Wanna See Dry?

[Allan in NE]

Took this picture yesterday as the cattle came up for water.

So darned dry that the weeds won't even grow anymore. :>)

Allan

 

[georgeky]

Allan, it looked just like that here for a while, but it has rained a little in the last month or so and things have greened up a bunch.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Allen look like that here for some time .But now we are back to mowing the yard about 4-5 days now mowed thursday going to have to mow this evening.

Hope you guys get some rain.

 

[Rich Va]

We've been drier than normal in our area but have had enough to get the crops grown.No bumper crops here this time,I think the farmers will settle for average considering the heat and lack of rain. It wasn't that long ago I think you and Gary were wishing it would stop raining. It always goes from one extreme to another.

 

[Allan in NE]

Oh,

That Gary is always throwin' fits like that. :>)

If ya cuss the rain around here they take away yer visiting rights. :>)

Allan

 

[Anonymous-0]

Dry here in Maryland too, just recently had a few T-storms & got some rain. Got a good first cutting of hay & then it burned up. Example, in front of my parents house first cutting was 120 square bales, I tried to get a second cutting from it because it looked the best, I didn't cut the other fields, total of 9 bales off same land. Wasn't worth the fuel, I give up. Corn is nothing around here, with some rain the soy beans still my turn out???

 

[Allan in NE]

I'm gettin' ready to turn the cows out in the alfalfa fields.

Now, that's dry. :>)

Allan

 

[El Toro]

We did get a good rain on Thursday. Some areas in MD have been getting rain. The 2 inches we received Thusday was the most since April. We were in FL waiting for the plane to arrive in Tampa. It was being held up do to the storms around Dulles Airport near DC. Only about 5 hours late. That picture shows it exremely dry in your area. Some areas around the country have been flooded. Last year we had 22 inches of rain in June and that ruined the crops for farmers too. Hal

 

[Allan in NE]

Hey Ol' Pard,

I'm not complaining. It is sure saving me diesel fuel. No sense tilling if it can't grow. :>)

Allan

 

[old]

Pretty much the same way here, but since I live in a valley my pasture is still some watt green. Been thinking about cutting it for hay but figure if I did it would just dry up and then I'd have to feed what I just baled so I'm leaveing it alone till we get some rain
Hobby farm

 

[Anonymous-0]

So dry here in western IN that the tough to kill weeds around my house are brown now. My sweet corn is less than 2 ft tall , tassled and no ears. We had a half inch of rain a week ago,late afternoon, but next morning ground was just as dry as it had been. Kind of like it never even happened.

 

[Walt Davies]

Living out west, way out west, I'm pretty much use to not having summer rains because if we do get a rain its not normal. I alway wonder what it would be like to not have to water all summer like you guys do east of us.
Walt in normally dry Oregon summers.

 

[Bob]

It's so darned WET here in northen ND that the crops are sprouting and growing in the swaths. I talked to a friend this morning who has barley swaths with 4" sprouts growing out of them, and it's raining again!

 

[Lanse]

Mowed the lawn twice since school let out. Well, I did do it recentally in spots, but just to knock down these tall weeds that apperentally dont need water, but that dont really count.

 

[paul]

Generally takes 2 years to dry out like that around here - southern MN, heavy clay soil, lot of rain & snow typically.

Well, my pasture looks just like yours. Been dry for 2 years. This is becoming another 1987/88. Corn is way down, beans are starting to die off too. First cutting was good, 2nd was the best quality, but 1/4 the volume. Thrid cutting don't think will be enough to pick up.

--->Paul

 

[El Toro]

You must be feeding those cattle pretty good since they look in good shape. All those steaks on the hoof. My wife would never let me kill one of them. Hal

 

[IaGary]

Thats right and next week I'll be complaining cause its to dry.

Right now I'm complainin cause its to darn hot.

If I didn't complain I wouldn't have anything to talk about.~})

Gary

 

[rrlund]

Like my cousin said,it takes a dry year to wake you up and a wet year to put you out of business.

 

[TGIN]

Glad to see ya in here Allan , Been wandering about ya .We have had a few rains this summer just at the right time to give us what looks like a real good corn crop but were still about 10 in. below average and the creeks are dried up . I`ve been watering the cows sense mid june , I usually dont start till mid to late Aug. Have to keep movin them cows around so they got somthing to eat!! Fixin to take a few old ones a ride to town . S.E. Indiana

 

[keh]

I'll complain because it's too dry and too hot. My pasture looks like Allan's.

KEH

 

[Jerry/MT]

Sorry to see it's so dry by you.

We've been movin' water across our pastures for about 5 weeks now to keep them green. We only had a few days in July that were below 90F and we'll run out of water at the end of this week. The air's full of smoke from all the fires but other then that, every thing's OK!

 

[Anonymous-0]

Heck, at least your trees in the back are still green. Here most woods are spotted with brown driying up trees.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Hi Guys
Nothing seems fair. Here in Scotland it has rained most days for the last 4 months, land is absolutely soaked. Had difficulty mowing the grass with my little ride on machine as it kept sinking into the ground. Hope you get some rain soon and hope it dries up here.
Bill

 

[Eric in IL]

Just wondering if the water for the cattle comes from a well. If so how deep do you guys have to drill to hit water out there and how many holes do you usually have to dig before you find water?

I have two wells on my place in central Illinois, one goes dry in the summer and one hasn"t yet in 17 years. The good one is about 28 feet deep. ---Just curious, Eric.

 

[Allan in NE]

Yeah,

This is an old windmill that someone has converted to an electric powered pump jack. I've got a timer on it and it runs a good 6 to 8 hours a day to fill those two tanks.

Don't know how deep it is; probably a good 300' I would guess.

Allan

 

[Burnie]

That could be a photo from around my area anytime in the last 3 years. We got some rain about a month ago, all it did was punch up a bunch of weeds. Still, your cattle seem in pretty good condition. You feeding them yet, Allen?

 

[gab]

That's a shame. We were across Neb. and Colorado last summer and it looked about the same. I thought you had a bunch of rain a while back plus a big blizzard and ice storm last winter. I thought it would be a little greener this year.
It's been dry here in N. Illinois to, haven't mowed the lawn for an even month, then we got five inchs last Monday all at once. East of here in Rockford, I think they called it there second 100 year flood in 11 months, caved in some foundations and tore up the same houses that the people were just getting fixed up from last time. Jim

 

[Allan in NE]

Naw,

Got 23 head on 100 acres and they are still going after the "cured on the stem" stuff.

Started hay feeding the horses about a month ago tho. They flat ran out of grass.

Allan

 

[Lanse]

Well, today broke the 14 day record of days at 90 and above. Today, this morning, it was about 70.

Got some fence done. Werent gonna have enought hay to get through the winter, and my lazy mom and I had been working on this thinng for over 3 mounts, and today, when she left for work at about 8, I waited half an hour to see if she forgot anything, and fired up the tractor and headed out. Did remaining 3/4 of fence before noon. Sometimes ya just gotta break some rules, and seeing we got this stuff in march (I remember driving the fence out back when it was snowing, and seeing the small amount of work there, I figured this was one of those times.

 

[Lanse]

I'd cut it down, aint gonna get much off it (from my little experience). Damn corn here aint much better. What a first year for me, huh. =(

 

[Gary in Mozarks]

I hear ya Allan, We havn't had rain in a month. I mean 0.00 Been at least 90 the whole time and mostly over 100. I think it was 105 yesterday. I heard one of our neighbors chopped his corn and fed it to his cows as the ears never filled out.
We had a wet spring and everything looked so good commin on too. Yesterday, I saw a rain cloud on the radar image but it missed us by about 30 miles. You couldn't drive a nail in this clay right now with a 5 lb sledge, much less a fence post. Our well is 220 ft and is still going strong.