Aggie Farmer - 7/3/2022 21:28

Its getting worse. The further west you get from Fort Worth, the grass gets sparser. Majority of the dryland cotton out west hasn't ever emerged and is sitting in dry dirt. They are getting zeroed out by insurance. I'm about 30 miles south of Fort Worth. Any corn that could be chopped has been already and we will probably start shelling corn in a couple weeks. We average 38" of rain a year but have only received 13'' so far this year. Last year at this time, we were well over 40" by July. Bunch of ground was prevent planted and the fields and pasture smelled like a stagnant crawdad hole. My how things change. This year, hay is scarce even for the east Texas piney woods where it rains more. Drought started last Fall. Here, we were lucky enough to get one rain to get our wheat up. Those guys in West Texas that are zeroing out there cotton right now zeroed out there wheat planted last Fall because it never rained.