Word on the Range from the Bundy Ranch
The desert has always been a hard place to make a living, and it was a lot harder for the generations it took to tame it and make it a working piece of land.
The Bundy family has been out there doing it all this time, with ancestors going back to early settlement across the Virgin Valley and the Arizona Strip.
The Bundy family is still producing meat for America 🇺🇸
​I spoke with Cliven a good while yesterday. We got to talking about grass and the different things he's done out there on the farm.
​With another planting time coming up, he's figuring on more alfalfa, though when you're deciding what to put in the ground, there are always grain options like oats you can cut and bale for hay.
​We got onto the different grasses that grow down in the river valley and on the farm, especially a hybrid Bermuda.
For the longest time, folks fought tooth and nail to get rid of Bermuda grass, but some time back folks started planting a hybrid that stands tall enough to cut, and it spreads by seed, unlike other hybrid Bermudas that have to be sprigged.
We threw around a few others too, like Sudan and sorghum, and Johnson grass that comes up, along with some other volunteers.
​I asked about when Arden would be getting back to catching cattle, which ought to be around the first of October after the weather cools down a bit.
​We was also talking about the rainfall up in Utah and the flash flooding that washed rocks and debris down through places like Kanab Creek, which empties directly into the Colorado River.
Separate from that, we talked about other rains in areas feeding the Virgin River, that sent down some red water.
We wondered about what all that rain up in Utah would do for water levels downstream, but looking into it, it's actually very little — and Cliven agreed, the volume of water is negligible when it comes to raising Lake Mead.
​We talked about water usage, too, how water levels keep declining across the Colorado Basin wuth the high evaporation rates across the lakes' surfaces.
​Before we finished talking, I asked Cliven if he had a few words to leave for everyone.
He kept it simple: do what is right and good, love and revere your family, love God, and remember the Constitution is there for We the People and declares our rights of Life and Liberty, and that which we produce.
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