And people still had faith in delayed drilling in 2019! Everyone has a tine drill and a bag of pessimism now.Yes much wetter here but 2019 started raining much earlier
And people still had faith in delayed drilling in 2019! Everyone has a tine drill and a bag of pessimism now.Yes much wetter here but 2019 started raining much earlier
It will keep you warm if nothing else.Well my plans have turned to crap anyway.
Have a field of barley half drilled that I was rained out of, and 30ac of ploughing that's had 3/4" of rain on it.
Think I'll put the log splitter on.
We were done by the 11th on everything including wheat this year and a big chunk of it is already fooked so my enthusiasm went some time agoAnd people still had faith in delayed drilling in 2019! Everyone has a tine drill and a bag of pessimism now.
Hasn’t really dried since babet, although yesterday was the nicest day in 2 weeks. 5mm of rain. Bit of sun some wind first we have seen in a whileIt was drying nice Tuesday afternoon i knew it was too good
to be true.
Will the maize be ok harvested on a frost? Mind you, do you get frosts in Somerset?Saw a few fields of Maize unharvested on my travels in Somerset yesterday ! After last nights and todays deluge I'd hazard a guess it game over for the Maize and any autumn drilling in these parts ! Minor and major roads flooded out at the moment , i'd say worse than 2019 in as much as that year we combi drilled some wheat mid Nov , that isn't happening this year !
3/4"... I think my 50ac ploughed ground is closer to having had 3x4" of rain on itWell my plans have turned to crap anyway.
Have a field of barley half drilled that I was rained out of, and 30ac of ploughing that's had 3/4" of rain on it.
Think I'll put the log splitter on.
Will work up lovely in the spring.3/4"... I think my 50ac ploughed ground is closer to having had 3x4" of rain on it
I was checking my gutters today, watching all that muck, digestate P K and residual N going down themWill work up lovely in the spring.
Each inch/acre weighs 130 ton, just think of the weight going down the drains.
How about a bit of a-ha 'The sun always shines on tv'.Time for a little Kenny Rogers:
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done
Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away
And knowin' what to keep
'Cause every hand's a winner
And every hand's a loser
And the best that you can hope for
Is to die in your sleep"
Assuming I can find any spring seed for any spring crop worth planting.... I loath spring beans, I don't want to follow spring barley with wheat...Will work up lovely in the spring.
Each inch/acre weighs 130 ton, just think of the weight going down the drains.
Still nowhere near as bad as 2012 or 2019 here although it is bloody wet now. Crops that are in, are standing the wet quite well, neighbours wheat drilled a couple of days before the first storm, although standing in water, is germinating.It’s been more akin to “Dirty Harry” here.
“You’ve got to ask yourself
‘How lucky do I feel?’.
Well do you, Punk?”
And suddenly autumn drilling, which used to be a safer bet than spring drilling, just wasn’t any more.
If this is to be the pattern (and it’s probably too early to say), then it has very big implications for farming in this country.
Last time we had our road bridge washed out was I think at Easter in the 1980’s but we’ve never had an autumn like this in living memory though I recall father grumbling about 1954, their first harvest down here, which after drying charges left a few shillings and it continued wet into October. They were pitching stooks out of standing water.
so I should start cross dressing?How about a bit of a-ha 'The sun always shines on tv'.