Drought

glasshouse · Jun 25, 2018

Kiwi Pete said:
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View attachment 685894 This was about as dry as it gets here - it depends how much you can do to offset that lack of rainfall that counts toward successful outcomes.
And, plenty of cover, plenty of green: far from a drought here, even though it was declared a drought it was a borderline response IMO; it just protected farmers unprepared from the realities of having to pay a tax bill with reduced revenue=they learnt slower (or not at all) from the lesson that was given to us all

Levelled the playing field, if you like, which disadvantages the farmer who actually make decisions based on risks
I was not in favour of this interference: failures are the best lessons, in reality

You call that "winter"??????????
wheres the mud,? i dont see the feeder wagon ruts?
softcocks

glasshouse · Jun 25, 2018

This is winter

Kiwi Pete · Jun 25, 2018

glasshouse said:
You call that "winter"??????????
wheres the mud,? i dont see the feeder wagon ruts?
softcocks

I didn't call it winter.... it was 34 degrees when I took those pictures

We have better levels of mud now:

No snow here yet, might be a different story tomorrow as it is coming down now

but the tops are white enough to make it cold

It all seems to return very fast!!

Wombat · Jun 27, 2018

Most this morning has kept the temp down a bit, very pleasant now in the sun

Karliboy · Jun 28, 2018

Looks like another warm/hot week coming next week.
I could do without that

Goatherderess · Jun 28, 2018

Hay is in the barn, it can rain now

renewablejohn · Jun 28, 2018

Holding back on making hay. Others who have cut now with scorched land that looks like it will take a while to recover. Can someone give me 3 days notice when this heatwave is ending.

hendrebc · Jun 28, 2018

renewablejohn said:
Holding back on making hay. Others who have cut now with scorched land that looks like it will take a while to recover. Can someone give me 3 days notice when this heatwave is ending.

Same here. Bet there are some that made hay early and their fields have burnt off will be feeding that hay before long because it hasnt grown back

einstein · Jun 28, 2018

yellow belly said:
If it’s still dry by the end of July then we will have a drought and an early harvest
1995 here 20mm in June July and August was so dry discs would only go in ant inch

if its still dry here by the end of july harvest will nearly be over here!!!

d williams · Jun 28, 2018

Kiwi Pete said:
View attachment 685892
View attachment 685894 This was about as dry as it gets here - it depends how much you can do to offset that lack of rainfall that counts toward successful outcomes.
And, plenty of cover, plenty of green: far from a drought here, even though it was declared a drought it was a borderline response IMO; it just protected farmers unprepared from the realities of having to pay a tax bill with reduced revenue=they learnt slower (or not at all) from the lesson that was given to us all

Levelled the playing field, if you like, which disadvantages the farmer who actually make decisions based on risks
I was not in favour of this interference: failures are the best lessons, in reality

Stock look well enough a dry back will pay better then a wet one

Farmer Roy · Jun 29, 2018

in tough or difficult times, there is always something to be learned . . .

Yale · Jun 29, 2018

hendrebc said:
Same here. Bet there are some that made hay early and their fields have burnt off will be feeding that hay before long because it hasnt grown back

That’s a really feeble excuse for having all those days off lately and not getting on with harvest.....

hendrebc · Jun 29, 2018

Yale said:
That’s a really feeble excuse for having all those days off lately and not getting on with harvest.....

The days off havent helped at all but the fields havent been shut off that long either the fertilizer only went on 4 weeks ago. Almost as soon as i wrote that we decided to make a start though have 25 acres on the ground now. The stubble has been left a little longer than we normally would. It was quite damp undrneath and they arent south facing fields so hopefully they will be ok

havent decided what to do with the rest yet

Yale · Jun 29, 2018

hendrebc said:
The days off havent helped at all but the fields havent been shut off that long either the fertilizer only went on 4 weeks ago. Almost as soon as i wrote that we decided to make a start though have 25 acres on the ground now. The stubble has been left a little longer than we normally would. It was quite damp undrneath and they arent south facing fields so hopefully they will be ok havent decided what to do with the rest yet

Problem is if it continues dry on drier ground crops may in parts go backwards.

We’ve just cracked on and should have cleared 100 acre by the end of today.

We are just cutting,gathering,baling,carrying and wrapping in one go to keep the green in it.Only started a week today so progress has been rapid for us.

We’ve even cut one of the grazing fields that went too far ahead that the cows would have had,could buffer feed it back to them if needed later.

Certainly is an exceptional spell of weather for harvesting.

7610 super q · Jun 29, 2018

Dad insists it was quite wet in May/ June 1976, and didn't turn dry and hot till July/ August.
We've had a dry May/ June......wonder what will happen if July and August are dry too ?

JCMaloney · Jun 29, 2018

If I remember rightly the "drought" part of `76 was July/August but was preceded by the heatwave late June into July think we had about 2 weeks in the +80`s Fahrenheit?

Chae1 · Jun 29, 2018

JCMaloney said:
If I remember rightly the "drought" part of `76 was July/August but was preceded by the heatwave late June into July think we had about 2 weeks in the +80`s Fahrenheit?

Is it a difficult for metal detecting when ground so hard?

JCMaloney · Jun 29, 2018

Chae1 said:
Is it a difficult for metal detecting when ground so hard?

Don`t bother in June/July myself.
If you go on grass/silage ground its often like concrete and I always worry about turf dying back.
"You get better penetration when its moist" **
Stuffs been there hundreds of years, few months won`t matter. Gives me chance to build up Brownie points at home!!

**Detectorists Series One !!

KMA · Jun 29, 2018

Just lifted my 1st & 2nd early tatties and added the soil from the tubs to the raised beds, was going to plant the later crops but not sure I'll bother as it's a safe bet there'll be a hosepipe ban shortly. Early garlic has dried out in record time since lifting.

MrNoo · Jun 29, 2018

Chap taking 2nd cut reckoned that the mower left the field 3 hrs before they rowed up and put the chopper through and it was more like hay getting blown into the trailers, reckons he's never seen it dry out so quick.

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