2019 all over again?

[Renaultman]

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

I think we need a bit of Monty Python 'Always look on the bright side of life'

 

[marshbarn]

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"

Iam thinking more like .......... ACDC thunderstuck and highway to hell

 

[lloyd]

so I should start cross dressing?

If it makes the sun shine please feel free.

 

[bobk]

This is worse than 12 and 19 by a miles
Thoughts now are will it dry by March

 

[Renaultman]

Iam thinking more like .......... ACDC thunderstuck and highway to hell

Ride on would be better. Tomorrow is another day, but maybe we should have a party to forget our woes a Big Ball?

 

[lloyd]

This is worse than 12 and 19 by a miles
Thoughts now are will it dry by March

Sounds like you've gone all 'bon jovi'.

 

[bobk]

Sounds like you've gone all 'bon jovi'.

Might place a provisional order for some seed , we're back to gambling

 

[oil barron]

Sounds like you've gone all 'bon jovi'.

Living on a Sprayer? I thought that’s for the folk that sow their wheat in August.

 

[teslacoils]

Will make more profit selling back the barley seed to the merchant than planting it...

 

[B'o'B]

so I should start cross dressing?

Monty python- I’m a lumberjack?

 

[DrWazzock]

This is worse than 12 and 19 by a miles
Thoughts now are will it dry by March

It is. We drilled some in November in 2019. Absolutely no chance of that this year.

 

[bobk]

It is. We drilled some in November in 2019. Absolutely no chance of that this year.

Tell you what , any seed that survives thus will be saved

 

[JCfarmer]

Need a bit of Billy Idol!


Hey little sister what have you done to this weather!?
Hey little sister don't get the shotgun
Its a nice day to start again
Its a nice day for some wheat drilling
Its a nice day to start again

 

[lloyd]

Need a bit of Billy Idol!


Hey little sister what have you done to this weather!?
Hey little sister don't get the shotgun
Its a nice day to start again
Its a nice day for some wheat drilling
Its a nice day to start again

Only the real JC could be that talented.

 

[JCfarmer]

Only the real JC could be that talented.

 

[Devil's advocate]

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.

69 years from stooking sheaves to Lexions, staggering really.

 

[Devil's advocate]

This is worse than 12 and 19 by a miles
Thoughts now are will it dry by March

Plus two more weeks of chucking it down.

 

[bobk]

Plus two more weeks of chucking it down.

Doesn't seem to be any end to it for sure

 

[yellow belly]

Doesn't seem to be any end to it for sure

The change for dryer will not be predicted it will creep up on use
just as the wet crept up on use after the hot week in September made people predict a dry autumn

when we had two wet years in a row in the 1990s I said to an old farmer that the next would be dryer
because we never get 3 wet years in a row
he shot back with 1950s 3 wet in a row 1954 one of them
I never say never since then

 

[Hindsight]

The slugs are as bad as the sodden wet soil. Several bare patches in wheat following oilseed rape. Rape really is a nightmare crop.