- Location
- cornwall
None of the apps are showing any rain for the next fortnight, I’m already worried!
Drought 2023!
- Thread starter jerseycowsman
- Start date
Wtf it's only just drying up!FFS
M-J-G
Member
Have you got much in the way of drought tolerant crops in the ground?
We've been going towards things like Plantain, Red Clover and Cocksfoot to balance things out in drier spells.
- Location
- cornwall
I’ve just cut everything off and put in the pit, feeling pleased with the size of heap, but I’ll be feeding the bloody stuff again if it is still dry in 2 weeks! I hate that extra work
- Location
- cornwall
If you get a drought, us southerners are totally buggered!
M-J-G
Member
Not always, 2012 was dry in some northern parts.
Northernlights
Member
- Location
- NE Scotland
Daffodil leaves already brown, clouds of dust off destoners working in the area, ditches all dried up, signs of drought appearing everywhere here. Incessant wind for the last 2 weeks has been the problem here.
Hope it's not going to be a drought too early year. I.E, soggy wet harvest in August.
I agree but enough moisture for a month . Always leave something not cut for cows even it's not the best quality .Toll it regrows
Walked some of our silage ground this morning and the ground is still too soft, unless I want to be digging out wagons, probably do 2/3rds of first cut this week and see what happens with the wet ground by then, worst case it will be hay, so I have enough feed for the drought
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- Location
- cornwall
I have, I left 2 weeks worth, any rain in the last 10 days or next 10 days would have left everything rosey.
But it’s swung dramatically from ridiculously wet to ridiculously dry.
I would love weather like this in July and August, but I bet it will be sh!t!
Yes but it won't be like this it will be 10°hotter.lovely atm
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
1983 was a wet spring till about now then it turned hot and dry
celtis man
Member
It will rain for the Royal Cornwall Show 
just you wait then til August I reckon
just you wait then til August I reckon 
Hopefully.It will rain for the Royal Cornwall Show
It's the wind, proper blowing in with some heat behind it
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
I bet its drying out with you fairly quick? Top of my farm is hard as a rock now, my muddy cow tracks that i was sliding across with the quad only 2-3 weeks ago have now set solid
Rolling here today soft in places
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Bottom half of here is still wet but top half is dry as a bone, there's still moisture at the moment if you dig down but without some rain in the next 10 days it's gonna struggle. Almost unbelievable how quickly the weather has turned from Armageddon to Sahara conditions
Oh ffs , everything struggling to grow here the ground is so wet