Getting concerned mk11

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
A silver lining!!

It is. Ranching the lot with sheep looks a lot less expensive and stressful than throwing money down the drain quite literally on cropping.
Lesson learned for me this season. If in doubt do nothing. You don't get thanked for trying and failing at this job or for taking a risk. You just lose more money, well that's what has happened this season. Time to walk away from the arable for a bit.
 

Zippy768

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Dorset/Wilts
Lesson learned for me this season. If in doubt do nothing. You don't get thanked for trying and failing at this job or for taking a risk. You just lose more money, well that's what has happened this season. Time to walk away from the arable for a bit.
See, if I am in two minds about getting on and doing something or not, I dont ever remember a time that I wish I hadn't and regretted it.
Though I must confess there have been many times I have gotten on with a job - with absolutely no doubts - and have regretted it in the future.
Not sure what the moral is ?‍♂️
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Going to cost you.

Still need to buy the dog, cut the stick.
So far we have managed to round them up without a dog. Just open the gate , shake a feed bag and they come racing after you. Benefit of central handling system on ring fenced farm. We had cut back on numbers though so can’t really stock much more grazing land. I will change my mind again when it dries up but glad to have some variety to spread the risk and at least something doing.
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
See, if I am in two minds about getting on and doing something or not, I dont ever remember a time that I wish I hadn't and regretted it.
Though I must confess there have been many times I have gotten on with a job - with absolutely no doubts - and have regretted it in the future.
Not sure what the moral is ?‍♂️

the moral is we just don’t know in truth. But this does seem to have been a year when every decision I made was the wrong one. Just a run of bad luck or maybe I take for granted the things that did go right. At least we got the beet up which was small miracle when you look at water laid about this morning.
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
The difference between a few miles is huge. South of the m62 looks gash. Bit above it looks on the whole a lot better, except where potatoes have been dragged out.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
It only takes 48 hours for a weather system to form in the Atlantic, so anything longer than that is a stab in the dark.

Watch the jet stream if you want a rough idea of whether it will be settled or unsettled. When the stream goes north of the British Isles, the weather will be dry. When it's over us it will be unsettled. When there's a big kink in it, there's a storm spinning up.

 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Watch the jet stream if you want a rough idea of whether it will be settled or unsettled. When the stream goes north of the British Isles, the weather will be dry. When it's over us it will be unsettled. When there's a big kink in it, there's a storm spinning up.


Wow, sounds like you’ve summed up weather forecasting in a few short sentences.

What happens if it’s south of us?
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
What happens if it’s south of us?

A long way south is unusual, but it normally means unsettled weather but the low pressure systems go south of us, so not too bad & better up north.

The jet stream won't tell you what time of day it's going to rain but it does give you an idea of where the low pressure systems are tracking. The wind speeds up there also control the intensity of weather events. High speed = stormy. Low speed = slower moving systems.
 

onthehoof

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Cambs
Watch the jet stream if you want a rough idea of whether it will be settled or unsettled. When the stream goes north of the British Isles, the weather will be dry. When it's over us it will be unsettled. When there's a big kink in it, there's a storm spinning up.

I thought it was the other way round - when it’s strong and powerful (straight) it sets the storms off because the temperature contrast is greatest, when it slows down and buckles it allows blocking patterns to develop - if it’s north of us it will be more likely high pressure and south of us low pressure
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


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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