Drought

[Kidds]

During the war In 1976

 

[Still Farming]

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The warning covers 11 areas in Wales 🔥 Details: https://bit.ly/3zIDN0f

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[Princess Pooper]

During the war In 1976

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This is actually a good read, should be able to pick up a second hand copy online. I am just about to re-read. https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/eve...Oi1LC3f9Gb0qSnll_phoCP_YQAvD_BwE#GOR003537664

 

[BrianV]

Last of the spring barley, now where's the grass seeds & rain?

 

[Bossfarmer]

How

Last of the spring barley, now where's the grass seeds & rain?

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Hows it yielding?

 

[BrianV]

How

Hows it yielding?

Not too bad, late drilled after kale, top of the hill feeling the drought but around 3 tons an acre.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Last of the spring barley, now where's the grass seeds & rain?


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broadcast looks like as well .

 

[BrianV]

broadcast looks like as well .

No it was drilled, looking across the lines.

 

[Bury the Trash]

to be honest im glad theres no corn here to cut, my old combine would be a fair fire risk i think.

 

[ladycrofter]

Don't know how anything is still alive here, been grading the yard and it's bone dry the depth of the bucket. When you're lifting it blows away like sand. Should name our quad gunga din, it spends most time carting bowsers of water to the stock.
Burns that never dry up are parched. It will take a hell of a lot of rain just to get the soil levels back up, never mind anything flowing again. 20C at 9 this morning.

 

[farmerm]

This kind of weather makes you very glad you didn't pack up & move to Australia, don't think I will moan so much when it rains in future!

oh you will... once you tip the rain gauge out for the second time you will already be fed up of the rain, I know I will.

 

[BrianV]

Not too bad, late drilled after kale, top of the hill feeling the drought but around 3 tons an acre.

Correction around 3 tons an acre if the half of the field we went over with a sumo after kale, under 2 ton an acre in the half we decided to plough just to compare, not a normal season I know but heck of a difference!

 

[GmB]

to be honest im glad theres no corn here to cut, my old combine would be a fair fire risk i think.

New ones burn as well, checked my insurance policy this morning, might have to up the value of the deadstock cover.

 

[Still Farming]

New ones burn as well, checked my insurance policy this morning, might have to up the value of the deadstock cover.

Deadstock is NOT machinery apparently?

 

[Devil's advocate]

They never mention lack of grass growth for animals, always crops or sodding fruit and veg

Odd I'm normally throwing my slippers at the tv, because veg is never mentioned, always sodding animals.

I'm a stock farmer by the way.

 

[thorpe]

Was it i dont remmeber that well. I was still at school and i do remmber it seemed weird Dad feeding hay in August.

Theres a lot of dairy cattle around here and they will mostly be on conservered forage will be worrying for them good if its a hard winter as well.

Lot of smoke up over the back tonight someones had a fire that will be the biggest worry atm for a week or so if it stays like this.

ive quoted this before on here. a neighbor took 5 lorry load of beast to grass keep they came home on 3, they were like rakes

 

[Devil's advocate]

Last of the spring barley, now where's the grass seeds & rain?

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Your own or contractors machine, Brian?

Great to see a good crop with that background.

Similar to my area, well a couple of miles, West of me.

 

[BrianV]

Your own or contractors machine, Brian?

Great to see a good crop with that background.

Similar to my area, well a couple of miles, West of me.

All our own equipment luckily.

 

[Devil's advocate]

All our own equipment luckily.

Great stuff Brian

I've a 13 foot cut New Holland 2013 model, pleased I bought it before prices went mental.

Is that an Avero 240 you have Brian?

 

[BrianV]

Great stuff Brian

I've a 13 foot cut New Holland 2013 model, pleased I bought it before prices went mental.

Is that an Avero 240 you have Brian?

Yes with a slightly large 18ft header with extendable forward cutter bar, spent time blowing it clean this afternoon, we found best way is we welded a 20mm tap on the side entry of our old slurry tanker & attach 30 ft of 20mm of blue alkathene water pipe & put it to blow, the 20mm pipe is nice & stiff & can get anywhere a mouse can get.