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

[DrWazzock]

After another 15 mm in the last 24 hours its getting quite serious. Becks nearly overflowing in places. Some culvert pipes full to the top.
Definitely no autumn drilling here. Maybe we could plough some up but too wet to drill straight away and a shower would turn it to cack.
The beet harvest will be enough of a battle. Getting everything ready to try to minimise the damage. New gateways, reassessing tyres etc. Planning how to minimise trailer traffic. It won't go for the foreseeable though.
Getting through the list of rainy day jobs indoors, so at least time isn't being wasted. We will be ready when it does dry up.

 

[Renaultman]

After another 15 mm in the last 24 hours its getting quite serious. Becks nearly overflowing in places. Some culvert pipes full to the top.
Definitely no autumn drilling here. Maybe we could plough some up but too wet to drill straight away and a shower would turn it to cack.
The beet harvest will be enough of a battle. Getting everything ready to try to minimise the damage. New gateways, reassessing tyres etc. Planning how to minimise trailer traffic. It won't go for the foreseeable though.
Getting through the list of rainy day jobs indoors, so at least time isn't being wasted. We will be ready when it does dry up.

is anyone else worried that they have 'missed something ' on their rainy day checks and are nervous that when we do finally get going something big is you going to break?

 

[Will 1594]

Same here drilled 3%. Yesterday chopped 9 tatie boxes of logs ,today been changinging a few tiles on an old building ,and always had a wet spot in a field ,went for a dig ,and found an 18 inch concrete pipe ,some one must of filled a ditch in some time so digger coming tommorow ,to find it in wet patch ,then for an hour tonght , emptied 2 buckets of nuts and bolts and sorted them ,been a decent day so had to stay out a bit longer as could not sit over fire from 5 pm

 

[rob1]

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.

That was the year I let school, it rained the August bank holiday and we had the cows in day and night by mid oct the ground was so wet, 6 weeks from a desert to a bog