I reckon another couple of weeks of this and crops on light ground will start to lose some yield potential
It’s too dry!
- Thread starter jerseycowsman
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- Lincs / Notts
It will be similar for heavier land where spring barley etc is struggling to germinate.
Also Nitrogen isn't getting washed in, especially if you have used Urea.
Pukekohe_Grower
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We have just come out of one of the dryest summers ever in here New Zealand, went over 45 days with no rain in my area. Having a dry autumn so far too.
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
matt@mepengineering
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- Location
- Newcastle under lyme
We hopefully be over to our friends in Brandon this fall, he sending me videos of the rain in the yard
We had a small place near Killarney for a while but then went on harvest run in the states for 5 years got to see a fair bit of the Midwest, travelled the corn belt a fair bit too . Really brings into perspective how small the uk is
Always remember our first trip in 2001 we stopped watching someone cutting wheat near Jamestown, the farmer came over talking and asked if we were farmers
My dad replied well I thought we were until we saw this lot
Old boy had 12000 acres of wheat.
beardface
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
Used to shear sheep for a fella down your way early may. Weather like this and they were guaranteed to be like hat racks
I bought £500 of nectar mix seed to sow on a 6 acre field that I've carefully ploughed and worked down.....but it's just sitting in my shed, because even here on "always wet Dartmoor" it hasn't rained for a few weeks, and the top inch and a half of soil is dry. So I'm just waiting for it to rain....and I've never said that before!
Are you still dry? @jerseycowsman , we've had 10mm of rain in the last 36hours or so.
serf
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- warwickshire
- Location
- cornwall
We only had 5, better than nothing, but need more
- Location
- Near Colchester
None at all in sunny Essex
whitefox
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- central scotland(the very wet bit)
that sounds a great adventure,5 years "wow",i am sure i am not the only one??? that would love to hear (and see, if you have pics?) all about itWe hopefully be over to our friends in Brandon this fall, he sending me videos of the rain in the yard
We had a small place near Killarney for a while but then went on harvest run in the states for 5 years got to see a fair bit of the Midwest, travelled the corn belt a fair bit too . Really brings into perspective how small the uk is
Always remember our first trip in 2001 we stopped watching someone cutting wheat near Jamestown, the farmer came over talking and asked if we were farmers
My dad replied well I thought we were until we saw this lot
Old boy had 12000 acres of wheat.
............please
matt@mepengineering
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- Location
- Newcastle under lyme
I’ll have a rootthat sounds a great adventure,5 years "wow",i am sure i am not the only one??? that would love to hear (and see, if you have pics?) all about it
Most of them are on a hard drive which was acting up , luckily a neighbour saved them to google images or something so I’ll get them and put some up
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
been out and about this afternoon not that far 20 miles or so and went through several very heavy showers, on return weve had a couple maybe not as much but enough to make puddles down the road and knock the grass ley down. Now its a lovely warm sunny evening .should have melted the fert prills in that have been sat for more than a week , and the sp barley is coming in full rows ,much happier
Chasingmytail
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- Location
- Newport, SE Wales
Just checked BBC and no rain at all forecast for the next 2 weeks - yikes little grass!!!
dowcow
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- Location
- Lancashire
We are doing alright now. We've had 10mm and 8mm this last week or so. Barley seems to be enjoying it. The field I'm trying to graze before ploughing for maize is taking too long for the cows to get to the bottom of. Actually seems to be growing more grass than they can eat after the rain.
- Location
- South lakes
We’ve had a few days of rain , Sunday and Wednesday morning! The grass is bouncing and all these mowers are itching to get going, but there is a flourish in growth, tomoz supposed to be wet,
Getting dire here in South East Wales, we've had no real rain since February, only the promise of rain in the forecast for it to amount to nothing but a dust suppresser.
The streams that the stock drink from are running at barely a trickle so I'm having to constantly fill IBCs for the drinking troughs, a task usually done in a dry mid summer.
Luckily I'm still getting heavy dew in the morning that's helping the grass but the cattle and sheeps are eating it faster than it can grow. What has happened to spring and April showers? Now the forecast is for a mini heatwave and no rain in the next couple of weeks...I hope they're wrong or I'm heading for deep sh!t creek.
The streams that the stock drink from are running at barely a trickle so I'm having to constantly fill IBCs for the drinking troughs, a task usually done in a dry mid summer.
Luckily I'm still getting heavy dew in the morning that's helping the grass but the cattle and sheeps are eating it faster than it can grow. What has happened to spring and April showers? Now the forecast is for a mini heatwave and no rain in the next couple of weeks...I hope they're wrong or I'm heading for deep sh!t creek.
- Location
- cornwall
Not good. Dry summers I can cope with, but a dry spring is very worrisome