Sh1t summer

[GTB]

After all the talk of a dry summer it's turned out very wet. Lambs aren't 'doing' even though there's plenty of grass. Farm up the raod haven't had their first cut yet and our second cut and wholecrop are well overdue but there's little hope of getting anything off our banks unless the ground has dried out. Starting to worry about winter forage now. I know it'll probably settle at some point but when exactly?

 

[llamedos]

Next Monday
Barometer is on a slow move to higher pressure.

 

[Ducati899]

when the kids go back to school

 

[tanker]

It's turned into a poor season quite suddenly...not long ago(down here at least,it's very different in some places I know) it was ''it's been a good season,need a drop of rain now''...

 

[GTB]

when the kids go back to school

My kids don't go to school any more

 

[7610 super q]

It's been a shocker. Apart from 4 days at the end of June.
Still, best not mention it too often.....

 

[Y Fan Wen]

My kids don't go to school any more

Home education?

 

[llamedos]

My kids don't go to school any more

There is your problem, send em back, never to old to learn

 

[GTB]

Home education?

No they're too old.

 

[neilo]

It's been lovely here. We were getting desperately dry 3 weeks ago, which this spell has sorted out nicely. Supposedly coming drier at the end of the week onwards, which will suit me just fine.

 

[GTB]

It's been lovely here. We were getting desperately dry 3 weeks ago, which this spell has sorted out nicely. Supposedly coming drier at the end of the week onwards, which will suit me just fine.

And you're only 40/50 miles from here at most

 

[Tarw Coch]

It's amazing how the weather varies in a relatively small country.
By the time we did our second cut and whole crop, royal Welsh show week things were looking bleak, there was absolutely no grass growth , the farm was looking brown.
It started raining after that which perked things up a bit but we don't seem to have been getting the quantities of rain promised by the forecasts, Infact up to about a week/10 days ago I thought that if the weather took up we'd be running out of grass again. We've probably had enough now to ensure decent grass growth through the rest of the summer but it's certainly not that wet that more rain would bother me other than for one field of straw I've got to get which hasn't yet been combined.
Had a bit of a rush lugging barley straw one night a few weeks back, listening to the forecast in the radio there was tales of thunderstorms and flooding down south with the weather heading north so pushed on to get it all shifted only to get up next morning to perfectly dry weather.

In summary, a good summer on the whole, apart from the dry July.

 

[Sussex Martin]

It's turned into a poor season quite suddenly...not long ago(down here at least,it's very different in some places I know) it was ''it's been a good season,need a drop of rain now''...

Down here

 

[GTB]

Down here

Of course he's down there! He's not up here is he!?!

 

[llamedos]

Of course he's down there! He's not up here is he!?!

Are you sure! I thought @tanker was o'er there

 

[davidroberts30]

Got to use the jcb to get anywhere near the troughs to put grub

out

 

[neilo]

And you're only 40/50 miles from here at most

Just to make you feel even better, Montgomery Cricket Club is in the middle of our farm. They had a celebration of the life of James Corfield on Friday afternoon, with about 600 or so people in attendance, many of which came in cars. I cleared all the surrounding fields for car parking, not knowing how many would be coming. I could hardly see where they'd parked by Saturday.
Then we had Montgomery Show in another of our fields on Saturday, followed by a well attended show lunch yesterday. Made a bit more mess there, as it was starting to get a bit soft on top, but stood it very well considering.

 

[DrWazzock]

Went to look at second cut of Timothy on a paddock other side of town. Flat to the floor yet only 12" growth and not headed. Yellow underneath.

It isn't particularly wet here but we seem to get a very heavy shower every couple of days.

 

[tanker]

Down here

Drizzly wet miserable west Wales..

 

[Henarar]

Not baled anything for a month now, still have a little bit of hay to make and second cut silage to do, not that I can do it
calves and lambs could look better despite plenty of grass, its all wind and water and not enough sun