Getting dry

[serf]

Some on here say we are just moaning fekers and it can stay dry but in this neck of woods anyway the winter rainfall was low so levels have run down and the dust in the top of the SB and grass seed will take he'll of a lot before it kicks stuff into gear and there doesn't seem any on the radar of any quantity in the foreseeable....

I know we get what we get but spring sowing seems riskier than usual last few years !

 

[puntabrava]

First WB I have seen coming into ear today between Truro and Falmouth.

 

[bankrupt]

here- first ears by the end of the week - if so, I'll put up a pic.

Foiled again.

 

[Just because]

Going to ask our neighbor if he will start watering his wheat soon always starts to rain when he does that

 

[Kidds]

Well - if you didn’t bale all your straw, compact the sh!t out of your fields by driving all over them, plough your ground & then power Harrow the sh!t out of it, maybe you could conserve some moisture in your soils & then a bit of a dry spell wouldn’t be such an issue ?

just saying . . .

devils advocate

I haven't done any of that and although it isn't an issue yet a drop of rain would improve things. If we don't get that drop of rain it will become an issue because winter rain didn't really happen, maybe because you were having it all. My rain gauge says we have had the same in the last 6 months as you had in one day.

 

[teslacoils]

I suppose the difference is that we live in a country where in a dry year we can expect 120 days of precipitation - and that's in the "dry" east. Oh, and where we aim for yields considerably in excess of much of non irrigated aus. Currently looks like good as no rain from mid march to mid may.

 

[bobk]

The dry I can live with , it's too bloody cold is the problem

 

[Breckland Boy]

Going to ask our neighbor if he will start watering his wheat soon always starts to rain when he does that

Started irrigation yesterday on wheat

 

[Green oak]

Crops beginning too show lack of moisture. Spring barley going yellow. No rain forecast for 10 more days. 7mm only this month!

 

[idle git]

Field of W Barley coming into ear near Warwick, drought stress I was told, they missed the rain that we had a month ago

At the moment our Winter crops look okay, fert has had 10 mm of rain on but spring crops will be in the lap of the gods, S Barley look good but need some more rain, S Beans and Peas the same, linseed drilled last weekend into a dryish seedbed

 

[Manny]

I've just checked our rain fall calender. We had 4 day of measurable (0.5mm or more) rain in March. A grand total of 36mm, of which 10mm fell on the first and 19mm on one day in the middle. April we have had 3 days with rain so far with a total of 12.5mm. I'm all of about 4 miles from idle git and when he had his 13mm last week we had 4mm.

 

[teslacoils]

This weekends wind will really open the cracks.

 

[Phil P]

Bit of dust here now but not panicking, had 22mm in April at just the right times to get spring barley away and wash N2 in. Canary seed going in at the moment and fodder beet early next week so could do with a few mm about Wednesday please

 

[Bigjon44]

Need the winds to feck off so I can T1
!!!!

 

[teslacoils]

I'd like the last nitrogen on really.

 

[Boohoo]

Another few weeks without rain wouldn't do any harm here

 

[Wombat]

I've just checked our rain fall calender. We had 4 day of measurable (0.5mm or more) rain in March. A grand total of 36mm, of which 10mm fell on the first and 19mm on one day in the middle. April we have had 3 days with rain so far with a total of 12.5mm. I'm all of about 4 miles from idle git and when he had his 13mm last week we had 4mm.

we had no rain for 42 days last year, sounds positively moist

 

[Lincsman]

I did say Fallow it... no one listens.....

 

[deleted user 837354]

No one would have any problems whatsoever if you had all followed deathras advice and planted trees and beavers.

 

[Flatland guy]

The problem is trees I could have planted I would probably have to water to keep growing and the poor beavers would have no habitat for lack of water, and a nice DEFRA person would now come and check up on me and fine me for being in breech.