beardface
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Is it dry as a nuns with anyone else? Another couple weeks without a decent rain and east yorkshires going to start turning brown, and I don't just mean the crops!
Missed out on most of the rain lately. Oh well.............
Yes, just further inland here from you and it's been an interesting spring.Was getting dodgy here until about ten days ago.
Had about 30mm last week which has helped everything along.
However, getting dusty again now.
But there is rain forecast for North East Wales this weekend so maybe we will get enough to wash in the fertiliser for a second cut of haylage?
Not exactly serious here yet, but late spring and early summer droughts are becoming a regular annual occurrence here, which is a worrying trend here and apparently so elsewhere?
if its becoming a regular thing, maybe UK ag needs to learn to adapt & look at how farmers in arid regions of the world survive - without ANY subsidies . . .Not exactly serious here yet, but late spring and early summer droughts are becoming a regular annual occurrence here, which is a worrying trend here and apparently so elsewhere?
Yes snuff dry here.I am not much more than a hobby farmer these days but if I was to take it a bit more seriously I would have to plan for irrigation, I should now really but haven't got around to it yet.
One of my orchards in particular is showing serious drought stress right now and not for the first time. I walked around the place last night and was quite shocked at how much stress is out there. It is patchy though so just makes me think I am growing the wrong crop in the wrong place for the most part.
It is the trees that are stressed here, not me.Then sit down & cry.
our elms went 40? years ago, ash has got dieback, doesn't leave many trees left, took years to get over the elm loss, took years to recover from splitting the logs, when the ash go, its going to look very different again.It is the trees that are stressed here, not me.
You have to be thankful it is good hay making weather, I am thankful my apples escaped frost damage this year and most of all it is less miserable than wading around in mud.
Don’t disagree but if you went to tender for land with the we will make money 75% of 3 in 10 you would be laughed out the room.if its becoming a regular thing, maybe UK ag needs to learn to adapt & look at how farmers in arid regions of the world survive - without ANY subsidies . . .
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changing climate, or climate change, its having an effect, the trouble is, we don't really know which is right. But, prepare for the worst, and hope for the best !Don’t disagree but if you went to tender for land with the we will make money 75% of 3 in 10 you would be laughed out the room.