You know that"s the deal with farming. You can do all the plowing, planting, etc just right but if the weather doesn"t cooperate, it"s all for naught. You just have to come to acceptance that if the weather isn"t right for you, it won"t be right for the rest of you local competion.
We"ve had cool dry springs the past two years and that has affected our hayground. We normally get our first cutting onmother nature, i.e. no irrigation, but the past two years we"ve had to turn on the water and if you don"t get it on early enough, the yields go way down. My yields have dropped by 20% these . I"m hoping to recover but they"re telling us that we"re in line for a "perfect storm" with regards to grasshoppers this year. We"ll try some control stratgies but we"ve got to be ready for some loss in hay and pasture. I"m looking hard at the cows and the bottom 10% will, in all likiehood, have to go.
I do my best and take what Mother Nature gives me.
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