Can it get any wetter

[yellow belly]

Floods are getting worse

 

[Lincs Lass]

Break in the weather next week not that it'll make much difference

 

[teslacoils]

It's bad. At least it's shown all the bits of my house that aren't weatherproof.

 

[glasshouse]

I saw that on the weather forecast, feeling sorry for you poor buggers

 

[thorpe]

just took the dog out it's wet again i realy am sick of it !

 

[DrWazzock]

Ponds and even new watercourses are becoming semi permanent. They’ve hardly dried up since October. Drove along the wold tops to Horncastle. Crops high up on the free draining chalk look fairly good though even there you can see where rivulets have formed. As soon as you get back down on heavier flatter lower land that relies on under drainage it’s a sorry mess.
Quite concerning.

 

[serf]

rivulets

Had to search for definition of that one ...

 

[DrWazzock]

Had to search for definition of that one ...

Didn’t know if it was right term really. Maybe “rills” is better, anyway they are grooves cut across fields by water flow. No doubt we will get criticised for it happening as they’ll say we haven’t managed the soil correctly or something but when there’s this much water I’m not sure what more we can do stop this kind of erosion. We have some forming exactly where old ditches used to be. No surprise there as they are low lines/paths that gather water. It’s like the landscape is changing, being carved out anew by water flow and ponding.

 

[DrWazzock]

Really does make you think by what a fine thread we dangle, so to speak. It this weather pattern is here to stay we are well and truly sunk. Hope and pray it alters soon.

 

[thorpe]

Didn’t know if it was right term really. Maybe “rills” is better, anyway they are grooves cut across fields by water flow. No doubt we will get criticised for it happening as they’ll say we haven’t managed the soil correctly or something but when there’s this much water I’m not sure what more we can do stop this kind of erosion. We have some forming exactly where old ditches used to be. No surprise there as they are low lines/paths that gather water. It’s like the landscape is changing, being carved out anew by water flow and ponding.

we have a field that regularly washed trench's out over a foot deep during heavy rain , nick sprayed it a fortnight ago he said it's wet but nothing washed out. the only cultivation it's had is lds subsoiler &co4 drill. and it's not been ploughed for poss 10 year's, i thought half the wheat would be gone and half the field!

 

[Bogweevil]

13 ins of rain in the SE since September - that is over half the annual rainfall (which is not to say it won't be dry and cold come April...)

 

[Devil's advocate]

we have a field that regularly washed trench's out over a foot deep during heavy rain , nick sprayed it a fortnight ago he said it's wet but nothing washed out. the only cultivation it's had is lds subsoiler &co4 drill. and it's not been ploughed for poss 10 year's, i thought half the wheat would be gone and half the field!

dID i READ ON HERE ABOUT HAVING TO GET PERMISSION TO LAY A NEW DRAIN.

Because that is the best cure for run off.

 

[yellow belly]

Answer my question
it has got wetter floods will be bad tomorrow down the rivers
highest flood here on the Witham and Glen and probably the Eye ( ends in the soor then Trent )

 

[Wombat]

Still raining that’s 15hrs of the sh!t

 

[Cowabunga]

I wonder whether the aquifers have recovered from the drought of 1976 yet?

 

[DrWazzock]

we have a field that regularly washed trench's out over a foot deep during heavy rain , nick sprayed it a fortnight ago he said it's wet but nothing washed out. the only cultivation it's had is lds subsoiler &co4 drill. and it's not been ploughed for poss 10 year's, i thought half the wheat would be gone and half the field!

Ha ha. I wondered how long it would be before somebody brought up this old chestnut.
We ploughed it all this summer after quite a few years of DD. We felt it needed a reset for various reasons and the wet harvest with wheelings was the decider. So we have a had a bit of erosion due to deeper loosening but on the plus side I think we’ve had better establishment and drilled 100% of the area. It’s not brilliant by any means but I think it would have been a whole lot worse if we’d just carried on DD. In fact I don’t think we’d have drilled anything other than the lightest sand. It’s certainly a dilemma. Save every grain of soil but maybe get nothing drilled or stir it up and create a risk but get some sort of crop. I do intend to persevere with low disturbance production and maintain a cover on the soil but as always it’s a compromise and I never say never.

 

[David.]

When life sends you floods, you need an inner tube, a long rope and a quadbike.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

When life sends you floods, you need an inner tube, a long rope and a quadbike.
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I thought you were older than that…

 

[Yale]

When life sends you floods, you need an inner tube, a long rope and a quadbike.
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A wool sack (or old builders sack) is great in summer. Stuff a kid in it and drag them around with the quad.

 

[Widgetone]

Saw a sprayer being driven on the road this morning, did a double take!
Perhaps it had been stolen?