rain gauge

As above , do any of you think the Davis , over reads or under reads rainfall against any other rain gauge you use.?

Go on, someone must have started...

Just wondering whether to treat myself to one that can be put up in the garden on a pole. I don't want a full weather station, just external temp and precipitation, and I've found several on Amazon for 30-50 quid. But got a question... do they empty the water collector automatically? If so, how...

Spectacular lightning last night here in the borders. Probably wildest I ‘ve ever seen . Thankfully missed the rain. How’s everyone else on the east? @Hilly @Woolless @melted welly @Chae1 ect

Recently bought a newholland LM 5040 handler, has only done 2400hrs and paid a good price. Drove it around the owners yard and boom was working fine. Couple days later it was deliverd and we hadn’t had it 20mina and all of a sudden then boom wouldn’t work and all we could hear was a high pitch...

Agronomist looking at a bit of winter milling wheat today to time up for milky ripe protein N - 2 weeks off yet apparently which I would suggest makes august harvest unlikely? No OSR to cut - cant see us dong much if anything until mid-August? Big rea of Linseed juts getting final N so that...

Which sites for total rainfall on a postcode?

Day 3 of.a showery forecast and still nothing in the rain gauge to measure ?

Seen it coming , dry April ,May , then the sh!t hits the fan . good for stockmen . disaster for arable

Here for the next 3 weeks according to some forecasts

I know I'm tempting fate but when is it going to rain ? No doubt when it starts it won't stop but it would be nice to have some mositure soon ! No grass, crops struggling going to have to start feeding sheep before long !

A suggestion of @betweenthelines, probably long overdue for most of us, this thread seems like one with a real future to it... :rolleyes: I'll start, something relatively minor, but irritating nonetheless: putting in some thunderbolts to hold a mini-sleeper to a wall so I can attach some rails...

VERY silly idea (but that’s what forums are for) .......... could you use a sprayer fed water by an umbilical system to irrigate crops ? 36m going as slow as possible (so extremely slow on cvt ) on auto steer so you could take the man out the cab with runs taking hours to complete just...

Some of the stuff i've sown is, some is ok, some is terrible! It looks like i've sown it too thin, but I've not, it is desperate for a good downpour, I was thinking while driving from them earlier, there's not been drop of proper rain since they went in the ground. How's yours looking?

Whats the opinion on wheat crops? 80% or 60% of normal

Can I get some thoughts on what to do with my wheat and remaining N? It’s barrel sown on the 1st of September. It’s had 65 kg of N so far with last dose on the 30th of March of 38kgs. I reckon it’s about growth stage 30. Nmax is 190. Was planning on putting some on next week. We are all Yara...

Apart from the silage fields or fields not grazed by stock I’ve never known grass growth as slow as this spring

I can't be one to complain because we had a lovely 7mm last weekend but the wind soon took it away. But had hopes for this weekend tho forecasters have put us just on the side of any of the proper rainfall. So who has had meaningful amount of rainfall,,,,,,,,, 2mm so far and hoping for more

Looking at (all) forecasts we could go through April with no recorded rain. Not idea after a wet winter!

Never seen fields dry out so quick . We are working on fields we could not get a tractor on at all last year ,