Sh1t summer

[Pan mixer]

This is the worst looking grass that I have ever cut I reckon.

I am leaving it on a tall stubble as there is mud down there - actually having to mow it with topping skids.

 

[Still Farming]

Corn is flat wet and weed come up through and soil soaked -worst in a very long time as most years bad - tin hat this year ?

 

[Poorbuthappy]

This is the worst looking grass that I have ever cut I reckon.

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I am leaving it on a tall stubble as there is mud down there - actually having to mow it with topping skids.

Reckon you'll have some competition for pics of worst grass cut over next few days! I might even offer some tomorrow

 

[Old Boar]

I needed some spuds for supper so went to dig some second earlies, but they were underwater. There was a good couple of inches of water just sitting there, a foot from a ditch. Such is the joy of blue clay soil!
The sheep are mud on sticks - its August for goodness sake!

 

[Tarw Coch]

Not the best photo but 150 cows been going in and out of this field twice a day for the last 5 days, that photo makes it look far worse than it actually is.

 

[davidroberts30]

View attachment 568488 Not the best photo but 150 cows been going in and out of this field twice a day for the last 5 days, that photo makes it look far worse than it actually is.

Not to bad u can still get the quad through it

 

[KMA]

Really glad I put in the drains and raised beds earlier in the year, veg is doing well.

Fruit is a washout and what there has been has been been pretty tasteless, plenty of toms on the vines but doubt if they'll ever ripen.

Son has some 'hay/haylage to do for folk but feck knows when that'll get done

I've seen worse summers in the last few years, this one has merely been disappointing. It has also shown up that I could do to put in another 40' of drains before building the next batch of raised beds

 

[Cowabunga]

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?

I'm only 25 miles down the coast and reckon it's been a brilliant Summer. Third cut in the clamp nearly three weeks ago, and more than ever before. All harvested in good weather, although third was a bit of luck.
Not lamb weather, granted, and wet land hasn't dried out to April conditions much since, but the grass has grown consistently like I've never seen before.

 

[GTB]

but the grass has grown consistently like I've never seen before.

Yes I know but it's too wet and slippery here to risk taking a tractor onto steep ground. I accept there have been chances to steal some silage but only on drier, flatter ground.

 

[7610 super q]

Whoop de doo the grass has grown. So have the trees, rushes, and nettles too, I shouldn't wonder.

 

[hally]

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Looking like my suckler cow fields
Baled and wrapped a very determined neighbours hay (sh!t) yesterday, its has been down for weeks.

 

[d williams]

Sat in a customer feild Spring barley moved here last night for what the bbc said was best day week f**kin rains

 

[Wellytrack]

Most dairy herds here (N.I) have been in at night on all but the driest farms for around a month, some people I have spoken to have had theirs in day and night for 6 weeks or more and say the cows have never done better.

In a way it's something that we are not unaccustomed to.

This summer is probably the worst one since last year.

 

[Old Boar]

4 different forecasts said dry all day, so off I toddle with the sprayer. It rained.

 

[Purli R]

I'm only 25 miles down the coast and reckon it's been a brilliant Summer. Third cut in the clamp nearly three weeks ago, and more than ever before. All harvested in good weather, although third was a bit of luck.
Not lamb weather, granted, and wet land hasn't dried out to April conditions much since, but the grass has grown consistently like I've never seen before.

Unlike

 

[davieh3350]

Looking like it'll be another beautiful summers day here!

 

[Cowabunga]

Unlike

I actually regret not making some 15 acres of my perfectly good second cut as hay. For bedding calves and dry cows, not for feeding. It would have saved me buying any straw whatsoever for this Winter.

That's my biggest mistake this year (so far)

 

[Cropper]

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

July was our wettest month of the year so far here

 

[Tarw Coch]

July was our wettest month of the year so far here

To be fair, we did have rain the last week of July, the dry weather had started in June.
No that's not right, the dry weather started with an unusually dry winter, we didn't have no where near enough rain over winter, I don't recall the river coming over the banks once.
Infact we probably have had more rain in the last month than any month long period since the beginning of the year, it's just we haven't had the rain some areas have had, probably no more than was needed.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

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

I was in Bodedern on the 7th for the eisteddfod and there were pools of water all over the Maes.
I was back there yesterday to move some ewes and vacc lambs and was amazed at how hard the ground was. I was driving into fields with no doubts about problems.