Here are some tips on dealing with the drought from my colleague, Jenny Rees.
Last week I heard the following repeated themes:
- What are we going to do with dryland crops/pivot corners/endrows?
- I just keep lying awake at nights trying to figure out how to feed livestock. I need to sell cows.
- I’m exhausted and it’s only early June.
- I have no idea how I should be irrigating right now.
- This may sound crazy, but I’m thinking…
For the majority of us, this is unchartered territory for making decisions and seeking to advise. Yes, we’ve had drought before. The extra significance with this year is the fact that, for the majority of us in our lifetimes, we haven’t experienced this lack of subsoil moisture. As I continue to probe fields, non-irrigated subsoil moisture doesn’t often go below 8-10” into the ground and irrigated subsoil moisture doesn’t often go below 20-24”. We all know this; we desperately needed this past weekend’s rains which too many…
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