- Location
- South Molton
I think it's gone up in last month
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Cant beat a good team and some vet students. Calving is more of a struggle this year.
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
Flat with you, we have had real chop at Cawsands eating chips being rinsed in sea spray!
Polzeath was rough, but daymer is well sheltered from the wind today
Cows 'n grass
Member
- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
Are you in SE Cornwall then? I don't know why but i always had you down as much further away. I don't have to get too far offshore for Cawsands to seem very nearby.
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
We are near Callington, so we either go Cawsands on the south or Port Gavern on the north coast. We are exactly 52 mins from each! Wife and I love water, so when ever we can we head for the coast. Have promised ourselves our next farm has to be coastal.
Its so refreshing and nearly warm this time of year. Once your in that is!
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
Cant beat after a hot day doing physical work, couple of healthy calves, stock content with sun on their backs, sea and fish and chips. A very basic life but a happy one
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
34mm last Friday night. Watering put off. Then the state government announced a supplementary water event due to heavy rainfall in the catchments downstream of the storages. This means water used during this time does not come off the amount they allocate us.
So...... despite it being wet. I, like alot of arable farmers , are watering..As it's coming into Spring here and it certainly wont hurt it to be as wet as possible.....(other point is if you had to buy the water instead of it being off allocation, then it would cost me$1650×7 dys to replace it @$110/meg at the moment....and that's just to buy the water. We still have to pay delivery charges)... 3°c last night...water to check at 11pm, then 2.30am..not much fun checking water. Particularly when its oats and a heavy dew...(oats are self sown).
Then of course there was a lazy arsed heifer to calve ...So back too bed at 3.30am for an hour and a bit....
Oats in daylight
So...... despite it being wet. I, like alot of arable farmers , are watering..As it's coming into Spring here and it certainly wont hurt it to be as wet as possible.....(other point is if you had to buy the water instead of it being off allocation, then it would cost me$1650×7 dys to replace it @$110/meg at the moment....and that's just to buy the water. We still have to pay delivery charges)... 3°c last night...water to check at 11pm, then 2.30am..not much fun checking water. Particularly when its oats and a heavy dew...(oats are self sown).
Then of course there was a lazy arsed heifer to calve ...So back too bed at 3.30am for an hour and a bit....
Oats in daylight
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
Never seen oats like that in my life
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Self sown from last years silage regrowth. Grew enough to set seed but we didt get enough spring rain nor water allocated early enough to cut them for hay. They're lacking a bit of nitrogen (cant afford it atm at over $800/tonne) they did get 100kg/ha of sulphate of ammonia a month ago.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
A few oats plus balansa clover. First lot is knee high
waist high here....
Will make good silage or hay depending on the weather in 3 weeks time.
Will make good silage or hay depending on the weather in 3 weeks time.
- Location
- South Molton
You had much rain today @Cows 'n grass ?
All over local news about flash floods down south
All over local news about flash floods down south
pine_guy
Member
- Location
- North Cumbria
Boom, ‘that’ll do’ as they say in Yorkshire
Not really sure how like.
Not really sure how like.
Cows 'n grass
Member
- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
This was my view at 6:30 this morning and I was questioning why I'd bothered to get someone to milk for me so that I could carry on moving straw. Then we had an inch and a half of rain in a very short space of time.
I don't have any photos of the storm but it was a hugely impressive lightening show. I've never been surrounded by forks of lightening in the day time before.
125 blues gone today
- Location
- South Molton
Looks like they went in a Hurricane ?
- Location
- South Molton
You tb free atm?