So can it stop raining now please

[milkloss]

Yes that would be plenty thanks.

Hardly scientific but a wheelbarrow left sitting out had two gallons of water on each morning for 3 different nights this week.

I’m sure someone has worked a formula out for average wheel barrow somewhere!

Livestock man here and the rain turned up just in time. Never happy though and the silo grass that’s had fert needs some sun really, just going all lush at the minute.

 

[Wellytrack]

I’m sure someone has worked a formula out for average wheel barrow somewhere!

Livestock man here and the rain turned up just in time. Never happy though and the silo grass that’s had fert needs some sun really, just going all lush at the minute.

Livestock man here too. Wheel barrow is my latest machinery acquisition.

I don’t know what came over me, a sudden rush of blood when I was in my local store buying cable ties and gorilla glue I think.

It’s turned autumnal quite suddenly rather than gradual, decent stock of grass built up over previous 4 weeks but at this stage it will just melt and disappear with the short evenings and cold.

 

[snarling bee]

Ground still dry here, but 300 acres of straw is still too damp to bale despite being turned.

 

[Brisel]

Still waiting for it in Hampshire! Been very dry,

You can have what keeps bugging us here - got within 3 runs of finishing harvest last night when it rained. Got within 5 minutes of starting again and it rained. Drying again now but radar maps say rain again.

 

[Run to the hills]

Seem to have worst of both worlds here. Not done much combining for two weeks, keeps raining but only a couple of mm a time so grass not moving much either. Still got pretty much all our wheat to cut, the neighbour we share with has similar, not massive area but a weeks worth of cutting inc moves and such.
Was 18% yesterday when it rained, just going to try today, then it rained again

 

[willie waver]

another brutal day of freezing torrential rain, could have sworn it was hailstones hitting the window for a few minutes this morning. fields starting to poach now, bring back the drought

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

I wondered how long it would be till a 'please stop raining' thread would appear.... wait till xmas/January and that's when this thread will be relevant.

We've not had masses of rain but just enough to stop the combines getting the last of it done.... grass has greened but I'm not convinced it's growing as much as people want it to.

2nd/3rd cuts will still be very short and maize will still make mental money, just hope the weather holds off for long enough for us to get it in.... Would be nice to make a good go of hedge trimming ground work before it gets too tacky.

 

[willie waver]

I wondered how long it would be till a 'please stop raining' thread would appear.... wait till xmas/January and that's when this thread will be relevant.

We've not had masses of rain but just enough to stop the combines getting the last of it done.... grass has greened but I'm not convinced it's growing as much as people want it to.

2nd/3rd cuts will still be very short and maize will still make mental money, just hope the weather holds off for long enough for us to get it in.... Would be nice to make a good go of hedge trimming ground work before it gets too tacky.

why would it be relevant at xmas/January? all the crops and cattle will be inside then, it can pee down as much as it likes in january

 

[Agrispeed]

The fact that after 2 weeks? of rain there is a thread moaning about it shows how little resilience most farmers have.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

why would it be relevant at xmas/January? all the crops and cattle will be inside then, it can pee down as much as it likes in january

Because we've ultimately had a few days of showers after almost a few months of no rain whatsoever and no doubt by mid winter we will have had months worth of rain within a few weeks and you wont be able to move for mud, as well as knowing it till take months to dry up properly again, that's when you'll really want it to stop raining

 

[Raider112]

The fact that after 2 weeks? of rain there is a thread moaning about it shows how little resilience most farmers have.

If your cattle were making the shite up in gateways that ours are you might think differently, been more than 2 weeks here but the last 2 weeks have been awful. As for harvest, no idea when we'll get that done. The drought a month ago seems like a distant memory.

 

[Wombat]

Because we've ultimately had a few days of showers after almost a few months of no rain whatsoever and no doubt by mid winter we will have had months worth of rain within a few weeks and you wont be able to move for mud, as well as knowing it till take months to dry up properly again, that's when you'll really want it to stop raining

Been glorious no rain for months, animals have looked good, crops were good, everything's loved it. Same again next year please

 

[hally]

Had to stop leading muck today ground getting too wet. Had some real humdinger showers this last week. Dreading second cut next week hope it dries up. Never known a year of such extremes.
Local sheep discussion group had a speaker from the Cotswolds, he couldn’t believe how green it was around here.

 

[Still Farming]

Wet and cold tonight

 

[hally]

14 degrees here

 

[michael N123]

It’s rained for 2-3 weeks but The grounds still very dry I’ve 3 ponds that still havnt came back and if you dig the soils still dry a inch or 2 in hopefully next months sunny tho

 

[puppet]

We have had around 7 inches of rain since the weather broke in July. Plenty mud around now and grass everywhere. Just waiting for that dry week in September to get second cut.

 

[Dman2]

I for one never complained about the lack of rain
Remember saying to the wife back in may, if it dos`nt rain till September that will do us ok

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It's certainly like the year of two Springs here apart from getting colder .Sheep me must be loving it . Be hell of a lamb crop I would think

 

[Farmer Roy]

The fact that after 2 weeks? of rain there is a thread moaning about it shows how little resilience most farmers have.

err, two weeks without rain & it was the biggest disaster known to mankind . . .
Now, a bit of rain ( rain - in the U.K. Rain, not torrential floods or 40 days & 40 nights non stop. Just rain. The very rain people were desperate for after a week or two of dry weather) & its become the problem.

Resilience ? Hahaha