Very dry autumn.

[Grassman]

Might not be all over the country but we here in derbyshire are having one of the driest autumn's I can remember. Can still go in fields with the telehandler and hardly make a mark.
Wonderful
How's yours?

 

[Wombat]

Might not be all over the country but we here in derbyshire are having one of the driest autumn's I can remember. Can still go in fields with the telehandler and hardly make a mark.
Wonderful
How's yours?

A dammed sight better than the last 2

if we can just end up with a winter like 18/19 where it barely rains till March it will be first rate

 

[ajd132]

September and October pretty wet, felt up against it all through drilling. Pretty dry now though. In Suffolk.

 

[7610 super q]

You're right. It's not all over the country.

Edit... TBF, not a huge amount of rain, just showers/ mist/ drizzle etc.

 

[Yale]

Drought…… @cows sh#t me to tears .

 

[fermerboy]

North East Scot Wet beyond belief here, last October the same, probably about 6-8" of rain for the month.
If you weren't finished harvest by the last days of September thats been it game over nearly. We baled straw on Friday to get it off undersown grass but it was wet muck and we made a hell of a mess of the field.
Still the odd guy got grain to cut but its questionable if its worth the bother, battered flat and growing in the head now too.
We've bales still to move and hoping for a dry spell or a frosty spell to get them out.

Wouldn't hardly believe that two years could break the same.
Bloody fed up with it, thankfully grain isn't our main thing, buts its been savage on the land poaching with livestock too.

 

[bluebell]

saves the work with the cattle? saves the straw, plus they like being out, as long as you keep the round feeders topped up?

 

[Wombat]

Drought…… @cows sh#t me to tears .

Can it not just be a pleasant autumn without winding up everyone

 

[teslacoils]

Very dry. Maybe......too dry.

 

[Wombat]

Very dry. Maybe......too dry.

We still have a few drains running so it’s not that dry

 

[Wellytrack]

I live in Ireland. The West of Ireland - In fact The North West of Ireland.

It’s not dry……..

 

[Skintagain]

Best backend I can remember. Stock looks so well outside

 

[Goweresque]

Very dry here too. Wonderful for getting about and continuing work that would normally come to a halt for fear of causing too much mess. I have been doing quite a bit of drainage work of late and have noticed that a number of old drains have been revealed by dark green strips of grass standing out from the rest of the sward, in places I've not previously realised there were drains. My grazier's cattle are still out, no mess at all, the tack sheep on the barley stubbles are nice and clean, the shoot can get around without creating ruts, I'd take this autumn every year!

 

[vantage]

You're right. It's not all over the country.

Edit... TBF, not a huge amount of rain, just showers/ mist/ drizzle etc.

You don’t recall the deluge two weeks ago, Friday and Sunday? Biblical amount of rain delivered !

 

[7610 super q]

You don’t recall the deluge two weeks ago, Friday and Sunday? Biblical amount of rain delivered !

I was trying to be positive.

 

[serf]

It's compensating for a cold wet horrendous may !

 

[Wellytrack]

Delighted for you all.

 

[goodevans]

1976 followed a very dry Autumn, just imagine spreading Nitrogen at £700 a ton in April and still seeing it sat on top a month later, it would make you want to pee on it.I'm a born optimist though so not to worried

 

[Farma Parma]

I live in Ireland. The West of Ireland - In fact The North West of Ireland.

It’s not dry……..

aye ya no got much shelter off everything the Atlantic brings in have ya.
Meanwhile on the North East coast of Northumberland its not too bad for time of the year.
Plenty sharp hail/rain showers yest right off that north sea.
Big change in weather pattern from mid wk onwards probs hail/sleet even snow showers for the next 10days from then.
If the wet comes in from the west the cheviot hills help us a lot but if its from the north or east weve no chance.
Beast from the east was tough here.

 

[Wellytrack]

aye ya no got much shelter off everything the Atlantic brings in have ya.
Meanwhile on the North East coast of Northumberland its not too bad for time of the year.
Plenty sharp hail/rain showers yest right off that north sea.
Big change in weather pattern from mid wk onwards probs hail/sleet even snow showers for the next 10days from then.
If the wet comes in from the west the cheviot hills help us a lot but if its from the north or east weve no chance.
Beast from the east was tough here.

Aye. You guys over there can be burnt brown fairly quickly.