What's the weather like in your area 2

whelan2

Stopped raining. River has overflowed

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Stopped raining. River has overflowed

Most rivers here are the same.

_Brian

Drove up from Cavan to Magherafelt this morning.
One tree down, nearly every river is either brimming full or overflowing with quite a bit of land under water in places.

Reggie.

_Brian wrote: »

Drove up from Cavan to Magherafelt this morning.
One tree down, nearly every river is either brimming full or overflowing with quite a bit of land under water in places.

Could be a long spring yet

_Brian

Reggie. wrote: »

Could be a long spring yet

Yep.
Land is awful soft without this storm.

Reggie.

_Brian wrote: »

Yep.
Land is awful soft without this storm.

Unreal how much land has gone backwards since yesterday

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Could be a long spring yet

Love your optimism

Timmaay

whelan2 wrote: »

Love your optimism

Lads would want realistic planning in terms of fodder/straw etc however, there was loads in the pits last Oct but a hell of alot fed since. The market has definitely picked up for both in the last week or so. I have used double the straw as usual here so far, but thankfully have 100 more bought already. I was considering more silage but didn't bother, if its wet and cold into April then I'll be feeding soyahulls heavy then.

jaymla627

Timmaay wrote: »

Lads would want realistic planning in terms of fodder/straw etc however, there was loads in the pits last Oct but a hell of alot fed since. The market has definitely picked up for both in the last week or so. I have used double the straw as usual here so far, but thankfully have 100 more bought already. I was considering more silage but didn't bother, if its wet and cold into April then I'll be feeding soyahulls heavy then.

Soya hulls are after going up past 200 a ton, so very poor value, great value in fodder beet at present and plenty available if you are set up to handle it

zetecescort

after a lull for a couple of hours the wind has picked right up again here in Cork

Lurching

Found two new leaks in the house overnight (Dublin Mountains).
Calmed down during the day, but wind is picking up again now.

patsy_mccabe

Rough weather today, you could put nothing out other than Shane Ross today.


https://twitter.com/willy_ledger/status/1226562807803588608

Zetor19

Teagasc says we should have 50% grazed by March 1. Let them out tomorrow lads .

Buford T. Justice XIX

Zetor19 wrote: »

Teagasc says we should have 50% grazed by March 1. Let them out tomorrow lads .

1/3 grazed by March 1st, 2/3 grazed by 17th March and all grazed by early April.

Up to 2 weeks later on heavier ground.

Say my name

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

1/3 grazed by March 1st, 2/3 grazed by 17th March and all grazed by early April.

Up to 2 weeks later on heavier ground.

This isn't new news either. All that was on the go 15, 20 years ago.
And guess what. Those people are still farming.

You'd swear this was all new to people.
Getting the cows out makes it more enjoyable for cow, farmer and bankcard.
Maybe it should just be called regenerative farming to make people feel better.

There's uproar from quarters about 'factory farming'. You even had the French ag minister proclaim there's no factory farming in their country over it. :pac:
And what's factory farming seen as?
It's seen as a warehouse where an animal is born, bred and is carted off.
Think about that before running down outdoors grazing.. at any time of year.

patsy_mccabe

Weather Warning

A warning in advance of Storm Ciara☔. If you have garden furniture, benches etc., please put them inside. Sinn Féin are taking seats everywhere ..

foxy farmer

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Weather Warning

A warning in advance of Storm Ciara☔. If you have garden furniture, benches etc., please put them inside. Sinn Féin are taking seats everywhere ..

Them feckers were always up to something.

Timmaay

jaymla627 wrote: »

Soya hulls are after going up past 200 a ton, so very poor value, great value in fodder beet at present and plenty available if you are set up to handle it

What about rolled barley? I can't be arsed with any wet feeds like fodder beet/maize from around paddy's day onwards bar the weather is like spring 18, too much effort and too much feed space to try ensure each cow gets her say 5kgdm, much easier to take the hit on the feed cost and feed it in the parlour.

whelan2

Thunder and lightning earlier this morning

CHOPS01

Pelting down snow and lodging

mahoney_j

55 mm rain from late Saturday to yesterday evening ,.sormy and now it’s fookin snowing .times like these I’m v happy I’ve no outside cubicles anymore

jaymla627

Timmaay wrote: »

What about rolled barley? I can't be arsed with any wet feeds like fodder beet/maize from around paddy's day onwards bar the weather is like spring 18, too much effort and too much feed space to try ensure each cow gets her say 5kgdm, much easier to take the hit on the feed cost and feed it in the parlour.

To much starch at high feed rates and cows will be getting acidosis with high levels of barley , for convenience soya hulls are probably your best bet, but cost wise the oat hull beet mix here will be costing 155 euro per ton of dm in the pit and is a serious buffer-feed on top of that with high energy and plenty of fibre from the hulls to keep cows stomachs right

Buford T. Justice XIX

mahoney_j wrote: »

55 mm rain from late Saturday to yesterday evening ,.sormy and now it’s fookin snowing .times like these I’m v happy I’ve no outside cubicles anymore

The rain is blowing horizontally here now. Rivers are near the top of their banks here so we may as well postpone spring for another 2 weeks.

jaymla627

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

The rain is blowing horizontally here now. Rivers are near the top of their banks here so we may as well postpone spring for another 2 weeks.

One of the local grass gurus here put out urea last week on few hundred acres, around 200 acres of it now under a few feet of water

Mortelaro

Heavy snow up here in south Wicklow for over an hour now
Stuck straight away turned whole place white :O

keepalive213

60mph winds here on the Atlantic, no snow but outrageous rainfall

foxy farmer

Lightning and an absolute humdinger of a hail shower. Place is white.

Mooooo

Collectively the last 4 days have been ****e and next 4 look much the same

davidk1394

Sleet and rain here on and off all day

High bike

Winter only started here yesterday,snow sleet thunder and lightning and hailstones,glad I cut the grass last week