F all rain today after the weather warning! I can see August sown rape not germinating(in good subsoiled & rolled seedbeds) until the back end of September. So, another compromised OSR season before it even starts. A ceiling of 4t ish already set, rather than 5+. Downhill from the start; what a year!
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- Thread starter green giant
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Minesapint
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- Location
- Oxon
If seed is sat dry I wouldn't worry too much. Its the stuff that has found enough moisture to get going I'm worried about. Some has chitted and died, and even well emerged plants are starting to struggle now on our gravel. Volunteer barley and blackgrass look stunning as always!!
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
Rain wot rain.Barely enough rain here today to damp the dust. Bring it on please!
Thick Farmer
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- Location
- West Wales
Possing down here.
Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
25mm here in north yorks, with the 55mm we got two weeks ago and now this the going is soft.
Enough already.
Enough already.
Thats about the scale of it here too. But I wont be giving mine the chance to start growing at the end of September. Now lovely sunshine so my family day is now curtailed and I am off cultivating instead.
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
I think it has rained all night and still is.
Bluetooth
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- Location
- North east
3 inches yesterday 
- Location
- Lincolnshire
And here. Drilling into ploughed grass ley worked a treat last year, but disaster this year, grass sucked out all the moisture before it was ploughed. Leaving it though. We have had good yields from late sept drillings some years if warm into late autumn.
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
Nothing over in Melton Mowbray area, but we have seen rainbows most of the evening to the east so that must be you getting wet!33mm so far in south lincs and still coming down hard. Feeling slightly smug at finishing harvest and rape drilling yesterday.
JNG
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- Location
- Leinster, Ireland
4mm here yesterday and we were forecast alot more, will be dusty again by lunch time, still our 2 week old rape plants enjoyed it and it will keep them going.
Minesapint
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- Location
- Oxon
Was going to do a bit of spraying today, once the f'cast mist had cleared. 13mm of rain later it was a tad sticky!! Very gratefully received, bit pee'd that we missed the isolated shower this afternoon that was actually forecast!!
- Location
- Cirencester
Rained pretty much constant here from 2-30am till mid morning, 14.7mm in the gauge, should get the OSR going
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Dull morning here. Sun came out about 11, set off after lunch, combine, baler, wuffler to turn wet straw. Pouring down by half 1! Only lasted about 30 mins but enough to spoil it for day. Only about 7 acres left to cut so end in sight.
Don't hold your breath Static! he forecasts are evaporating as far as rain is concerned the nearer they get to term.
Our part of N Lincs is missing everything. Rape seed in dust-land like concrete, stale seedbed- no chance!