The longest wettest winter..

Bet it’s running off again this afternoon.....:facepalm:

Aye its turned a bit damp, had scottish powers subbies here today changing the electric transformer for the farm, left a bit of mess after themselves. Fair doos to them, they used a mini digger to carry the new transformer to the pole, and then carried the old one back, i think he made more of a mess trying to tidying up, would have been better leaving it and for me to run a roll over it after a couple of dry days.
No idea why they had to change the transformer, not been having any problems with the supply , the transformer has been here since the 50s when the electric went in, and had a build date of 1936 :eek::eek::eek:. The engineer said they stoped making them this good in the 60s, and we shall probably see you in 10 years time when we come back to replace the new one as the new ones are a pile of :poop::poop::poop:
 

Hilly

Member
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
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.
 

Andy12345

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Location
Somerset
To mirror a previous post ..... a tad damp here !
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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.

Sowed my barley on Saturday. I’m not in ards and regularly sow early April without any problems (likely jinxed myself for this year). It’s a wet year, wetter than usual and certainly a challenge but we are in a great little country, a true grass growing country so don’t run it down too much we are usually on to a winner. Early autumn and cold spring together has just made it feel worse but our river has rarely been in full flood all winter just been constant.
 

DeeGee

Member
Location
North East Wales
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.”
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
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.”

I've no doubt it will. All at the same time in a massive rush. I've had to keep the cows in until May before now, but in that case it was dryer early on, allowing me to spread slurry early in the year and fertiliser in March, so I zero grazed. None of which has been possible this year so far in any scale. Besides which it got too wet to work many fields in late September.
My average turnout date is around the 14th April, so even if it gets to the 24th, it will only be ten days later than average, but there's no sign of a dry spell yet and its currently a wet as at any time over winter and, at only 4C tonight, its still damned cold.
Ych y fi! :grumpy: :hungover: :wtf:
 

DeeGee

Member
Location
North East Wales
It might not seem so, but many of us have probably experienced worse spring weather than this. I certainly have, but I have every sympathy with those who desperately need to turn out stock, for whatever reason.

The days are longer now and the land will dry up remarkably quickly with some wind and sun. We will probably all be praying for rain by the middle of May, just like last year.
 
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.
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.
 
Location
East Mids
Was amused to read this morning in local rag that two women on foot had to be rescued by firefighters as they were stuck in mud (admittedly one was in her late 70's). Eastern Leicestershire always has been a mud hole, dread to think what transport was like before proper roads.
 

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