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We needed moisture but maybe not a years worth in 2 weeks however we aren’t complaining. OK maybe complaining a little bit. Bumping around either side of 7 inches of precipitation in the month of January by my redneck water trough, dog dish measuring techniques.
Yes, we are having a sale Friday February 17th and it will probably carry into Saturday. Under normal conditions I would think we would finish by Friday night but things are just going to be slower this week due to alleys full of water and slick slimmy ground. We have been pumping water and hauling it out but its like trying to drain a water trough with a dixie cup. We would advise you not to bring any weak, lame or small cattle to the sale until it drys out. We do not have concrete based alleys and the bottom is going out in some spots. Hopefully it drys out some by then.
There has to be a lot of California pastures that can’t take cattle right now so I expect demand to be even higher. On the bright side, a 500 pound steer is easily worth $250 a head more now than they were in November. Cattle numbers are way down and at least in our region the drought is OVER. I would expect cattle prices to continue to climb and by my reasoning feed costs at least locally should go down. Some good March, April showers would be icing on the cake. Start pestering your BLM office now about potentially using livestock grazing to create fuel breaks. They are doing it in Wyoming with great success and the BLM is 100% on board in certain areas. Wish we could get Nevada BLM to be more open minded. Lord have mercy if California catches on fire with all the feed they are going to have. We are going to have a smoke filled summer if they don’t get ahead of the game starting tomorrow and we know the government doesn’t move that fast. Especially in a state like California.
Hope to see you at the sale soon and don’t forget your snorkel.