Drought for cows

[sidjon]

This is what should be coming, would be happy with half, still no sign of it yet though.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

This lake at the bottom of the farm would make a good irrigation pond if it wasn't AONB, SSSI, HLS, OELS, every other acronym ever created.

 

[Sid]

More puddles today...just about enough to damp the dust

 

[Scholsey]

Who is interested in a sweepstake on what date someone moans about the wet weather once the dry spell is finally over!

 

[lazy farmer]

Who is interested in a sweepstake on what date someone moans about the wet weather once the dry spell is finally over!

the way its looking somewhen in the new yr

 

[Happy hillbily]

Nice bit of rain here this afternoon, got a couple of bags of fert spread, a shame i didbt have anymore to spread, looking at the radar even @Bald Rick got some.

 

[Bald Rick]

Nice bit of rain here this afternoon, got a couple of bags of fert spread, a shame i didbt have anymore to spread, looking at the radar even @Bald Rick got some.

Been raining all day at just the right speed. Bu66er the fact we were cutting wholecrop. Was worth sacrificing the terrier in a voodoo ritual last night after all

 

[sidjon]

Still nothing here and the sky is look pretty blue

 

[Martyn]

South Cornwall watched the rain blow over with envy, not a drop! I haven't panicked but now I am. What are we going to feed! Start our first cut and then have little in October?

 

[vantage]

5.5mm here today.No more forecast for the fore see able future.Drying another row of autumns off tomorrow,10 going cull and 6 tb this week so another row.Trying to strip graze standing hay with dries is trying to say the least.

 

[Scholsey]

South Cornwall watched the rain blow over with envy, not a drop! I haven't panicked but now I am. What are we going to feed! Start our first cut and then have little in October?

Must admit today is the first day I have started to feel a bit sick to the stomach thinking about forage stocks, I have always thought our farm could handle a drought but obviously not with current stocking rates!

 

[mixed farm]

Must admit today is the first day I have started to feel a bit sick to the stomach thinking about forage stocks, I have always thought our farm could handle a drought but obviously not with current stocking rates!

Feeling the same. Had pencilled in 60acres of a 2nd cut for end of the month. Now looking at 40 in the middle of next month at best.

 

[Beef farmer]

So........what's the plan? Cut numbers? Cull bottom 10%? Feed more expensive cake? Pray for a decent September till x mas with cows out a fair bit and a mid feb turn out?

Maize is gonna be a 1/2 crop at best. WC is 25% down on tonnage. Fodder beet at struggling and ad plants can afford to out bid cows.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Wait and see is still my plan.
Lot of summer left.

 

[Beef farmer]

Wait and see is still my plan.
Lot of summer left.

Not much rain about for July. Rain 1st wk of aug would produce a silage crop late September, days are mighty short by then. Early spring is needed.

 

[In the pit]

Things always right themselves
This year ?????

 

[Beef farmer]

Things always right themselves
This year ?????

That doesn't count in an over stocked world.

 

[In the pit]

So why are we importing stock from Europe (next thread on)
Already destocked as much as we can

 

[Beef farmer]

So why are we importing stock from Europe (next thread on)
Already restocked as much as we can

High milk price and head in sand. Let's see the imports flooding in come Jan.

 

[In the pit]

Extra money on milk price is taken up on trying to buy feed at an extortionate price to try and get the extra milk
Vicious cicle anyone