My Sunflower Patch

The sunflower seeds are super small this year for some reason I wonder if from the lack of rain and all the extra heat

probably both...
Tx is in a drought..
especially w of I-35..
all crops here w of SA are stressed.. even irrigated stuff..
the big draw for dove this year is gonna be water..
a small tank w/bare dirt at edges is gonna be a hot-spot every evening
unless we get a lot of rain..
so far that's not likely

We have one of our top fields that we did all the necessary work in January and even fertilized and there is maybe 10% of the sunflowers there this year. Near Abilene. Not sure what happened.

I have lots of flowers just small seeds in them

Our lease near Graford has no sunflowers at all this year. Rancher said was due to the February ice storm and then the drought.

Ice storm in Feb wouldn't have done it, it would have helped, but the drought sure hurt things.

The drought has hurt all the crops in this area and dried up a lot tanks

Halfadozen-Have you been out and looked at the fields? I believe we are on the same ranch?

Are you seeing many birds ?

Not a whole lot I was out there this morning looking the seeds on sunflowers are super small while some flowers dont even have seeds

33 days, counting down til the opener...

Heck why wait ??? dove are here I have shells

How’s everyone looking? Think there will still be lots of birds? I went out to the ranch (graham) a month ago and our sunflowers were small... I’ll go out next weekend to see and hopefully they grew a bit more

Go chase em SallySue, Ring neck Dove season is year round

I was out there today and looking ok I probable start shredding in a couple of weeks

Was at brother in laws place in Oeanville a couple of days ago and I might of been able to get 10-12 birds if I was on target. gonna do some shredding in a couple of weeks.