Drought

[Sandy]

Would have had about 5mm also.

Fine day for Fife show.

Bloody hell we must be near 20mm+ today

 

[Iben]

Still raining here.

Is that good or bad now?

 

[jre]

5mm today.

6 mm at this side of the kingdom. plenty of happy farmers at fife show today!!

 

[franklin]

Is that good or bad now?

Not great. Has just got a bit silly. Can stop right now.

 

[Jon 3085]

coming dry again?

 

[Clive]

View attachment 521838coming dry again?

looking good for T2 next week

 

[Iben]

looking good for T2 next week

Yep. T2 on the early wheats, cheap t1.5 on later wheats now it has rained and a t1 on a late sown field that has only had some rover a month ago.

 

[DeeGee]

At last some unexpected rain this morning! Must have had four hours of reasonably steady rain which has been a big help. Not sure just how much, but certainly a lot more than the bits and bobs we have had in the past two months.
Obviously we could do with a lot more, but just thankful for the first proper rain for two long months!

 

[spikeislander]

56mm here total.
And looks like a lovely spray week.
Very happy

 

[Flat 10]

5mm 'shower' last night. A fortnight ago I would have killed for that!

 

[Wombat]

Looking hot and dry this week just the way we like it

 

[4course]

been away for a few days just had a walk round, the difference is truly amazing in the cereals, grass is motoring, will be cutting silage this week and that will tell us where we are in relation to tons/ acre compared to usual but I thought we would have been cutting earlier this year but now will be a few days later for same stage of growth

 

[dontknowanything]

Everything here turned green within a couple of days of rain, some crops still very thin though. All the wheat is going to be short this year.

 

[Clive]

Generally small and unimpressive flag leafs emerging here

Dark greeen crops deceive to flatter I think right now, some potential has certainly been lost I fear

Thank god it did rain though !

 

[spikeislander]

I agree I thought our heavy land had held on but I think the size of the flag is certainly smaller so maybe it's had more of an impact. Although size of grain can make up a lot.

 

[4course]

Generally small and unimpressive flag leafs emerging here

Dark greeen crops deceive to flatter I think right now, some potential has certainly been lost I fear

Thank god it did rain though !

Ive spent an hour or 2 going round and cutting stems open to see what length/numbers of grain site are potentially there, we are at ear elongation in the stem stage and am pleasantly surprised , that was set before xmas so think we still have a reasonable chance of yield and ive decided to go with another foliar feed /and probably an extra fungicide to help keep it flowering and filling when the time comes

 

[Kevtherev]

Anyone's spring barley struggling?

 

[bankrupt]

All the wheat is going to be short this year.

Generally small and unimpressive flag leafs emerging here

what length/numbers of grain site are potentially there, we are at ear elongation in the stem stage and am pleasantly surprised

After all this rain, we've got the tallest wheat I've ever seen here since 1979 with the smallest flag leaves since 1982.

Add in the biggest grain site numbers since 1984, and we're now well on course for the biggest lodging problems here since 1985 with specific weights even lower than they were in 2012.




Funny old year.

 

[Flat 10]

Anyone's spring barley struggling?

yep. its

 

[4course]

must be the north south divide the rain has saved the day here and still worth pushing for yield but we certainly wont have the straw