Hello Simon and Heather, I feel your pain. Our drought started in 2019, lasted through 2020 and into May of 2021. It finally started to rain about the third week of May. Throughout that time we had maybe 12 inches of rain. Now, La Niña is predicted to take hold again and provide us with another dry winter. I also want to commend you on the quality of your videos. You do an excellent job. All the best to you and your family.
God bless your neighbors!!! Such a good video though. Showing the good and the bad- and how to handle the difficult times. Hate that y’all are going through this, but love all the footage of your property and cattle! Your little Belfair is looking so good. Guess she’ll be completely mulberry colored. Was hoping for a tad more red or brindle, but she’s gorgeous. So I heard you say the neighbors have irrigated land. Is this something y’all are thinking about doing? Thankfully we get plenty of rainfall in Alabama, but this year has really made me think of the what if’s… it’s scary to see (on fb) what everyone’s pastures are looking like and horrible to read about them having to cull back so much!
The neighbor's land is sub-irrigated, which means it is naturally a higher water-table in that area. They don't have to irrigate it with sprinklers. Additionally, the wells on their property are 10'-50' deep while our is 180-300' deep even though we are maybe 20-30' higher in elevation than they are. We do not have water rights to irrigate our fields. We water our garden, our flowers, and some grass--we haven't mowed the lawn since May which should tell you how much water I am not putting on the lawn. Hopefully some of the new field grass will come up going into the fall if there was some seed that didn't germinate. We got 1/4" of rain last week!
@@cozycowfarm I literally thought that meant they only had a portion of their land irrigated 😂🤦🏻♂️ well thank you for sharing! I’m wondering how much of a pain it would be if I just used an atv to haul a tank of water over my back pastures to “irrigate” every weekend or so. running irrigation lines would be way to expensive for me
I’m on the east coast and some hay farmers are shipping their hay to the west coast because of the large hay shortage. We have been very lucky to have quite a bit of rain this year on the east coast.
An area where the water table is higher, resulting in growth of plants like grass/pasture, even in the absence of any rainfall or irrigation (ie sprinklers).
Interesting slice of life. Thank God for good neighbors. Good luck.
I really appreciate this video... and I applaud your attitude and perspective. Life can be hard, but with faith and family it can still be full.
Hello Simon and Heather,
I feel your pain. Our drought started in 2019, lasted through 2020 and into May of 2021. It finally started to rain about the third week of May. Throughout that time we had maybe 12 inches of rain. Now, La Niña is predicted to take hold again and provide us with another dry winter. I also want to commend you on the quality of your videos. You do an excellent job. All the best to you and your family.
Thanks! Hopefully we will get more rain over the next year-
Great video
God bless your neighbors!!!
Such a good video though. Showing the good and the bad- and how to handle the difficult times. Hate that y’all are going through this, but love all the footage of your property and cattle! Your little Belfair is looking so good. Guess she’ll be completely mulberry colored. Was hoping for a tad more red or brindle, but she’s gorgeous.
So I heard you say the neighbors have irrigated land. Is this something y’all are thinking about doing? Thankfully we get plenty of rainfall in Alabama, but this year has really made me think of the what if’s… it’s scary to see (on fb) what everyone’s pastures are looking like and horrible to read about them having to cull back so much!
The neighbor's land is sub-irrigated, which means it is naturally a higher water-table in that area. They don't have to irrigate it with sprinklers. Additionally, the wells on their property are 10'-50' deep while our is 180-300' deep even though we are maybe 20-30' higher in elevation than they are.
We do not have water rights to irrigate our fields. We water our garden, our flowers, and some grass--we haven't mowed the lawn since May which should tell you how much water I am not putting on the lawn. Hopefully some of the new field grass will come up going into the fall if there was some seed that didn't germinate. We got 1/4" of rain last week!
@@cozycowfarm I literally thought that meant they only had a portion of their land irrigated 😂🤦🏻♂️ well thank you for sharing!
I’m wondering how much of a pain it would be if I just used an atv to haul a tank of water over my back pastures to “irrigate” every weekend or so. running irrigation lines would be way to expensive for me
Next year will be better.
I’m on the east coast and some hay farmers are shipping their hay to the west coast because of the large hay shortage. We have been very lucky to have quite a bit of rain this year on the east coast.
Whats sub irrigation?
An area where the water table is higher, resulting in growth of plants like grass/pasture, even in the absence of any rainfall or irrigation (ie sprinklers).