2019 all over again?

[teslacoils]

Sound advice but I can’t seem to help myself. Really need to get away. Just need to get over the tonsillitis. Getting there though. Farm will soon be shutdown for winter.

Remind me to take my own advice. I'm supposed to be booking flights to America. Actually I'm worrying about farming things I can't change.

Do a budget for putting it all in legume fallow for a three year SFi scheme. None of this "rotate it for a first wheat" rubbish.

 

[Two Tone]

Spin on and plough the beans in? Not too deep. That’s how we used to do them. One blast over with a light tractor and power Harrow if its rough but dries off.

Plough isn’t a dirty word to me. But having seen what not ploughing has done to our soils, I’m not going down that route again…….. yet!

Quite happy to use the Weaving GD on the Ironstone. But the heavy stuff I’d rather not plant at all than try to plough that at the moment.

 

[Two Tone]

Sound advice but I can’t seem to help myself. Really need to get away. Just need to get over the tonsillitis. Getting there though. Farm will soon be shutdown for winter.

I know exactly what you mean.
I am going away shortly. What doesn’t get done will have to wait. Utterly sick to death of the farm at the moment.
Where I’m going they will only be just about to start drilling and it will be harvested in May

 

[Steevo]

With 50+ mm accumulations forecast, I'd just stop looking at it now. Probably until march.

It does seem crazy.

iPhone forecast is as follows:

Today 16mm
Thurs 5mm
Fri 17mm
Sat 2mm
Sun 0mm
Mon 9mm
Tues 2mm
Wed 13mm
Thurs 2mm

So that's 66mm forecast in the next 9 days....on top of 31mm last Friday and about 15mm last Wednesday.

That said, I could have walked across the stubbles in shoes this morning without picking up any mud.

 

[T Hectares]

It does seem crazy.

iPhone forecast is as follows:

Today 16mm
Thurs 5mm
Fri 17mm
Sat 2mm
Sun 0mm
Mon 9mm
Tues 2mm
Wed 13mm
Thurs 2mm

So that's 66mm forecast in the next 9 days....on top of 31mm last Friday and about 15mm last Wednesday.

That said, I could have walked across the stubbles in shoes this morning without picking up any mud.

The Met Office forecast shows it drying up after Fridays deluge
Who knows ??

 

[lloyd]

It does seem crazy.

iPhone forecast is as follows:

Today 16mm
Thurs 5mm
Fri 17mm
Sat 2mm
Sun 0mm
Mon 9mm
Tues 2mm
Wed 13mm
Thurs 2mm

So that's 66mm forecast in the next 9 days....on top of 31mm last Friday and about 15mm last Wednesday.

That said, I could have walked across the stubbles in shoes this morning without picking up any mud.

Could be worse if you were from Aberdeenshire.

 

[Steevo]

Where I’m going they will only be just about to start drilling and it will be harvested in May

Colombia?

 

[Steevo]

The Met Office forecast shows it drying up after Fridays deluge
Who knows ??

Fingers crossed!

Planting wheat into deluges like this will increase the seed/field losses considerably.

If it stopped raining every day for a change in a couple of weeks time, things might be a lot different.

 

[lloyd]

At least my rolls has had an autumn off.

 

[Steevo]

At least my rolls has had an autumn off.

Have you been using the new Bentley instead?

 

[Jsmith2211]

Have you been using the new Bentley instead?

No I expect he's been using his aston, far nicer than a bently (so i'm told)

 

[lloyd]

Have you been using the new Bentley instead?

No the 24v battery is faulty.

 

[David.]

Bloody good job I drilled in dark last night to finish field, when MetOffice were calling rain at 5pm today.
By this morning they were saying 90% rain at 12.00.
Flecking useless

 

[Devil's advocate]

Bloody good job I drilled in dark last night to finish field, when MetOffice were calling rain at 5pm today.
By this morning they were saying 90% rain at 12.00.
Flecking useless

my contractors out drilling now, not raining yet.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It’s bloody hammering down here!

 

[Renaultman]

Well everything is in the ground, so nothing like 2019.
OSR a write off though, so that's now in bean.
Just have to wait and see what grows now.

 

[bobk]

Well everything is in the ground, so nothing like 2019.
OSR a write off though, so that's now in bean.
Just have to wait and see what grows now.

Or doesn't get drowned

 

[Renaultman]

Or doesn't get drowned

Hopefully not, it's fairly free draining land, depends how much we get and how long for.
Edit We didn't roll them, I suspect the rain will consolidate it enough.

 

[teslacoils]

Bugger it. Holiday booked. Back for bonfire night.

 

[B'o'B]

Bugger it. Holiday booked. Back for bonfire night.

Sensible, I hope you enjoy your time away.