2012?

[muleman]

Long range forecast saying potentially wetter for the start of May.
Are we going to see a repeat of 2012 where it rained all summer making silage/hay making nigh on impossible.
The trouble is 2012 we had a very dry march april and may, this time a very wet march and april so setting off already waterlogged.
Whatever happens we will just have to take it on the chin and make the best of it!

 

[Estate fencing.]

We had some wet days lambing 2012 as well.

 

[Happy]

Who knows. Your last sentence sums it up.
Would say it’s more like 2018 here currently. Very wet March and first half of April. Didn’t get any spring sowing done until 23rd April that year then straight into a 4 month drought.
Every other spring since 2017 has seen very dry April/May.
Can’t remember what 2012 was like this time of year but wasn’t it into July before things turned really wet?

 

[muleman]

Who knows. Your last sentence sums it up.
Would say it’s more like 2018 here currently. Very wet March and first half of April. Didn’t get any spring sowing done until 23rd April that year then straight into a 4 month drought.
Every other spring since 2017 has seen very dry April/May.
Can’t remember what 2012 was like this time of year but wasn’t it into July before things turned really wet?

I was consoling myself that because it was such a bad march and april we would maybe get a good summer, now that is looking unlikely, once it gets stuck in its ways it seems very loathe to change.
Yes it was mid june before it came wet in 2012 , this time we havnt even had a good spring, 2012 we had summer in spring , 20 degrees plus for lambing.

 

[hendrebc]

We had a massive dump of snow that drifted really badly in early April in 2012. It was gone in 2 days though but did a fair bit of damage in that first day.

My quad broke down and I was given a mule by the dealer to try while they fixed it. It was shite in snow and I couldn't get to some places in it.

 

[muleman]

We had a massive dump of snow that drifted really badly in early April in 2012. It was gone in 2 days though but did a fair bit of damage in that first day.

My quad broke down and I was given a mule by the dealer to try while they fixed it. It was shite in snow and I couldn't get to some places in it.

Maybe time distorts my memory....i dont think we had a drop of rain from 10th march till 1st may and never had leggins on and lambed in t- shirt.
Remember carrying a bottle of pop on quad bike, it was that hot!

 

[Tamar]

They didn't get this weeks forcast correct, so predicting May might be a complete stab in the dark !

 

[Two Tone]

2012 was cold and dry up until May. Then it turned wet and warm. Grass exploded and horses got laminitis (mostly got in the autumn from frozen grass).
June turned very wet and cold.
Wheats got Microdochium Nivale (Cold weather Fusarium). Virtually immune to all fungicides except Agate if sprayed every 5 days.
Yields were dreadful, bushel weights terrible. Huge quantity claims.
Very wet harvest. Combines got stuck everywhere.
Not much got planted in the autumn. Lots of Spring barley and Spring Rape got planted in 2013.

 

[Yale]

Maybe time distorts my memory....i dont think we had a drop of rain from 10th march till 1st may and never had leggins on and lambed in t- shirt.
Remember carrying a bottle of pop on quad bike, it

That definitely happened 2011, had a long spell of very little rain from the end of Feb until late spring.

 

[Yale]

The 12 months from May 2012 were a friggin nightmare, Absolutely crap silage made 2012 a month late, dead on its feet then the lambing from hell with the snow and late spring 2013. Never want to go through that again!

 

[Still Farming]

Ment to be a "soft" heatwave this weekend allegedly???
Hailstorm, gales, rain and cold here today whatever???

 

[serf]

Long range forecast saying potentially wetter for the start of May.

That's it then !
Drought it is ......

 

[AGN76]

Carried and stacked 400 odd bales with the skidsteer and soft hands grab in 2012. The bales were so wet and heavy they would tip the skidsteer forwards when loading onto trailer, then hurl it backwards when the grab was released. Would sit on sofa at night and feel like I was still rocking back and forth!
Can't wait for a repeat of that!

 

[Nithsdale]

May was definitely roasting here in 2012... Can't really remember March or April (so I presume reasonably decent)

This year so far has been nothing like winter 2011 into 2012... its been pee wet since September here with October and November being exceptionally high rainfall...


February is the only dry month out of the last 7

 

[goodevans]

We had a massive dump of snow that drifted really badly in early April in 2012. It was gone in 2 days though but did a fair bit of damage in that first day.

My quad broke down and I was given a mule by the dealer to try while they fixed it. It was shite in snow and I couldn't get to some places in it.

A lot warmer though

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Cold wet May extend the silage pit

 

[M-J-G]

Who knows what it will be like, we've had a fairly good March and early April this year, last night was the first miserable night out lambs have seen in the 3 weeks since we started lambing.

March 2012 was warm and sunny, an exceptional month with days over 20 degrees, but on 29th it started raining and didn't stop for much more than a day until about August.

Let's see how this year goes, I never see much point in getting bothered about the weather

 

[Gedd]

4th april 2012 my 50th birthday 4/5inches of snow on the ground frozen on top felt like minus 10 or more picking lambs up frozen and would be 2 weeks or more old cant say what it was like after

 

[hendrebc]

I remember the snow in 2012 quite clearly I was going out with a dairy farmers daughter who had never seen a sheep before. She had quite an education going round in the mule with me

It wasn't cold though your right. Never needed a coat as soon as it stopped snowing it was all gone in not a lot of time.

 

[muleman]

Who knows what it will be like, we've had a fairly good March and early April this year, last night was the first miserable night out lambs have seen in the 3 weeks since we started lambing.

March 2012 was warm and sunny, an exceptional month with days over 20 degrees, but on 29th it started raining and didn't stop for much more than a day until about August.

Let's see how this year goes, I never see much point in getting bothered about the weather

If youve had a good march and april you wont see any point getting bothered about it......its been shocking most places for lambing!