I can't remember the last time we had 46mm in a week here.
Aah , we had a dryish end of March because it was -14 .
I can't remember the last time we had 46mm in a week here.
Bet it’s running off again this afternoon.....
Had that for hrs now! What joy ! Just got ewes and lambs into stockyard for a dry lie and a bit of cover pee wet and over the f’ing moodside ways snow here.
Its not good, ive 30 cows n calves out just been to see took some hesstons down to them for calves to get some shelter but they running around with tails up happier than i expected hope it stops soon tho, meant to be ok tomorrow but was not expecting this today, i should have i get this sh!t most aprils.Had that for hrs now! What joy ! Just got ewes and lambs into stockyard for a dry lie and a bit of cover pee wet and over the f’ing mood
Suns out there u Jamy getTo mirror a previous post ..... a tad damp here ! View attachment 655058
92 was a sh!t spring, but it came good in may, 30 degrees of heat on the 15thBad here today, i passed my driving test on the 1st april 1992 and it was far worse than this then.
Yes in the nineties we got some very hot summers, didn't suit here burns off, wet summer with a window for silage and straw suits me.92 was a sh!t spring, but it came good in may, 30 degrees of heat on the 15th
Unless you are planting on sand or on the ards peninsula, barley will likely perish most years here if planted before last week or two of April. All it needs is a wet couple of weeks as it's chitting, or peeping, and itll never really get over it.
A week FFS. More like 3 weeks here
Yes, something like that here in West Wales too unless on very free-draining land, which is only a tiny percentage of the area.
Might not be of much comfort to many this year, but I well remember my father who was obviously then worried about the weather, relating his woes to our Wesleyan minister in chapel one Sunday evening some forty years ago.
The minister just put his hand on my dad’s shoulder and said “Paid a phoeni, mi ddaw, mi ddaw.” Which means “Don’t worry, it will come, it will come.”
rubbish. Fact is there is only one organic buyer rest are conventional. Our cattle are too small (Got to be the dams breeding as health rise excellent) Read the market report this morning milking calves were sold at £450 - I sold a 22m conventional milker for £200! and the AA named sire for the rest the worst I have ever sold cattle for. Think we are wasting our time to be honest. When I got the list back from the office felt sick. We can earn the same figure off the farm in a weeks work! I think ditch all of these after weaning and rethink whether to bother at all or go for a different breed altogether. My biggest concern is the weather patterns for the future if the wet seasons are going to carry on then the straw and hay overheads are going to take the margins.How did you get on today? Saw you had some cattle entered. I dropped a cull cow off first thing but had to rush back for lambing. Saw there were a few organics entered today.