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We need rain badly
bpost
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Our range construction is ongoing. The backer board got built at the 50 yard line. It is accurate to within one inch, plumb, square and level. The range and pavilion lights are just about done.
The range field is not doing very well, it is about 70feet wide and 160 feet long. The grass that did grow is dying out. We put 150 pounds of grass seed on it with lime and fertilizer. The bare spots out number the grass areas.
We drilled two feet deep for the posts yesterday, the ground was powder dry all the way to the bottom of the holes. If we don't get rain soon I fear we will loose the entire field to drought.
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We have some spots where we dozed up 'borrow dirt' for a pond repair project that have been seeded 3 times since June. Nothing but weeds so far. Some 'pushed out' (bare dirt) fence rows that were seeded a month back but have nothing but weeds growing. We set fence posts 4' deep and went deeper with the excavator w/o hitting moisture. Only place we actually found moisture was creek bottom or live springs.
You can always have our winter rain. After this last winter I'm done.
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We had enough rain in sw Virginia that the farmers did their second cut mid August. If the rain keeps up they might get a third cut.
Mean while in my part of Texas, if you didn't do an early Spring cut, Chances of getting any hay are slim to none, what is this rain you speak of?
It's so dry here, the corn in the fields is popping. The crows thought it was snowing and flew South.
@jimdeere News said they got 4-1/2" of rain just below you this weekend. Too bad it wasn't wider spread. Mother Nature is fickle.