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[Beefy]

Need some rain. bad. would irrigate but cant get any deisel either! we have a few water holes around in the pastures, mostly just dugouts where we put in pipe and built a rode that the cows like to stand in in the afternoon. they are jsut about dry. checkin on cows today i kept seeing a bunch of algae flakes floating in the water. didnt seem quite right and then i realized they were catfish heads and whiskers. musta caught 50 fingerlings as well as some warmouth and 5 edible size catfish. came up from the creek. put em in the pond. will go back tomorrow and try to get some more. didnt even make a dent in them today. dad said "you saved some lives today." i said "i might of saved ours! :shock: "

 

[Beefy]

they be in the puddle formerly known as this waterhole

 

[Susie David]

We still haven't had a decent rain for a few months...just the checker board variety, but then when it comes we get a flood of it...usually in October....plenty of water in the wells though

 

[Beefy]

yeah we normally get a few hurricanes blow in when the peanuts and cotton get ready to harvest. might not have to worry about that this year.

 

[bigbull338]

its try as a bone all over.i just hope the drought breaks an we get rain soon.all tho the cows arnt eating hay yet.an the pools are getting low.scott

 

[icandoit]

We could use some of that stuff they call rain too. Haven't had a decent rain in 2 months I would guess. Been a very dry summer around here.

Dick

 

[Susie David]

Spoke to soon....just enough this morning to make a mud hole out of the place...ground to dry to absorb the run off...DMc

 

[milkmaid]

Rained here last night. Maybe a half-inch or so. I've got some third-cutting hay out on the fields...was almost dry enough to bale. Was. Maybe Monday or Tuesday it'll be in the barn.

 

[Susie David]

Alot of the growers lost hay this spring with the off and on again rains...hope it stays dry for you....DMc

 

[dun]

Although a lot of politicians think differntly, it takes more then a couple of heavy rains to break a drought. It will be a couple of years of above normal rainfall to recover from the current drought period. That's partailly because in 3 years we haven;t recovered from the previous drought.

dun

 

[Beefy]

we've got Phillipe, Rita, adn some other one brewing. probably too late, but its coming.

 

[Medic24]

Wow, shoulda kept my mouth shut....was talking about having rain almost every day all summer, until a month ago....have had less the 1/4 inch in the past month...was great dry weather for hay for two weeks, now our pastures are drying up, and we are feeding that same hay. Pray for rain. a reasonable amount of course. :cboy:

 

[Anonymous]

Beefy what part of Georgia are you from. I live near Chattanooga,Tn. we have had a lot of rain this year. It has been dry as of late but the pastures he are still in good shape.

 

[Dave]

We had such a wet spring that nobody did hay until after the 4th of July and then it hasn't rained since. All the rain that has come in this summer has been to the north of me. There hasn't been enough rain here to amount to a good spit. I have been feeding hay for two weeks now. I have water in the creek and in the well, but I don't have any grass left in the pasture.
However, I know better than to complain about lack of rain. There is a reason this part of the world has such a high suicide rate. That come around about March when it has been grey skies and rain every day for five months with no breaks. So I wont complain about lack of rain because I know it is coming. I just have to wait.
Dave

 

[SPRINGER FARMS MURRAY GRE]

We finally got 2 1/2 inches last week.Was not before we needed it! Temps still up arouond a hundred,need some more! :cboy:

 

[flaboy]

Last report I saw I think we were about 5 inches over the record since they started keeping records. I did get some unwashed hay in last week and weekend though. I think it was the first 6 day period with no rain we have had.

 

[greenwillowherefords]

Just heard on the news today that they are predicting that we get 5 to11 inches of rain by this monday from Rita. Now thats alot of rain at one time.
GW Wife

 

[Beefy]

no rain still, doubt we get any out of her.