So damn dry

[Ache4Acres]

Was out poking around yesterday. Holy crap it is dry out there. I don’t know how much rain we are going to need to replenish things but it seems like it might be measured in feet and not inches.

We got lucky this year and caught just enough rain to make 1/2 a crop. Without rain or lots of luck next year I’m thinking it will be a dust bowl.

I hear lots of arid countries doing heavy modern technology cloud seeding very successfully. Do you think that if they get 10” of rain to fall in Dubai that it leaves less for the rest of the world ?

[fjlip]

Philips says we are 2 FEET short of precip. Wells going dry, dugouts mud holes.

[BreadWinner]

A good farm well used to be the most valuable asset on the farm. Allot of acreages and farms were built in the wet years and it will be interesting to see how many run out of water this winter.

[fcr]

We dug a new dugout in 1987,it has served us very well ..... till last night when we were spraying.Start hauling from municipal well tomm to finish, not sure what we will do in the spring without an abundance of wet snow.

[the big wheel]

World famine right around the corner.
Our governments here oblivious to help
Out.

[biglentil]

World famine right around the corner.
Our governments here oblivious to help
Out.

Wow just wow! Because they would do a better job of farming? Maybe in your case.

You must be one of those that think the grocery stores make the food?

[Sheepwheat]

I was thinking water tables/aquifers the other day. Guys are draining 40 acre sloughs now, that historically never went dry all year. Are not wetlands our water filters, our aquifer rechargers? With equipment nowadays, any old quarter can be made whole. After being a recharge filter for thousands of years, now there is nothing.

Also all the bush going down rapidly. Trees change water tables and the water cycle.

I think these guys are not only shooting themselves in the foot, but all the rest of us will pay dearly sooner than we think.

What good is a full quarter, if the aquifer disappears? This is a far greater issue than “climate alarmism”, no?

[the big wheel]

Wow just wow! Because they would do a better job of farming? Maybe in your case.

You must be one of those that think the grocery stores make the food?

Where do you buy your coccain?

Cattle herds desalinated . Help should have come earlier in the spring when
It was obvious what was happening.

Just watch guys cutting back in inputs
No coverages not worth the gamble
So even with moisture food production
Won’t be at the potential.

Should be water programs right fuukn
Now to look for well water or hauling and pumping
Assistance should have happened before everyrhing
Dried right up to nothing not wait and maybe
You get a rebate maybe you don’t.

I know your neighbour he said your the shittiest
Farmer around.

[the big wheel]

I was thinking water tables/aquifers the other day. Guys are draining 40 acre sloughs now, that historically never went dry all year. Are not wetlands our water filters, our aquifer rechargers? With equipment nowadays, any old quarter can be made whole. After being a recharge filter for thousands of years, now there is nothing.

Also all the bush going down rapidly. Trees change water tables and the water cycle.

I think these guys are not only shooting themselves in the foot, but all the rest of us will pay dearly sooner than we think.

What good is a full quarter, if the aquifer disappears? This is a far greater issue than “climate alarmism”, no?

This is a very very big and good point!!

[biglentil]

Where do you buy your coccain?

Cattle herds desalinated . Help should have come earlier in the spring when
It was obvious what was happening.

Just watch guys cutting back in inputs
No coverages not worth the gamble
So even with moisture food production
Won’t be at the potential.

Should be water programs right fuukn
Now to look for well water or hauling and pumping
Assistance should have happened before everyrhing
Dried right up to nothing not wait and maybe
You get a rebate maybe you don’t.

I know your neighbour he said your the shittiest
Farmer around.

Be very careful for the type of gov't help you ask for. The 4R Nutrient Stewardship agenda is being pushed aggressively. They want to drastically limit the amount, control the type, control timing and the place of your farming decisions. The only gov't help I ask for is stay the f%$k out of my farming decisions.

BTW shitty farmers wouldn't recognize good farmers if they saw them. That's part of the reason they suck at farming.

https://nutrientstewardship.org/4rs/

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Cattle herds desalinated .

I know what you mean, once you desalinate a herd, it's impossible to put the salt back in.

[the big wheel]

I know what you mean, once you desalinate a herd, it's impossible to put the salt back in.

Cmon man here’s the deal. Phone is still
On trumps spell check. Cmon!!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Cmon man here’s the deal. Phone is still
On trumps spell check. Cmon!!

Well, in that case, I wish you a successful and happy coffifee.

[helmsdale]

Philips says we are 2 FEET short of precip. Wells going dry, dugouts mud holes.

There are water holes here that in my lifetime I only remember being dry after the 80s. They filled in '96 and up until now hadn't looked back.

MANY dugouts are dry. So far I haven't heard of any water wells, but it's certainly going to be challenging to keep even a garden alive if we're hauling water from 20 miles away.

[the big wheel]

No water anywhere here for a good 15 miles even
To fall spray the fields. And most of that people
Need for the house.