Unsettled August

[Goweresque]

F*ck off! Ive still got over 100 acres grass to cut.

You have my sympathy Hay or silage?

 

[jendan]

You have my sympathy Hay or silage?

Hay if possible,but i will settle for anything not full of rain water.

 

[Raider112]

Can’t be any more inaccurate than the Express with its hackneyed headline grabbing predictions of Biblical drought and floods that never come to pass, any more than do their annual autumnal warnings of ‘Brrrrace yourselves for the worst winter for decades!’ ‘Temperatures to plummet below zero for months on end of arctic conditions!’

I’d go with the Star over the Express any day, but the truth is nobody really knows what will happen in a fortnight’s time, let alone predicting six months ahead.

I think they are both owned by the same group so probably shared stories.

 

[Gedd]

Chucking it down here now durham

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Yes, the weather this year has been very mixed, dry may as every year, then wet fortnight, dry highland show, then very showery since first week in July, really heavy showers, a lot of hay still to be made, very heavy crops, l doubt it will be made up here now, no drying what soever, but old timer alway say there alway a harvest time, September this year l think.

 

[livestock 1]

F*ck off! Ive still got over 100 acres grass to cut.

So have I at least. Don’t feel left out. I am in a system where I likley have too much stock on. All late ground here, no chance of getting meadows cleared much before the end of May. Eaten off to the floorboards slap some muck on and fert so no realistic likleyhood of starting cutting before third week in July. Pity it’s pee'd down since then although I have got one lump done. Pleased I started with the wettest bit first.

 

[Wombat]

Poured down again this evening

 

[onthehoof]

Has much hay been made up North?

 

[livestock 1]

Has much hay been made up North?

There was a lot made earlier on but no real demand for it. I know of 250 acres of hay between various farms that couldn’t be sold. That could change

 

[spin cycle]

sorry about weather...it's my fault...trying to re roof farmhouse

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Can’t be any more inaccurate than the Express with its hackneyed headline grabbing predictions of Biblical drought and floods that never come to pass, any more than do their annual autumnal warnings of ‘Brrrrace yourselves for the worst winter for decades!’ ‘Temperatures to plummet below zero for months on end of arctic conditions!’

I’d go with the Star over the Express any day, but the truth is nobody really knows what will happen in a fortnight’s time, let alone predicting six months ahead.

I think the Express likes the headline "house prices shoot up", "house prices crash", "Storms to lash Britain" or "Heatwave tomorrow"

 

[jondear]

Dry as dry here as usual

Same here no decent rain lately 4mm yesterday thought it would be more then we never catch it.Still hope for storm Friday!

 

[livestock 1]

Same here no decent rain lately 4mm yesterday thought it would be more then we never catch it.Still hope for storm Friday!

Unbelievably wet here. Rained on and of for a couple of weeks or more now. Ground is too wet to work on at the moment

 

[Still Farming]

WWheat looks fantastic this year ,but this continuing rain will drop quality fast ?
Farming for you?

 

[Gong Farmer]

Same here no decent rain lately 4mm yesterday thought it would be more then we never catch it.Still hope for storm Friday!

Same here, we've been lucky. Finally had a shower yesterday that registered on the gauge (1mm). I think we'll pay for it later this week though.

 

[roscoe erf]

Weather broke at the end of July last year in Crapweathershire. Starting to dread a nice May / June, as the weather never holds for harvest.

its still dry here need some rain

 

[ILovebaling]

Has much hay been made up North?

Not much good stuff I doubt. Most I've baled has been well past it grass or rushed and wasn't really hay. But you can only bale what you are told.

 

[Goweresque]

Next week is the 40th anniversary of the Fastnet race disaster, which is proof that August has always been a month that can produce some very 'unseasonable' weather.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Fastnet_race

I was on holiday in the West Country as a child with my parents as the whole thing unfolded. Very sobering to think of the poor souls stuck out in the Atlantic, 21 of whom never made it home.

 

[Wombat]

And raining again, it’s officially another garbage summer

 

[Still Farming]

Wind sun heavy showers repeat