Search results

Looking across to our now much-improved, but one and only, free-draining DD WW.

😂 Starting Tuesday, here.

:love: He'll soon regret this petulance in the soft far South. Heard the cuckoo today.

Light blue here. No doubt we'll both be in the brown bit again come May and June.

North East Norlolk :love: Lucky for some - here, we're still deep in the blue bit.

So they don't get complaints from customers with 23L/23H labels instead of 24L/24H.

Now seems might not be a drought here after all. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/extremely-active-atlantic-hurricane-season-forecast-this-summer/ar-BB1lgr8y

Big project hereabouts failed to get off the ground a few years ago due to local objections (WINBEG - Winkleigh Biomass Electicity Generator). In hindsight, terms offered to local farmers were ruinously one-sided - fortunately the objectors turned up just in time to save our collective bacon...

Not a milling variety, far from it, but best ever second wheat here has been Insitor. Great rooting, huge capacity to tiller and generally very keen to grow - in fact quite likely, as it did last year, to start well before harvest. https://www.syngenta.co.uk/varieties/winter-wheat/sy-insitor

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/uk-to-bask-in-mini-heatwave-for-weeks-as-met-office-predicts-above-normal-temperatures/ar-BB1ldctr

:ROFLMAO:

Last time barley straw was nearly twice the price of barley here was, I think, in 1971 (ten bob a bale and £16/ton).

Could be same again - anyone else feeling lucky? Did a financial presentation only last week to our main bankers, partly based on this. Yet to hear back.

Similar one here - even more amusingly, it's now taken out one side of the council road down hill which will need at least £10k to fix.

"The UK could have hosepipe bans and water shortages this year despite experiencing the wettest eighteen months on record, experts have warned."...

Rain and wind been getting rather too much here. too, but the actual naming of the storms, mostly done by Met Eireann apparently, has been an additional insult. Ciaran and Fergus were particularly damaging. Fortunately, the one after the next one is to be called "Minnie". Hopefully she will...

This one from another difficult year (1947).

Last time we had a really difficult April here (1975), neighbour put his whole lot into SB first week of May and it averaged just under 0.8 t/acre Know this because we bought the standing crop and kept it separate at harvest (having bid for it on an expected 1.25t/acre). :oops: :oops:

Same here - we're in the blue bit, same as you. Rainfall Actual March 2024 Anywhere east of Norwich it's almost time for the 2024 drought thread.

Same here, but not quite as bad as they were in 1968 when the disastrously wet autumn led to questions being asked in the House of Commons about who was to blame. This resulted in the Strutt Report (1969), produced by Sir Nigel of that ilk, with analysis of all the major causes and useful...