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How would you cope with another summer of 76 ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tarw Coch" data-source="post: 5200050" data-attributes="member: 1008"><p>76 is a long time ago, just a hot summer from my childhood, the only thing I remember about it was dad tried growing a new crop which wasn’t grown anywhere nearby called maize. Not particularly successful, put in with a swede drill, the pipe blew off the sprayer when he went in the field soaking it in atrazine, nothing grew there for years after. Don’t think it came particularly well although it seemed huge to me at the time, dad hadn’t actually got a plan on what to do with it but as the summer progressed it was the only thing growing so he ended up strip grazing it, apparently the cows milked well on it and went fat as mud in contrast to everyone else’s. He didn’t grow it next year though although he always said the crop had potential. It was 1990 before we grew it again by which time the machinery for planting and harvesting had moved on a long way.</p><p></p><p>I also remember from76 that we had recently had some fields drained and the water that ran out of these drains was the only water the stock had to drink on the one farm where there was no mains.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarw Coch, post: 5200050, member: 1008"] 76 is a long time ago, just a hot summer from my childhood, the only thing I remember about it was dad tried growing a new crop which wasn’t grown anywhere nearby called maize. Not particularly successful, put in with a swede drill, the pipe blew off the sprayer when he went in the field soaking it in atrazine, nothing grew there for years after. Don’t think it came particularly well although it seemed huge to me at the time, dad hadn’t actually got a plan on what to do with it but as the summer progressed it was the only thing growing so he ended up strip grazing it, apparently the cows milked well on it and went fat as mud in contrast to everyone else’s. He didn’t grow it next year though although he always said the crop had potential. It was 1990 before we grew it again by which time the machinery for planting and harvesting had moved on a long way. I also remember from76 that we had recently had some fields drained and the water that ran out of these drains was the only water the stock had to drink on the one farm where there was no mains. 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. [/QUOTE]
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