Anyone made any hay yet?
- Thread starter Goweresque
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Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Well bang goes another week then. Raining now, heavy rain tomorrow, showers Wed, cloudy Thurs, showers Friday, cloudy Sat/Sun. Not a sunny day in sight.
- Location
- Central Scotland
The Scottish forecast changes every 5 minutes - even if we had a bit of dry weather the fields are so wet its going to make a mess getting onto them. I always reckoned that trying to dry hay on damp ground was a lost cause. The swath was always getting soaked from the moisture evaporating from the ground below. Even turning it over onto a 'dry' patch resulted in the bottom getting soaked. Now getting low temperatures over night which will cause even more condensation under the swath.
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Just a glimmer of hope for next week but only for an odd day fine!
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Sh!t it's wet today
poorsheepfarmer
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- Location
- North York Moors
And hereSh!t it's wet today
Clever Dic
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- Location
- Melton
I agree..
Sh!t it's wet today
Bit of a shower over lunch.
Been dry otherwise,just lucky here today.
- Location
- Near Colchester
We had a little shower this morning.
Ha, methinks the severe weather warning for Essex is guaranteeing another dry day.......
Then,
Barley harvest over for the day then. No need to hook the mower on either.
Ha, methinks the severe weather warning for Essex is guaranteeing another dry day.......
Then,
Barley harvest over for the day then. No need to hook the mower on either.
- Location
- East Essexshire
You can't have had that fog this morning then, if you were cutting barley!
It was only the shower at 10.30 that cleared the last of the mist.
Ali_Maxxum
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- Location
- Chepstow, Wales
I would say a lot of hay made early on will be wells ought after. Anything now is just dead standing up. So much stuff that should have been done last month, nothing looking too promising this week, can't even get 2 days fine together to make some haylage.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
And you live in Wales
Clever Dic
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- Location
- Melton
Just bought more gas for my drier..
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I can't begin to tell you how wet it has been today! Got my all my cows and calves in at 8am to worm and it's rained heavy all day since....absolutely sodden
- Location
- Near Colchester
We had the fog but didn't cut today -we were considering it as there wasn't much in the little shower.
Then there was 15mm.
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
I'm pinning my hopes of getting some more half decent hay made on a decent start to September and by then the fields I mowed in June will have a decent bit to cut on them, especially if it rains on and off for the next 3 weeks. Can't see the 1st cut that I have still to do will amount to much even if the weather turns up, which it really doesn't look like doing anyway. Have made some really nice second cut meadow hay in early Sept before, saved my year back in 2009, so looks like we'll have to do it again.
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