|
|
  Roan Wonder
         Location: SW MO | It's supposed to be 105 here this week & everything is burned up. No pasture & hay is really hard to find. How things in your part of the world? |
|
|
|
Veteran
Posts: 225
   Location: Montgomery TX | HOT!! We are blessed to have enough hay to make it thru winter for our cows and horses. Pasture is not near what it usually is. We bale our own hay, and we usually have some left over and people start buying it mid-late august, but we have already sold all our extra this year. people are buying 30-50 round bales at a time. My horses are getting a break right now, its 95-100 at 8-9pm. It's been 103-108 on a regular here lately. I know it will pass, but dang it's miserable right now. We need rain bad....
Edited by bten 2022-07-18 12:30 PM
|
|
|
|
  Keeper of the King Snake
Posts: 7613
    Location: Dubach, LA | Hot. This summer if making me believe in global warming. It's been 98, 99, 100 here in North Louisiana for weeks with no end in sight. The only me storm we had started a fire. Older gelding stopped sweating. |
|
|
|
  Witty Enough
Posts: 2954
        Location: CTX | Hot and dry! Even the weeds are dying.... We should be alright hay-wise... Back in March I started to get worried about higher prices, so we got more rounds... now I'm glad we did. There are no decent rounds to be found around here! We really need rain! Last week we got 1/4", but that was just enough to keep the dus down that afternoon.... Driving to town this morning I noticed 3 big scorched fields.... it's like a tinderbox alright! |
|
|
|
 I hate cooking and cleaning
Posts: 3310
     Location: Jersey Girl | Up until this last week it hasn't been too bad of a summer here in NJ . But its been 95-100 with some humidity. We haven't has rain for a while either. This week there is supposed to be somewhat of a break - high 80's - low 90's with a chance of storms a couple of days. |
|
|
|
 Elite Veteran
Posts: 974
       Location: In the wrong place at the wrong time | Hot and ridiculously humid, even by MD standards! the one true blessing, we've had lots of rain. I just came in from mowing pastures and most farmers have already gotten their second cutting put in the barn. |
|
|
|
 Balance Beam and more...
Posts: 11490
          Location: 31 lengths farms | For our area we are actually not as hot as we typically are, we usually have had several days above 110 by now, sometimes even a week at a time so being at 103-106 kind of seems like a mild summer. Our water is being sent down the Sacramento River rather than irrigating with it (gotta love a government that is anti farming) so no feed, hay is crazy high priced if you can find it. I'm talking $22-32 a bAle for alfalfa 3 string bales depending on if it is a hay broker or a feed store. |
|
|
|
 Take a Picture
Posts: 12837
       
| NE TX is hotter than a $2 pistol. |
|
|
|
 Veteran
Posts: 231
   Location: On My Horse! | It's hot here in South Florida, (Low 90s, but we have a seabreeze) but after spending the past two years in Central Mississippi, South FL heat is nothing! I'm still able to be outside and do chores. MS heat and humidity about killed me lol. It's been raining in the early morning, and thankfully, we are still able to get decent hay. Blessed! |
|
|
|
 Lived to tell about it and will never do it again
Posts: 5408
    
| We are just over from you in SE Kansas and are burnt to a crisp! Already started putting hay out for cattle and Praying that we will have enough to get us through the winter. Going to be touch and go since all our fields were down about 1/3 the bales we got last year. Most of the farmers are cutting their corn for silage since the crop was a big fail this year. They are saying there will be some scattered showers north of I44 the next few days, not sure if it will do any good or not at this point. Time will tell |
|
|
|
 The best bad guy on the internet
Posts: 3519
   Location: Arizona | AZ is hot, this week we have finally gotten some rain, yeah! It's been well over 110 degrees, now it's about 95 and humid, blah! Hay farmers continue to cut and grow, no shortage I see here. My pasture is crazy high with grass, I can't keep up with it with only 3 horses grazing. Hurry up fall!! |
|
|
|
  Keeper of the King Snake
Posts: 7613
    Location: Dubach, LA | streakysox - 2022-07-26 2:26 AM
NE TX is hotter than a $2 pistol.
Yep. And y'all have had a good rain since we have. Some church around here ain't paying their preacher right! |
|
|