2019 all over again?

[Jsmith2211]

Starting to get a little worried now. Spring seed might be short... Weather doesnt look great on the forcast - given how sh!t harvest was, could we be in for just as bad an autumn?

 

[Wombat]

Not yet, we have had an average sept so far. 2019 sept, oct, Nov were over 200% of average

 

[teslacoils]

20 degrees outside today. September has been wet but it's dried up so far. Ask again in five weeks.

 

[Jsmith2211]

Not yet, we have had an average sept so far. 2019 sept, oct, Nov were over 200% of average

I dont know the figures for here, but trudging around what i've cultivated it definitely feels like we've had an above average amount of rain in the last couple of weeks. Was almost getting stuck spreading dung on one field which isnt normally a wet field, and i only had a rotorspreader full of horse dung!

20 degrees outside today. September has been wet but it's dried up so far. Ask again in five weeks.

Been nice today, but overnight we had rain and it is now blowing a storm outside again. Going to need a good few days of dry to be able to get onto anything here even with a plough.

 

[colhonk]

Yep. its sh&t.

 

[thorpe]

the way the job's going i couldn't give a flying fvck about the job , i think the rape's failed, spring barley seed still in the bag's from this year that we couldn't get in saved a trailer load for next spring + a heap in the shed if we need it we are still here will wake up in the morning and get on with the job, i don't know how we stay in buisness!

 

[Salopian_Will]

Not yet, we have had an average sept so far. 2019 sept, oct, Nov were over 200% of average

I didn't believe that until I checked our figures here. We are just over the average rainfall for September as of today; come Wednesday we will be well past that. August was average too, but July was much wetter. It feels much wetter than 'average' I am presuming because we have not had a more than 36hours without it raining.

EDIT; I have just looked at accumulated rainfall and we have been above the 10 year average since June, which is where the issue lies.

 

[Wombat]

I didn't believe that until I checked our figures here. We are just over the average rainfall for September as of today; come Wednesday we will be well past that. August was average too, but July was much wetter. It feels much wetter than 'average' I am presuming because we have not had a more than 36hours without it raining.

EDIT; I have just looked at accumulated rainfall and we have been above the 10 year average since June, which is where the issue lies.

i think the issue has been the number of wet months this year, March, April both crazy wet, May cold and slightly below average. June bit below average. July wettest in 50yrs, August 150% of average. We have only hade 3 months with below average rainfall Jan, Feb, June this year.

 

[Salopian_Will]

Everybody is frantically ploughing and combi drilling here. We’re persevering with the Claydon but it ain’t pretty and the slug pellets are in abundance. A straw rake post drilling is the closest we’ll get to rolling.

 

[serf]

the way the job's going i couldn't give a flying fvck about the job , i think the rape's failed, spring barley seed still in the bag's from this year that we couldn't get in saved a trailer load for next spring + a heap in the shed if we need it we are still here will wake up in the morning and get on with the job, i don't know how we stay in buisness!

Should think there's plenty fcüd off with the job , unless you got some diversification or solar ect paying you a chunk or you been fortunate enough to "loose " aload for building there's not much enthusiasm for it all now and then chuck a catchy backend on and it will be icing on cake ....

 

[APJ]

Been patient here nowt sown yet, going for a first week of October start, if it all turns to crap spring sowing it is.

 

[Spud]

We drilled 17ac of wheat after beans with the Mzuri a week ago as Saturday, then nowt until 40ac of barley Vaderstad drilled this afternoon into lighter land ploughed & pressed a good fortnight ago. Wind this afternoon has dried things up nicely. Forecast rubbish and we're not rolling anything but not chasing plough with combi like half the district yet.
That said we have 50ac of straw to dry which is testing my patience.....

 

[teslacoils]

Going to put some roundup on as soon as the wind drops. If it's not in with wheat by half term, it will get the big blench drag and left until April.

 

[Hesstondriver]

I’ve not seen a drill going yet here
Nobody in a rush to start

 

[Flat 10]

Very wise if there’s any BG

 

[Jo28]

2019 it is. Problem is in 2019 it was dry up until middle of September. This year was wet before harvest.

 

[teslacoils]

Drains running through summer is never a good sign.

 

[teslacoils]

This month we have had 50mm.

40mm in 6 hours, and just now 10mm in an hour. Stubbles, ploughed or whatever - it just doesn't infiltrate that fast. Yadda Yadda regen - puddles on permenant pasture now. Damned pain really.

 

[Jo28]

This month we have had 50mm.

40mm in 6 hours, and just now 10mm in an hour. Stubbles, ploughed or whatever - it just doesn't infiltrate that fast. Yadda Yadda regen - puddles on permenant pasture now. Damned pain really.

We've had 89mm so far

 

[teslacoils]

We've had 89mm so far

I've totted it up, and we've had more than the headline 50mm. My brain can only remember the big bucket loads. To think yesterday I walked it and thought about putting the fat tyres on.