat advisory tomorrow. It will feel like 105 to 110 through Sunday.
 
wacocowboy":1dtn5rtx said:
It seems like here lately you can't buy a drop of rain in July and August. That is why I refused to complain about the flooding this spring. Hope it start raining no later than September. Last night the weatherman said it was changing and some front were slowly forcing their way down here dang high is holding them up. I got plenty of hay thinking about putting a bale out and filling up the syrup tank. Noticed calves are not growing like they were earlier may get them some feed.
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Weatherman said last night the area between the Mississipi River and East Texas is slipping back into drought. If you treat em right you can make pasture stretch until it rains again in November. Took this the other day.
 

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