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Post by jamshundred on Jul 15, 2015 4:40:35 GMT
It is pouring tonight. There has not been a day without some participation for what seems like weeks. There might have been two. (not complainIng, nope not a bit ! )
I cannot recall having pastures like this in 20 years! Of course no hay is getting made or it has been rained on repeatedly and will be ugly, ugly, hay., so it will only be a few months before the sheet-hits- the-fan when hay producers double or triple their prices and then I will be fussing about the daily rain!
judy
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Post by Blessings Farms on Jul 15, 2015 9:12:38 GMT
Our normal rain fall for a year is 32" I heard and as of today we have had 28". I am so tired of wet feet
just walking to the barn and I have never in all my years mowed so much water. I nest get going as fast
as I can and hpoe not to get stuck. Ther is a BLESSING to this it could be Oct. thru Feb. can you imagine
this as SNOW !!! I pray that the west can get some of this moisture too.
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Post by lakeportfarms on Jul 15, 2015 10:34:02 GMT
We've been quite fortunate here to be North of all of the rain, but every few days it sneaks up on us and gives us a nice little burst for a day. We had a perfect 5 day window of sunshine and low humidity for first cutting hay a week ago, maybe a week behind the usual schedule, but the hay I have started piling up (all 400 plus 4x5 round bales of it!) is very nice hay and not overly mature. With some good rain here and there and with the weather cooperating late August hopefully one more good cutting for the year. I suspect a lot of our hay will be heading South this year, driving the price of it up here in a few months if the weather pattern down there doesn't change much. Today we have a 25 knot stiff breeze out of the North (the flies will be hiding), low humidity, the waves on Lake Huron are quite large, bright sunshine, and our high is supposed to be in the mid to upper 60's! They are saying low temp tonight could drop into the mid to lower 40's...that's pretty chilly for mid July. After last summer and how this one is going so far (not to mention our winters!), I'm wondering if the articles the past few days about upcoming global cooling because of reduced solar activity might have some merit. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3156594/Is-mini-ICE-AGE-way-Scientists-warn-sun-sleep-2020-cause-temperatures-plummet.html Of course, the usual suspects in the media and science (Michael Mann) are deniers and think that the sun doesn't have much to do with the temperature. I suppose it's pretty hard to tax the lack of solar activity. I think they should institute a tax on solar panels, since they require a lot of energy to produce for one, and on the other hand they'll be heavy users of the scarce solar energy and activity, if the sun does go to sleep for a while. Meanwhile, we should offer large government grants and tax credits to heavy fossil fuel use to help offset the lack of solar energy. www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/07/14/no-earth-is-not-heading-toward-a-mini-ice-age/I couldn't ask for better weather right now though. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2015 16:04:02 GMT
I managed to get some hay baled yesterday. Rain is moving toward us now. I dont think my neighbor made it unless he baled this morning. Aside from a few large rains we have not had a ton of volume but it does rain every couple of days. I will likely be finishing first cutting in August.
Talking with another neighbor last week. He is not a young guy. He said when he was younger he was complaining about the rain and his dad who farmed through the depression told him to never complain about rain. After the drought we had a couple of years ago I have to agree. I will make hay when I can and in the mean time the cows will happily eat the rest.
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Post by genebo on Jul 16, 2015 0:07:13 GMT
The rain got me. I had cut two fields last month and was letting them sun cure when the rain came. It never let up and eventually the new grass grew up through that on the ground. That cut grass was lost. Now the new grass is high enough to cut, and two other fields are ready, but it won't stop raining.
My hay fields all belong to someone else. My cows can't eat it. It's bale it or lose it.
I'm hoping that the weather will improve enough to let everyone get enough hay in for the winter.
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