This thread is like reading a sports one where your team is losing, doom and depression blah blah then all of a sudden game momentum changes and your team are world beaters,when the sun comes out for a few days crops will change and yield well in the meantime there is nothing we can do and being downbeat isn't going to change it, nobody has died (hopefully) the swallows are back the EA are on strike, life's good
2023 Wet thread #1
- Thread starter bankrupt
- Start date
- Location
- Essex
You just have to keep your foot on the optimism pedal and remember there's been sh!t years before, which we've survived, mostly.
SilliamWhale
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Things are looking fairly decent here. Yes we've had too much rain but used to that.
A warm dry week will motor things on. All to play for imv
A warm dry week will motor things on. All to play for imv
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Here in Manitoba is all going to be late drilling. Alberta is about to start and we still have snow in places and lots of water in fields. Two years ago we were drilling with dust clouds behind.Strange weather is not just a European thing
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Heard this year's first cuckoo here this morning.
- Location
- East yorks
not really bothered as the barley will have to go in next weekend anyway
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Bloody lovely here in Cardiff.
Not had one here for a good few years
Cab-over Pete
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- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
I wouldn’t worry about the cuckoo.
Where I used to rent the yard he put spring barley in on the last week of April.
It made 3.1 tonnes per acre and a malting premium. Best crop he ever grew.
Where I used to rent the yard he put spring barley in on the last week of April.
It made 3.1 tonnes per acre and a malting premium. Best crop he ever grew.
Sandy
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Dates mean nothing these days the seasons are all over the place
Was it not late last year as well? How did that turn out?
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
Too slow... I spotted him early and managed to shoot bugger before he let out a cry .....
serf
Member
- Location
- warwickshire
So that's why I can't hear him ....Too slow... I spotted him early and managed to shoot bugger before he let out a cry .....
Strungup52
Member
Here in Sask going to be late seeding also. Following the most snow during winter for my 23 years here and a sudden thaw last weekend we have more water lying than during the high rainfall years of 9 or 10 years ago.
Driving round on the quad where I could yesterday it looks like we could be seeding about 1000 acres less than last year - and that’s if we don’t get more rain. Another challenge might be getting fertiliser out of the bins in the yard. Never had water within 2ft of this depth before.
Driving round on the quad where I could yesterday it looks like we could be seeding about 1000 acres less than last year - and that’s if we don’t get more rain. Another challenge might be getting fertiliser out of the bins in the yard. Never had water within 2ft of this depth before.
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Spencer
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- Location
- North West
Get the barley in the drill quick..So that's why I can't hear him ....
Where are you in Sask?
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Very late last years yes. Turned out amazingly well. Crops were above average in this area but very late. I seeded wheat the first couple of days in July. Heads were ripe mid October but the straw was full leaf. combine Was coughing out silage day after day. Only when it was minus twelve one night did it dry down. Took a few days but after the frost speeds doubled. All crops were green until the frost. Finished combining beans in November on a 20 degree day. Two days later it was snowing. There are still a number of fields not harvested in the area.
ive posted this before remember going up the A46 to newark mkt in may 2012 i came home and said to my lad we better get some wheat sold thing's looked fantastic. for some reason we didn't sell any thank goodness ended up selling crap for gold!Wheat here looks fantastic, lush green and thick, much like it did in 2012 and that didn't end well
- Location
- East yorks
Was hoping to get Pacifica plus on but everything is too wet and stressed. Hopefully get it on next weekend now. Nice day though for once, could just have done without the bloody top up Friday
huh! you think your wet, ive not watched it yet but i see dovey's been drilling. i think before it's dry enough here it'll rain again!