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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 15695"><p>In the South pasture, I just finished un-rolling onto the snow a large round bale of Alfalfa/clover mix for the cattle to eat and bed on. All of my noses made it through the -25 windchill last night. Even a one day old calf was up and walking. At 1:45pm here the outside thermomiter reads 4 degrees farenheit, and we have a 15 mph breeze on top of that. I just went to the weather underground main site. The map of the USA looks very cold. This big purple (their color for -30) thing is now extended down over Iowa, and still moving South!</p><p></p><p>I also checked to see what the weather was like one year ago here. Last year on 1/23 the high was 72 degrees and the low was a chilling 37 degrees.</p><p></p><p>I hope my propane holds out until I can take more money from a CD sometime after the 1st. Last month's buying of an extra $3 grand worth of hay to keep the cows especially safe was not a planned expense. It is impossible for beef prices to get high enough to offset the added expense the local ranchers are experiencing. This morning one young fella down at the feed store I know is spending an extra $800 a day for hay. (the $800 is not a typo!) He ran out of the hay his farm produced for the first time in the 8 years he has run it. It is an inherited family farm of about 900 acres and he says his grandparents can never remember running out of hay. He has over 300 head of 2nd and third trimester cows and no hay.</p><p></p><p>Yet beef cattle prices are down...</p><p></p><p>Eaglewerks</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:eaglewerks@hotmail.com">eaglewerks@hotmail.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 15695"] In the South pasture, I just finished un-rolling onto the snow a large round bale of Alfalfa/clover mix for the cattle to eat and bed on. All of my noses made it through the -25 windchill last night. Even a one day old calf was up and walking. At 1:45pm here the outside thermomiter reads 4 degrees farenheit, and we have a 15 mph breeze on top of that. I just went to the weather underground main site. The map of the USA looks very cold. This big purple (their color for -30) thing is now extended down over Iowa, and still moving South! I also checked to see what the weather was like one year ago here. Last year on 1/23 the high was 72 degrees and the low was a chilling 37 degrees. I hope my propane holds out until I can take more money from a CD sometime after the 1st. Last month's buying of an extra $3 grand worth of hay to keep the cows especially safe was not a planned expense. It is impossible for beef prices to get high enough to offset the added expense the local ranchers are experiencing. This morning one young fella down at the feed store I know is spending an extra $800 a day for hay. (the $800 is not a typo!) He ran out of the hay his farm produced for the first time in the 8 years he has run it. It is an inherited family farm of about 900 acres and he says his grandparents can never remember running out of hay. He has over 300 head of 2nd and third trimester cows and no hay. Yet beef cattle prices are down... Eaglewerks [email=eaglewerks@hotmail.com]eaglewerks@hotmail.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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