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Post by Catscratch on Mar 10, 2017 10:31:39 GMT -6
We've had a very dry winter and lots of wind recently. Humidity in the single digits, 30-50mph winds, and a lightening storm that passes through earlier this week has created hell for some people here. Our place isn't in much danger of the current fires but it is spooky knowing how quickly they pop up and spread. They devour everything! I've started hearing from people out west. It's sad. People have lost everything except for the truck they drove out in. Many old ranchers have spent the last two days riding pastures shooting half burned cows, deer, and horses. Doing it with tears in their eye until they run out of bullets. Homes, outbuildings, fence, hay for the yr (one guy lost 4,500 bales), all livestock, etc. All gone. Dead cattle and deer are starting to blow over with sand. There is no vegetation left to keep the sand and soil on the ground, no coyotes to eat the carcasses, no trees left, no fence left... Here is a link that has some pics and stories. A lot of what I've heard has been private so I won't share, but the bowsite thread gives a good idea. forums.bowsite.com/tf/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=461576&messages=26&forum=4 |
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Post by kabic on Mar 10, 2017 10:33:53 GMT -6
Read an article on cnn that showed some badly burned cattle, it is sad.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 10, 2017 10:39:42 GMT -6
My stupid neighbor in Missouri lit his crp field up last Friday at noon during a fire ban and on a windy day. Cost him thousands I heard to get it put out when it got away from him
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Post by smsmith on Mar 10, 2017 11:08:12 GMT -6
Geez, that's just nuts.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 10, 2017 11:11:32 GMT -6
He's a fricken Dentist, he is nuts, nice guy, just nuts! Some of the stuff this guy does is crazy. But he owns a pile of land that we get to hunt, so I put up with him. |
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Post by sd51555 on Mar 12, 2017 21:50:20 GMT -6
We've had a very dry winter and lots of wind recently. Humidity in the single digits, 30-50mph winds, and a lightening storm that passes through earlier this week has created hell for some people here. Our place isn't in much danger of the current fires but it is spooky knowing how quickly they pop up and spread. They devour everything! I've started hearing from people out west. It's sad. People have lost everything except for the truck they drove out in. Many old ranchers have spent the last two days riding pastures shooting half burned cows, deer, and horses. Doing it with tears in their eye until they run out of bullets. Homes, outbuildings, fence, hay for the yr (one guy lost 4,500 bales), all livestock, etc. All gone. Dead cattle and deer are starting to blow over with sand. There is no vegetation left to keep the sand and soil on the ground, no coyotes to eat the carcasses, no trees left, no fence left... Here is a link that has some pics and stories. A lot of what I've heard has been private so I won't share, but the bowsite thread gives a good idea. forums.bowsite.com/tf/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=461576&messages=26&forum=4I can only imagine. I rode out to the Black Hills in SD when we had that really bad October blizzard about five years ago. It hit so hard and fast that the cattle just froze to death. We drove out while all the cattle were still laying in the pastures. It was heartbreaking seeing groups of 12 or more laying dead by the one shitty piece of cover. The ground wasn't frozen, and once the snow melted, they couldn't get around to drag them all away and bury 'em. |
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Post by Catscratch on Mar 12, 2017 21:59:00 GMT -6
We've had a very dry winter and lots of wind recently. Humidity in the single digits, 30-50mph winds, and a lightening storm that passes through earlier this week has created hell for some people here. Our place isn't in much danger of the current fires but it is spooky knowing how quickly they pop up and spread. They devour everything! I've started hearing from people out west. It's sad. People have lost everything except for the truck they drove out in. Many old ranchers have spent the last two days riding pastures shooting half burned cows, deer, and horses. Doing it with tears in their eye until they run out of bullets. Homes, outbuildings, fence, hay for the yr (one guy lost 4,500 bales), all livestock, etc. All gone. Dead cattle and deer are starting to blow over with sand. There is no vegetation left to keep the sand and soil on the ground, no coyotes to eat the carcasses, no trees left, no fence left... Here is a link that has some pics and stories. A lot of what I've heard has been private so I won't share, but the bowsite thread gives a good idea. forums.bowsite.com/tf/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=461576&messages=26&forum=4I can only imagine. I rode out to the Black Hills in SD when we had that really bad October blizzard about five years ago. It hit so hard and fast that the cattle just froze to death. We drove out while all the cattle were still laying in the pastures. It was heartbreaking seeing groups of 12 or more laying dead by the one shitty piece of cover. The ground wasn't frozen, and once the snow melted, they couldn't get around to drag them all away and bury 'em. What a miserable way to go. I truly feel for ranchers who loose their livestock in disasters like that. The guys I know tend to them like pets. They certainly don't want them to suffer. |
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Post by Foggy on Mar 12, 2017 23:40:21 GMT -6
^ wow....had no idea. Sad situation,
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Post by Bwoods11 on Mar 13, 2017 7:24:04 GMT -6
Sad to hear this... what's the forecast, they are going to need rain fast.
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Post by mnfish on Mar 13, 2017 7:29:39 GMT -6
Wow that is bad. Wishing you guys some moisture!
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Post by Catscratch on Mar 13, 2017 7:34:08 GMT -6
Sad to hear this... what's the forecast, they are going to need rain fast. 10 day forecast has 20% chance of rain a week from now (which means no rain). Otherwise windy and dry. I think they have them mostly under control and put out but flareups or new ones are bound to pop up. Now I'm seeing lots of hay trucks going that way and donation jars around. |
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Post by daydreamer on Mar 13, 2017 7:38:48 GMT -6
Jesus, I couldn't even imagine.
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Post by wiscwhip on Mar 13, 2017 7:42:38 GMT -6
Terrible situation. The price of beef is going to take a hit I would assume?
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Post by Catscratch on Mar 13, 2017 8:02:15 GMT -6
I don't always know (or understand) the cattle industry but I would guess that there will be less steers in the feedlots this fall and more heifers saved back to restock cows. Hay will probably go up some too as a lot of it is getting donated to people who have no pasture left. Shortages tend to cause price increases in the supermarket but his might be small enough overall to know notice it outside of the area...
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Post by sd51555 on Mar 13, 2017 8:29:47 GMT -6
That's already been going on. There are more and more small feedlots in my area that are sitting empty and have for a while. It's much harder to try to sell those guys stuff when they're under water by a few hundred per head.
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