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how are things around the country

Yesterday- I Checked on cows- fixed a little fence-- and grass, water, and cows paint a pretty picture...
Today it is raining again... With the Milk River about to go over our road- I wish I could send some of the dry areas a few days of this rain... But knowing this country- by mid July we may be thankful for it- and praying we could get more...

This spring is running good..


Cole Creek Juanada Rain was the first to meet me when I checked cows... Hoping I had some cake with me (which I did)


Down the spring coulee- water in every hole..


Little Bannon 2BY Bull was making his rounds checking out the girls... Too busy to even stop and get a cake treat...


Big Coulee has water holes all the way down it..




And Up it..


Yearling heifer standing in water hole chewing her cud... Got it pretty easy- stand one spot eat, drink, chew cud, ----whatever...


Cows and calves hanging around the dam at the bottom of spring coulee... The yellow flowers are Arnica which is showing up everywhere this year...And in some places the hills are solid yellow... It only shows up every few years when conditions are just right...


 
We need some more sunshine here. Temperature did get to 93 Monday only 84 yesterday. Mostly overcast so far today. Have had 1.13" of rain since the beginning of June. People here are ready to start haying now, I don't know of any close by who have any put up yet. Lots of the alfalfa fields had a lot of die outs, some are being plowed up. Cool season grass is doing real well though. Alfalfa has never stood drought to well, but I wonder if the newer varieties we plant now are as tough as some of the older ones were. They be more decease resistant or more productive but often there are trade offs.
 
It hasn't been above 60 F here for 3 weeks. Raining steady again since yesterday noon with 7 more days of rain in the forecast.

We will be pulling irrigation dams 2 weeks early and hope it dries up by late July.
 
Got an inch this morning. Things look about as good as they could around here. We plan on starting to hay next week if it looks like it will be sunny and dry.
 
We started mowing a pivot of alfalfa and orchard grass last Monday. Weevils are starting to show up, will surely need to be sprayed when we get the bales off. Country looks beautiful. Been done calving for a couple weeks. Need to brand soon. Life is good.
 
It's just plain wet here. 1.5" again last week and small showers this week.

And we're the lucky ones compared to east of us where they have ponds on their crops in places.

The upside is that we already have more hay and pasture this year than we had the last two years.

Cows are up to their bellies in grass. Tramping more than they eat if I'm not careful on how much they get.

Too wet to cut hay, alfalfa weevil is starting to hurt the hay crop.

I guess it's better to cut and wrap quality hay than wait and bale alfalfa and Timothy sticks like we ended up doing last year.
 
After a Friday morning thunderstorm dumped another .5 on us-- its finally looking like the weatherboys are forecasting a week of dry weather... This should allow the Milk River to drop back in its banks and take away the worry of it flooding out the South Bench roads and isolating us again... It needs to raise about a foot to go over the road...

I have a wedding to perform this afternoon (which I promised the young lady way back last year that I would do for her) and I think both the bride and I were worried I would be flooded in and unable to show up to perform it...But I hand my neighbor and his boat standing by... :wink:
 
We ended up with close to a inch yesterday. :D

Talked to the neighbor this morning and he had a bit of a flood at his yard just up and across the valley from us. Washed the gravel off his road in the yard,flooded his shop and made a real mess. :?
 
Heres a few pictures I took last night that also show the condition of this riverbottom...

Most all our activities anymore are surrounded by kids and grandkids...It was my son- in laws birthday so we invited some neighbors and friends...

Warming up the horseshoe pit...




We've had so much rain I just can't keep the yard mowed...


This is my water hazard for when I'm trying to hit those golfs around the yard - this has been cut once, but has water standing now and is heading out! The field beyond the yard is in Willow Creek Forage Winter Wheat- and is about 20-24" high....


Wind finally went down a little so the flag flying at ease showed it was Smore making time...


Daughter, granddaughter and her little friend smore making..


Granddaughter Chezney giving my son pointers on how to make Smores...


Some more of the wild bunch....


If they get too wild- I've even got a place for them... :P
 
Had 2 night before last, makes 11 in the past month, mesquite have beans, pear flowering. Odd part is not very wide or long, neighbor had 1/2 place to the east inch. Having heck getting alfalfa up but not pumping water. Oil Derrick 1 1/2 to the north east, maybe our time is coming?
 
Since my first post on this topic things changed quite a bit We are through Ai of last week all natural no drugs and got the best conception in years. Really am happy but had great help this time
Haying should be done soon custom haying cost 13.00 bale rather than the 19 from a different crew and nothing got wet
Yields everywhere have been great. Sure is quite a relief to get 300 round bales put up here for 13 each rather than paying 50 to 70 dollars from last year drought year.
Sill no demand for cattle though. Many want two years of hay on hand before they think of getting back in again. This was the first time in 15 years I still have bulls for sale Weather says no rain for a while.
Now since many sold out or low many do not have much to sell for a year or two
 
Hay Feeder said:
Since my first post on this topic things changed quite a bit We are through Ai of last week all natural no drugs and got the best conception in years. Really am happy but had great help this time
Haying should be done soon custom haying cost 13.00 bale rather than the 19 from a different crew and nothing got wet
Yields everywhere have been great. Sure is quite a relief to get 300 round bales put up here for 13 each rather than paying 50 to 70 dollars from last year drought year.
Sill no demand for cattle though. Many want two years of hay on hand before they think of getting back in again. This was the first time in 15 years I still have bulls for sale Weather says no rain for a while.
Now since many sold out or low many do not have much to sell for a year or two
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OK--i'll bite---how do you know your conception a week after a.i. 'ng?
 
littlejoe said:
Hay Feeder said:
Since my first post on this topic things changed quite a bit We are through Ai of last week all natural no drugs and got the best conception in years. Really am happy but had great help this time
Haying should be done soon custom haying cost 13.00 bale rather than the 19 from a different crew and nothing got wet
Yields everywhere have been great. Sure is quite a relief to get 300 round bales put up here for 13 each rather than paying 50 to 70 dollars from last year drought year.
Sill no demand for cattle though. Many want two years of hay on hand before they think of getting back in again. This was the first time in 15 years I still have bulls for sale Weather says no rain for a while.
Now since many sold out or low many do not have much to sell for a year or two
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OK--i'll bite---how do you know your conception a week after a.i. 'ng?
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Yeah I'd like to know that tidbit.
 
We finished AI and the last couple we bred were rebreeds. We started early enough to do that usually I turn a bull with them after the first AI. We were waiting for a couple of cows to come in heat and semen from a new bull so we had everything up to do that. Sorry for not completing explaining everything
 
Storm rolled through some time after 2AM. I have never seen lightening flash like that. It was mostly sheet lightening but looked like strobe lights going constantly.Big wind and the weather station just across the line is reporting.93/100ths. That will soak things up again. :D
 

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