March 30, 2006
The last storm left 1.52” to take us beyond normal spring conditions for this time of year,
bringing our season total to 16.11” thus far, with more rain forecast over the weekend. Despite being under a fairly constant cover of clouds, the grass seems strong and growing well, waiting to really jump when the weather finally warms up. We’ve been busy with plenty of projects close to home, extremely grateful for the rainfall and that we got our calves branded right after Elko.
Since, it’s been too wet to get to them, and at least a week out before we could today. That scenario would have us finishing mid-April, 30 days before our feed turns and not enough time for them to recover from branding, at least a 50 lbs. loss on our steer calves that have to be pushing 450-500 lbs. at this time. With cattle prices slipping, we’re glad that we don’t have that job and its consequences to contend with. Let it rain – it’ll be warm soon enough!