Made a start.

[had e nuff]

No rain please until Thursday. Good crop for 900 ft and grazed with sheep over winter.

 

[Bald Rick]

View attachment 805868No rain please until Thursday. Good crop for 900 ft and grazed with sheep over winter.

Been a very good year to date for grass growth, certainly here.

Btw, the tractor driver has a fair old conk

 

[gone up the hill]

Are you still selling up @had e nuff ?

 

[had e nuff]

Are you still selling up @had e nuff ?

Yes we are but thought we had better pit some silage. Can always sell it if future buyer doesn't want it.

 

[had e nuff]

Wish we hadn't started now. Rained for the last few hours.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Wish we hadn't started now. Rained for the last few hours.

We were flooded last night

 

[Gedd]

19mm here last night

 

[had e nuff]

We were flooded last night

Alot of standing water here. Grass is soaked. At least the ground is hard so won't make a mess once we get on.

 

[Skintagain]

Absolutely bounced it down at tea time flooding down road here.

 

[poorsheepfarmer]

Alot of standing water here. Grass is soaked. At least the ground is hard so won't make a mess once we get on.

was forecast!

 

[had e nuff]

was forecast!

It looked like it was going to be mainly in the west and only showers our side of the country. Will get it picked up sometime, always do.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

I cut 12 acres down on Monday afternoon, and we have had 30mm of rain since lunchtime yesterday, and still falling. Upside is there won't be any dust in the hay.

 

[Yale]

Won’t be much silaging going on tomorrow.

 

[had e nuff]

Most of ours is in and sheeted, 8 acres to bale in the morning before it rains.

 

[gone up the hill]

View attachment 807178 Most of ours is in and sheeted, 8 acres to bale in the morning before it rains.

And come the autumn you haven't sold the farm and end up buying some stirks to run on to eat that silage

 

[had e nuff]

And come the autumn you haven't sold the farm and end up buying some stirks to run on to eat that silage

Sell the silage, be more profitable

 

[gone up the hill]

It looked like it was going to be mainly in the west and only showers our side of the country. Will get it picked up sometime, always do.

With the way the forecast looks down here we will just have to get on and cut, unsettled and we get 1/2 medium showers every day, they don't do any good yet stop us from cutting and it looks no better for the next two weeks.

You defo made the right call in cutting this week.

 

[gone up the hill]

Sell the silage, be more profitable

Sadly you are right, it is far more profitable now to sell the silage than feed it

 

[neilo]

Won’t be much silaging going on tomorrow.

I hope not. I’m just back in from drilling swedes ahead of the promised deluge.

Mowing can wait a few days.

 

[Mr Mackay]

I was going to plough up some Fastgrass for stubble turnips but changed mind and ferted it
5 or 6 yrs ago we ploughed a field early June and puddled stubble turnips in !!
Not wanting that to happen again so will leave it till August and try and get reseed in then