Your current weather.

Sonoftheheir

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
West Suffolk
We have a field of potatoes near Bridlington it had 71mm of rain in 24 hrs yesterday. No blight spraying for a few days .

Good job it's not the 1st week of October.

It makes one worry how much more they can cope with.
We had this in 2015 with rotting spuds in the low areas.

21mm with us.

14mm here.

Our spuds don't look good at all, can't see how there will be a bumper maincrop this year? All different problems too.
 

Woodlander

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Leicestershire
IMG-20170809-WA0000.jpg
 

RushesToo

Member
Location
Fingringhoe
Essex, the driest county in the UK ......




has just had 125mm of rain in 24 hours. Most people of us are not on-line because telegraph poles have been swept away in the flood or are not good enough swimmers to reach home.

In other words, a little damp.
 

Guy Smith

Member
Location
Essex
This bit of Essex has now had 23mm since yesterday morning.

I'm glad we finished the wheat on Monday night.

Despite the expense of a wet harvest, drought has cost us far more in this growing year.
 

kfpben

Member
Location
Mid Hampshire
12 hours of rain here. A scorching high of 13 degrees. Young stores were shaking with cold this evening- in August!!

No rain gauge but two inches in the bucket outside the back door. Straw sodden.

Other half tells me this area was the wettest in the country in July and the local news says we are already up to our August rainfall average! Sunshine needed fast....
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

  • 1,293
  • 1
As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
Top