What's the weather like in your area 2

Lime Tree Farm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123876787#Comment_123876787

Happened here, except he used a digger to open it into us. Said nothing, filled a box full of dobeen and closed it up again. End of story, at least while I'm still alive.

awaywithyou

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123876617#Comment_123876617

yes i agree look at all the concrete that has been poured over the last 30/40yrs.. look at the roads that have been built.. water off them has to go someplace… i remember in my previous job speaking to the boss one day and she told me that their farm never ever flooded until the motorway was built near it and now its a regular occurrence…

the stats would suggest that rainfall hasnt increased dramatically over the past 50yrs but the amount concrete poured and roads built has.. that water has to go someplace… and then you have people closing up drains or using very small pipes for water and then grates get blocked and not cleared etc.. all of this leads to problems with water… and feck all to do with climate change

whelan2

Remember the council men used to clear the cuttings at the sides of the road with shovels so the water could go somewhere

_Brian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123879299#Comment_123879299

overall rainfall probably hasn’t changed but definitely the intensity of some rain storms has changed. Infrastructure and drainage that would have coped in the past not can’t take the deluge.

_Brian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123879471#Comment_123879471

100%
Round every town/area were a few lads, usually the older men nearing retirement that tipped about cleaning grates and making sure water had somewhere to go. They would clean signs and do a bit of painting. They have been replaced now by sherking all that work onto scheme workers who have no remit to clean drainage on the roads so it’s not being done.

It’s shocking that the council unions let their worker numbers fall so much that there aren’t lads to do basic maintenance. As a result the flooding eats up roads and something that could have been fixed in 10 minutes with a shovel is let go until it’s a half million euro job.

Never mind the absolute state of the dirty signage throughout the country.

50HX

Dredging of river also has to have a huge bearing as well.

Not far from there must be acres of land lost due to river erosion, the land would be 30ft above the river, since Dredging stopped it eaten away at the bank.

That landowner has lost payments as he didn't have ground to cover the entitlements.

DBK1

Super say and evening in the midlands today. 18 degrees with a nice breeze. In the T-shirt all day.

Be great evening for a bit of slurry if it wasn’t for the calendar!

jaymla627

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123883315#Comment_123883315

Alot of "dairy washings " still going out locally, contractor was in at maize today and had two lads hired with tractors/trailers, his piping outfit is still out day and night

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123883895#Comment_123883895

Ground conditions probably a lot better today than they were last week and a whole dry week given.

893bet

extended Forcast looks good for at least 2 weeks. Badly needed.

Jb1989

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123883895#Comment_123883895

Exactly. I'll be tipping away at slurry at the weekend after the ground has had a chance to soak out.

older by the day

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123885212#Comment_123885212

It's dairy washings, not slurry after the 1st of October,

and it's not fertilizer but granulated lime after the 14th of September 😀

Jb1989

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123885279#Comment_123885279

I'm spreading slurry on suitable ground. Don't have washings.

GC4

What are the closed dates for duty water now.

Gillespy

Had they left it the 15th of October, it would have worked perfectly this year. A functioning courtry would be telling farmers to take advantage of this spell to have all tanks empty before the winter starts proper. Great growth there so I'd like to hear a good reason why not other that we say so.

Emptied all tanks here on time but with them in and all the rain, there's a few loads that go out again. Agitator won't reach so it will be just water really. Outdoor tank so no problem taking some water out of it.

Dozer1

tricky weather for younger bought in stock, a few weanlings bought in a few weeks ago were dosed but still dirty noses these days. The variation in temps and lush grass probably not helping

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123886045#Comment_123886045

Would you consider feeding some hay or straw to them.

whelan2

Raining Here

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123886364#Comment_123886364

It looks like the weather for the rest of the week is good, although I have little faith in Met Eireann's forecasts anymore.

Dozer1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123886293#Comment_123886293

they were in on good dry hay for a few days Base, I think one of the ones I bought might have brought in a touch of a virus, thankfully they're not too off form

davidk1394

Dry here since 1pm last Friday. Ground is in great order. The last of the maize is being cut around here and spuds being pulled without any issues. Few lads starting to set winter corn aswell.

bogman_bass

great opportunity to get dung out. Find it hard to do it this time of year because contractors are either flat out at maize or the weather is crap

whelan2

Drizzling here this morning

Dunedin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123903710#Comment_123903710

same here.

Ozymandius2011

Cloudy but currently dry.

148multi

TTrying to rain, but just a drizzle

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123916674#Comment_123916674

Same here. Moved the sucklers w/calves onto another field with good cover closer to the yard where they have access to a dry bedded shed and silage & wheaten straw along the feed barrier.

Runswithfeet

I see they had torrential rain which caused flooding in Co Down overnight.

have2flushtwice

Yellow rain warning our of the blue.

RockOrBog

It's after turning cold with the last 24 hours the wind is from the north, first time since spring that I had to heat the old mf to start her