How Wet is your ground

[pgk]

Drove across hilly clay fields in 110 with AT tyres on today, no issues despite recent rain which followed a couple of dry weeks. New grass leys ewes going onto looking a bit thin in bottom but lots of length from generally mild autumn.

 

[Old Boar]

Wetter than a wet thing in wet town, with added wet. Dropped a tree the other day and the branches facing the ground have gone down at least 5 foot into the ground, holding the whole trunk up high.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Where?

I’m guessing in the east

 

[MRT]

Land is horrendously wet. I have been waiting for some dry days to repair some cracks in the house where water is getting through. Filled it with "render repair" during a prolonged dry spell of 16 hrs (plasticygluey stuff) it washed out

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I have been waiting for some dry days to repair some cracks in the house where water is getting through.

 

[Bill dog]

Predictably wet here. I don’t put the quad in the grazing fields now, just park at the gate and go old school on my feet !
Moved the Cheviots and lleyns to a fresher field yest , and Glyn the collie looked like he’d been bog snorkelling by the time he was finished !
But trying to put a rosier spin on it, actually walking your ground ( mud) gives you time to think, take in the views, and I realised I would still rather do this than anything else !
But as my cows have been in since mid September, I really feel sorry for all you poor guys who are so dry, with cows out and dust blinding you ! !

 

[Inky]

We've had more frost in he past two weeks than the whole of last winter.

Cattle are coming in on Wednesday which is not bad going considering it's all clay soil which is usually saturated by now (last year was pretty easy going as well).

The rain has been average but day / night temperatures have remained high with decent wind which has kept the ground firm.

 

[Nearly]

West Yorkshire, between Leeds and Ilkley.

Not a million miles from here but worlds apart

Sorry to both of you for this pic.

Outwintering these on the driest field on farm.
Cows are making a mess in the gateways but until the deluge starts they can forage a little longer.
They come in for silage each morning but prefer to lie outside.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Sorry to both of you for this pic.
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Outwintering these on the driest field on farm.
Cows are making a mess in the gateways but until the deluge starts they can forage a little longer.
They come in for silage each morning but prefer to lie outside.

No need to be sorry...all mine are still out

 

[jondear]

Ground wet on top but adding up annual rainfall well below average of 32 inches.

 

[Lazy Eric]

Sorry to both of you for this pic.
View attachment 600376
Outwintering these on the driest field on farm.
Cows are making a mess in the gateways but until the deluge starts they can forage a little longer.
They come in for silage each morning but prefer to lie outside.

If ours were still out here I'd would probably have RSPCA on my back![emoji53]
Your land looks positively desert [emoji266] like compared to my swamp.

 

[Sid]

Its been too wet here to subsoil for the last two years.
Mid july to mid sept this year was awful. Since then its been drier but now it didn't take much to make it real wet again.

 

[Bill dog]

Its been too wet here to subsoil for the last two years.
Mid july to mid sept this year was awful. Since then its been drier but now it didn't take much to make it real wet again.

Liking that wasn’t what I mean , but there is no “ I feel your pain “ button !

 

[Sid]

Liking that wasn’t what I mean , but there is no “ I feel your pain “ button !

Cow tracks were planned for August driest month of the year....just not this year!

 

[Happy]

Spent the last 3 days ploughing heavy ground that was too wet to get wheat in a month ago.

Turning over surprisingly well for the type of ground it is. Not all that wet shiny way I was expecting. Amazing the difference a dry couple of weeks can make even at this time of year.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Ground wet on top but adding up annual rainfall well below average of 32 inches.

48mm last week, 1635 accumulated total since new year (64 inches).
Last 2 years we've had around 6 feet per year.

 

[Danllan]

West Carms... brought the cattle in last Monday, wish I'd done it a week earlier; they were out until the start of December last year. Loads of grass left though, sheep happy but it's really a bit rich for them, shan't need to give them anywhere near as much hay as usual. Have had standing water on a 35 degree slope! Well, I know it must have been flowing down, but it just didn't look like it was moving at all... .

 

[jondear]

48mm last week, 1635 accumulated total since new year (64 inches).
Last 2 years we've had around 6 feet per year.

sorry can't like that.The difference in this country is enormous.

 

[jondear]

Cow tracks were planned for August driest month of the year....just not this year!

Same here but will have to wait till next year

 

[holywell farmer]

you wouldn't even try and drive a quad on my fields, can barely walk on most of them without losing a welly

Not good, if ground getting soaked all the time