2019 all over again?

[farenheit]

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.

 

[David.]

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.

 

[copse]

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.

It will keep you warm if nothing else.

 

[bankrupt]

At last, we're in the brown bit -

 

[Wombat]

And people still had faith in delayed drilling in 2019! Everyone has a tine drill and a bag of pessimism now.

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 ago

 

[Andy12345]

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 !

 

[teslacoils]

Will be interesting to see what the ahdb 2024 s&d figures look like for next year when they update them.

 

[lloyd]

It was drying nice Tuesday afternoon i knew it was too good
to be true.

 

[Wombat]

It was drying nice Tuesday afternoon i knew it was too good
to be true.

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 while

 

[britt]

It started 23rd September in 2019 here, so hardly any wheat drilled by then. This time I would say 80% drilled by 11th October when it started. How well it'll fare we'll have to wait and see.
Yesterday it was still possible to plough and combi-drill for those who do, in 19 it was out of the question except foe those with a small plough on a big tractor and a tracked machine for the drill. Although most of what was drilled was so poor they'd have been better off not bothering.
I think after this lot now it will be game over.

 

[teslacoils]

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"

 

[Devil's advocate]

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 !

Will the maize be ok harvested on a frost? Mind you, do you get frosts in Somerset?

 

[farmerm]

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.

3/4"... I think my 50ac ploughed ground is closer to having had 3x4" of rain on it

 

[Devil's advocate]

3/4"... I think my 50ac ploughed ground is closer to having had 3x4" of rain on it

Will work up lovely in the spring.

Each inch/acre weighs 130 ton, just think of the weight going down the drains.

 

[Renaultman]

Will work up lovely in the spring.

Each inch/acre weighs 130 ton, just think of the weight going down the drains.

I was checking my gutters today, watching all that muck, digestate P K and residual N going down them

 

[DrWazzock]

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.

 

[lloyd]

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"

How about a bit of a-ha 'The sun always shines on tv'.

 

[farmerm]

Will work up lovely in the spring.

Each inch/acre weighs 130 ton, just think of the weight going down the drains.

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...

 

[Renaultman]

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.

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.

 

[farmerm]

How about a bit of a-ha 'The sun always shines on tv'.

so I should start cross dressing?