Is anybody else an avid weather watcher like me? I swear, I am glued to the weather channel and news channels about this drought. Kansas just jumped from 13% drought to like 56% severe in a WEEK. They have pictures of cows wandering around trying to find forage on nothing but dead, sunburned, brown grass.
The government is talking about subsidizing the farmers, again, but how about the rest of us? The farmers will get money for crops that didn't grow, but we won't get money for groceries, hay, grain, feed, etc., that we can't afford because the prices will go through the roof this fall because the farmers crops didn't grow.
My SIL and I just bought 8 ton of hay and had it delivered. I have been so worried about the horses this winter. Last year I got third cutting alfalfa, the nicest hay I have ever seen for $5.50 a bale. This year he wants $10.00 for first cutting. Even the hay we got was $250.00 a ton, whereas last year it would have been half of that. That's an indication of how it's going to go.
I have a cool, dry basement, so I am going to buy oats, corn, grain, and as much chin feed at a time as I can to avoid rising costs. It really sucks right now though because as a teacher's aid, I have zero income during the summer. My paychecks won't start again until Sept. 20. I had it all budgeted out and set up until then, but this whole drought thing is going to shoot that through the foot I'm afraid.
There are even reports of people starting to panic and crime is going up as a result. Houses are being broken into left and right and they are stealing food!
Anyone else out there obsessing over this?
The government is talking about subsidizing the farmers, again, but how about the rest of us? The farmers will get money for crops that didn't grow, but we won't get money for groceries, hay, grain, feed, etc., that we can't afford because the prices will go through the roof this fall because the farmers crops didn't grow.
My SIL and I just bought 8 ton of hay and had it delivered. I have been so worried about the horses this winter. Last year I got third cutting alfalfa, the nicest hay I have ever seen for $5.50 a bale. This year he wants $10.00 for first cutting. Even the hay we got was $250.00 a ton, whereas last year it would have been half of that. That's an indication of how it's going to go.
I have a cool, dry basement, so I am going to buy oats, corn, grain, and as much chin feed at a time as I can to avoid rising costs. It really sucks right now though because as a teacher's aid, I have zero income during the summer. My paychecks won't start again until Sept. 20. I had it all budgeted out and set up until then, but this whole drought thing is going to shoot that through the foot I'm afraid.
There are even reports of people starting to panic and crime is going up as a result. Houses are being broken into left and right and they are stealing food!
Anyone else out there obsessing over this?