Meeting Blake and Discussing Arid Farming

alright guys so we're here with Blake guy in Wyoming and he's a true cowboy here so we're a new ID get into laughs you guys are farming somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand acres this year is that right give or take it depends on the exact year and exactly what we're including under the term farming because it's hard to call grazing land farming but we had to have a fair fair amount of grazing land this year if a cow walks on it hits a farm right yes it works and if you can mow hay or drive a tractor across it it's a farm so that works too same thing with the chickens so tell me about the area that you're in because it seems really arid how much rainfall do you guys get per year out very very little it's been a little while since I last looked it up but on average we're we're just West Cheyenne Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie and we get a little less rainfall every year than Phoenix Wow Wow all of our precipitation all of our moisture really comes from the snow right so the most important part of raising farm animals and cutting and mowing hay out here because this is just a whole lot of hay land is that right you'll get more grazing than you will hay okay and you'll get more hay than you will any kind of row crop just because between the wind and lack of water it's really really hard for for typical more Midwestern crops to hold up out here gotcha gotcha so the land is fertile and when it snows boom it takes off or when it rains it takes off but it it's you just get no rain it's just really arid out here I guess pretty much and what little rain we do get you know the wind can in the winter it'll hit triple digit wind speeds during the summer are usually just fifty to sixty miles an hour but either way things dry out really fast yeah when the winds blowing it's like having a blow dryer blowing right on your grass yes that's so awesome so