Is this gonna be a repeat year?

Looking like 2024 is following 2023 here in my part of the state of Va. Nice spring rains with a really good 1st cutting of hay. We dodged some weather on 2 different occasions and thought we had been so lucky so far. Last rain was in late May and now we are burning up. Same thing happened last year which was a disaster for our hay crops. Started feeding cattle in late June. Ended up feeding hay that we had planned to sell and ended up having to buy hay in January and March of this year. We have never had to buy hay before and I’m afraid the pattern has returned again. We received .40” this evening which was a blessing but we need so much more. Praying it turns around here. Supposed to be hot and dry the next 10 days. At least I haven’t had to mow my yard in 2 weeks.

Sure looking like it here too;;; rain has gotten very spotty

We're dry on this side of the mountain too,didn't get but a sprinkle last night.Hay is turning out pretty good though and I have about 50 acres of pasture that hasn't had cows on it since since last Fall so glad I have cut back some only about 40 head now and the goats.

92 degree here today and no rain in sight for next 10 days ugh. We are loosing out on some hay sells due to this drought. Costing us a lot cash…fertilizer and no rain= no hay

Seems every rain chance is a bust around here, glad I pulled back the population on the dryland corn to 9000 for the last half of the field, the lower end was planted at 12,000,but it can get a little runoff from the neighbor.

As you can tell by that population we are used to dry here, but spring is normally our wettest season, and just havent been getting what we should.

Weve had 7” since I spread fertilizer 2 weeks ago!

We have been watching our orchard fields go backwards with no rain. 2nd cut was looking good for the first few weeks, good undergrowth but with no rain we have been watching our fields starting to turn brown and shrinking. So we decided to cut them Monday. You know it’s dry when you mow it Monday morning around 10 am and bale the next afternoon at 4 pm. Pretty hay but only a 1/4th of what we normally get off of them. We got 2tenths of rain last evening, as usual we missed out on the 1” of rain 30 miles away. Was supposed to be a widespread storm. Just can’t catch a break. Hopefully our other fields will recover when we get some good rain as they are 2 weeks behind when we cut the orchard grass originally. Not selling any more of our hay until we fill the barn. Not making the same mistake as I did last year and ended up having to buy hay.