"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"Ann" wrote in message

Since we are discussing water, how did your summer go water-wise?

OK - not brilliant but enough although it was a bit touch and go at times.
Not a lot of pasture growth but we didn't have to buy in feed and there
was enough water for the cattle to drink on both farms. We were getting a
bit worried about having to sell all the cattle on our other farm as we
were getting low on water there and the creek dried up. Luckily the dams
stayed full enough till we got decent rain.

Luckily for us and all the other farmers round here there was good Autumn
rain over much of the country and especially out west where they'll have
feed for the next 18 months on the strength of the Autumn rains. The
annual Autumn calf sales resulted in a bumper sale all round. It's been
years since we've had such good prices.

a mighty strange summer & autumn here across the ditch in the (usually well
watered) Waikato. From late January through to early May stuff all rain.
Maybe a few mm dribbled out from the sky. The second summer drought in 3
years. A severe soil moisture deficit. The last 3 plus weeks however the
heavens have opened and the moisture deficit is well and truely gone. But,
with winter just around the corner and coinciding with the rain, field
mushrooms have sprung up around the place. We normally get them in about
late march and into Autumn. I picked some off the back lawn the weekend just
gone. Nothing queerer than weather, not even folk.

rob