"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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Gordon Couger wrote in message
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Jim Webster writes

don't knock it, this afternoon as I fetched our house cow in, she
was
kicking up discernable dust!!
Not a lot admittedly but dust in February doesn't happen.

I will barter a week of sun shine per inch of rain this time of year
in
southwest Oklahoma and 2 week for west Texas. Fortunately we solved
most of
the rain problem in Texas at a rather steep price. Now if I can talk
my
brother into it in Oklahoma.

I can pump water but you can't cause dry weather.

there is a saying I cannot quite remember about the value of a peck of
March dust. Basically if you can get dust in march it means you have the
possibility of a decent seedbed, shortage of water is not even thought
of as a problem.

It's a lot cheaper to lose a crop to dry weather over here than it is to wet
weather. On my wife's place in west Texas the dry land cotton was dusted in.
For those of you that get rain regularly that is planted in dry ground and
wait for a rain to bring it up. When it got a shower to get it up at wind
evaporated the moisture before it could meet the moisture a few inches below
the surface and the cotton sprouted and died. I have had the happen a time
or two as well. It won't happen again on that place it will have the drip
irrigation installed it by the end of next week, if it doesn't rain.

It should take the yield from 300 pounds per acre to better than 2,000
pounds per acre.

Gordon