I can only image how hard this is for you & your family! My small garden has been an absolute failure this year. Even though I have been watering regularly ($90 water bill last month! more than 3x the normal) the heat is just baking everything. We let the lawn go, it is brown & dead, we have had to water our home's foundation. The trees have dropped most of their leaves, some in the area are dead. In the beginning of the heat wave my plants were alive but not growing or fruiting, now they are barely hanging on to life. The combination of excessive heat & no rain is devastating! Hoping we get some relief & can grow something this fall.

Who knew chickens panted like doGs when they're hot?! The heat delayed their egg production as well.

We'll add you to our prayer list.

We heard, may or may not be true, that trees can die up to five years after a drought is over. 😢 Our garden is gone too except for okra. That stuff must be 110 degree heat and drought proof! 🤣. For your chickens, put in an overhead line of water misters on them to keep them cool. 👍🙏🕊

I wanted to let you know about Southern States Co-Op here in beautiful Virginia. It appears Virginia has had a good hay season. Please look them up and reach out to the other farmers in this area, I believe they would be more than happy to help you and others. God Bless You!

Thank you but Viginia is much too far to haul hay and have it financially pencil out for us. We do appreciate your thoughtfulness and prayers.

just said a prayer 🙏 . . . hoping you all get rain and that GOD Our Father strikes down evil

❤️🙏🏼

I am so sorry for your struggles and everyones for that matter.
Anons will pray for everyone affected by this. Let's manifest some rain!

Here is what is messed up---I've been begging anyone to cut my fields to take the feed for free to feed their cows. I chased down a farmer yesterday who was cutting the neighbors fields to take my feed.

He said it's too ripe. Duh. But if u cut it now u can take it when it's ripe.
Throwing my hands up in the air.

Last year a farmer came and cut it, sold it for $600 to the Mexicans a quarter of a mile away and promised to give me meat which I never got. Whatever.

This is just not right. The ones who have what u need cannot get it to you. Ugh.

Some people have bad character. I’m so sorry that happened to you. We got zero hay cuttings this year. Normally we have anywhere from 24” to 48” of rain yearly. This year, I don’t believe we have even received 3” altogether! We are down to dirt. We have to be careful where we get hay and what kind. Some hay has Johnson grass in it and during a drought it can produce a poison because it gets “stressed”. It can kill your livestock. We have horses and cattle running together so we are trying to find clean coastal bermuda hay without sticker burrs, or Johnson grass. If we bring in bales with sticker burrs they would start growing here whenever it finally starts raining. It’s tough right now. I was just thinking the other day how Texans trucked hay to Georgia and Tennessee and Alabama when they were in a bad drought a few years ago. It seems no one there is trying to reciprocate. It’s sad.

#prayerteam

I'm liking the 'let's manifest some rain' for Texans...
who else do we include?