The longest wettest winter..

[bobk]

Seems like it here and we're not finished yet , totally brassed off .

Thank the lord we don't have sheep .

 

[rob1]

1983 was far worse cows went out around mid april for around a week then back in till mid may, silage grounds were like a bog beginning of june and we had to leave wet bits even then, ruts everywhere and it then turned hot and dry and baked the ground hard

 

[Wombat]

Certainly seems it, drains been running since mid Nov.

Fingers crossed for about 6 months nice weather

 

[bobk]

1983 was far worse cows went out around mid april for around a week then back in till mid may, silage grounds were like a bog beginning of june and we had to leave wet bits even then, ruts everywhere and it then turned hot and dry and baked the ground hard

Don't remember that one .

 

[yellow belly]

2013 snow in some areas in april took down many farm buildings crops did not thrive till may

 

[DrWazzock]

Been out today gathering up the electric fences after the stubble turnips. Never known it so wet on top at this time of year but it is drying fast when it isn't actually raining.

 

[bobk]

2013 snow in some areas in april took down many farm buildings crops did not thrive till may

We turned out 13th march 2013 and sowed spring barley ... had to get them back in but now it's nowt but mud .

 

[GTB]

Longest, wettest, most expensive ever winter. Feck all grass, four weeks silage left. Getting worried now.....

 

[bobk]

Longest, wettest, most expensive ever winter. Feck all grass, four weeks silage left. Getting worried now.....

Have you not got a mountain you can turnout on ?

 

[GTB]

Have you not got a mountain you can turnout on ?

In April? No point turning cattle up there before mid May, they just wouldn't survive. Neither would ewes with lambs at foot.

 

[upnortheast]

What a difference a year makes 13th March 2017 / 2018 same spot in South Yorks

 

[Jameshenry]

I think most of us are at our wits end with it this year , glad i'm not lambing for a fortnight , wish i wasn't for a month tbh

 

[bobajob]

Farming is like some kind of crazy endurance thing!! - not sure what the prize for getting through the past 8 months is though....

 

[Jameshenry]

Farming is like some kind of crazy endurance thing!! - not sure what the prize for getting through the past 8 months is though....

I think the prize is still having your sanity !

 

[JP1]

And now I am afeared that we get a 10-13 week drought with rising temperatures and not enough sustained growth for both feeding and conserving

Sick of this now

 

[Northeastfarmer]

If lambs had been at last years prices to go with this sodden winter then It would of been the ruination

 

[Bobthebuilder]

pea group where sowing vining peas up here last year on the 6th march at 8c, be lucky to get them in by the 6th of may at this rate

 

[Whitepeak]

We've not had Easter yet so still plenty of chance of snow yet. 2013 it didn't come until the end of the March and a few years before that it came in April after a very hot dry March, we'd started lambing outside for the first time ever that year.
It's the lads in NI I feel sorry for, heard of some with cows inside since August! Now that's a bloody long winter!

 

[6910 Buzz]

We've not had Easter yet so still plenty of chance of snow yet. 2013 it didn't come until the end of the March and a few years before that it came in April after a very hot dry March, we'd started lambing outside for the first time ever that year.
It's the lads in NI I feel sorry for, heard of some with cows inside since August! Now that's a bloody long winter!

Thanks for ur sympathy might not be out to august at this rate weather is fecked here

 

[Bones]

When it starts blowing from the east again next week, ground will tighten up.