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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Bottomline is that Bill lives in some delusional lala land.  Because it 
stops raining doesn't mean that pasture stops growing AND you don't have to 
have green grass for pasture to be good pasture.  If that was the case, then 
you would have to translate that into hay not being any good unless it was 
green.

In California, sheep and cattle, not generally dairy, and horses grass on 
non-irrigated pasture 12 months of the year.  Intelligent ranchers who have 
real life experience, unlike the list's resident I know it all from books 
and the internet, rotate their pastures and know that the wild oat and 
perrenial rye, etc. make great dry pasture.  Of course, they don't try to do 
this on 1 to 5 acres, nor do they judge how to do it "because my neighbor 
can't" or "because my neighbor feeds all year."  They use what is in front 
of them and their own experience.  Nor do they run down to the county ag 
office or some chart on the net or the USDA to find out what they can do on 
their property.  They *know* their property.

Plus, they wouldn't have put up a rain fall map of Portland, OK and called 
it Portland OR!  The dimwit's link shows Portland Maine and Portland 
Oklahoma, not Portland, Oregon!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw AT chilitech.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Lovin' Your Ranchette: "monthly rainfall" Portland- 
Google Image Search


> I think I'm missing your point. It's pretty common knowledge that the
> northeast has fairly even precipitation year-round, and other parts of the
> country don't.
>
> If you are talking about grazing, it's also well known that it's as
> difficult to graze in the northeast in the winter months as it is for you
> to graze in the dry months.  We have no pasture growth from November to
> April, and heavy snow cover for several months, giving us a 6-month
> grazing season. In your area, with the moderate temperatures and rainfall
> in the winter, don't you have pasture growth then? Looks like you should
> have 6 months of good grazing, same as those of us in the northeast. The
> pattern is different, but the result is the same. You have to graze when
> you have pasture and feed hay when you don't.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Peasant Farmer
> Tioga County, PA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>
> To: "Homestead mailing list digest" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:52 AM
> Subject: [Homestead] Lovin' Your Ranchette: "monthly rainfall" Portland -
> Google Image Search
>
>
> > This about says it in a nutshell.  The pic on the left is for Portland,
> > Maine, and the dry looking bar graph on the right is for Portland,
> Oregon:
> >
> http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=+"monthly+rainfall"+Portland&btnG=Search
> >
> <http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=+%22monthly
> +rainfall%22+Portland&btnG=Search>
> > Isn't it great what you can find on the Internet?
> >
> > Bill
> > S. Oregon coast
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