Looking grim .......

[Cab-over Pete]

No, we don’t. Only had one decent frost all winter.

A couple of winters in the last few we haven’t had a frost at all.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

I had shingles aged 31!

My wife had shingles in her early 20s.
Hit her real hard too. Still feels the weakness in her hip now when over tired 30 odd years later.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I had shingles on my left side in my late 20s , right where your belt rubs.

If I’ve got a nasty bug or something it will irritate my side , but I’ve never actually suffered from it since.

It’s not nice

 

[hoff135]

Isn’t it warming that’s the problem now?
Warm wet winters instead of cold frozen ones
Old chap lives in Cheshire, he reckons they don’t get the cold like they used to.

Don't know but this will be a cold march with us.

 

[Hesstondriver]

Looks like I’ve chosen the wrong year to take on a tenancy & dip my toe in to arable cropping. Pinning my hopes of spring barley .

Rain coming horizontally in to the cattle sheds tonight

 

[Bigsingle]

Women messaged wife to say there's a dead lmb at the back of her house. Lucky if it's just the one. We had torrential rain at 1 today, as l said it can't get an worse really now. Have about 60 ewes in individual pens and alot in bunches that really could be doing going outside. Maybe Saturday on to abit l rent nothing on it since November so is fresh.

 

[kiwi pom]

Don't know but this will be a cold march with us.

Haven't seen the numbers but aren't we told the UK is getting warmer year on year.

No, we don’t. Only had one decent frost all winter.

A couple of winters in the last few we haven’t had a frost at all.

Might just be the way we remember things but I recall long periods when the ground and floods/ponds in fields were frozen over, tractors spreading slurry on frozen ground for days on end in the 80's/90's and a reasonable amount of snow.

Perhaps just a cycle

 

[Trigger Happy]

I can’t remember which year it was 2000’s. We didn’t do any spring drilling until 20th April but the beet and spring barley did really well. We paraplowed stubbles and ex beet land once most of the ponds had gone then power harrowed once it had further dried off. Didn’t bring up cacky clods to set like concrete, just shattered the surface. Might not have even needed the power Harrow but it helped level the slight paraplow ridges. Drilled with unidrill that didn’t block with trash. Seedbed didn’t dry out in subsequent drought. Think spring barley had no rain on it, but yielded very well.
But it if had stayed wet we couldn’t have done much.

Just had a look at the diary for 2001, it was the spring from hell following the autumn from hell, none of our neighbors had drilled anything so we took a gamble and bought a 4 m vaderstad rapid, a fairly new concept. We didn't start drilling for one neighbor until May 4, finished on 9, spring beans that were late to harvest but yielded well. I drilled a fair bit of barley earlier but often running all night on a slight frost. The gamble paid off and it helped us grow the contracting business. Anyway back to this spring.... Its CR*P!

 

[glasshouse]

Just had a look at the diary for 2001, it was the spring from hell following the autumn from hell, none of our neighbors had drilled anything so we took a gamble and bought a 4 m vaderstad rapid, a fairly new concept. We didn't start drilling for one neighbor until May 4, finished on 9, spring beans that were late to harvest but yielded well. I drilled a fair bit of barley earlier but often running all night on a slight frost. The gamble paid off and it helped us grow the contracting business. Anyway back to this spring.... Its CR*P!

2001 . What a year.
Foot and mouth
Pish wet
9/11 too

 

[kiwi pom]

2001 . What a year.
Foot and mouth
Pish wet
9/11 too

I left for a second stint in the US spring 2001, my last job before I left was ripping spud land where we never got to harvest the spuds, what a mess.

Boss was very wary of Foot and Mouth, didn't take any luggage, work boots etc over. He paid for all new gear when I got there after ten days on the road complying with visa requirements and going on a machine course so was well quarantined.

 

[glasshouse]

Lots of spuds not dug in 2000
One group left about 400 ac in the ground and went bust
It was so wet they were removing fences to turn on the road

 

[Pilatus]

@Trigger Happy and @glasshouse ,
I find your post interesting. I may be wrong but I doubt “ global warming” was mentioned as the cause of those wet years you mention.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

Someone kindly reminded me we could well be looking at grass in 4-5 weeks….. however, looking at it might be all we are able to do….

Got 4-5 weeks worth of work to do before I even want to think about it….

 

[yellow belly]

I had shingles aged 31!

My daughter had shingle at 18 months doctor took photos as it was so rare but not impossible

 

[yellow belly]

Just had a look at the diary for 2001, it was the spring from hell following the autumn from hell, none of our neighbors had drilled anything so we took a gamble and bought a 4 m vaderstad rapid, a fairly new concept. We didn't start drilling for one neighbor until May 4, finished on 9, spring beans that were late to harvest but yielded well. I drilled a fair bit of barley earlier but often running all night on a slight frost. The gamble paid off and it helped us grow the contracting business. Anyway back to this spring.... Its CR*P!

Had 50 % set aside that year
July was also very wet flooded the vale of Belvoir

 

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[Chuckie]

Lots of spuds not dug in 2000
One group left about 400 ac in the ground and went bust
It was so wet they were removing fences to turn on the road

I baled straw in March 2001. It must have been drier than this March

 

[bobk]

It drys well in the 10 minutes between downpours

 

[serf]

Water companies must still be planning on a drought this summer.
Got a raw water abstraction point on the farm here that pumps to reservoir 10 miles away. Was amazed to find they were pumping water a couple of weeks ago when it sprung a leak. Would have thought reservoir would be brim full at the moment.

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Are you sure that's not just your fountain at the bottom of your garden and your just competing with Chatsworth

 

[glasshouse]

I baled straw in March 2001. It must have been drier than this March

I did too