What's the weather like in your area 2

Mac Taylor

New Year’s Day evening.:D.....not so nice today. Blustery and spiting rain.:eek:

davidk1394

A lovely sunny day here, 8°C on the clock

148multi

Mild and dry 7. Degrees

Tileman

Beautiful day here. Neighbour chancing spreading slurry . Brave man with all the houses nearby but again shows the mockery of the calendar farming. Ground in great condition here.

Mooooo

Ground soft down here, a good blast of rain yesterday and last night

Farmer_3650

Cold day today in Roscommon but luckily no rain. Haven't seen ground this dry at this time of year for years.:D

Buford T. Justice XIX

Lovely day today. So tempted to spread with the ground conditions and descent growth. 13 days left to wait though.

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Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Lovely day today. So tempted to spread with the ground conditions and descent growth. 13 days left to wait though.

It will probably be pissing outta the heavens then. This calendar farming is some craic :rolleyes:

Say my name

Air temperature 12c.
Soil temperature 10c.

whelan2

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Air temperature 12c.
Soil temperature 10c.

Was at a football game today. Felt like 0 degrees

Say my name

whelan2 wrote: »

Was at a football game today. Felt like 0 degrees

That'll teach you for running across the pitch in the nip.

Waffletraktor

Say my name wrote: »

That'll teach you for running across the pitch in the nip.

I think we attend different sports.

Say my name

Waffletraktor wrote: »

I think we attend different sports.

You wouldn't want to see em throwing the hammer in athletics in the nip.

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Say my name wrote: »

Air temperature 12c.
Soil temperature 10c.

I see the grass is greening up and growing.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Base price wrote: »

I see the grass is greening up and growing.

Urea ordered and contractor booked for the 16th.

One thing very noticible this spring is the greener grass where the contractor spread slurry just before the closing date. One bit of a paddock that didn't get slurry is noticibly yellower and behind in cover compared to the rest of the paddock.

Still expecting heavy rain on the 15th though:(

whelan2

Say my name wrote: »

That'll teach you for running across the pitch in the nip.

Ye must play a different type of football in your part of the country

Say my name

whelan2 wrote: »

Ye must play a different type of football in your part of the country

Ah i was spying on ya in the bushes.
Don't be denying your oneness with nature .

(Is the streaker a thing of the past now at soccer matches??)

whelan2

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Ah i was spying on ya in the bushes.
Don't be denying your oneness with nature .

(Is the streaker a thing of the past now at soccer matches??)

We were in oriel park. Not too many bushes there. Been at alot of games and never saw a streaker yet.

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Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Urea ordered and contractor booked for the 16th.

One thing very noticible this spring is the greener grass where the contractor spread slurry just before the closing date. One bit of a paddock that didn't get slurry is noticibly yellower and behind in cover compared to the rest of the paddock.

Still expecting heavy rain on the 15th though:(

My own hunch is and I don't know if it's or frankly I don't care proven by science.

Is that the carbon in the slurry held onto nutrients for the grass over our wet autumn/winter. The thicker the slurry the better it did it's job.
I see the same up here where dung was spread. Still green.

Conversely I've seen a newly reseeded dairy tillage conversion farm just in the last few years and the whole thing looks like it's been sprayed with round up.

Carbon counting has to be and should be offered at soil testing. I know teagasc do om but jaysus. Times and talk move on.

You'd even be able to tell then what effect that urea has on soil carbon stocks, if any.

Edit: Although I read a post on social media about a study in northern Ireland that were building soil carbon up through animal slurry treated with slurry bugs feeding the soil biota with results and one of these social media disruptors declared it nonsense for no reason. So you can't always win.

Mooooo

Another dirty day here. Will ring slurry contractor in the morning to line up but will depend on a dry enough period coming tbh. Have storage to spare but will pump from large concrete tank to the tower to have the job out of the way in case weather doesn't suit. Temps up but paddocks thst were stopped earlier have a yellow tinge paddocks grazed later much greener but without the cover. New contractor this year as old one has exited hopefully he'll work out ok. Hoping tonight's bit of a storm won't be too bad

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Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Urea ordered and contractor booked for the 16th.

One thing very noticible this spring is the greener grass where the contractor spread slurry just before the closing date. One bit of a paddock that didn't get slurry is noticibly yellower and behind in cover compared to the rest of the paddock.

Still expecting heavy rain on the 15th though:(

I wonder could I get a floating forage harvester into the lagoon cause there is a serious growth of grass on it over the last 6 weeks

Waffletraktor

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I wonder could I get a floating forage harvester into the lagoon cause there is a serious growth of grass on it over the last 6 weeks

Find a dutch forum, they love creating needlessly complicated equipment. :pac:

zetecescort

Heavy rain and high winds forecast for the coming week

davidk1394

Very strong wind here now

ganmo

Wind and rain. Wheres the high stool?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Ground saturated after the rain the last 2 nights. Cold and damp today with a cold breeze.

whelan2

Was 11 degrees here at 6am. Started rain g at 11am still lashing down

whelan2

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Ground saturated after the rain the last 2 nights. Cold and damp today with a cold breeze.

As usual ground conditions will be crap for the end of the slurry spreading deadline

Mortelaro

Current conditions
Tractor windscreen wipers flat out

zetecescort

Orange weather warnings for South and West for Monday, yellow for rest of the country

https://www.met.ie/warnings#