Harvest struggles,!

[Martin Holden]

Unbelievable for a small country.
I have all my new grass seeds desperate for a drink and we get nothing day after day.

Tis a strange country indeed. It’s that North South divide again. The current weather is typical of just this. Despite the dry weather and no rain for at least 7 weeks down here the ground is full of moisture when you dig down.

 

[Gedd]

Started ploughing yesterday on heavy ground to wet to follow with the combination wants 24 hours 4mm rain again last night (durham)

 

[IHA]

Yet to start harvest here, all spring barley only just coming ready now,it's a struggle to even get 3 or 4 dry days to do 2nd cut silage! Hopefully the weather settles down for second half of the month.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Won’t be any silage made in Wales today.

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Plenty of grass to cut but no Sky .

 

[Yale]

Plenty of grass to cut but no Sky .View attachment 715558View attachment 715560

Nice crop.

 

[7610 super q]

It's the wettest drought since......2017.

 

[spin cycle]

Plenty of grass to cut but no Sky .View attachment 715558View attachment 715560

which would you rather have though?.....sun but no grass?...if it wern't for the rain you wouldn't get the grass

gone from bone dry to slightly damp here

 

[Spencer]

46mm of rain here last night Harvest is becoming a struggle yes

 

[Ley253]

Not wet everywhere! Was at reading last night, and the field marked out for the ploughing match was like concrete, nearby paddocks were full of bare patches, no grass anywhere.

 

[Goweresque]

Not wet everywhere! Was at reading last night, and the field marked out for the ploughing match was like concrete, nearby paddocks were full of bare patches, no grass anywhere.

Same here - been digging with the excavator today, ground is bone dry several feet down, its like grading dry sand. Last wet day was over 2 weeks ago.

 

[Pluto]

Same here - been digging with the excavator today, ground is bone dry several feet down, its like grading dry sand. Last wet day was over 2 weeks ago.

Ditto, erected some electric fence today. Ground like concrete. ''Twas bl!!dy hard work. Had to belt some in with a hammer.
Sorry for you folks up North

 

[Ley253]

Same here - been digging with the excavator today, ground is bone dry several feet down, its like grading dry sand. Last wet day was over 2 weeks ago.

Yet at Claverham, nr Bristol airport on Sunday, land ploughed ok, with moisture at six inches depth and with lush grass in the lorry park!

 

[Granite Farmer]

Its very dry within my little rain shadow. Direct drilled grass seed drilled in mid/late August is desperate for a drink and land that was ploughed for conventional re seeding was bone dry and like powder.

Grass has not shifted for weeks and there will be no 2nd cut this month which was what I was hoping for.

 

[essexpete]

Yet to start harvest here, all spring barley only just coming ready now,it's a struggle to even get 3 or 4 dry days to do 2nd cut silage! Hopefully the weather settles down for second half of the month.

Staggering to see the differences in quite a short distance. Most harvest appeared to be completed between Blairgowrie and Perth 2 weeks ago.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Wont be any harvest done in Scotland this month.

 

[sixrow]

Wont be any harvest done in Scotland this month.

combines going every where up here today stoor standing off it.

 

[quattro]

Wont be any harvest done in Scotland this month.

Why wot happening this month loads going at moment and lots of dust

 

[Chae1]

Wont be any harvest done in Scotland this month.

Great weather up here, been baling straw since ten this morning. Should be finished tomorrow.

Do you live in a bubble?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Wont be any harvest done in Scotland this month.

They won’t if you don’t stop moaning on here and start the combine

 

[2wheels]

did a 200ml run on the bike today. combnes busy in the later parts of aberdeenshire. the only bits i saw not ready were around the auchmacoy area of ellon.