How would you cope with another summer of 76 ?

[Princess Pooper]

2011 was an extremely dry year here, our first and only cut was about 60% of normal, our maize grown on rented sandy land didn’t see a decent days rain from sowing to harvest, most of it didn’t grow to waist height yet we got by, dry cows and young stock were fed on straw and spring 2012 was very favourable, March 2012 was the driest ground conditions the cows grazed in that year.

Yes a lot of folks forget how dry 2011 was in some areas, including the 2011-12 winter.I was pictured in local rag next to one of our ponds at around the end of March, it had almost dried up. Next week it started to rain and I think more people remember the horrendous wet summer that that then followed.

 

[William Mellor]

Was 76 the year that it snowed on 2nd June? Dad can’t remember if it was 76 or 75 but remembers he was Baling hay a week after it snowed

 

[pappuller]

Was 76 the year that it snowed on 2nd June? Dad can’t remember if it was 76 or 75 but remembers he was Baling hay a week after it snowed

Think it was 76 as it snowed at the test match apparently, you been on holiday @William Mellor ?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Was 76 the year that it snowed on 2nd June? Dad can’t remember if it was 76 or 75 but remembers he was Baling hay a week after it snowed

yes it was

 

[William Mellor]

Think it was 76 as it snowed at the test match apparently, you been on holiday @William Mellor ?

No holiday, yes dad recons it’s stopped cricket at Buxton.

 

[Yazzie]

Snow at Buxton.http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/462037.html

 

[Tarw Coch]

Was 76 the year that it snowed on 2nd June? Dad can’t remember if it was 76 or 75 but remembers he was Baling hay a week after it snowed

Only the other week someone was telling me they stopped silaging one year as snow was covering the swaths.

 

[jerseycowsman]

Long range forecast is being dominated by the Azores high. Looking dry for at least the next couple of weeks!

 

[jerseycowsman]

It will start raining when the kids break up and the combines come out!

 

[Headless chicken]

I bloody hope so. I’m out topping and I can only just see where to go. We have very little grass left

It will start raining when the kids break up and the combines come out!

 

[The Agrarian]

It's to pish here this afternoon up to midnight. We've had some useful rain over the weekend - first since mid May. Nothing big to shout about, but better by a long way than nothing at all. Looks to take up and be dry for at least a week, and probably more.

 

[Beef farmer]

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I bloody hope so. I’m out topping and I can only just see where to go. We have very little grass left

What you topping for?

 

[Headless chicken]

What you topping for?

Thistles. Burnt them off with the knapsack the other day smash them back and then redo the regrowth.

Edit: and because since I bought a new tractor I’ve hardly been able to use it because the lad who helps me lives in it

 

[Beef farmer]

Thistles. Burnt them off with the knapsack the other day smash them back and then redo the regrowth.

Edit: and because since I bought a new tractor I’ve hardly been able to use it because the lad who helps me lives in it

Check you out....re growth!!! My drys and ys will be eating the dead thistles and nettles as there ain't no regrowth down here.

 

[Kingofgrass]

Like this @pappuller application rate “a lot” lol

 

[pappuller]

View attachment 683798 Like this @pappuller application rate “a lot” lol

That looks some seriously 'clean' dirty water

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

That looks some seriously 'clean' dirty water

fresh out of the beck, and don't blame the man for doing so,
we did same in 84, would not say it made it grow, but it held its own and when rain did come it was streets ahead of that got none

 

[Kingofgrass]

That looks some seriously 'clean' dirty water

No smell to it

 

[Headless chicken]

Check you out....re growth!!! My drys and ys will be eating the dead thistles and nettles as there ain't no regrowth down here.

When I said regrowth I meant when the thistles re grow. I have zero grass. Will be drying a pile more off this week

 

[Andrew K]

When I said regrowth I meant when the thistles re grow. I have zero grass. Will be drying a pile more off this week