Water, or lack of

[AlbertaFarmer5]

With apologies to Helmsdale and everyone else in the same situation. I'm not counting on drought for long term marketing. As we have seen, crop conditions in Western Canada have very little effect on world prices.
I'm desperately hoping for drought "here" since it is far preferable to the alternative.

I'd rather have a hot dry year with the resulting (local) bumper crops across all acres of adequate quality to market at depressed prices, than half drowned out, poor quality frozen crops which hadn't received enough heat units to even mature, regardless of price.

Unfortunately, nature doesn't seem to care what I am hoping for.

[bucket]

Seeing slough bottoms that were not dry in 1988. Guys were out working them up. If those sloughs get seeded in 2024, chances are it won't be worth seeding the rest of the field.

[fjlip]

Everytime we worked dry sloughs....wife said I will be sorry. Happened too often, I quit working up old muskrat land.

[blackpowder]

Have a landlord who started charging rent on the sloughs seeded or not. Dunno if that tells us where in the cycle we are.

[TASFarms]

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[Happytrails]

We don't need moisture until April. Until then I will take all of the great weather that mother nature sees fit to send.

[Guest]

Yes hafta admit, I am really enjoying this , must be a godsend for the hard workin livestock guys and gals !

[wade]

For years now, I have realized that I am at the mercy of mother nature.
What a relief knowing that the government can tax me and control mother/her/it/they/them/him/?? nature now.

[WiltonRanch]

Sure is easy on the feedstack but feeding as no snow to let cows run in the hills. Have sloughs but worry they’ll freeze to the bottom on particular fields.

[Guest]

For years now, I have realized that I am at the mercy of mother nature.
What a relief knowing that the government can tax me and control mother/her/it/they/them/him/?? nature now.

sounds stupid when you see it in print?