2019 all over again?

[Hindsight]

Another two weeks, will be spring in another 4 months, I'll decide what to do then.

You asked about Veg. There is standing water in several fields of Brassica. Sprouts, cabbage and overwinter Cauli crops. Several 360 diggers around letting off water. To soon to assess impact but previous experience indicates these living Brassicas will die off in the standing water. Harvesting Dutch White into store is continuing - but goodness the fields are a mess.

 

[Wombat]

I cannot believe how well this has taken 60mm in 2 hrs yesteray and 120mm in 10 days. This corner is lighter but the rest is heavy. The far side of this had the big beck running over it this time yesteday

I have spent a huge amount of time on the digger, cleaning ditches and putting in lengths of pipe and mole ploughing and trying to get the soil in order. Anyone who says it’s wasted, it wasn’t

 

[Devil's advocate]

You asked about Veg. There is standing water in several fields of Brassica. Sprouts, cabbage and overwinter Cauli crops. Several 360 diggers around letting off water. To soon to assess impact but previous experience indicates these living Brassicas will die off in the standing water. Harvesting Dutch White into store is continuing - but goodness the fields are a mess.

2nd year on the trot of difficulty for late veg, last year so much frost damage to caulie mid December onwards. The same growers hopefully made good money earlier in the season & out of potatoes (really good year for earlies).

Last year I struggled with drought, but my land will never flood, so this year is my turn, very sad but that is the reality of farming.

 

[oil barron]

John Cleese once said and it is very true "Faliure is not so bad, almost suceeding is so much worse".

When the weather is out to get you a 100% hit is sometimes better than struggling with a 50% hit. Keep tempting you to try a bit harder, spend a bit more.

 

[Wombat]

So if the forecasts for this week are correct we will have had 200mm about a third of our annual rainfall in 2 weeks

 

[jackrussell101]

Drilled crops taking a hammering from slugs etc here in Staffordshire.

Certainly don't want to be selling any wheat forward now for next year, can see it being a low volume harvest across most of the country at this rate...

 

[EddieB]

Having driven to Spalding today from Staffs I think I must be in one of the drier counties.

 

[Jo28]

Drilled crops taking a hammering from slugs etc here in Staffordshire.

Certainly don't want to be selling any wheat forward now for next year, can see it being a low volume harvest across most of the country at this rate...

We will have no volume at this rate

 

[zero]

Couple of weeks ago we were drier than 2019, now we're alot wetter. Never had this much algae growing on my pickup before!
Will soon be able to park it in them spaces that are Reserved for Green vehicles..

 

[Spencer]

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Couple of weeks ago we were drier than 2019, now we're alot wetter. Never had this much algae growing on my pickup before!
Will soon be able to park it in them spaces that are Reserved for Green vehicles..

Reckon thats more than a couple of weeks growth

 

[Jsmith2211]

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Couple of weeks ago we were drier than 2019, now we're alot wetter. Never had this much algae growing on my pickup before!
Will soon be able to park it in them spaces that are Reserved for Green vehicles..

Got little bits of vegetation growing round the windscreen of mine. Not sure if its because of the rain or just because I can't afford a nicer truck

 

[zero]

Reckon thats more than a couple of weeks growth

It did get washed for it's mot in march!

 

[Renaultman]

Time to get the hover rafts out, those of you who have any OSR left?

 

[Spencer]

It did get washed for it's mot in march!

Which year?

 

[Devil's advocate]

Much worse than 2019 now, got to be.

 

[ajd132]

Much worse than 2019 now, got to be.

Yes much wetter here but 2019 started raining much earlier

 

[copse]

Much worse than 2019 now, got to be.

It’s certainly not around me yet as most people are drilled up .admittedly some of the larger boys aren’t but I have no sympathy for them as they keep grabbing land and not giving anyone else a chance.

 

[thorpe]

It’s certainly not around me yet as most people are drilled up .admittedly some of the larger boys aren’t but I have no sympathy for them as they keep grabbing land and not giving anyone else a chance.

one of those big boy's round here only finished combining a fortnight ago 500 acres drilled out of 5000!

 

[bobk]

one of those big boy's round here only finished combining a fortnight ago 500 acres drilled out of 5000!

He's possibly had a lucky miss

 

[Hindsight]

one of those big boy's round here only finished combining a fortnight ago 500 acres drilled out of 5000!

Fortunate chap. He will be able yo make a controlled loss on spring crops, rather than the catastrophe unfolding for the farms I visit which have invested in seeds, sprays and increasingly slug pellets. Difficult yet to estimate how much of that is written off and or severely compromised. But substantial. At least in 2019 very little autumn cereals had been sown.