The dry, hot summer has forced some farmers and ranchers to make tough decisions.
Ideally, Tamez said, he would have had all his summer crops planted by March or April, before the brunt of the heat. But moving to a new a tract of land in Liberty HillTamez said he's now putting up shade cloth to help protect seedlings.
But this summer's heat has been so intense it has killed off all the grass in Green's pasture — leaving her herd without their primary food source."The rest of Texas is not getting any rain either, so there's nowhere that they're bailing hay," she said."And then the hay that does get cut, if anybody has anything — it's very protein deficient. We're still having to supplement with a lot of protein tubs [or] mineral blocks.
Green said the sale will help her business in the short-term, but it also means she'll have less beef to sell next year, and perhaps the year after that. "We watch it and we take measurements as it's getting riper, and ... the heat has just slowed everything down," he said.Yates said deciding when to harvest grapes is the"single most important decision you can make while wine-making." He said you want to make sure each piece of fruit has time to develop sugar and ripen. But if you wait too long, the grapes will burn and begin to dry out and raisin.
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