Is this the wettest Autumn you have had to cope with?

[Heathland]

I don't know about other parts of the country but its the wettest I can recall,and my agronomist reckons it is too,its incredibly wet around here nothing drilled here and what is drill is covered in water or is saturated and osr is going backwards.

Spoke to a retired farm manager last week, he was telling me it was like this in 76, rained nearly every day in October after a long hot summer,
which I can remember!
He didn't drill anything till second half of November and that was spun on and just disced in,
Huntsman,and he said it went on to do 4t/ac.

Am I worried,
Unfortunately its a completely out of my control so its pointless getting stressed,easily said tho.

 

[Badshot]

Wettest autumn?
Not even close, just annoyingly so, couple dry days will see things happening again next week

 

[teslacoils]

Lol. We're going to need a couple of dry weeks - one to let the sprayer travel, half a week more for it to work, and half a week for the seed to chit ahead of more rain.

 

[teslacoils]

It's bloody nasty now. Just relentless really. Week ahead has gone to sh!t.

 

[Badshot]

2012 was a lot wetter, first year I dd with the KV.
Worked well, didn't bother with the osr stubbles though.

 

[Badshot]

This week is shitty, next looks ok though.
Going sightseeing so the temptations not there to rush in.

 

[Hindsight]

2012 was a lot wetter, first year I dd with the KV.
Worked well, didn't bother with the osr stubbles though.

Following drought conditions in early June we had 150mm or more in June., from the 10th onwards. July was dry. August 100mm. 10mm during early part of September. And now 120mm in past 21 days, with more falling as I type. The June and August rainfall took land to near field capacity. heavy soil is now saturated. I doubt any of it would drill sensibly this month now. So we wait to see what weather brings.

There is now standing water in many level fields, and truly waterlogged headlands at the lower slope of sloping fields. These will I doubt drill sensibly even with two weeks dry weather.

 

[radar]

View attachment 838213This photo always bring me back to reality.

Back then used to have a "Sunshine" drill, Massey I think and Aussie built. Spent hours riding on the back when a nipper checking spouts etc - hazardous when you consider we towed a set of harrows behind on a shifting towbar that moved from side to side when turning to offset the harrows so they didn't take your wheel marker out. Quite liable to swipe you off he back!

 

[teslacoils]

Drains were running within two days if drilling grass into lovely seed beds. Regular topups and associated puddles say the soil is now full. I don't madly care about establishment methods - if all your soil pores are full and you rely on drainage pipes then at twelve degrees c you've got a long wait before any tractor and drill does damage.

 

[Pilatus]

Back then used to have a "Sunshine" drill, Massey I think and Aussie built. Spent hours riding on the back when a nipper checking spouts etc - hazardous when you consider we towed a set of harrows behind on a shifting towbar that moved from side to side when turning to offset the harrows so they didn't take your wheel marker out. Quite liable to swipe you off he back!

Only consolation is that farming has kept going whatever nature throws at us and we are alive to tell the tale,and no doubt whatever XR , AR and any other “arseholes” complain about farming will be here as long as mankind resides on the planet. No apologies for drifting off topic.

 

[Renaultman]

This week is shitty, next looks ok though.
Going sightseeing so the temptations not there to rush in.

And that just about sums 2012 up in a sentence, next week never came

 

[Badshot]

And that just about sums 2012 up in a sentence, next week never came

2012 metcheck was saying it was going to.get very wet, with multi cm rain events forecast a good two.weeks ahead.
But you're right , it never did improve.
Next week isn't looking so flash now.

 

[Billboy1]

yes !

 

[MrNoo]

Reckon it is here, a few have been ploughing/combi drill on very light brash, just hitched the plough on here and it's going over nicely but anything slightly heavier is a no go and some/most will go into spring cropping. I have 50 acres of maize they took off over the weekend...... Lets just say it isnt a pleasant sight, god knows what I'm going to do with that, no more maize here.

 

[Heathland]

Think we are at field capacity now!

this was taken this morning,no drilling this week.

 

[bankrupt]

Wettest autumn?
Not even close, just annoyingly so, couple dry days will see things happening again next week

The real problem, Badshot, is that, unlike it was in 2012, 2008, 2000, 1988, 1976, 1974, 1968, 1957, 1947 etc, etc,. it is currently quite impossible to sell forward half a crop to show a profit.

 

[Two Tone]

Up until today, I reckon this hasn’t been as bad as 2012.
But as of last night’s rain, it is getting to be almost as bad if not as bad.
I remember then that it was even too wet to put Slug pellets on with a quad. Just been to take a look to see if it would travel and it won’t without making an awful mess and probably even getting it stuck in some places.

 

[MrNoo]

Ploughed some brash, went ok then went to a slightly heavier field, clay......! Was very surprised, dry enough on top and the clay was like butter, went over a treat and traction was ok too.

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

Up until today, I reckon this hasn’t been as bad as 2012.
But as of last night’s rain, it is getting to be almost as bad if not as bad.
I remember then that it was even too wet to put Slug pellets on with a quad. Just been to take a look to see if it would travel and it won’t without making an awful mess and probably even getting it stuck in some places.

Why worry about making mess if you can get pellets on?

 

[Two Tone]

Why worry about making mess if you can get pellets on?

Because everywhere the quad drives it will kill any crop under the wheels. It’ll just create trenches that will fill with water.
More to the point, I’d probably get stuck and what the heck do you use to get it out?
Just been talking to my brother in North Suffolk. A large estate he applies Avedex for, got their quad stock today applying pellets and they destroyed a Polaris buggy gearbox trying to get it out. Now 2 ATVs stuck in the same field!