Dry October

Hilly

Member
2000 is the one I recall - we were growing a lot of potatoes and still (hopelessly) trying to get them out the ground at Christmas, the last 150ac never did come out. We only got 80ac of wheat drilled as well that year and that was paddled in

2012 second worse I recall

85 bit before my time really and we had a dairy back then so it was probably good for grass growth !
2012 was wet here, i got through it ok its the next year a farmer pays the price for a bad year like that not at the time.
 

bovrill

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
East Essexshire
2012 was worse than '87 here.
It was a struggle all the way through in '87, but everything got cut, even if the last 30 acres of beans were hardly worth it. But then I was 15, keen, and it was my first full year on a combine!
2012 I had linseed that never came fit to cut. Even with a full dose of glyphosate and then a full dose of diquat, it was still green when it came frosty over christmas and new year.
 

llamedos

New Member
2000 is the one I recall - we were growing a lot of potatoes and still (hopelessly) trying to get them out the ground at Christmas, the last 150ac never did come out. We only got 80ac of wheat drilled as well that year and that was paddled in

2012 second worse I recall

85 bit before my time really and we had a dairy back then so it was probably good for grass growth !

2000/01 was horrible here very very wet, lambing outside in mud, could not bring anything in due to F&M the back end of 2000 was horrendous it had never stopped raining, no summer at all. Never lambed outside since. A hard lesson. But the weather was the least of many folks worries, we were lucky.
Last month has followed a similar pattern to Oct 15 reasonably dry for round here compared to previous years, and with above average temp.
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
2000/01 was horrible here very very wet, lambing outside in mud, could not bring anything in due to F&M the back end of 2000 was horrendous it had never stopped raining, no summer at all. Never lambed outside since. A hard lesson. But the weather was the least of many folks worries, we were lucky.
Last month has followed a similar pattern to Oct 15 reasonably dry for round here compared to previous years, and with above average temp.

I recall going to the doctors as my feet were seemingly falling apart, he told me it was the first case of trench foot he had ever seen ! I had spend so many months up to my knees in a muddy potato field. Also got divorced later that year ...............my state of mind through that wet period probably didn't help !
 

llamedos

New Member
I recall going to the doctors as my feet were seemingly falling apart, he told me it was the first case of trench foot he had ever seen ! I had spend so many months up to my knees in a muddy potato field. Also got divorced later that year ...............my state of mind through that wet period probably didn't help !

Yes, that is my abiding memory of it, Mud.
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
2012 was wet here, i got through it ok its the next year a farmer pays the price for a bad year like that not at the time.

We would probably have "gotten away" with puddling in wheat seed in 2012, if we hadn't had the latest spring in living memory. It didn't warm up until the 15th of April, and the tiny plants were crining backwards and giving up the ghost through February and March, where they should have been thriving. Bugger all tillers to fill in the gaps, far worse than 2012, the year without sunshine.
 

bobk

Member
Location
stafford
'87 was the really wet, horrible year here. Rained all summer, then got a bit windy in the autumn.

Yes 87 was a nightmare , didn't start cutting wheat uintil 25th september and even then had trouble getting it out of the combine :eek:

Sowed everything with a fert spreader and big set of zig zag harrows tbf you could cover some ground in a day ... until someone got stuck.
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Boys land as I'm sure some will say. But drilling some new land to us today. Worked down a treat and dust still in the air as I rolled it in.

@jondear you may recognise the field buts it's changed a bit since June.

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bovrill

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
East Essexshire
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I spotted this earlier, do any old timers on here know what it is or what they used to be used for?
It would be nice to keep these old obsolete pieces of equipment in working order :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 

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