Now all the dramas of last week are receding and tractors start trundling up & down tramlines again, was anyone else surprised by the amount of soil visible on top of the drifts alongside cultivated soil once the fields had thawed? I always thought of wind erosion being a dry weather issue for the fens & USA rather than here.
Wind erosion & snow
- Thread starter Lapwing
- Start date
Yes i had noticed the drifts had a muddy timge to them in places. I hadnt really thought about why though.
- Location
- leics/warks border
It was really bad in feb 86 (makes me sound like an old man). The ground was frozen for 3 weeks with no snow, the surface freeze dried and soil blew away leaving wheat plants to fall over, just anchored by there roots with the stem base exposed.
The above photos are courtesy of @DaveThroupEA on twitter.
Also, http://springfield-farms.co.uk/farm-diary/snow-trouble-here/?platform=hootsuite
The above photos are courtesy of @DaveThroupEA on twitter.
Also, http://springfield-farms.co.uk/farm-diary/snow-trouble-here/?platform=hootsuite
benferg
Member
- Location
- North Canterbury, NZ
That’s nasty.