Hey Jim

[Texasmark]

I'm currently running 2 hay crops which are rye for cool season and Coastal for warm season. Did all the right things on the rye and it's coming along nicely. So yesterday I'm out in the Bermuda patch looking at the ratio of both grasses (customer says invasive Rye in the mix is ok) and lo and behold I started seeing Bermuda shoots, some a couple of inches give or take.

So, Looks like the fertilizer is going out day after tomorrow for the rain due Friday....75% chance of half an inch..... Surprised as It's about a month-six weeks earlier than I usually put it out.

Hopefully, the rain will stop on time and the harvest won't get postponed like last year due to too much rain.....31 inches in the Month of May and more last June. If it works for me I'll get enough to make up for last years pretty much failed attempt......Rye sold for bailing costs due to over ripe and stemmy.

How's yours looking?

Mark

 

[Tx Jim]

Volunteer ryegrass has really started growing and similar to your Bermuda mine is greening up. This is weird as it's about 6 weeks early. Geez we haven't had an Easter weather event yet. I think the politicians call it Global change.

 

[Texasmark]

I don't go for fear hysterical tactics like the media seem to be obsessed, but yes there may be something more than just global cycling. Can't imagine what will happen to my insurance premiums next year when I am asked to pay my part of all the doom and gloom folks are having to suffer. Ought to be thankful that it's nothing more. Course we have had our monsoons the past couple of years, but I live on a hill at about 650 above sea level and if I get flooded, time to get out the ARK. Grin.

When I was a little kid and TV was first out, the neighbor had one of the first and all the kids went over there for the afternoon matinees. One thing came out of that was pictures of flooded folks along the big rivers and I said right there, if I can't live on a hill, I aint a gonna live there.

Fertilizer went on today. Weather man is being nice.