whats the weather like in your area?

Keepgrowing

White Clover wrote: »

I wish I was joking john. Heavy ground here coupled with high rainfall. No point in poaching ground to **** and stock not thriving either. This is where these nice 2 or 3 per acre bales come in handy.

That's a hoor to have to consider housing. We love rain here as growth crashed last week to the 30's. Measured Sunday and back to 75 and I'd say anything with >700 grew 200 in yesterday afternoons heat.
I'm stopping bales to milkers this morning after 8 days feeding but your point about those surplus bales is so valid. You'll feed for a completely different reason to me but we still both need to feed at times. Solids didn't get in any way affected as a result.

Tis a strange little country for weather and add in soil types it's totally bats

Keepgrowing

A little foggy here last night

Reggie.

Keepgrowing wrote: »

A little foggy here last night

That's dust son. That's rarer than fog around these parts

davidk1394

Raining away down here. Twas a grand sunny day here yesterday

Raining Raining Rainging

Lady Haywire

No rain forecast they said, a dry night they said. and then it rained the whole night.
I have cousins round Dowra who have cattle in the shed, drawing in grass and no fodder made for winter.

White Clover

Keepgrowing wrote: »

That's a hoor to have to consider housing. We love rain here as growth crashed last week to the 30's. Measured Sunday and back to 75 and I'd say anything with >700 grew 200 in yesterday afternoons heat.
I'm stopping bales to milkers this morning after 8 days feeding but your point about those surplus bales is so valid. You'll feed for a completely different reason to me but we still both need to feed at times. Solids didn't get in any way affected as a result.

Tis a strange little country for weather and add in soil types it's totally bats

The weather in our area seems to be getting alot worse as the years go by, I've qualified this by asking alot of older folk for their opinion.
Cattle housed for 6 months is becoming the norm around here.
It has put me thinking that a move to 20 miles away would shave a minimum of 2 months from the housing period.

whelan2

White Clover wrote: »

The weather in our area seems to be getting alot worse as the years go by, I've qualified this by asking alot of older folk for their opinion.
Cattle housed for 6 months is becoming the norm around here.
It has put me thinking that a move to 20 miles away would shave a minimum of 2 months from the housing period.

Its totally laughable when you hear lads on here going on about "drought" they have their cows out in January/February.... at least when they are feeding bales during their"drought" its not in muck and scutter. Yet they still complain:cool:

Dawggone

Hot.

Keepgrowing

whelan2 wrote: »

Its totally laughable when you hear lads on here going on about "drought" they have their cows out in January/February.... at least when they are feeding bales during their"drought" its not in muck and scutter. Yet they still complain:cool:

We are allowed talk about the weather just like you. It's the weather forum after all!!

Reggie.

Dawggone wrote: »

Hot.

**** that

CloughCasey1

Smashing day in nw mayo. View from blacksod to achill and down over blacksod lighthouse.

MF290

A lovely 29 degrees... I'll shut the door behind me

whelan2

lovely morning, hopefully it stays dry , have bales to do in a few days

RedPeppers

Super morning here hoping to get 6 acres of bales made will cut out later today and bale tomorrow

whelan2

Lovely day, very breezy though

_Brian

28c today and not a breeze.
Ready to get ferry back tomorrow afternoon.

darragh_haven

Dawggone wrote: »

Hot.

Suffering Jesus!

darragh_haven

Couple of showers earlier in the day. But just had 45 mins of torrential rain. West Cork

Reggie.

Great day here today

Genghis Cant

Powerful day here today, warm and sunny with a nice breeze. Just coming on dark a shower of light rain as the neighbour finished baling straw.

Dawggone

darragh_haven wrote: »

Suffering Jesus!

Last week was 37-42 with some respite today at 30.

Back up to mid to high 30s next week and not a drop of rain in sight. Sigh.
Lot of planting to do but its a dustbowl now.

Reggie.

Dawggone wrote: »

Last week was 37-42 with some respite today at 30.

Back up to mid to high 30s next week and not a drop of rain in sight. Sigh.
Lot of planting to do but its a dustbowl now.

Ah sure thats only a sun holiday out there

Muckit

Dawggone wrote: »

Last week was 37-42 with some respite today at 30.

Back up to mid to high 30s next week and not a drop of rain in sight. Sigh.
Lot of planting to do but its a dustbowl now.

Lovely weather for pottering around on holidays, but a different story when you have to work in it and a different story again when you have to work with it to earn a crust!

But you have to work with what you've got, and noone better than yourself to know how to do it.

Some lads here in Ireland on v wet farms only making first cut silage now. Take your pick!

I said

Dawggone wrote: »

Last week was 37-42 with some respite today at 30.

Back up to mid to high 30s next week and not a drop of rain in sight. Sigh.
Lot of planting to do but its a dustbowl now.

Factor 50 weather.

White Clover

Dawggone wrote: »

Last week was 37-42 with some respite today at 30.

Back up to mid to high 30s next week and not a drop of rain in sight. Sigh.
Lot of planting to do but its a dustbowl now.

Now wouldn't a fortnight or 3 weeks of that be welcome around here at the moment!

jaymla627

Dawggone wrote: »

Last week was 37-42 with some respite today at 30.

Back up to mid to high 30s next week and not a drop of rain in sight. Sigh.
Lot of planting to do but its a dustbowl now.

How do you fair with mosiquitios/flies in that weather, you soon get used to the heat but the flies alone when I was working out in Oz would drive you insane....

Timmaay

Drop of rain here wouldn't go astray either.

whelan2

Lovely morning

Keepgrowing

Peach of a day here, sunny and no wind. Last rain here was Tues got plenty from last Thurs till Tues but 2 windy days followed removing half of it. Growth has recovered but will need rain soon to maintain it otherwise we'll be back feeding silage by next weekend. It's worth noting that feeding out in dry weather is no penance.