Sh1t summer

[kill]

Got to use the jcb to get anywhere near the troughs to put grub View attachment 568074 out

Very glad I use stone pad's to feed on when I see a picture like that in August and not January!!!!!!

 

[Granite Farmer]

They give a dry week here so I am going to take a chance at the last six acres of hay

 

[milkloss]

They give a dry week here so I am going to take a chance at the last six acres of hay

Dew takes a long time to cook off now though!

 

[Granite Farmer]

Dew takes a long time to cook off now though!

Made hay in September in 2012.

 

[gone up the hill]

They give a dry week here so I am going to take a chance at the last six acres of hay

Well I wouldn't risk it as every forecast I have just looked at says tomorrow will be dry, showers on Wens and then heavy rain right thru upto and including Monday for the SW.

Not hay making weather, be lucky to even grab some silage dry at the moment let alone hay!"

 

[Granite Farmer]

Well I wouldn't risk it as every forecast I have just looked at says tomorrow will be dry, showers on Wens and then heavy rain right thru upto and including Monday for the SW.

Not hay making weather, be lucky to even grab some silage dry at the moment let alone hay!"

Where do you get you forecast from? The one I am looking at right now says dry all week that is the metoffice website.

 

[kill]

Well I wouldn't risk it as every forecast I have just looked at says tomorrow will be dry, showers on Wens and then heavy rain right thru upto and including Monday for the SW.

Not hay making weather, be lucky to even grab some silage dry at the moment let alone hay!"

True and the ground here is STICKY to put it mildly.

 

[gone up the hill]

Where do you get you forecast from? The one I am looking at right now says dry all week that is the metoffice website.

That one and the MVF one!

TBH the met office one is a complete waste of time, the most accurate one the last 2 weeks has been the MVF one which has been pretty much accurate!

 

[Bald Rick]

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.

Seeing the West Wales boys complaining about not getting their silage in makes me quite glad of the wind up here .... will be doing 5th cut in 10 days

 

[jendan]

Got to use the jcb to get anywhere near the troughs to put grub View attachment 568074 out

If thats now its fecking hellish.Just like a late November scene.

 

[kill]

That one and the MVF one!

TBH the met office one is a complete waste of time, the most accurate one the last 2 weeks has been the MVF one which has been pretty much accurate!

Most weather forecasts seam to change their Minds almost hourly over the last few weeks but when driving any where and the roads change from wet to dry to wet nearly by the mile some days our weather is totally unforecastable.
I Never trust weather forecasters either this time of year as there's almost always a carrot on a stick of good weather around a week in advance to lure holidaymakers but we rarely get the carrot

 

[jemski]

Dew takes a long time to cook off now though!

Only going to get worse not better! Dry week forecast here too so I'm going to cut.

 

[Johngee]

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?

Took a couple of cows to Richard Mathews yesterday and he reckoned it would dry up this week as it's 40 days since St Swithins on Wednesday. If anyone else had said I wouldn't take any notice![emoji846]

 

[Sussex Martin]

A mate cut some more grass for hay yesterday so he must think the weathers going to be good.
A good day yesterday here 24 degrees and a nice bit of sun, amazing how much difference in a few miles, cows out on a neighbours marshland not making a mark.

 

[Bury the Trash]

That one and the MVF one!

TBH the met office one is a complete waste of time, the most accurate one the last 2 weeks has been the MVF one wh

go to here ... http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/...&zoom=5&lon=-4.00&lat=55.01&fcTime=1503266400

then type yer location in the box.

next,when you are on the forecast page for that or near location click on nearby locations and fine your choice if possible considering height above sea level of your .......area or take into consideration things like rain shadow etc.

 

[7610 super q]

The floods in Bangladesh put things into perspective though.

 

[Kildare]

Bit rainy here too.local show yesterday

 

[Kildare]

Bit rainy here too.local show yesterday

 

[Ffermer Bach]

A mate cut some more grass for hay yesterday so he must think the weathers going to be good.
A good day yesterday here 24 degrees and a nice bit of sun, amazing how much difference in a few miles, cows out on a neighbours marshland not making a mark.

it was raining so hard this morning that the gutters on the barns were running over!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Got to use the jcb to get anywhere near the troughs to put grub View attachment 568074 out

Bloody hell