Rain.

[Tumbulu]

50. Thanks Cleita!

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Oh my, on my farm the hills are dry and there is nothing on them for the 140 sheep (that I care for) to eat. I am irrigating one pasture (but it is only a few acres) and have to irrigate to get the wheat to come up. But in the '76/'77 drought the wells went dry in July......Since a drought was declared, most likely the alfalfa farmers will not get to irrigate and thus there will be no hay. There will be none of the normal seasonal wild oat hay either for the horses, sheep or cattle. I have 6 tons of milo.....(but it is dangerous to feed grain to ruminants- hence the antibiotic use in feedlots) but my hay will be running out (despite buying twice what I normally buy last summer). Will I have to kill all my sheep, or half of them, as everyone else around is getting ready to do, let alone the cattle?..... Meat prices will drop as no one wants their animals to starve. And all agriculture will go into "save trees and other valuable crops" mode.

I was making my farm plans for this coming summer, but now do not want to plant anything as if the well goes dry, anything I have planted will die.

So, I gladly join you in thinking of rain and it's sweet and othertimes riotous kisses upon this dry soil of our west.