Muddyboots
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- Location
- Suffolk
Dry as a nuns chuff here in the South East, our average is 500- 550 mm a year and in the last 12 months from now we have had 380mm. Hot spots will be showing in 7 days if no rain!
Getting a little dry
- Thread starter willy
- Start date
- Location
- East yorks
Met office has nothing here in the forecast to mid next week
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
Agreed from heavy land Suffolk. Perhaps you should consider changing your name to Mudlessboots?
Rain pretty much all gone from next weeks forecast for here this morning. Just 45%chance of 0.6mm on Friday 26th. Warm and sunny all week.
Got four weather app on the iPad. Two days ago all we’re saying 5-10mm for north Essex. So spread 30 tonnes of urea yesterday. Now all four are saying 1-2mm. F me right off. Why the f don’t they just say nothing and raise the amount as we go along not decrease. And they call this weather forecasting progress.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
To be honest if our crops are suffering from drought stress so regularly/quickly we probably need to change something. Clives books got me thinking. However don't fancy direct drilling spring barley into cold soils we've had past few weeks.
We had rain Monday/Tuesday and Wednesday on bbc forecast this morning. Its all gone.
We had rain Monday/Tuesday and Wednesday on bbc forecast this morning. Its all gone.
- Location
- south norfolk
Spread some nitram yesterday and it’s all gone this morning.hopefully a heavy dew will help
Nick...
Nick...
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
If it is cold leave drilling till it is warm enough
Seeds in to moisture when it is warm grow better than seeds into moisture and cold soil temperatures
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
It was warm a month ago. First drilled stuff through in 2 weeks. Last stuff 3-4.
average farmer
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- Location
- North Notts
Three or four wet days next week have now disappeared from the forecast.
Been to brigg today as we do most years this Time of year and it’s the opposite way round to how things usually look. Same as at home... strong land looks good, lighter stuff looks poor/ ok
Been to brigg today as we do most years this Time of year and it’s the opposite way round to how things usually look. Same as at home... strong land looks good, lighter stuff looks poor/ ok
My spring oats drilled a couple of weeks ago are just showing in the row now despite no rain post drilling and very dry soils
If cultivated seed wouldn’t have even germinated yet I reckon
Still needs rain desperately however !
average farmer
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- Location
- North Notts
Tbf my oats drilled just over two weeks ago are just coming through to but I had to drill deep to get into any moisture.
I’ve been meaning to ask this for a long time but do you find spring crops suit direct drilling better than winters on heavy land?
I find myself spending more money on establishing a spring crop than a winter crop and always wanting rain in the spring.
Depends what you call heavy ? We don’t have what I would call very heavy land (ie land that can’t grow root crops) so can’t really comment on that situation
On the light land spring crops used to be a big risk as moisture could be very restricting / disastrous in some year
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Our average is 600 & last year we had about 250 . . .
The year before about 300 & something . . .
Plus above average temps & the longest ever continuous period of abov 40 C days
First time ever I have missed out on a Cropping season
Twice . . .
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Yes
Different countries / environments I KNOW, but our whole management systems revolve around conserving & improving soil moisture holding capacity
THATS WHY we zero till & retain all stubble
That's why zero till is almost the "default" or "conventional" way of farming here & ploughing / cultivating the soil is becoming less & less common.
Same here. My last sown block of spring oats on clay was disced to 2" depth to help dry it out and create some tilth around the seed. One field wasn't & was no tilled with a Weaving GD. It has a 7mm root already whereas the Claydon drilled stuff sown the same day has half that where it was disced. Time will tell which one will yield more but at the moment the no till looks better. If it comes very wet I suspect it will be the other way around.
You never know what You will get after next corner 
. This is the first spring when I am saying its already to dry to drill. Need decide maybe its better idea hold bags in shed instead of waste money on field ... Because no Rain already month and all forecasts is turned exceptional Red.. John Slejpner
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- Location
- Brick clay near Bedford
cB at 10 cm soil depth passed 80 today, was 60 odd 3 days ago..
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
no rain other than an odd shower forecast here for the next fortnight, thankfully weve had some heavy dews. Years ago the farm water supply was from a piped underground spring which fed water to stone troughs in the pastures this has all but dried up , occassionally thats happenend in late june but never this early, has all but stopped