Drought

Blue.

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Livestock Farmer

• Apr 10, 2017

• #21

12" of rain here in March and it rained this morn,no fear of a drought in Lancs.

 

moretimeforgolf

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Arable Farmer

Location

North Kent, UK

• Apr 10, 2017

• #22

Only 18mm here since the 1st March. 23C yesterday, great for golf, not so good for crops on light land!

 

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einstein

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Location

Rutland

• Apr 10, 2017

• #23

reminds me of 2007.bugger all in march and april.the rain started in mid may and we had over 100mm in each month may june and july.
it was a pretty rubbish harvest for us.

 

bobk

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Location

stafford

• Apr 10, 2017

• #24

This time last year it was nearly snowing .

 

Teejay

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Arable Farmer

Location

Romney Marsh

• Apr 10, 2017

• #25

As the environment agency have let all the water out of the main ditches yes we are in a drought situation.

 

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franklin

New Member

• Apr 10, 2017

• #26

Yes, it's dry. Not worried yet - just dont want it to avergae out by raining all June, July, August and September.

 

ARW

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Location

Yorkshire

• Apr 10, 2017

• #27

I would say we arnt far from drought here, all ditches are empty or running low, everything looks well but if it rained a few mm every night and was a bright sunny day every day for a month it would be perfect!

 

holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD

• Apr 10, 2017

• #28

Very dry here now. We are getting mildly concerned that it might well be another 1976 in the offing. If so we're going to be feeding cattle at grass by mid summer.

 

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4course

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Location

north yorks

• Apr 10, 2017

• #29

weve had less rainfall this winter but no excess wind or sun to evaporate it ,in fact its been so cloudy that this last few days of sun has seen a dramatic benefit to crops. For a while we couldnt get on with any fert or spraying cos it wouldnt travel so water table reasonable on our medium to heavy patch. As yet not panicking as crops and grass look well and well rooted if a little forward which usually means less in yield but we will see its a bit too soon for speculating

 

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horizontal

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Arable Farmer

Location

Thames Valley

• Apr 10, 2017

• #30

Winter crops fine at present here. Spring crops struggling. Very patchy emergence. Guessing we have a fortnight before the uneven spring germ causes real problems. My forecast says <1mm between now and May. [emoji31]

 

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marshfarmer

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Norfolk

• Apr 10, 2017

• #31

Pretty bad here, lots of land ploughed late and in bad order, the wind and sun has really sapped the moisture so the lucky ones who cracked on have beet up but everything else will just sit there waiting. Some later drilled barleys will really struggle. Irrigators going about.

 

Muddyboots

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Location

Suffolk

• Apr 10, 2017

• #32

Pretty worried here, hot spots are now starting to show and no meaningful rain forecast.

 

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kc6475

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Location

Notts

• Apr 10, 2017

• #33

Winter cereals will soon be grateful for a drink here, ploughed land for Spring crops that was a pudding underneath is now resembling desert conditions on top, to drill or not is the question, emergence will be patchy at best!

 

dontknowanything

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Location

Cambridge

• Apr 11, 2017

• #34

Going to want some rain here in the next week

 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer

Location

Fen Edge

• Apr 11, 2017

• #35

Its the beet that are worrying me to death here.........

 

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Iben

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Arable Farmer

Location

Fife

• Apr 11, 2017

• #36

Flat 10 said:

Its the beet that are worrying me to death here.........

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No irrigation?

 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer

Location

Fen Edge

• Apr 11, 2017

• #37

Iben said:

No irrigation?

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No.

 

shakerator

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Location

LINCS

• Apr 11, 2017

• #38

Flat 10 said:

No.

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what do you reckon BS would do today if we had mk2 1976?

 

david

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Location

County Down

• Apr 11, 2017

• #39

shakerator said:

what do you reckon BS would do today if we had mk2 1976?

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BS would have to buy sugar on the world market.

 

david

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Location

County Down

• Apr 11, 2017

• #40

But we are due a drought to balance off 2012.

What a crap year that was.