Mother Natures Blessing?
We have been questioning the force of Mother Nature this year with the wild fluctuations and dramatic scenes on television. The hurricanes, floods, drought...
The canal that we and many others get our irrigation water from was washed out in April this year due to a mudslide. PG &E and our irrigation district have been working to get it fixed, and we have all been on water rotations. When the canal first broke, we were all very concerned on where to get our irrigation water for our crops and fields and pastures, let alone our livestock.
I guess if there is a silver lining in the situation, it is that we have had a very wet year in our area. We get a dosing of rain every few days to wet our pastures and keep our ponds full. We have ended up with a great grass year, and our livestock are able to benefit from it.
Our cows are nearly done calving and our ewes are gaining back their weight after nursing their lambs, and all of the lambs themselves are growing and looking very good.
Matt is still moving the sprinklers each day at the ranch, and Keith is still moving them here at home. Would like to get a few days of warm weather to spark the growth "just a bit", but will leave that up to... Mother Nature
Posted on Sat, June 4, 2011
by Karin Sinclair
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