Boy, the calf weights sure showed it was dry this summer. The steers averaged 527 lbs. and the heifers averaged 478 lbs. Quite a bit under what I had contracted for. That's the breaks and it's what happens in a dry year. I could whine and cry about it or accept it and go on and hope for a better year next year. You do relize it's Next Year Country around here, it will be better Next Year.
Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together. Melanie Brown
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Elaine
Really sad harvest in our neighborhood. Sugar beets have a disease called curly top and are making about maybe a fourth of what they do in a good year. Far from break even, for sure. We stopped raising beets several years ago as we couldn't make them pay even in a good year.