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Harvest Moon Time Extremes

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Anonymous

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Yesterday we got to 86 degrees-- this morning it is 40-- on its way to a predicted 95 (55 degree change :shock: )- tomorrow supposed to be near 100...
Elk hunters are whining about the heat-- farmers and ranchers haying and harvesting are smiling...
I don't have to worry about hailing out with the dryland wheat anymore- its in the bin...What looked like a totally shot crop (no June rain) ended up making 17 bushel to an acre (yearly average 22)-- but it isn't worth much this year...
Some of the later seeded irrigated wheat fields with lots of weeds and bleachage from all the late rains- starting to look more valuable as hay...
 

Cedarcreek

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You cooled off better than we did last night. Only got down to 58 here. The ones harvesting are happy here too. I've got to watch the water situation with my cows pretty close when its this hot in the pasture they are in.
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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Sounds like our summer days - Day time heat can get to 100+ but the coastal Air Conditioning rolls in and will bring the nights cool down to the 50's 60's.
Hot days cool nights
 

Silver

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Beautiful morning here today, 39 F. Didn't warm up alot, but we baled the last 150 bales of oats and got them all in tubes so we can get on to bigger and better things now. :D
 

gcreekrch

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Silver said:
Beautiful morning here today, 39 F. Didn't warm up alot, but we baled the last 150 bales of oats and got them all in tubes so we can get on to bigger and better things now. :D

You sure you're not a closer neighbor than you're letting on? Clouds, cold and silage weather here, looks like for the next 4 days at least. Come for a working ranch holiday. BYOI (bring your own iron) :D
 
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Anonymous

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Definitely isn't cooling off tonight....Still 80 at 9:30 PM...

I don't know if it got to the 95 today-- but was 91 once when I looked with 20 mph winds....We cut a 35 acre wheat field that was really weedy this morning- and with this hot wind and sun, it won't take long to be dried out enough to bale....
 

Faster horses

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The weather here in Washington has been soooo very nice.
Got a bit warm one afternoon, but nothing very bad. Rained a nice
rain last night and today. (Rain came straight down) and came in
nice and quiet, no thunderstorms. Except for all the people, I
could grow to really like it!!!

We roll out of here tomorrow to head for home.
I think we will have missed most of the hot SE Montana weather.
I bet our neighbors have been combining like mad; they
were so late getting started.
 

Silver

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gcreekrch said:
Silver said:
Beautiful morning here today, 39 F. Didn't warm up alot, but we baled the last 150 bales of oats and got them all in tubes so we can get on to bigger and better things now. :D

You sure you're not a closer neighbor than you're letting on? Clouds, cold and silage weather here, looks like for the next 4 days at least. Come for a working ranch holiday. BYOI (bring your own iron) :D

Rain started falling as I was fuelling up the tractor after we finished. Been raining steady ever since.
Boy, I might just have to take you up on your offer if I really get to take my own branding iron to your place! Can I borrow your stock trailer? :lol:
 

gcreekrch

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Silver said:
gcreekrch said:
Silver said:
Beautiful morning here today, 39 F. Didn't warm up alot, but we baled the last 150 bales of oats and got them all in tubes so we can get on to bigger and better things now. :D

You sure you're not a closer neighbor than you're letting on? Clouds, cold and silage weather here, looks like for the next 4 days at least. Come for a working ranch holiday. BYOI (bring your own iron) :D

Rain started falling as I was fuelling up the tractor after we finished. Been raining steady ever since.
Boy, I might just have to take you up on your offer if I really get to take my own branding iron to your place! Can I borrow your stock trailer? :lol:


Bring your haying machinery, stay till the snow flies. I'll give you the three calves that didn't get branded AND loan you a trailer to haul them home with.
AAAAAND,,,,, you can go on a bear hunt with me.
Have we got a deal? :p :D
 

Silver

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gcreekrch said:
Silver said:
gcreekrch said:
You sure you're not a closer neighbor than you're letting on? Clouds, cold and silage weather here, looks like for the next 4 days at least. Come for a working ranch holiday. BYOI (bring your own iron) :D

Rain started falling as I was fuelling up the tractor after we finished. Been raining steady ever since.
Boy, I might just have to take you up on your offer if I really get to take my own branding iron to your place! Can I borrow your stock trailer? :lol:


Bring your haying machinery, stay till the snow flies. I'll give you the three calves that didn't get branded AND loan you a trailer to haul them home with.
AAAAAND,,,,, you can go on a bear hunt with me.
Have we got a deal? :p :D

Dang, I'd like to take you up on that. Sadly, there's corrals to fix, a porch to build, bales to move, plowing to be done..... I'm sure you know the drill. I'd sure like to find the time to see your place one day. That area has always interested me, and since I read that book 'Buckaroos and Mud Pups' my interest has heightened.
 

gcreekrch

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Silver said:
gcreekrch said:
Silver said:
Rain started falling as I was fuelling up the tractor after we finished. Been raining steady ever since.
Boy, I might just have to take you up on your offer if I really get to take my own branding iron to your place! Can I borrow your stock trailer? :lol:[/quote

Bring your haying machinery, stay till the snow flies. I'll give you the three calves that didn't get branded AND loan you a trailer to haul them home with.
AAAAAND,,,,, you can go on a bear hunt with me.
Have we got a deal? :p :D

Dang, I'd like to take you up on that. Sadly, there's corrals to fix, a porch to build, bales to move, plowing to be done..... I'm sure you know the drill. I'd sure like to find the time to see your place one day. That area has always interested me, and since I read that book 'Buckaroos and Mud Pups' my interest has heightened.

Aw Shoot, you can do all that stuff right here if you get withdrawal symptoms. :lol:

Haven't read that book yet, thumbed through it at the book store and then found Pat Ferguson's "Gone Huntin'". I'll have to see if they still have a copy.
 
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Anonymous

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Started raining here a few minutes ago- and the radar shows a narrow band of rain extending from WY into Canada moving across the state...
This will slow up some haying and harvesting....
All we had down was about 30 acres of a weedy irrigated wheat field which we plan on baling....
 

Justin

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we finished combining on Thursday, what a relief :!: last year hail took all our wheat, and as luck would have it wheat was worth pretty good $ last year. but this year it all made it to the bin. the wheat ave. about
40 bu./acre. test wt. was 63 lbs. protien was a little lower than i was hoping for, but its tough to get the best of both worlds. by far the best crop i have ever had. rain is a wonderful thing :D
 
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Anonymous

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Raining again this morning- picked up another .2...Just enough to make the ground muddy and stop haying and harvesting...But these little showers wash the dust off the grass and green it up again...
 

Cedarcreek

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Oldtimer said:
Raining again this morning- picked up another .2...Just enough to make the ground muddy and stop haying and harvesting...But these little showers wash the dust off the grass and green it up again...

We picked up a whole 06 here. Does cool things off and keep the grass a little softer.
 

Cedarcreek

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Was 33 degrees here this morning. They forecast a low of 46. Didn't see and frost. Was thinking last night about sundown that it sure felt like fall.
 
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Cedarcreek said:
Was 33 degrees here this morning. They forecast a low of 46. Didn't see and frost. Was thinking last night about sundown that it sure felt like fall.

Yep-- thats what it got down to at the north place too...
I like this time of year about better than anything-- cool mornings- 45 right now at 6AM--supposed to get up to 80...Makes for some beautiful days...
 

Silver

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Oldtimer said:
Cedarcreek said:
Was 33 degrees here this morning. They forecast a low of 46. Didn't see and frost. Was thinking last night about sundown that it sure felt like fall.

Yep-- thats what it got down to at the north place too...
I like this time of year about better than anything-- cool mornings- 45 right now at 6AM--supposed to get up to 80...Makes for some beautiful days...

Are your leaves turning colour down there yet? We're getting a few yellow leaves here and there. I imagine they'll go fast from here.
 
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Silver said:
Oldtimer said:
Cedarcreek said:
Was 33 degrees here this morning. They forecast a low of 46. Didn't see and frost. Was thinking last night about sundown that it sure felt like fall.

Yep-- thats what it got down to at the north place too...
I like this time of year about better than anything-- cool mornings- 45 right now at 6AM--supposed to get up to 80...Makes for some beautiful days...

Are your leaves turning colour down there yet? We're getting a few yellow leaves here and there. I imagine they'll go fast from here.

Just a few- but like you say, it won't be long....I wouldn't mind a good frost up at the north place- because I have an improved pasture field (old hayfield with too many gopher holes) that has lots of alfalfa in it that I'd like to see get froze before I turn the cows in there and on the stubble fields...I think the alfalfa is mature enough that it won't bother the cows- but a good frost would make me feel more secure...
 

Faster horses

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A few leaves are turning yellow here too.
I hate it. We don't get to see trees leafed out long enough
in this country. The Ash trees are the last to get leaves in the
spring and the first to lose them in the fall.

OT, I think if you have enough grass mixed in that alfalfa, you
don't need to worry so much. The cows will eat the grass before
they eat much alfalfa. Now if it's pretty much a straight alfalfa field,
that's a different story. We have noticed for years now, how the
cows top off the grass first and leave the alfalfa alone, if they
have a choice. FWIW
 
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