Category: Drought
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How Bad Is It
One of the things that always catches my eye is talk of a drought. I know and understand the problems this situation causes. Australia is experiencing one this year and it is pretty bad. How bad is it?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>EMERGENCY supplies of grain will be imported to feed drought-stricken stock, as forecasts for Australia's winter…
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Down Under
Just a few different items from Australia that have caught my eye.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20596614-1702,00.html" >Drought hitting livestock prices</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>LIVESTOCK prices across NSW are in freefall, with farmers selling off record numbers of sheep and cattle as the drought worsens.<br />n<br />nMeat processors say they cannot take any more livestock, and producers say they…
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Dry Ground
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/cracks09132006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/cracks09132006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Just a picture to show you how dry it is around here. Big cracks are opening up in the ground like I have never seen before. I did not have to force the shovel in at all, it's just sitting there. Taken 9/9/2006.</center>
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Rain’s Value
Shamlessly stolen from <a href="http://www.state.sd.us/doa/secretary/news/Column_174.htm">Larry Gabriel</a>, South Dakota Department of Agriculture<br />n<br />n<font size=5><center>Rains of Confidence</center></font size=5><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A recent headline read, "Rural Confidence Hits Four Year Low." The story was based on a bank's annual survey of Australian farmers. It concluded that drought and rising input costs caused farmers to lose "confidence" that next…
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Brown
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/brown08282006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/brown08282006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Brown, dry landscape. That's all there is to take a picture of so I guess I will. Sad. Taken 8/28/2006.</center>
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Disaster Aid
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=5BACE54A-C332-26AD-CD425CCF6595AEFE" >Johanns unveils drought aid package</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. Ag Secretary Mike Johanns toured drought-ravaged areas of South Dakota Tuesday, then announced a new program for hard-hit livestock producers called the Livestock Assistance Grant Program (LAGP).<br />n<br />nUnder the program, <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>…
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Dry and Brown
We gathered the replacement heifers today to preg check them on Saturday. I wanted to get them in early enough so I wouldn't be rushing. I though I would have no hired hand but now I do so it could have waited but what the hell, stick with your plans. Usually I like to get…
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What?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/18/news/state/35-rains.txt" title="Fantasy Story">Rains fail to bring end to drought conditions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Recent rains aren't enough to snuff out the fire danger in the region.<br />n<br />nIt's definitely no time to be complacent, said Hoyt Richards, southern land office area manager with the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.<br />n</blockquote><br />n<br />nExcuse me!!! What did…
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Thinking Alike
Everybody’s herd has a bottom end. I like that. I've never heard it put that way but I really like that. Otherwise, <a href="http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/newsrelease/2006/current/02beefta.htm">this article</a> is like reading my mind and past actions. I really liked this part here:<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Some culling thoughts would be to early wean calves and cull in this order: open…