Category: Drought
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Dry
<a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/02/news/local/29-march.txt">March comes in warm, leaves us dry</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>March should have been a lot wetter in Billings. Instead, it was the 10th-driest March in 75 years of recordkeeping.<br />n<br />nJust .42 inch of precipitation, mostly snow, fell on the city during the month. That's just 38 percent of the average 1.12 inches that usually…
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Drought and Corn Prices
I brought up the fact recently that a drought in the corn belt due to the La Nina currently in place could really affect the corn prices and affect the price of food for all of us. I got accused of only caring for this because of how it affects the beef market. I will…
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Meltdown
The Australian cattle industry <a href="http://www.kticam.com/news/agricultural/efc2dd23-29b8-4d38-8ebe-20378233c818">appears to be in meltdown</a> because of drought and grain prices down under.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Record high grain prices have thrown Australia's A$4 billion ($3.5 billion) beef cattle industry into disarray, emptying feedlots, cutting cattle saleyard prices and triggering price rises for domestic and exported beef. <br />nThe world's biggest beef…
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Permanent Dry
I'm really beginning to wonder if <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/no-more-drought-its-a-permanent-dry/2007/09/06/1188783415754.html">this</a> isn't going to be the situation in Montana any more. The Permanent Dry instead of calling it a drought every year. I know its a funny thing to post on a morning where I got a little moisture last night, the first in about 3 months, but…
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Outlooks
Beef herd expansion in the US <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=154808">is still on hold</a> so the outlook for beef prices holding up is good. That's good news to me the producer, we won't talk about you the consumers. The funny thing is that weather is still the driving force here just like it is on fires recently. Everybody…
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Free?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/19/news/business/45-numbers.txt" >New tool allows for ranching by numbers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A truly valuable computer program must be user-friendly. Jeff Printz calls the new Drought Management Calculator, set to be released at no cost later this summer, "rancher-friendly."<br />n<br />n"It's really designed for the rancher to sit at home and run a bunch of different options,"…
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Drought
Every year it seems like I read about drought somewhere in the US having to sell cows because of the drought in their area. This year I see that in California they are having drought troubles and <a href="http://www.cfbf.com/agalert/AgAlertStory.cfm?ID=841&ck=02A32AD2669E6FE298E607FE7CC0E1A0">having to sell cows</a> to try to adjust for the drought problems. <br />n<br />nAnother area having…
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Drought Not a Concern, For Now
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/14/news/state/20-drought.txt" >Wave of wetness improves state's outlook</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>With floodwaters still receding across southeastern Montana, it's time to talk about drought – or the lack of it.<br />n<br />nThe agricultural drought – the one that produced sparse and spindly crops and withered range grasses during many of the past eight years – has subsided.<br…
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Rain
It is totally unbelievable this year. After years of drought we are getting so much rain the country can't use it. It's all running off. Billings didn't get that much but the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/07/news/state/20-storm.txt">creeks around it are flooding</a> from the greater amounts upcountry. Over 4 inches in the Pryors. <br />n<br />nWe got around 2-3…