other places have had 23 consecutive days of rain.
24 here, but next week's dry.
other places have had 23 consecutive days of rain.
We're south of u and we've had130 mm so we're lucky if you can call it thatNo offence taken. I have the skin of a elephant as well as the physique.
When I started this thread we had just had 60 mm of rain, on the back of a wet August I was slightly concerned, we do not yield well with a wet planting , I was just clinging onto the hope that as the marl had dried out fairly well it would soak up a fair bit with out to much drama, but the rain has kept on falling and we are now 8 inches + since Sept 22, some of you have told us that you have had a lot more and then 2 days later on the plough combi drill thread they are plough over their heavy stuff but still amazingly enough drilling into a lovely seedbed , some folk do just not know what stiff land is, just because you have padded it down with a tatty harvester and it has ploughed up with a shine does not make it terrible horrible clay, I'm lucky I'm generally farming red marl which kis not as bad as some of the awful stuff which some of my friends farm not far away from me, skims only go on the plough in a drought and come of as soon as its sticky, if you've never had to take skims off then in my books you don't farm difficult land!!!
Have you been trying the mushrooms on the other threadWhat`s all the fuss about?.................Do we not have a farming union that is national and that looks out for farmers above all else?................They will shortly be petitioning Her majesties Government to help out all of its Farmers that are unable to sow crops due to the unpressidented wet weather ?.........................Won`t they???????????????
The prevent plant payment will kick in soon, after our swift admission to the United States.
Where in the Welland valley? nearest village name be good. Cheers.Welland valley
I take it back, looks like next week is the week. Perhaps if we don't have too much rain over the weekend we can force some in during the second half of next week. The weather models seem to suggest it will be a brief respite, from Simon Keeling:
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Where in the Welland valley? nearest village name be good. Cheers.
Forget the barley I would say, unless you can get it into a spot on seedbed. Better off trying to get some wheat in well. That’s what I’m trying to do anyway!Just had another shower this morning, more for the weekend.. but weather is teasing me with 4 dry days next week... will I try puddle in Barley or at this point do I forget the Barley and crack on with some wheat.. Though it is probably a moot point as no doubt it will start raining as soon as I hitch up the plough and my drill contractor is a few thousand acres behind where he normally is at this point ...
Just had a chat to the contractor and I got the jump on most of his other clients for a potential slot next week... but if we do get something drilled it will likely have to be barley else war may break out in mid Shrops They are, under instruction trying to plough and drill on a farm today.. 250hp had to be swapped for 300hp and still struggling to pull a 6 furrow plough, the 250hp tractor is now on a 3m drill and barely moving 3km/hr and half the seed isn't getting covered.Forget the barley I would say, unless you can get it into a spot on seedbed. Better off trying to get some wheat in well. That’s what I’m trying to do anyway!
just spoke to my agronomist, who reminded me that Mr Gwilt at Baschurch, always drilled barley after lifting beet, often in december. very light land and it did well. Also that our best yields usually come from october 20th drilling onwards.Just had a chat to the contractor and I got the jump on most of his other clients for a potential slot next week... but if we do get something drilled it will likely have to be barley else war may break out in mid Shrops They are, under instruction trying to plough and drill on a farm today.. 250hp had to be swapped for 300hp and still struggling to pull a 6 furrow plough, the 250hp tractor is now on a 3m drill and barely moving 3km/hr and half the seed isn't getting covered.
Forget the barley. Easy switch to spring.Just had another shower this morning, more for the weekend.. but weather is teasing me with 4 dry days next week... will I try puddle in Barley or at this point do I forget the Barley and crack on with some wheat.. Though it is probably a moot point as no doubt it will start raining as soon as I hitch up the plough and my drill contractor is a few thousand acres behind where he normally is at this point ...
His lorry drivers where always willing to help shovel wheat at the bottom of the bins too, before the days of us having a sweep auger. A lot of drivers these days wont sweep or help with the last few shovel loads from the corner of the shed.just spoke to my agronomist, who reminded me that Mr Gwilt at Baschurch, always drilled barley after lifting beet, often in december. very light land and it did well. Also that our best yields usually come from october 20th drilling onwards.