Pastures, crops, stock dams affected in Richland County, Montana
9/1/2017 5:49:33 PM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
AFFECTED AREAS:
Richland County, MT
Start Date: 9/1/2017
- End Date: 9/2/2017
We live and farm Richland County and have barely gotten over an inch of rain this entire spring/summer. Half of the crops didn't come up, and what did the crop adjuster just came out yesterday and adjusted from 3-8 bu/acre. Even the irrigated crops had to be adjusted. I haven't seen a green blade of grass in the pastures yet, stock dams never even got filled from snow melt and we now have to drill wells to bring water. We will be weaning/selling calves early and culling heavily. We planted cover crops in pivot corners that never even grew until we got a 1/4 inch of rain in mid August. My garden (which I do water) only grew plants that I started such as tomatoes and peppers. Just last night we received about .05 of rain but only at our house and south of us in the pastures got nothing for rain, yet 18 miles east of us in Culbertson/Bainville they got anywhere from 2.5-5 inches of rain.
From Richland County, Montana, on September 1, 2017
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Pastures, crops, stock dams affected in Richland County, Montana.
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