Could you handle a proper drought ....

[bobk]

A bit hypothetical , but if it goes really dry how would you cope ? I'd be fine as I've written off this year .

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

A bit hypothetical , but if it goes really dry how would you cope ? I'd be fine as I've written off this year .

For how long

 

[bobk]

For how long

Good question , if nature balances it could be a proper job .

 

[Bury the Trash]

For how long

how about 7 or 8 years followed a few years later by a couple of earthquakes , one 7.8 on the Richter scale.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

how about 7 or 8 years followed a few years later by a couple of earthquakes , one 7.8 on the Richter scale.

Oh so just a short term dry spell,
As there will still be rain on some days,

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Good question , if nature balances it could be a proper job .

Aye but it won't start till early/mid June, and be over by September

 

[Bury the Trash]

Oh so just a short term dry spell,
As there will still be rain on some days,

not much and what there is would be dried away as it hit the parched ground .
plus in the latter years of it dry high winds to further suck moisture away and desiccate.

Not hypothetical but real.
nothing growing and feed just what is put out for the stock.

 

[Devil's advocate]

No not tooled up for that one.

Droughts after wet springs are the final insult.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

not much and what there is would be dried away as it hit the parched ground .
plus in the latter years of it dry high winds to further suck moisture away and desiccate.

Not hypothetical but real.
nothing growing and feed just what is put out for the stock.

That's not a drought,
That's the end of things as we know it

 

[bobk]

not much and what there is would be dried away as it hit the parched ground .
plus in the latter years of it dry high winds to further suck moisture away and desiccate.

Not hypothetical but real.
nothing growing and feed just what is put out for the stock.

That's Australia

 

[Bury the Trash]

That's not a drought,
That's the end of things as we know it

No it wasn't the end , , still farming /managing it (the same area )and better than ever financially.

 

[Bury the Trash]

That's Australia

no New Zealand but yes Oz has the same sort of challenge in parts.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

No it wasn't the end , , still farming /managing it (the same area )and better than ever financially.

Well I would settle for a dry month, I,m f☆☆King sick of this rain

 

[Spencer]

Well I would settle for a dry month, I,m f☆☆King sick of this rain

Ditto

 

[bobk]

Well I would settle for a dry month, I,m f☆☆King sick of this rain

Cast neer a clout till May is out

 

[Clive]

A bit hypothetical , but if it goes really dry how would you cope ? I'd be fine as I've written off this year .

i could …….. but my staff, suppliers and landlords wouldn’t if it lasted more than a year

 

[spin cycle]

A bit hypothetical , but if it goes really dry how would you cope ? I'd be fine as I've written off this year .

how do ya mean..'written off'?

 

[Bury the Trash]

some of our May is out now actually .

 

[bobk]

how do ya mean..'written off'?

Basically I'm on strike

 

[DrWazzock]

All depends when the cashflow dries up as much as anything. If we have a meagre harvest (which looks very possible anyway) then we’d probably still have enough cash to drill crops this autumn but another failed or poor harvest after that would see us run out of working capital, mothball/ranch the place with minimal stock and work off farm/cut back and live on pensions. We live with about 18 months of cash reserves. 1976 was bad but ended at the end of summer. By then every grass field was burnt off and the cattle were eating straw out of mangers in the fields. At least we had mains water by then for the stock. There was one really dry spell in the 60’s where father and uncle were carting water for the stock from September through to February. The watercourses completely dried up and didn’t run till February. The wells were dry.