Is it going to rain again or is this 1976 mark 2??

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
No clouds in our sky though.
the phone camera just doesn’t do justice to how clear, pure & perfect the night sky is
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teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
surprising it’s so dry in the spring then ?

Yes. Not a day went by from mid October to mid January under 85 percent humidity. The climate of the (dry) east of England is fairly reliably in that it's slightly damp, not to hot nor too cold. Not to wet and not too dry.

Spring is often spent dodging showers. May often heats up and produces thunder.

None of these are ectreme by overseas standards, but when your climate is noted by its reliable dullness then yes it's quite a change.
 

puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
Bliddy raining here and after 10 minutes fed up of it as we were fencing and set off in sunshine with no leggings.
Still glad to see more though as last fertiliser on this morning
 
Cloudy to the West of us today but still too dry for comfort in East Norfolk. 3hcts Rape on light land has just about given up with hardly any flowers at all. If this is to become the norm rather than the exception we seriously need to rethink our cropping and establishment tecniques. Seems we are too used to doing what we have always done and hope for the best. Silly thing is, I am surrounded by water and don't stand a dog in hells chance of ever being granted an irrigation licence.
 

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
No clouds in our sky though.
the phone camera just doesn’t do justice to how clear, pure & perfect the night sky is View attachment 957224
Been great moons this time. You know when you can go out and drive posts in the moonlight, it's a good moon. Good tides too, got a good feed of paua and didn't even get wet jocks doing it
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Ok, these pics are as follows

fallow country from chickpeas harvested in November, allocated to Durum in June. Biggest problem with chickpeas is the lack of groundcover due to being harvested so close to the ground.

recently harvested sorghum, “normally” it would be probably be fallowed through to another crop in 6 or 12 months time

recently harvested mung beans, which were planted straight into November harvested wheat stubble in January.

as you can see, they all have at least a metre of soil moisture under them, that probe is 1.2 m

the fallow country was always a good bet to have enough moisture under it for winter planting, but as the mungs & sorghum also have full profiles, they will also go straight back into a cool season crop, or “double cropping” as we call it.
The sorghum will have chickpeas planted straight into it in June & the mungs will have a long season winter wheat planted in May. Can’t go too early here as being so low lying we get hammered by late frosts in the spring.

It hasn’t rained this month, no sign of it raining in the short term either, but tbh it doesn’t really worry me if it doesn’t rain till august . . .
We have enough stored moisture in our soil to carry us that far & even if it stays dry all spring, we will still end up with a harvestable crop ( as long as the mice don’t eat it all ).

THATS why we retain all our straw, don’t drive all over the paddocks & don’t go anywhere near it with cultivation equipment or f**k with it.
Keep the straw
Don’t drive it
Don’t dig it up

3 golden rules


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the golden rule here is pretty much, if you dont have 75cm - 1metre ( depending on season & crop choice ) of stored moisture, then dont plant a crop.
Simple
 

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