The Drought

Muddyboots

Member
Location
Suffolk
16.5mm in the last 2 days. Very happy with that but it won’t get us through to harvest.

If you can’t get to harvest then goodness how we are going to fair, I seem to remember you getting a good bit more than here earlier on.

March 27.3 mm most of it in the first week
April. 19.8 mm
May. 3.1 mm
June so far. 14.5 mm

The 14 mm in the last week came in dribs and drabs which mostly dried up in between so we are now back to square one with no moisture left and back to scorchio! The year of hell continues here.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Soil type is key. My gravels need at least half an inch each week to sustain them at this time of year. The same soil type in Suffolk would have a rain gun nearby or would be fit for forestry only.

I remember you posting some shocking pictures last year. How did harvest 2019 work out in the end for you?
 

Muddyboots

Member
Location
Suffolk
Soil type is key. My gravels need at least half an inch each week to sustain them at this time of year. The same soil type in Suffolk would have a rain gun nearby or would be fit for forestry only.

I remember you posting some shocking pictures last year. How did harvest 2019 work out in the end for you?

Our soil is pretty much the same with some better stuff thrown in. Irrigation on a all combinable farm is financially questionable imo.
19 harvest was the best we ever had , crops only just started to go backwards then it broke at the end of April, we then had 75mm in both may and June which set us right up.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
If you can’t get to harvest then goodness how we are going to fair, I seem to remember you getting a good bit more than here earlier on.

March 27.3 mm most of it in the first week
April. 19.8 mm
May. 3.1 mm
June so far. 14.5 mm

The 14 mm in the last week came in dribs and drabs which mostly dried up in between so we are now back to square one with no moisture left and back to scorchio! The year of hell continues here.
So your boots are not muddy at all!!
You have been misleading tff all the time!!
 

jendan

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Soil type is key. My gravels need at least half an inch each week to sustain them at this time of year. The same soil type in Suffolk would have a rain gun nearby or would be fit for forestry only.

I remember you posting some shocking pictures last year. How did harvest 2019 work out in the end for you?
How many years do you get half inch every week? in critical growing period. A tad optimistic is it not?
 

Danllan

Member
Location
Sir Gar / Carms
Well, as of Saturday evening, we've had about four inches in the last ten days! An inch and half a couple of days ago and an inch and a half on Saturday evening, with some extremely close thunder and lightning.

A few weeks ago I wouldn't have thought that in mid-June I'd be hoping for some dry weather... :banghead:
 

DRC

Member
Still in drought here. 5ml in last few days is nowhere near enough to replace deficit and crops and grass still going backwards.
Caught the edge of a thunderstorm last night, but like you, still not much of a total .
Did you do any trial plots this year ?
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Well, as of Saturday evening, we've had about four inches in the last ten days! An inch and half a couple of days ago and an inch and a half on Saturday evening, with some extremely close thunder and lightning.

A few weeks ago I wouldn't have thought that in mid-June I'd be hoping for some dry weather... :banghead:
Are you sure your not mixing inches with ml
Monthly total for Llanboidy I. 3.48 inches
 
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chunky

Member
So frustrating here, huge storms nearby in the last week but they’ve all followed the same line and missed us by a few miles. we’ve been forecast several days of good rains but have only actually had 6mm.
Three weeks ago I still thought we looked to have decent potential but rains now will be too late.
 

britt

Member
BASE UK Member
Watched 2 thunder storms pass us by a couple of miles last night, not a spot here.
17 mm over the last week has given things a rest, but a bit at a time doesn't soak in far.
 

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