Are we heading for another dry spring?

[Ali_Maxxum]

We finally had a drop yesterday, more like a bit of rain then persistent heavy drizzle on and off for about 5 hours. It's made it a bit tacky and dampened the dust, but the winds we keep getting will soon dry it all out again.

Less than 20% chance of rain again tomorrow and then nothing for as far as I can realistically see. Will this be another cold, dry April, followed by a scorching May, then unsettled for harvest.... Not being doom and gloom at all but seen it a few times before now.

 

[Still Farming]

Good drop yesterday but drying fast again.

 

[Hobbit]

2mm here yesterday. Spoke to someone at Bateman who said they had a good amount over the boarder in Devon.

 

[Clive]

worryingly dry here again already, lack of moisture and cold temp are holding crops back

 

[Suffolksucklers]

Need warmth more than wet at the moment in my opinion

 

[serf]

Got to be worst spring for growth in a good while, grass will be a right off till mid may before it catches up with its self again , grazed off and wind has finished it !

 

[Wombat]

Looking very similar to last year, chucks it down all winter when it does no good. Then half an inch in march none in April and a bit in May

 

[DrWazzock]

It’s drier than last here here. At least everything germinated last year before it shrivelled up. This year only about a third of my spring drilling is up. The rest is really struggling as it’s drier and stays cold. Disheartening driving over it with the spreader wondering if I’m wasting my time, effort and inputs.

 

[Wombat]

It’s drier than last here here. At least everything germinated last year before it shrivelled up. This year only about a third of my spring drilling is up. The rest is really struggling as it’s drier and stays cold. Disheartening driving over it with the spreader wondering if I’m wasting my time, effort and inputs.

bout the same as last year here but at least i direct drilled all the spring crops and they have just started to chit

 

[DrWazzock]

bought the same as last year here but at least i direct drilled all the spring crops and they have just started to chit

Here the only difference is how early I started drilling. Stuff that went in before the moisture went is OK. Stuff drilled a week later will struggle. It dried faster than I could get on with the drill. One extreme to the other though undoubtedly ploughed ground dried out a bit more quickly. The zero till stuff went rock hard pretty quickly as well though. I wouldn’t be able to break the surface now. Crazy times.

 

[Suffolksucklers]

Got to be worst spring for growth in a good while, grass will be a right off till mid may before it catches up with its self again , grazed off and wind has finished it !

A lot of ours was under five feet of water from Christmas day until end of February. Surprisingly it's green and now has cattle on it.

 

[Werzle]

Had a few light showers yesterday followed by a white frost this morning and cold drying wind all day. Forcast is for 2 more cold days and then warming up towards next weekend. Not a drop of rain in next weeks forcast

 

[Wombat]

Had a few light showers yesterday followed by a white frost this morning and cold drying wind all day. Forcast is for 2 more cold days and then warming up towards next weekend. Not a drop of rain in next weeks forcast

Some of the long term forecasts have no rain in April

 

[Sandy]

Some of the long term forecasts have no rain in April

I bloody hope so

 

[vantage]

The biting cold North wind is severely denting grass growth here now. Would expect it to be flying now, but cows still in at nights , been out 6 weeks by day and coming to the end of first round, not a lot of silage left and too many stock due to TB.

 

[Wombat]

I bloody hope so

It would be nice to have a little bit here, otherwise we would end up with about 7 weeks of no rain

 

[Boohoo]

Still waiting for a dry week, even a dry day would be nice.

 

[Brisel]

Still waiting for a dry week, even a dry day would be nice.

I'll swap you our dry for your wet. We will finish spring drilling on Tuesday hopefully, then it can rain plenty! Most of the seed sown in the last 2 weeks is sat in dust. Before that we needed to plough just to dry the ground out.

1mm Friday and a 5 minute snow flurry today.

 

[Boohoo]

I'll swap you our dry for your wet. We will finish spring drilling on Tuesday hopefully, then it can rain plenty! Most of the seed sown in the last 2 weeks is sat in dust. Before that we needed to plough just to dry the ground out.

1mm Friday and a 5 minute snow flurry today.

If that swap was possible I'd definitely take it. I was ploughing yesterday and it was really too wet but it's time it was done.

 

[Chae1]

I bloody hope so

Any of that seed rotting yet!?