- Location
- East yorks
What's a more normal year if 2012/13 was that
If that's average it's nearly 3.8 x our last 2 years
Getting a little dry
- Thread starter willy
- Start date
What's a more normal year if 2012/13 was that
If that's average it's nearly 3.8 x our last 2 years
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Average here is more like 23". And usually that's still damp.
- Location
- East yorks
Similar to us and I still spend 5 months trying to keep water flowing out the drains
Turning out to be a very different year to last at the moment.
First pic taken a year ago today of the spring barley.
Second pic this week for this years crop.
Both same variety. Same establishment and same rotation.
Different drilling date by about a month and warmer soil to start with this year.
First pic taken a year ago today of the spring barley.
Second pic this week for this years crop.
Both same variety. Same establishment and same rotation.
Different drilling date by about a month and warmer soil to start with this year.
- Location
- East yorks
Looks well, think your first pic looks better than ours did all last season
Think it was about another 10 days last year when we had the last real rain until autumn. It only had about 14mm of rain then and temps up in the high 20’s low 30’s.
- Location
- East yorks
We were done for rainfall last year by now, had 14mm till end of July
Sounds so familiar - that would be normal for us. However yesterday Prestwick managed 14.9 hours of sunshine - did wonders for Ayr Show next door at the Racecourse.
Prestwick still managed to record a slight frost this morning though.
Best harvest we ever had was in 1996 when Ten Tors was snowed off half way through.
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- Location
- East yorks
Lovely day just needs a few more deg to get into the 20’s
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Dont forget, the very dry year of 1984 which was followed by the monsoon year of 1985 . Rain started after the june bank holiday if memory serves me right . Rained nearly every day till October . Ground that had come through the winter dry soon was saturated and very promising crops were reduced to a tangled sprouted mess. I dont like the thought of a drought but give me a couple of ton acre of dry grain and an easy cheap harvest over a couple of ton of porridge and a mud bath while running the drier flat out . Could be an intresting year .
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
13mm in april
36mm in may so far
drains running today where we have planted borage last week
we usually catch much more rain than 10 miles south 2 weeks ago caught 14 mm when Stamford and Grantham had very little
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Back to pretty bloomin dry. And warm now. Crops look ace but cracks in ground are biiiig. Nice for mowing grass and roguing though.
- Location
- East yorks
as you drive about you can see some crops on lighter land starting to struggle a bit again.
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
WW looks ok but thin on light hilltop.
WB heading on yellow sand. Looks happy but short.
SBeans are about buggered. 4" tall after a month with top 2 leaves going yellow and crinkley. There's NO moisture a foot down. I know as we had a wagon load of waste paper bogged and it looked like a sand dune.
It’s going to take a wet winter to get ground water levels back to where they should be here.
- Location
- East yorks
we have had less rain than last year so far but things are better rooted and happier
This years crops here could go either way here depending on how much and when rain arrives. There’s no deep moisture reserves in the soil profile, crops are living hand to mouth. Any 2 weeks in the next 2 months with warm weather and no significant rain will hurt yield.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Have you caught this rain out of the east overnight?
We've had a fair bit. Spring barley had ideal start.