I reckon another couple of weeks of this and crops on light ground will start to lose some yield potential
It will be similar for heavier land where spring barley etc is struggling to germinate.I reckon another couple of weeks of this and crops on light ground will start to lose some yield potential
That's done it.... 🌧 🌧 🌧 and it will never stop nowI reckon another couple of weeks of this and crops on light ground will start to lose some yield potential
We hopefully be over to our friends in Brandon this fall, he sending me videos of the rain in the yardNothing planted with a spring crop except south of the continental divide which is mid South Dakota. south of that a few are doing wheat but most that far south are planting maize, fair bit of inter wheat grown in southern Nebraska and into Kansas and Oklahoma.
Same old story in east anglia, we already have hot spots showing drought symptoms in winter cereals. Seems to be the norm these days, these relentless n/e winds are just zapping the moisture!
Go on rub it inwe've had 10mm of rain in the last 36hours or so.
We only had 5, better than nothing, but need moreAre you still dry? @jerseycowsman , we've had 10mm of rain in the last 36hours or so.
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 it............pleaseWe 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.
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............please
Not good. Dry summers I can cope with, but a dry spring is very worrisomeGetting 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.