So can it stop raining now please

Dman2

Member

Location

Durham, UK

• Aug 23, 2018

• #1

In the last 3 weeks managed to cut 15 ac wheat and bale 6 bales of straw
Got started again today
once round field with the combine and heavens opened again

So all of you that are doing a rain dance
Bugger off

 

Speedstar

Member

Location

Scottish Borders

• Aug 23, 2018

• #2

same story here , wish the rain would go south & stay there for 3 or 4 weeks & let us people in the North get on

 

miniconnect

Member

Location

Argyll

• Aug 23, 2018

• #3

Dman2 said:

In the last 3 weeks managed to cut 15 ac wheat and bale 6 bales of straw
Got started again today
once round field with the combine and heavens opened again

So all of you that are doing a rain dance
Bugger off

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I'll second that! Can't plan much in advance, big amount of silage to do. 12 acres of spring barley done yesterday... Looong way to go.

Allegedly September is going to be good. Although we're getting flash backs to last year where 'better next week'. Never happened...

 

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Water Wheel

Member

• Aug 23, 2018

• #4

[QUOTE="Dman2, post: 5423776, member: 1925"

So all of you that are doing a rain dance
Bugger off[/QUOTE]
I'm going to keep dancing in the hope I can attract the rain south.
Green, just, but still not growing, the hole I'm in is still getting deeper.

 

davidroberts30

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Location

pembrokeshire

• Aug 23, 2018

• #5

Speedstar said:

same story here , wish the rain would go south & stay there for 3 or 4 weeks & let us people in the North get on

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Wish the rain would go east
Been a bad 10 days here

 

Speedstar

Member

Location

Scottish Borders

• Aug 23, 2018

• #6

davidroberts30 said:

Wish the rain would go east
Been a bad 10 days here

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weather has been very poor here since the start of August

 

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DrWazzock

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Aug 23, 2018

• #7

Was waiting for some rain so I could drill the rape. 21 mm last night, so now waiting for it to dry up a bit, but now it's raining again. Wish I had not listened to the experts and just drilled it into the dust.

 

Jerry

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Devon

• Aug 23, 2018

• #8

Still very dry here, bit of moisture in top 2 inches and then dust below that. Touch of drizzle today and forecasted 5mm for Sunday, would happily take 25mm.

But then we have finished harvest and I want some moisture in the soil for the winter forage crops and for the grass to grow a little!

 

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nelson

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

herefordshire

• Aug 23, 2018

• #9

weve had enough as well 4.5" in the last 4 weeks

 

spin cycle

Member

Location

north norfolk

• Aug 23, 2018

• #10

davidroberts30 said:

Wish the rain would go east

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so do i

 

M-J-G

Member

Location

Sunny Scotland (But I wasn't born here)

• Aug 23, 2018

• #11

A couple of dry weeks would be useful for harvest, but the rain isn't doing any real harm yet.
Grass is shifting now, so it could be worse.

 

Derrick Hughes

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Location

Ceredigion

• Aug 23, 2018

• #12

Had enough now

 

davidroberts30

Member

Location

pembrokeshire

• Aug 23, 2018

• #13

Speedstar said:

weather has been very poor here since the start of August

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135mm since 16 july here

 

Agrispeed

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Location

Cornwall

• Aug 23, 2018

• #14

We get the same rainfall here in August as December, yet people are always surprised when it rains

 

Goweresque

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Location

North Wilts

• Aug 23, 2018

• #15

I did warn you all that the further north and west you were, the wetter August would be, and vice versa.

Down here its still as dry as the proverbial. Cooler for sure, an occasional shower, even the odd 5 or 6 hour wet period. But the ground is as dry as I can remember, still got big cracks in it,I've been moving heaps of spoil today, its like shifting piles of dry sand, even right in the bottom of the heap, no moisture at all. Grass has shifted a bit with what we've had but the tack sheep are eating it faster than it grows.

 

colhonk

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Darlington

• Aug 23, 2018

• #16

Phew, got my wheat finished [email protected]%.1/2 hour later rain was bouncing . not usually that lucky.

 

Wellytrack

Member

• Aug 23, 2018

• #17

Yes that would be plenty thanks.

Hardly scientific but a wheelbarrow left sitting out had two gallons of water on each morning for 3 different nights this week.

 

spin cycle

Member

Location

north norfolk

• Aug 23, 2018

• #18

stilll not up to 10mm total and 6mm of that was last sat of july

 

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DRC

Member

• Aug 23, 2018

• #19

Still very dry here, although we had a welcome 6 mm last night.
Feel sorry for those of you still harvesting.

 

Barleycorn

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BASE UK Member

Location

Hampshire

• Aug 23, 2018

• #20

Still waiting for it in Hampshire! Been very dry,