One man's trash is another mans treasure

[Horticattleman]

Man I feel so bad for you guys who so desparately need rain. I just hope it would stop here. 2 weeks total where I live is 25" +.

Other day we got 15" in 6 hours! No kidding. I was waiting to see Noah loading up my animals.

Trust me I'm not trying to throw it in someones face who isn't getting rain, just showing how what one man needs can ruin another. I just drove by a couple fields of soybeans today (3-400 acres) and most all of it was ruined.

 

[MikeC]

Man I feel so bad for you guys who so desparately need rain. I just hope it would stop here. 2 weeks total where I live is 25" +.

Other day we got 15" in 6 hours! No kidding. I was waiting to see Noah loading up my animals.

Trust me I'm not trying to throw it in someones face who isn't getting rain, just showing how what one man needs can ruin another. I just drove by a couple fields of soybeans today (3-400 acres) and most all of it was ruined.

Thanks for the thoughts. We haven't gotten any but the conditions have been getting more favorable everyday. Spotty showers the past few days all around.

Of course it would take about 30" to 40" to get us back in good shape and recharge the aquifers. We all know that ain't gonna happen this summer. :help:

 

[Jogeephus]

Yeah, it seems like nothing is ever just right. Probably why we all love this business - the challenges. If its not one thing its another. Was where you were a few years ago. Man I made the grass. 6 cuttings in one year! Of course, I had to fluff one field 7 times to ever get it partially dry. But I still think I'd rather have wet hay than no hay.

 

[C HOLLAND]

We had over 3 inches today in Enterprise where I work, but where I live we may get 22.5 drops :roll: :roll:

ME and the wife went out to Eufaula to eat tonight and it rained all the way there and back. I am glad some people are starting to get some in Alabama.

I may have to pay the preacher a little more soon.

 

[Nowland Farms]

I am thankful for the 1/4" that we got today. It won't do much for the grass except for keeping it alive a bit longer. In this drought, that's all I can hope for.

 

[Beefy]

those same clouds (i guess) are here right now. looks like rain all over but none here yet. lots of thunder though.

 

[MikeC]

I am thankful for the 1/4" that we got today. It won't do much for the grass except for keeping it alive a bit longer. In this drought, that's all I can hope for.

Rod, I listened to an interesting concept on rain the other day.

Guy was saying an agronomist told him that those little popcorn showers of 1/4" or less do more harm than good.

He was saying when those light showers come, the grass roots turn up to get water and are left high and dry when the top of the ground dries back out.

Make sense?

 

[C HOLLAND]

Mike, I have heard the same about a garden. I have been told to let the sprinkler run for a min of 6 hours to get down to the roots and that way they will go deeper and handle the dry spells better.

 

[FROGHOLLOWFARM]

Yea thats right the water needs to soak down to the roots so they dont start coming up.When they come up they dry up faster and are not as healty and die faster they need to go down.It's also better to water late in the evening.

 

[backhoeboogie]

It won't do much for the grass except for keeping it alive a bit longer. In this drought, that's all I can hope for.

He was saying when those light showers come, the grass roots turn up to get water and are left high and dry when the top of the ground dries back out.

If you have grass still living, I wouldn't say ya'll aren't in a drought. When all the grass is totally gone and will require complete replanting, cactus are drying up, and cows walking through the pasture renders serious dust clouds, you are in trouble.

 

[MikeC]

It won't do much for the grass except for keeping it alive a bit longer. In this drought, that's all I can hope for.

He was saying when those light showers come, the grass roots turn up to get water and are left high and dry when the top of the ground dries back out.

If you have grass still living, I wouldn't say ya'll aren't in a drought. When all the grass is totally gone and will require complete replanting, cactus are drying up, and cows walking through the pasture renders serious dust clouds, you are in trouble.

We don't know if it's living or not. It's brown and crunchy.

Is that living? :shock:

 

[C HOLLAND]

BHB

If you want to see dust clouds from the cattle walking in the pasture, then come by my place and you can see all you every could want.

I will be feeding peanut hay and rye fields this winter, and that also depends on RAIN