- Location
- Sutton Coldfield
0.4mm Eastern edge of Birmingham
Crazy yet desperate irrigation ideas !
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
0.4mm Eastern edge of Birmingham
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Here in E Anglia we did not get enough to register last night, and nothing in the long term forecasts. I would be seriously concerned about any crops without irrigation available.
i think we have had less than 20 mm in the last ten weeks and a decent crop will be needing that in a week now. .. i think a fiar few Spribg cereals crops here will struggle to pay the cost of cutting if nothing comes in the next few days and the winter barleys are struggling too
i think we have had less than 20 mm in the last ten weeks and a decent crop will be needing that in a week now. .. i think a fiar few Spribg cereals crops here will struggle to pay the cost of cutting if nothing comes in the next few days and the winter barleys are struggling too
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Had about 1/2 inch. Will keep it alive for another week, but we need some serious rain now.
And by serious, I don't mean raining every day from 21st July onwards......
21st June onwards.....for 6 months?!
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
If only we could place orders....
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Lots of ground south of you didn't get any. Remember the geographical centre of Britain is Haltwhistle on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. @Highland Mule summed it up nicely;
"South of Birmingham = bottom quarter of the country, at a rough estimate, albeit more productive for arable, seemed more important by those who live there and a horrid mass of conurbation by those who don’t."
Isn't it strange all of those 'northerners' actually being south of the middle of the land
.....- Location
- East yorks
Lots of ground south of you didn't get any. Remember the geographical centre of Britain is Haltwhistle on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. @Highland Mule summed it up nicely;
"South of Birmingham = bottom quarter of the country, at a rough estimate, albeit more productive for arable, seemed more important by those who live there and a horrid mass of conurbation by those who don’t."
I would have taken zero rather than have this crazy wind following the bloody low pressure, it’s worse than the 27deg on wed
Isn't it strange all of those 'northerners' actually being south of the middle of the land
The median point in terms of population is in Derbyshire, a lot further south...
can pump about 1000 L a min ...... do not a lot
but you can go extremely slowly with a cvt box !
it could get it on (at a massive cost though). problem. is keeping a tank full as it would empty every 6 mins
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Just goes to show that statistics can prove almost anything. The British Antarctic Territory is seven times the size of the UK, so if we include it, even Dorset is northern.
renewablejohn
Member
- Location
- lancs
Would be easy enough to using the technology of the steam plough engines. Instead of a cable use an irrigation real. rather than 2 engines a single tractor with a water powered headstock pulling the spray cart when it reaches the end of the tramline the powered headstock is put in reverse and the tractor reels the headstock back in. At the end of cycle headtsock lifted up and tractor moves to next tramline and cycle repeated.
Wouldn't be much trouble keeping the tank full at that rate if you're filling it with the umbilical
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
All you really need is some properly heavy land. Here’s a pic of the post I pulled out of the ground yesterday that was securing the Helikite in the Soya. The surface of the ground is dust, an inch down and it’s damp, a foot down and it’s really wet still.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Driving through the Midlands and down Through Herefordshire I was surprised how well things are looking ,
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
One golden rule on irrigation is to get enough on. If you only wet the surface that will just evaporate. You must put enough on 12 mm is the minimum and that is just maintenance, really need 25 mm so for each hectare that is 250,000 litres and that is every week!
Upton Suffolk Estates uses this system - Veenhuis rotomax to apply slurry from its digester, which feeds underground pipes originally laid for irrigation and still usable for this purpose via gate valves which shut off the slurry feed.
Applying technology to digestate with Nutri-Flow from Veenhuis
Digestate can offer useful nutrients for growing crops, and a Suffolk arable farm has invested in equipment to make best use of it and precisely quantify its value
If helpful to anyone
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Dont know why everyone is worried, barley is only going to be worth £110/tonne so its no great loss, fallow is the future.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Chop the grain back in and harvest the straw
Daniel
Member
- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
We'll probably have a trials combine in during the summer for some plots, would be interesting to drench a 6 metre boom section once a week and see the yield difference?
Is it going to be worth anything? Got some now that’s too cheap
Devil's advocate
Member
- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
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move it with 45 hp tractor