Sowing ww in February ?

[v8willy]

I'm sure Feb is supposed to be the driest month of the year (although often does not seem like it) & April the wettest. That's rainfall not days suitable for fieldwork.

Can anyone back me up with stats?

They used to say "a good February cursed every other month of the year"

 

[Devil's advocate]

They used to say "a good February cursed every other month of the year"

It certainly did this year, so they were right.

 

[Huntstreet]

I will let you know how my Feb drilling goes. Just finished drilling 250 acres of wheat, last night. Mostly drilled with a sprinter and some re-drill / patch-up drilled with an avatar. I have never planted winter wheat in Feb before.

 

[Huntstreet]

Couple of pics

 

[Wombat]

Be fine on that type of land

 

[czechmate]

I’ve just done 20 ha, something at least

 

[warksfarmer]

Will be stitching 30ha in as soon as this weather has blown through. Forecast now doesn't look to bad and what was going to be 50mm of rain over a few days now looks to be around 20mm. Hopefully we'll get it done late next week.

 

[APJ]

Bit more winter wheat in on Monday night.

 

[Salopian_Will]

Neighbours going on Monday. Some combi drilling into ground ploughed before Christmas, some Claydon drilled into failed Claydon drilled stuff. I am not sure either option will have enjoyed the 22mm that fell yesterday or the 20mm that is forecast for tomorrow. Still very wet underfoot.

 

[Huntstreet]

Yes, it's not ideal. We had 12m yesterday and expected another 20m in the next 24 hours.

 

[sheepdogtrail]

Perhaps a larger slug issue?

 

[LH10]

I have a nice sample of skyway barley if anyone is interested? Lincs

 

[EJS]

Redrilled 20ha ww last weekend- had 36mm rain so far since - seriously hope it stops now - really don't want a repeat of October

 

[Wombat]

Redrilled 20ha ww last weekend- had 36mm rain so far since - seriously hope it stops now - really don't want a repeat of October

If we had only had 36mm in October I think we would be doing welll

 

[Jsmith2211]

I have a nice sample of skyway barley if anyone is interested? Lincs

If you were closer i'd be biting your hand off

 

[Fubar]

I was tempted to redrill a failed field earlier this week. Glad I didn't now. Think all this rain onto cold ground may have caused another failure.

 

[EJS]

If we had only had 36mm in October I think we would be doing welll

Had over 500mm in oct/nov hence failed wheat never got a chance - week earlier would have been ok

 

[Huntstreet]

I will let you know how my Feb drilling goes. Just finished drilling 250 acres of wheat, last night. Mostly drilled with a sprinter and some re-drill / patch-up drilled with an avatar. I have never planted winter wheat in Feb before.

Fingers and toes crossed here. It was a lot of effort to get the above in.

Just been to check on the wollies in the Lambing shed and it's misery out there.

 

[farmerm]

Neighbours going on Monday. Some combi drilling into ground ploughed before Christmas, some Claydon drilled into failed Claydon drilled stuff. I am not sure either option will have enjoyed the 22mm that fell yesterday or the 20mm that is forecast for tomorrow. Still very wet underfoot.

My neighbour did some drilling last week, not asked what but after today’s deluge I think I will struggle, if it’s not already in the brook

 

[farmerm]

If we had only had 36mm in October I think we would be doing welll

Here we may be getting close to that today alone