Joy of Texas":2hyw1oe2 said:
Bad doesn't even describe it down here. If you would look out you would swear we live in west Texas. Everyone is selling ,they can not afford to feed them. It is sad,I haven't seen cows this poor out of shape in years. But what can you do?
Plow some fire breaks but keep them small so that you don't have excessive amount of soil blow away. Hopefully you don't have wood fence posts.
Don't let anyone mow pastures because the sparks will start a fire.
Do a rain dance and pray for rain.
We sold way to many head in the '05 drought. It is hard to replace cows suited for this climate. Surely there is a happy medium there but I didn't find it. LOL they were telling me that people burned needles off of cactus in the 50's and fed it. All the prickly pear I saw was already dead and dried up looking like purple pieces of cardboard. Hopefully ya'll don't have it that bad.
If you are going to sell more cattle, I'd seriously look at trucking them out of the worst areas of drought if you can.