RAIN

[Brute 23]

We have been getting a much needed rain. Got 1.5" night before last.... 1.7" around noon yesterday.... its been raining all morning.... and its covering a good area. Haven't seen it this wet in 2yrs+. I was about to get on a cube regement... probably can hold off a couple weeks now. :banana:

 

[ALACOWMAN]

good for you,, cattle business!! when prices are good you get hit from other angles....those hay bales in my barn have went up and down in value... ever since i baled the first cutting

 

[bigbull338]

weve only got .5 inch of rain out of 5 days of rain.so glad that you got some good rains.

 

[J&D Cattle]

I've had two tenths in 4 weeks and probably not a full inch since April. Guys within less than 10 miles have had 4-6 inches in 2 weeks. I'm nervous as he!!.

 

[Jogeephus]

Glad you are finally seeing what water can do for grass. Drought sucks. Maybe the trend is changing. Its been dry here but we've managed to get the rain when we needed it.

 

[Limomike]

We have been getting a much needed rain. Got 1.5" night before last.... 1.7" around noon yesterday.... its been raining all morning.... and its covering a good area. Haven't seen it this wet in 2yrs+. I was about to get on a cube regement... probably can hold off a couple weeks now. :banana:

Man, thats good news to hear! nothin like a good summer rain .... wonder where ours is????

 

[Caustic Burno]

Our forecast for today as of yesterday we were at 11 inches.

The Flash Flood Watch continues for

* portions of Louisiana and southeast Texas... including the
following areas... in Louisiana... Allen... Avoyelles...
Beauregard... Calcasieu... East Cameron... Evangeline... Jefferson
Davis... Rapides... Vernon and West Cameron. In southeast
Texas... Hardin... Jefferson... northern Jasper... northern
Newton... Orange... southern Jasper... southern Newton and Tyler.

* Through this evening

* rainfall amounts will average 1 to 3 inches this morning into
the afternoon hours. Local amounts in excess of 5 inches will
be possible in stronger thunderstorms that move over the same
general area. Rainfall amounts over the past few days has been
between 3 and 8 inches with some areas receiving 10 inches
already since the rain event started. This has caused some of
the smaller creeks to run near bankfull and the additional
expected heavy rains may cause flash flooding.

 

[1982vett]

Almost 3 inches the past few days.

AS always...the time between these rains and the next one is what makes or breaks us. Can only hope....

 

[Brute 23]

We are pushing up on 5" and a little over at a couple places.

One of the owners of a place I take care of is building a house at the ranch. The builder sent a 40' float full of materials to be delivered yesterday. :bang: The guy got unloaded but his front tire were off the gravel and he couldn't get moving again. We rocked him back and forth with the tractor and he was able to get going. It was a true test of patience. The guy was not country wise. Twice I stopped him and said STAY ON THE GRAVEL. The last time I told him... I DON'T CARE WHERE THAT TRAILER GOES BUT YOUR TRUCK TIRES BETTER NOT LEAVE THIS GRAVEL OR ME AND YOU ARE GONNA HAVE A PROBLEM. It was right at 7 before we got out of there.

A pic I took yesterday making my rounds.

 

[3waycross]

We got .40 in last night. It has rained here for the last 5 days a little each day. We are better but We are at 4.0 in since Jan 1st and we need to be at 6.54 to even be at avg for the year. Some of ya'll get more rain in a day than we get in a year.
The problem we are having is that a lot og the good grass went dormant when they shut off the ditches and now the rain is just bringing weeds. It is helping some folks to make a little bit of a hay crop though. Alfalfa could go either way but the grass that was up and going is starting to make some understory with all this rain!

 

[ALACOWMAN]

so far 3 inchs since tuesday,,but up till now we've been burning down... if the temps heat back up like they were, we'll have to bite the air just to get a breath

 

[Caustic Burno]

Pet ducks came up to the house this morning said they were leaving as it is to wet here for them.

 

[3waycross]

Pet ducks came up to the house this morning said they were leaving as it is to wet here for them.

Our ducks have grown longer legs and lost their webb feet and learned to eat Lizards for a living................first liar doesn't have a chance around hereLOL

 

[Caustic Burno]

Pet ducks came up to the house this morning said they were leaving as it is to wet here for them.

Our ducks have grown longer legs and lost their webb feet and learned to eat Lizards for a living................first liar doesn't have a chance around hereLOL

Water is not to deep yet I seen a wood duck walk across the bottom pasture earlier and he has only got 3 inch leg's. :lol2:

 

[HOSS]

We have been in a sever drought in our county. It would rain 15 miles to the north, south, east and west but not a drop here. We got less than .5" the whole month of June. My grass was like wheat straw. It started raining Monday and has rained every day since :banana: We only had one or two hard run-off rains. The rest of the rain has been long, slow soakers which is what I needed bad. My only problem is that now that the big Cat trackloader is on the place it is too wet to run it :lol: I can wait. I prefer the rain.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

poured 6in. out of my rain gauge yesterday, since it started tuesday... the problem here '''if you can call it one'' what ever we're behind on, we can make up for it over night

 

[Caustic Burno]

From the porch look's like a couple more in mine. We are under flash flood warning's and is coming down like pouring it out of a bucket. I was at 14 inches yesterday got 9 1/4 of that in two rain's.

 

[Brute 23]

From the porch look's like a couple more in mine. We are under flash flood warning's and is coming down like pouring it out of a bucket. I was at 14 inches yesterday got 9 1/4 of that in two rain's.

Holy smokes. Every thing will sure be pretty when its over though. We need one of those every month. Make the creeks pretty like they use to be.

 

[SRBeef]

It's almost like Wisconsin and Texas have changed places from last year. Here it is DRY. I don't know if this officially qualifies as "hard grass" but it goes crunch when you walk on it.

I am holding some better pasture for later in case it doesn't rain. But it amazes me how cattle can take "grass" like this and change it into milk for their growing calves and good beef.

I have had cattle for only about 6 years and am still in herd building mode but this is a real education in managing pastures in a drought. We are not used to this in Wisconsin.

Checking on a bull/cow group last evening I did have to smile seeing growing calves nursing cows. They aren't doing too bad for no supplement but I am watching their condition. The 108 day calf in the first picture is close to 400 lb...amazing what a cow can do.

There is a 50% chance of showers this weekend but if I don't get anything significant from this the forecast has another long stretch of high temps and sun before the next "chance of showers".

Some pictures from last evening -

Wouldn't mind at all if you folks in TX would send some of that rain north...

 

[slick4591]

Not all of Texas is as lucky as CB's area. I'm north of Dallas and we've only had 1.07" at my place for the month. Ground is showing it with the cracks.