Rain

We are seeing it go west and just above us or stay to the south and go east. Thunder and dark and we get barely enough to settle the top layer of dust on the road. Seems like all the surrounding cities are getting it.... Staunton, Waynesboro, Harrisonburg, Charlottesville but not us farmers in some of the surrounding areas. Sorghum-sudan grass is about 6 inches and days of 90-98 is not helping it any.
Think we are going to ship a load of 15 or so feeders this friday.... got an open jersey cow to go because I can't get an opening anywhere to get her made into burger and bigger cuts to have done into chip beef and hot dogs and such.... got a bull that is getting an attitude that needs to go if we can get him to follow the cows up the hill....
Might be good to send some now because if it stays dry there will be cattle coming off pasture early this fall....

M-5, that is the problem we run into when we cut hay. Each week they will give a 40-70% chance of rain and we hold off cutting the hay. Then this goes on to the point the hay goes beyond the 30 day cut to keep the nutrition level up. Then they will give us a week that there is no chance of rain, and the day we cut it or rake it, a thunderstorm comes out of nowhere. It seems to happen every time. I remember one year we had such a good year and got 140 bales off of a 10 acre Vaughn's Bermuda field. We hit it every 30 days with fetilizer and cut it on time. It was the nicest hay we had. The cows would eat every bale and did not go around sniffing to find the best place to start. They ate it like candy.

That was then, and this is now. Reminds me of an old person telling some youngster about how things used to be. I guess I am living that now!!

Getting prepared now for the outflow from another tropical storm that begins with the letter 'H'. Hanna is to come ashore down near Corpus Christi later today or during the nite. Harvey came ashore at about the same spot. Forecast to come in and then slide off to the west/southwest into mexico but I've learned not to be so trusting.

With the hurricane coming into Texas, I think it is going to come up through the US. It shows it headed towards California, but here in West TN, it is showing rain all week long after today. It shows to be higher amounts of rain falling, so I wonder if the winds and fronts will shift to push that storm system across the US towards the east?

Usually when it shows us to be getting rain, it is in the 0.009 to .001 amounts. But it is showing well above those levels for starting tomorrow.

I hope all of you that are short of rain get water from this system if it does turn east.

Yep...nothing to talk about unless you want to say 84 degrees At 2 pm on July 26....pop up showers aren’t putting much of anything on the ground but they have cooled things off some.

Congratulations on the rain you needed. It is so nice when it is timed just right.

So far this year is not doing so great. We were to get so much rain this week with quite a few inches. Now, each day that comes, there is no rain. It is a forecast that would have kept us from cutting any hay because of the prediction. I hope we still get it before the week ends.

 And I left a bale to the acre burn up....