Sounds like a fleet of trucks from Wyoming to Texas might make a lot of Hay - I mean money.
Mike On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Don Ordes <[email protected]> wrote: > Jimmy, > > Seems this year has been THE year of extremes- > Floods, droughts, heat waves, disasters, DC political/financial > ineptitude... > > My pasture is ready to hay for the 2nd time, and will make a 3rd before > winter, and I haven't put a single drop of irrigation on it. Up until last > year, we've been in a 30-year drought. Now we have run-off flooding. > > Too bad I can't ship you down my hay- nice alfalfa/grass mixture. > > DonO > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy D. Moore" <[email protected]> > > > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:21 AM > > Subject: [VFB] IOFF Roll Call > > > Still here and glad to see other IOFF'ers are too. Been way too hot to > do any > fishing. Waco set a new record of 100 + temperatures - 55 straight days, > then > dropped into the nineties for a couple days and now back to 100+ . One > usually > gets cabin fever only when it's too cold to go outside. Ours is Cabin > Fever too, > but on the high end of the thermometer. Been too hot to fish, golf, etc. > If I'm going > to do anything outside, have to do it before 11 a.m > > Our lakes are 10-15 feet low and one out in west Texas is as dry as a bone. > I've seen pics of 10 pound bass lying on the shore - dead as a door > nail. Stock > tanks are going dry. Hay is scarce. Ha prices are through the roof. My > S-I-L > has been looking for hay for over a month. Sold 140 of his Black Angus and > kept 60. Finally found some good hay and just bought 35 big rounds at $100 > per bale. Yep, you read it right $3500. He's hoping to make it to the > fall > rains or he'll have to sell out completely. Many ranchers are in the > same boat. > I've got enough hay to get my Longhorn Steer Calico to mid-November. > Shurely > the fall rains will be here by then and the pastures will green out > again. The last > hay I bought was $7.95 a bale and that's the little square bales. > > We are all praying for rain > > > > **************** ><((((((((º> *************************** > JIMMY D. MOORE, ARS WB5RHT,Author Moon Holler Misfits > Fishing & Hunting Club, Member, TOWA, Past VP Guadalupe > River Trout Unlimited, Texas Fish & Game Magazine North > Zone Fishing Editor Emeritus, VFB & FFW Moderator, Scout > Exec. BSA, Retired, > http://bigtroutman.tripod.com/**index.html<http://bigtroutman.tripod.com/index.html> > ***************** <º))))))))>< ************************** > > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/vfb-mail?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en> > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/vfb-mail?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en> > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > -- Mike Bliss Aloha from Hawaii -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
