This year where it's been so dry, the wheat pasture isn't very washy. It's more concentrated nutritionally and the cattle have done well on it.

We won't see many cattle turned out to the pastures before the end of April this year. The grass just isn't greening up. It's too dry.

How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

We just didn't have any rainfall all year long. It's been mighty dry here.

Let it dry. It's very messy.

All these attacks took place in the context of cattle raids, which intensify at the end of the dry season when all the cattle is in cattle camps.