How Wet is your ground

cattleman123

Member
Location
devon
On the Blackdown Hills we have had a very wet past 3 months, drove in the field today with Tractor and nearly got stuck and this was the dry part of the field, straw has been abandoned to rot, neighbour cut his corn with the mower and wraped it up , drive 6/7 miles off the Blackdowns and you could drive a car around the fields,just amazes me how a few miles can make such a difference, told its bad in Cornwall as well.
 

onthehoof

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Cambs
Before last Saturday was bone dry even needed some rain but a couple of inches or rain in 7 days has made ground very wet cattle making mess but all still out at the moment
 

Frank-the-Wool

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
We are unbelievably dry and are beginning to get concerned as there is no reserves of water in the ground. The ponds and streams are bone dry and the main reservoirs are now around 30%.
There is no sign of any rain and I was told the EA are applying for drought orders to take extra water from the rivers, however there is so little coming down they might not be able to.

We had 16 mm of rain last night but it just disappeared, cattle all out and the grass is growing away from the sheep!!

We are a country of contrasts.
 
Location
Cleveland
We are unbelievably dry and are beginning to get concerned as there is no reserves of water in the ground. The ponds and streams are bone dry and the main reservoirs are now around 30%.
There is no sign of any rain and I was told the EA are applying for drought orders to take extra water from the rivers, however there is so little coming down they might not be able to.

We had 16 mm of rain last night but it just disappeared, cattle all out and the grass is growing away from the sheep!!

We are a country of contrasts.
I remember what happened last time there was a hosepipe ban...
 

Lazy Eric

Member
Very very wet here, cattle have been in 3 weeks and the land where they've been is a depressing mess! The meadows that we cut for silage and graze sheep on are just sat in water. Quad bike is making an awful mess. We've never had a full dry week since July.
 
Ground all on a slope and shallow soil so normal conditions for time of year , can't remember the last time 24hr's of no rain , frost then cold rain and hail today , snow forecast . Slightly off topic but I was told of a dairy farmer down AYR ,240 cows buying silage bales @ £38 delivered !!!!
 

johnspeehs

Member
Location
Co Antrim
Very very wet here and has been since early august, have to think very carefully before you venture out on the quad, brought in sheep today and the quad tracks look like a kaleidoscope drawing, never saw as many silage fields mowed in places and the abandoned and only parts of what is cut are lifted, just a fecking mess.
 

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