What a difference a year makes

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It remains bone dry around the area. I will try to get some pictures from my CRP posted to show the difference. I usually plant about 40 acres of food plots, but not this year. If the weather pattern changes and I should get any moisture I will load the drill and get with it, until then just wait and hope and pray.

There have been a number of fires, mostly from dry lightning strikes.

Here is a fire north of Dodge in southern Hodgeman County from a lightning strike. It burned lots of acres of uncut wheat before rains came and doused it, thankfully.

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The pastures are still waiting for spring rains to green up, so some are having to hay the cattle in the pastures.

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I came across this site which has some precip history.

http://anythingweather.com/monthly.aspx?id=3026&month=5&year=2011

http://anythingweather.com/monthly.aspx?id=3026&month=6&year=2011

You will notice some 100/50 days, 100 degrees and 50mph winds. No rain+ high temp+high winds = reduced stubble height, reduced yields, earlier harvest. At least around Dodge there will be a harvest, where places like Liberal there will fewer acres to harvest because of lack of germination last fall/winter.

I continue to pray for a good soaking rain.
 
Hang in there M.R.
I am sending up a prayer for you and for a good rain in SW Kansas and the rest of the parched areas affected by this terrible drought.
 
Maynard, It's time. You know it. We know it. You can't wait any longer! You have to do it. It's in your court! Yep, you have to go out on your ranch to the highest hill, strip down naked, and put forth your best rain dance ever!!! Film at 11:00! :)
 
But Prairie Drifter, I have always worked my fields naked. That is why no one comes to see me, including you.:)
 
Working fields is a square dance! Won't cut it. You gotta get funky!!! I'll be along! Might call first!
 
Oh yeah, if memory serves, you been driving past my house moren I been driving past yours:) We gotta find a cure for that in both directions!
 
Of course you are on the beaten path and my place is far from it(and I like it that way).

Not sure when I will be headed your way again. I sure have been going west lately, Liberal, Garden City and this week Holly, CO. Then next month back to Denver to the doc.

In addition to my work travel, I am in need of a replacement loader tractor and a no-till drill, so you never know what direction I might be headed in my search.

You know if I can't stop I always honk when I go by. Seriously, I will plan on stopping next time. I would tell you what tune I play as I go by, but then the guys on the forum might copy it and you wouldn't know it was me. :):)
 
If it takes going to the Dr. to bring you by, I'd just asoon you spent that time on the hill! Hoping the Dr. visits dwindle to meetings at the coffee house. Got my fill of that last week, 3 inch zipper in place. Plenty of farm equipment in the area. Many going to notill here as well. I don't remember if you said or not, did any of that seed bear fruit? Hopefully on it's second or third generation of gamebirds by now.
 
Prairie Drifter said:
Got my fill of that last week, 3 inch zipper in place.
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I need a loader tractor, as I think mine went down for the count. Looking along the lines of a JD6420, 6430, 7230, 7330, etc. and about a 15 foot no-till.

I am needing a self leveling loader on the tractor. Then pallet forks. Hope to have lots to trees to move from nursery to location over the next few years and the easiest way will be with the pots on pallets. Will be getting a roto-tiller wide enough to cover the tires, as I have several miles of strips to till by fall in preparation for the tree/shrub plantings in the spring. Have several miles of water line to extend before spring. Will have sub drip tape under the weed barrier at all tree/shrub locations.

Just lots of work to do and not the equipment to do it.

I have seen some of the partridge pea, which is something I didn't have before. I don't know what the deer vetch looks like, so not sure on it. I suspect some of the Illinois bundleflower and maximillian sunflowers filled in, but already had some of it, so don't know what is new. Thanks.
 
Bit of surgery week ago Wednesday. Repaired a bulge that didn't belong.

I'd sure advise against using any cedars in the new plantings. You'd be fighting their children for decades to come. Oriental Arborvitae might be the better choice. Shrubs are the most important for the game you enjoy. Anything taller is of limited value to them.

You don't fool around on loader tractors! That'd be a trade up on our best tractor here.

I'm supposed to be getting a new work truck. That'll take me to Topeka and back. Might peer over the fence when I pass any dealerships and see what there is to see. No pro there.
 
Hope all goes well with your repairs. I have stayed pretty close to my doc's recommendations, so I would not have a blow out to repair.

Well my old tractor is a 4630, so I don't buy often, so need to get something that will last me for a good long time. I get all the goody out of everything I own. When you see the projects I have before me, you will know I need that much tractor. Already have a trencher for the waterlines, but it would be like sawing concrete at the moment.

I, of course, need MFWD. I am hoping to get the IVT transmission since the travel speed with the roto tiller will be about 1.5 mph =/-0.3., so I need some speed control at low speed as I go up and down some slope.

I have looked at Case, New Holland, Kubota, but likely will stay with JD.
 
Here is one of my food plots in 2008
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And today
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Here is my CRP last year
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And today
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Here are a couple buffalo in a pasture I went by looking for something to eat
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Thanks for the great photo's!!! You sure can tell what water is worth!!! Just didn't slip far enough south for you today!!!! Those storms were bird killers any way!!!! Reports of almost 4 inches of rain in 90 minutes and 4.75 inch hail!!!! Everything that was looking good for birds N. of 70 got pretty much hammmeerd!!!! Hope you get some good moisture soon!!!
 
Maynard, instead of looking for a new tractor you should be investing in a camel and a harem. Might be too dry for the camel!
 
I better stick to the tractor search. Mechanic checked today. Oil pump blew up and ruined the turbo(new a hundred hours ago) and cam. It is toast. Finished a project today, so hope to be on the tractor trail tomorrow after a visit to my chiropractor.

Speaking of harems--- my oldest brother is just back from a mission trip to Africa. One man had seventy wives.:eek:
 
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