Heads up for those with crop out...

[grassfarmer]

honestly grass , the cow people should of been all over this all summer
when it looked like drought was gonna bugger the crops , they should of been lobbying crop ins .
this happened here in the drought of 02 , salvage did not count against claims after they were lobbied
i mentioned this in july .this is a terrible waste when some people need feed so desperately

Yes, some truth to that but the situation was ever changing in my area this year. First it looked super dry and no feed around, then many areas got substantial moisture, then the grain crops looked late and immature - the latter two pointed to there being cow feed available later in the season. Then the wet September and 2' of October snow changed things again by stranding some of the corn silage crops. I've never experienced a season with so many twists and turns in terms of cattle feed availability. I'm dealing with buying commodities at the moment and they are still changing from day to day. Products they were expecting to be cheap are now dearer or unavailable because some has not been harvested and some that is higher value feed is getting cheaper as there is more of it around. I'm not complaining - just trying to highlight that it's been a tough year to decide when to intervene even if they'd wanted to (Cattle organizations and Government)

[Guest]

Yes agreed but its a shame if stuff gets burnt in spring that could of fed some beef
Hopefully no shortage of that now that that test tube shit food is losing its appeal