[RushingWater]

A solution is to get hay to the farmers from areas that are not in drought. Wait, high diesel prices make this prohibitive - may be we can rail it in? Paging the transportation secretary - oh, his qualifications for the job is that he is gay.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Michael Snyder is a professional doom and gloomer.

[know.your.why]

Ok. So what is our proactive president doing to address this major problem in the country that he is commander over? Oh, wait...I forgot. /s

[Sequoyah101]

The “flood” of beef will not reduce store prices but will instead increase packer’s profits.

Similar to the $4 tub of Land-O-Lakes oil and butter I no longer buy. Wonder what the profit margin is on that now? Sure seems extreme to me.

In a rare moment of good judgement all my cattle have been gone since late spring when they were looking their best. Just had a feeling and called it right, I rarely do.

In ‘12 the pastures were eaten down to the roots. I am watching the neighbors cows beginning to get frantic for forage and decent water. Looking sideways from a distance grass does not appear too bad but straight down and up close it is sparse. Thankfully we had a good spot rain last week, should save the trees, but it is so hot the grass just doesn’t grow much at all. It rained up to 6 inches in 2 to 3 hours and there was not a drop standing by midnight. I went out and looked, soaked right in. Not even muddy spots.

I have a barn full of decent hay and the price will be high again this winter. In ‘12 it hit $100 a bale and people hauled it hundreds of miles. That is horrible.

Supposedly we are in for a short spell of more seasonal temperatures but the damage has been done. Long range forecast is not favorable for a fall recovery. I hope it is very wrong for others and their stock.

[know.your.why]

Just a Reminder: What caused the drought in the 1930s? First changes in tropical sea surface temperatures created a drought. Poor land use practices then led to exposure of bare soil followed by wind erosion and dust storms. The dust storms interacted with radiation to make the drought worse and move it northward increasing the potential for further wind erosion.

What ever ultimately caused the 1930's drought it sure wasnt fossil fuels!!

[small farm girl]

We sold our herd the year of the peach bud freeze followed by drought that summer...all our ponds dried up and we spent untold hours schlepping water to them. Also knowing hay would be at a premium made a very hard decision easier.
BUT, with the impending cow fart unit tax sure to be coming to the US soon, maybe these ranchers are getting out ahead of that nonsense.

[eastexsteve]

That’s funny. With all this beef hitting the market, I don’t see prices dropping.

[pas]

CNN: Joe Biden reduces the cost of beef.

[subterfuge]

2600 cattle? Out of millions?