Re: [RC] Wash your car - can't water your livestock... - Eric Rueter
Only you left out that *most* farmers that I know
have and use wells on their property to water livestock. It is way too
expensive to use "city-water" to keep livestock watered even in "normal"
circumstances. At least here at *my* farm that is the case.
thanx eric
Eric Rueter Rueter Consulting, Inc. Eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 865.988.4134(W) 865.599.3594(C) 865.986.5966(H)
Subject: [RC] Wash your car - can't water
your livestock...
Just saw this story on the evening news....
lafayette, Macon County, TN has implemented new water restrictions:
Car
wash businesses can only operate 2 days per week, citizens can irrigate yards
1 night per week, Farmers CANNOT use public water to fill/supply water to ANY
livestock...
Considering that MOST natural sources (ponds, small
streams) are completely dry - Livestock owners are faced with a harsh
decision: IF they are ABLE to transport ALL of their livestock within 24 hours
- they MIGHT get them to auctions ALIVE. If they can't, then the
record-breaking heat (103 today) - will simply KILL all of their livestock
once their trophs go dry..
Since horses are considered 'livestock' -
all horse owners face this same dilemma. But most horse auction houses have
already shut down.. So there's no where for the horses to go - other-than
boarding in a different county, or in the ground.. Anyone with a large
breeding equine farm there is effectively out-of-business..
So this
rural county would rather have clean cars than beef at the grocery
store...Makes sense doesn't it?
