 I'm a fourth generation farmer here we've we've in 2012 was really bad I'm seeing 2012 maybe even just a little worse in 2012 right now already feeding hay if you have to purchase hay which we're going to purchase probably 600 bill this year you already seen 65 $85 hay and you know it's some of that hay that was billed in the media that's what scares me the quality of the hay that we're gonna have to purchase because there's nothing else growing you look here and it's just burn up everywhere but what I what I hope in the the positive in the future will be I hope we see like we did in 13 some higher-priced cattle if if we can stay hooked and get by this drought I think I hope we see some higher cattle I don't think we'll see them as high as we did in 13 but if we can get higher than where we was and for sure where we're at now I think that's a positive you know and in the future if we knew that we was gonna get rain we would know that we how much we was gonna have to buy but it's just hard to tell if we're gonna get it when we're gonna get it it's been in a future we don't get it we had rain here since I think June 8th we finally got two tents of rain about five days ago it was gone in 30 minutes you know so hopefully it will get better but that's kind of my positive is I hope the cattle market if we can make it and don't have to sell out I think the cattle market should be a little better be it being a rep for the sale barn there I see a lot of people you know they call me a lot ask what I should do what what what should they do you know want to know a lot of perspective about what's going on but say four weeks ago we had 80 head of cows next week we had 180 something had the next week we had 590 something had a cows not just chaos but cows when you see that many cows coming to the sale barn there's problems and there's a lot of people selling out right now which when you demand that the man comes in of that very that many cattle it is going to drive the market down we're seeing a drop of $10 you know 100 on cows right now from from 80s in the low 60s low 70s and upper 60s and we did have a special wean sale this last week is one reason you've seen a lot of the big calves big groups but the reason is also is they're not going to hold until fall like me I went in the spring I sell them in the fall I background my own cattle and with that people's not keeping cows and calves are keeping their calves and wean calves as long because the commodity prices are high right now grains high you know corn I seen took a little bit of a drop that might help a little bit but people just can't afford to feed their cattle because they know that there's not going to be enough hay to feed what they don't have to keep we're supplementing a lot right now I mean I'm not a salesman for any feed company or anything but we're using liquid feed we're using salt mix to you know that salt mix to let them eat some of the drier but mood of grass for drier hay get something out of it stretch what you got don't sell out unless you just have to but use some supplements you know and and the best thing to do is if you do have to buy hay get it tested if your quality of hay is good you don't have to supplement but this year I'm afraid we're going to get a lot of hay that is just either two drivers build so it's not going to have the quality go to your county extension agent get it get it tested they can tell you if you need to put anything if you need a better supplement or liquid feed or something to get them by and just stay in there hey I went through 12 we had another small winter deal you know where we fed a lot of hay I mean I've been through some droughts not like a lot of the old-timers but if we can make it through I feel like the cattle market's going to get better after this I mean this is something that happens every 10 or 12 14 years you know so just stay in and supplement where you need to just don't be a lot over cost in it