Getting wet again

Boohoo

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Location
Newtownabbey
Waited most of yesterday for it to dry up, then got 3 heavy showers while I was mowing. Mowing was messy enough in places, there'll be tracks before we're finished. The dry spell didn't last long enough to repair the damage of previous wet years
 

Cowcorn

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Mixed Farmer
Here along the east coast of ireland grass is flying but ground conditions are still very good ,Harvest is all but finished except for some late sown s barley which should get tidied up shortly. Lots of baling of lush grass wonder how that will turn out? October could bring better weather some years.
 

Boohoo

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Location
Newtownabbey
Starting to look like a repeat of autumn 2017 here
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Baling with a Fusion, but having to wait for the bale to wrap and then tip it off before moving again.
 

jondear

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Location
Devon
Like another country !we had 2.5 mm in September ! Glorious weather atm . Driving 8 wheelers across grass fields yesterday loaded not making a mark!
Just nothing really growing now to dry.
 

The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
Saw a guy stuck this week coming through a wet spot with hedgecutter. He had another 2 X 200 hp tractors chained onto him attempting to get him out. :facepalm:

Fourth cut near enough ready to go here when the next weather comes. Not expecting it imminently unfortunately. I fear tthere will be quite a bit of rain fall before we get the chance.

I was thinking about the summer. When you take the six month period from mid April to mid October, we have only had two months of fair weather, from mid may to mid July. Mind you. To its credit, the two fair months were extremely fair, and the other non-fair months have not been highly negative. October to play for, but it hardly has a good record.
 
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The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
Just watched the Sunday metoffice video forecast. Rain glancing over londonderry all day today, nothing in co down as usual, but the bulk of it over NW Scotland. Predicting 100mm there before the day is out :eek:
 
Just watched the Sunday metoffice video forecast. Rain glancing over londonderry all day today, nothing in co down as usual, but the bulk of it over NW Scotland. Predicting 100mm there before the day is out :eek:
6mm for october so far. Still in drought, running out of grass. Id take 100mm, it would look ugly for 36 hours, but grow some grass
 

The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
All depends on what has come before. Your ground needs it. Up north and west doesn't.

Ground is in great nick here for the time of year. But under no illusions that the top two inches don't need any rain between now and first of March. Like that's going to happen. Can you grow a lot of grass at this stage? Growth is more or less finished up here.
 
All depends on what has come before. Your ground needs it. Up north and west doesn't.

Ground is in great nick here for the time of year. But under no illusions that the top two inches don't need any rain between now and first of March. Like that's going to happen. Can you grow a lot of grass at this stage? Growth is more or less finished up here.
Yeah we can grow grass till the frosts arrive, most years they dont arrive here. Will utilise the grass up until xmas with the bullers, then the rest will be saved up for kick off in the spring. Looking at the weeks weather, youve got a skinful tonight/morrow then were all getting it thur fri.
 

The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
Aye it looks middling tomorrow, but warm the rest of week, and windy.

The variation is pretty amazing when you think about it. Bottomed out here at 1.3oC last night, but we're already at the bottom for tonight supposedly of 12.5oC. Minimums of 12 or 13 until the end of the week, which should help jog the grass along a little longer.
 

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