With luck I might start shelling corn Saturday afternoon, light showers are forecast but they haven't amounted to anything. Unlike many crops, corn does not immediately pick up moisture from rainfall, and I have shelled corn for several hours in a mist, and all day once while it snowed. No chance of snow, temps in the mid 80s this time of year. The triticale I sowed is coming up, but it is very spotty, not enough rain. Wheat seeding won't get far until we get a good inch of rain. My first planted soybeans have about lost all of their leaves, I would say they are about one week to maybe 10 days from cutting. I have now put protein tubs out to all of my cattle, the grass is tall but lacks protein. Fall calving well over the halfway mark of being done. Like your hill country, soon we will be weaning spring calves and moving cattle off of rented grass, most of the full season contracts end either October 15th or 20th, or November 1st. Unlike last fall in eastern Kansas we are going into the winter with ample feed, I have 200 more round bales than I did last fall, and the silage has 4 times the corn in it. There may not be any fall grazing of wheat, rye, triticale or cool season grasses unless it rains however.