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All around me yesterday there' was tractors out spraying and fertilizing ,it was drying up nicely,then at 11pm last night rain started and it's still raining here now ,about 10mm in my gauge
Mid Cornwall, av field size less than 5ac, 3or 4 cows to a field don't do much harm in a normal year.Must be somewhere normally dry to turn cows out in March
We couldn’t normally put out any till the middle of April. As even a cow and calf would chop us up to nothing before then hence the questionMid Cornwall, av field size less than 5ac, 3or 4 cows to a field don't do much harm in a normal year.
Just sitting out a very heavy shower, rain dancing off the tractor bonnet
More like 8mm here.3mm overnight. Still blowing a very strong wind with intermittent light rain. Normally such a small amount of rain wouldn’t matter but this year it’s back to slop on top.
Sheep OK so far. Not lambing till April. Been some useful grass growth on the block of IRG although this cold spell has slowed it.
yea , glad we finished the beet yesterday even if if it was one way, you wouldn't pull uphill, you wouldnt have gone downhill today10mm here - came very close to pulling some headlands over yesterday afternoon, seems like a bad joke now.
Someone up there really doesn’t like arable farmers….
March in this part of the country last year was a horrendous spell of wet weather (hellish lambing spell) very little would of been planted until early AprilI hate to think the amount spring seed sat on farms would be let alone the pile of unplanted winter , written off chunks now which won’t be planted or replanted , hopeful on winter ploughed stuff which has water laid in between furrows in places , squeaky bum time for a hole manner of farms and related trades , the next two weeks will dictate a hole lot across the country
April was also sh!t here. I was pulling tractors out Easter Sunday trying to drill barley having told my wife I would only be a a few hours to drill 15acres, turned out being 10March in this part of the country last year was a horrendous spell of wet weather (hellish lambing spell) very little would of been planted until early April
I've learnt how to interpret XC forecasts now - about a week out if they predict rain it usually comes true, they'll change it again to no rain a few days out then on the day the original forecast comes back I still use them though, in conjunction with google and bbcDull, misty and cold, 6c, only 3mm over the weekend, forecast seems to be all over the place, XCWeather giving an almost dry week here
Best you keep quite looks like total shite all day here , need to start throwing cows and calf’s out and can’tHad enough rain to lay the dust, must be closing in on 7mm for the year now