What's the weather like in your area 2

Say my name

It's raining.

Butcher Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121975969#Comment_121975969

Lashing down here in West cork. Rotten bastard of an evening.

kk.man

I don't blame Charlie McConalogue for the weather but he better do something fast. There is serious hardship out there. Today a dairy farmer friend I happened to phone informed me he has serious fodder problems and money issues. This guy would be a tidy operator in the norm. I have called mutual friends to give him a 'call'. There is little acknowledgement from the minister with nitrates, sending the Basic payment to the west and no action plan I deem him beyond doubt the worst minister in my lifetime. I know the EU made some of these changes but the man never said boo to Brussels or the Greens.

The southeast is a total washout with the worst effects of the weather borne out here. Tillage farmers haven't even ploughed a field for miles near me. Potatoes rotten in fields and he sits in Agri House and no response.

jaymla627

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121976053#Comment_121976053

He needs to get a low cost loan scheme faciliated by the sbci, and maybe team up with the dairy co-ops to implement a milk-flex type loan payback arrangement….

Their drowning in money and could easily give it out at 4.5-5%, after what rains fell here the past two hours, and what's forecasted it could be may before theirs any take up, the effects this will have on peak milk will be a savage financial hit alone nevermind the feed bills raked

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121966912#Comment_121966912

How clean is that water you are storing. Not the best to be giving animals stagnant water.

If we had spare tanks here at the minute we wouldn't be intentionally storing water in them. There's already enough water in slurry tanks where we don't want it.

Anyone using those slurry bags?

kevthegaff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121976854#Comment_121976854

I'd lads arw worrying about shortages of water, they need to get their priorities right!

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121976929#Comment_121976929

I'd get some looks here tomorrow if I suggested we deliberately trap even more water. The bit of space we made with a few loads out over the last week will be filled with water tonight.

Alright for feeding here but straw is going to be a problem soon. The man we usually take straw off went with all rape or beans last year and we ended up baling about a hundred or so less than we would normally do from the fellas we could get some off.

morphy87

terrible evening here, and according to met eireann all next week broken with some days a wash out and to get significantly worse by the end of the week, most lads will be out of feeding by the end of next weekend, its about time the minster acknowledges that there is now a big problem, I don’t know what he can do as there is nothing for sale within a 15 mile radius of me, last weekend you could purchase but at a cost but now nothing for sale, but it’s time to acknowledge this problem

older by the day

Ya, there are a lot of bales shifted this week. And the problem is down here, the big fellows are getting tight. 3 or 400 cows farmers would not be long mopping up any spare silage.

whelan2

Sun is out

Alibaba

Another awful evening in the SW , and tomorrow to come yet !!

DBK1

Winds are fairly strong now, ideal conditions to be getting cattle into the yard for reading of a herd test 🫣🥵

Reggie.

BIt of a wind out

whelan2

I let the cows out for the first time in 2024

green daries

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121982703#Comment_121982703

jasus whelan your getting much different weather than u with the last few days so ..... we had started drying but it's a mess again

whelan2

The journal made me do it.…

50HX

Well done whelan great to get them out

Kathleen is battering away here few trees down but nothing 2 serious thankfully

Some rain fell again since yesterday evening 🙄

whelan2

We've had nearly no rain last night or today. Just wind.

patsy_mccabe

Kathleen knocked a big Elder bush here. Luckily it didn't do any damage. Was planning on bring it down later in the year as it was too close for comfort to the shed.

Reggie.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121982703#Comment_121982703

Nice. Cattle out here since Feb. Out day and night the last 7 days.

Gives the sheds a rest and a chance to grt cubicles done.

Say my name

I see France will have temperatures in the 20's heading for 30 in the next few days.

These temperatures were in Eastern Europe a week or more ago.

It's gradually getting here.

whelan2

I hope you're right

White Clover

Jesus I hope so too. The rain that fell this morning around 7 was biblical. Lambs are miserable outside. Found a set of twins in a bad wait Yesterday morning, managed to save one and the mother is rejecting him now. We badly need a break.

Reggie.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121986996#Comment_121986996

With the help of God it will but the last time that happened it was like a blocking system and all the rain from the Atlantic would just stall over ireland and England like it hit a wall

davidk1394

Last of the heavy rain fell here at 3am Saturday morning. Strong winds since then. Great drying all day yesterday and today.

Say my name

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121987174#Comment_121987174

Well it is forecast for high pressure to eventually come up on the second round altogether when this one breaks down or moves east.

But forecasts and certainty are sketchy lately.

I do feel myself there's a bit of a change occurring this week.

Castlekeeper

Lots of heavy rain again last night and this morning, the sunshine coming out between the showers now but places are boating again.

The Rabbi

Got 7mm in half an hour at 12:30pm,talked to cousin 4 miles away and he didn't have any rain.

Hard Knocks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121988232#Comment_121988232

we hadn’t that much rain compared to most (few heavy showers) but had strong wind all of Saturday and most of yesterday

2smiggy

pissing rain again all morning in north Cork. Even lads with good dry limestone land don't have the cows out. it's relentless