Getting concerned mk11

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Why is anyone even bothering looking at march and april forecasts?

Hope for the future? Far more positive than looking out of the window!

No sign of changing the jetstream's speed or position into the first week in March https://www.netweather.tv/charts-and-data/jetstream

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Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
WW drilled a fortnight ago now has a root and 3 mm sprout. Rooks a plenty but feeling a bit more hopeful than I was. Direct drilled. Some patches have been drowned out but on the whole there will be something.

Same here, out the 60 acres drilled if we can get 50 I would live with that. I really never thought we would have 80mm in 2 weeks after drilling
 

Fuzzy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Regarding the 3 crop rule, WW planted after 31st Jan is regarded as Spring Wheat agronomically (or supposed to be!). Why do they have to make it so complicated.
This is what DEFRA say -:

Use spring cropping to help meet crop diversification rules, remembering that spring and winter varieties count as different crops independent of their sowing date. See page 68 of the BPS 2019 scheme rules for further details on eligible crops
 

Ivorbiggun

Member
Location
Norfolk
We’ve been lucky here and missed the worst of the weather.
Managed to get the last of the first dose of liquid fert on our 250ha of osr done last night after the wind had dropped.
Some of the fields were very wet tho, if I’d slipped of the tramlines I’d have gone in out of sight.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Only 5 acres of WOSR left out of 50 and it’s been ravaged by pigeons. Don’t think it’s worth bothering with it. Luckily the ryegrass into which we drilled it has self set seed and not been properly killed by the glyphosate so it has reverted back to a clover ley and the sheep can utilise it, mopping up the chickweed and bits of rape that are left.
 

Hindsight

Member
Location
Lincolnshire
Only 5 acres of WOSR left out of 50 and it’s been ravaged by pigeons. Don’t think it’s worth bothering with it. Luckily the ryegrass into which we drilled it has self set seed and not been properly killed by the glyphosate so it has reverted back to a clover ley and the sheep can utilise it, mopping up the chickweed and bits of rape that are left.

A silver lining!!
 

Hindsight

Member
Location
Lincolnshire
Just took a look a the rain guage. 12mm overnight. January at 38mm was first month since May when rainfall was less than long term average. February has corrected that with total now 79mm. South Lincolnshire 88 metres altitude.
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Just took a look a the rain guage. 12mm overnight. January at 38mm was first month since May when rainfall was less than long term average. February has corrected that with total now 79mm. South Lincolnshire 88 metres altitude.

It’s the last 2 weeks that have really screwed stuff. January it had actually dried a bit bit 40mm each from Ciara and Denis have fecked it. 22m altitude
 

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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/
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