California is a very telling and likely foretelling story.
Just NO SNOWPACK like there used to be.
worst thing, is if you do get a decent snowpack, that is gone Way Early.
that is the trend of the past 15 years for SW High Country...many of the elevations to the 13,000 to 14,000 ft levels.
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( most of the snow is melted out Now....which is long before Mid July when things used to be pretty much melted out ( quite a bit used to get melted out by the 1st part of August too, btw )
the areas we did get 100% snowpack, were melted off to 38% of normal snow 3 weeks ago.
the mountain ranges with 10 to 30% snowpack were melted to 0% 3 weeks ago.
the "wash" corn is still producing anywhere from 80 to 800 bu per acre ( depends on the year and it is not yellow dent corn ).
quite a few far SW ranches are liquidating cows...big deals say 1,500 cows per ranch.
half go to slaughter....and half go to Central New Mexico which is the Gateway to feed fartther East and Northeast.
if Noah and the Ark show there's plenty of space to put it. MO
