Weather coming after Wednesday...Grounds wet here at the moment, and rain is due with us after midnight tomorrow night.
Was tempted to mow yesterday, and kick today for tomorrow pick up, but decided forecast for today didn't look good enough. Glad I didn't. Its been a wet evening. So we'll just have to bear with our one dry day in a row for a while longer.
Silage 2020
- Thread starter Bald Rick
- Start date
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Our 3rd cut looks awful too and we've had rainI've walked mine today, it's embarrassing quite frankly, 30 days cut, 50 units put on next day in heavy drizzle, the proceeding pathetic amounts of rain since haven't been enough to make any bulk, if I cut today I'd struggle for 1t/acre
Big_D
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- Location
- S W Scotland
mixed farm
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You've to take your chances at times and you win some and you lose some.
Big_D
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- Location
- S W Scotland
Tbf we've got it in reasonably dry, still 3 hrs chopping and pit tractor just broke down
Mouser
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- Location
- near Belfast
Could well be right decision yet too.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Another 8mm just fell in half an hour onto waterlogged land. That's mowing plans put off yet again. This weekend was our best hope. And bald Rick is on 5th cut and worried about dry periods.
Another 8mm just fell in half an hour onto waterlogged land. That's mowing plans put off yet again. This weekend was our best hope. And bald Rick is on 5th cut and worried about dry periods.
TBF we were dosing home with watery slurry regularly during that dry spell ... then when it went wet, the grass exploded and has kept exploding
Another 8mm just fell in half an hour onto waterlogged land. That's mowing plans put off yet again. This weekend was our best hope. And bald Rick is on 5th cut and worried about dry periods.
Yeh we got that dump of rain too in Eglinton
. Grass is ready to mow on Monday but when on earth will get a settled dry spell that we need! Thunderstorms forecast now for Monday & Tuesday too! Ground is saturated. Not been easy getting grass at the quality stage this summer.Attachments
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Ground is still mostly hard underneath from the good spell, but the top inch or two is pretty awful where it's covered with a heavy crop. I've got a peaty field I'm going to have to leave and chance the weather taking up, failing that tramp it in with light cattle.
- Location
- Co. Antrim
One big heavy shower today lasted about 20 minutes hoping to still go ahead with wholecrop oats tomorrow ground won’t be pretty but it’s not undersown and it needs off tbhAnother 8mm just fell in half an hour onto waterlogged land. That's mowing plans put off yet again. This weekend was our best hope. And bald Rick is on 5th cut and worried about dry periods.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Another 8mm just fell in half an hour onto waterlogged land. That's mowing plans put off yet again. This weekend was our best hope. And bald Rick is on 5th cut and worried about dry periods.
Thinking of getting mower in tomorrow but worried Monday is A Bit uncertain. If it would stay dry until lunch time Monday I’d batter on
- Location
- Northern Ireland
I'll need Monday Tuesday Wednesday.
Think I'll chance mowing the last bit of 2nd cut tomorrow for Monday, 3rd not ready for a couple of weeks yet.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Weather warnings for Monday and Tuesday
Maybe tramp around on Wednesday and try to guess how many dry days we need before mowing
Maybe tramp around on Wednesday and try to guess how many dry days we need before mowing
That warning is all over the Country. Be fine, push on
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Wish it was dry enough to push on, need at least 2 dry days before mowing. Ground was too wet to travel before today's rain.
Them southerners got no idea what wet ground be like, 2 dry days in a row they've got a drought.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Too little water is always easier managed than too much. After 2 months without a dry spell I wouldn't say no to 2 months without rain.Them southerners got no idea what wet ground be like, 2 dry days in a row they've got a drought.