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That looks like a healthy garden. What do you water from in the absence of rain?
Keep talking about your lack of rain to remind me how easy it is to go into drought. We have been getting record rainfalls for the past couple of years, things are very waterlogged and dare I say it we are even wishing for it to dry up a bit. I can deal quite well with average.

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Just set out juice tomatoes on the fence panels on the far right . The only thing we have watered have been the pepper plants . Wife has been watering with epsom salt water once a week . We did get .4 about 2 weeks ago . But my gauges at the cattle pasture both had 4 inches this afternoon.
 
Nice garden as we got almost and inch of rain in the last 24 hrs. Your garden is ahead of mine as you are further south, but if the rains keeps up mine is coming around.
 
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kenny thomas said:
What's the normal yearly rainfall in Utah?
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We had 6.2 inches last year, the lowest total since records have been kept.

Climate Averages
Utah, UtahUnited States
Rainfall17.3 in.38.1 in.
Snowfall45.6 in.27.8 in.
Precipitation87.3 days106.2 days
Sunny226 days205 days

IMO we've been living in the delusion that recent history is normal. We know there was a very long drought, decades long, that decimated the four corners area including the Anasazi in Chaco Canyon around 1130.

This is why Lake Powell and Lake Mead are too dry to run their hydroelectric generators and why the Colorado river no longer gets to the ocean and no longer can be used for irrigation in its lower reaches.

Of course it doesn't help that Las Vegas is building like they have all the water in the world.

Have you ever seen the fountains and other water features on the Las Vegas strip? We are in a water crisis and they waste it.
 
Travlr said:
That's why we run cows on BLM ground at one unit per hundred acres... and the death loss is high. Eating the grass down to the sand wears out their teeth fast too.
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Wow, huge difference for sure. I am at 1 per 2 acres at the moment and grass is knee deep. I have 1 cow that looks obese and she is 17 and still had good teeth when I checked her this spring.
 
kenny thomas said:
Wow, huge difference for sure. I am at 1 per 2 acres at the moment and grass is knee deep. I have 1 cow that looks obese and she is 17 and still had good teeth when I checked her this spring.
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When I had my place in Arkansas I was running a cow/calf unit on an acre and a half and cut hay. In South Dakota I was running a unit on about 8 acres and getting more animals on my ground than any of my neighbors due to good pasture rotation procedures. There is lush pasture here in Utah... but an awful lot of BLM desert ground too. Some of the BLM ground in the mountains supports a lot of cattle.
 
Travlr said:
When I had my place in Arkansas I was running a cow/calf unit on an acre and a half and cut hay. In South Dakota I was running a unit on about 8 acres and getting more animals on my ground than any of my neighbors due to good pasture rotation procedures. There is lush pasture here in Utah... but an awful lot of BLM desert ground too. Some of the BLM ground in the mountains supports a lot of cattle.
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I need to put your area on my list of places to visit.
 
kenny thomas said:
I need to put your area on my list of places to visit.
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If you want to see the definition of DESOLATE, go west on Highway 50 past Delta Utah. There is about forty miles of ground so bad I doubt a prairie dog could survive on a hundred acres. There is also some just this side of Colorado. But where there is water it can be lush and beautiful.
 
kenny thomas said:
Do you irrigate your hay fields
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Well first off... I'm no longer ranching. Sorry if I left that impression. I sold my last place in South Dakota and I only have enough ground here to run a calf or a couple of sheep over the summer.

But most alfalfa here is irrigated. There is more variety in the landscapes here than just about anywhere.
 
Travlr said:
Well first off... I'm no longer ranching. Sorry if I left that impression. I sold my last place in South Dakota and I only have enough ground here to run a calf or a couple of sheep over the summer.

But most alfalfa here is irrigated. There is more variety in the landscapes here than just about anywhere.
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You still have the knowledge is what matters. Some alfalfa for horses here comes from Wyoming.
 

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