Fodder Crisis

Reggie. · 29-03-2018 07:53PM

Say my name wrote: »

Could perhaps scrub heavy rain from that post and put in snow instead.
Especially for Monday.

Don't start

Say my name · 29-03-2018 07:58PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Don't start

I am the God of winter and I bring you....

Seriously though it looks like heavy snow for Northern Ireland on Monday. Whatever about the rest of the country??
Looks like a one day wonder. Hopefully.

Reggie. · 29-03-2018 08:03PM

Say my name wrote: »

I am the God of winter and I bring you....

Seriously though it looks like heavy snow for Northern Ireland on Monday. Whatever about the rest of the country??
Looks like a one day wonder. Hopefully.

****ing sick of snow

Dakota Dan · 29-03-2018 08:18PM

Say my name wrote: »

I am the God of winter and I bring you....

Seriously though it looks like heavy snow for Northern Ireland on Monday. Whatever about the rest of the country??
Looks like a one day wonder. Hopefully.

Heavy hail shower in cork around 6pm this evening.

charolais0153 · 29-03-2018 08:44PM

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Heavy hail shower in cork around 6pm this evening.

Just in from training. A few almighty showers on a boggy pitch was not fun

charolais0153 · 29-03-2018 09:34PM

Say my name wrote: »

I am the God of winter and I bring you....

Seriously though it looks like heavy snow for Northern Ireland on Monday. Whatever about the rest of the country??
Looks like a one day wonder. Hopefully.

No precipitation for North or West on met eireann. SE to get the worst.

whelan2 · 29-03-2018 09:36PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

No precipitation for North or West on met eireann. SE to get the worst.

Tomorrow and Monday look bad here

visatorro · 29-03-2018 09:38PM

Can people please keep criticism of people who are short of fodder to themselves. I'm not sure if people realise that during 2013 lots of families were changed forever because people could not see light at the end of the tunnel. Bragging about having enough feed may not be what a family member would want to read about.

charolais0153 · 29-03-2018 09:40PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Tomorrow and Monday look bad here

Ya . crawls up the east coast

Say my name · 29-03-2018 10:04PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Ya . crawls up the east coast

I wouldn't be 100% sure of that.
It is really coming in from the SW.

Still a few days away though.

kevthegaff · 29-03-2018 10:06PM

Have to say stocking rates may have to be assessed in the future as weather seems to be getting worse. Ok for silage bit slurry is an ongoing problem. Wouldn't like to deal with both

kevinm177 · 29-03-2018 10:18PM

Whatever about stocking rates I think calving dates might be just as important. In NZ they try and have calving start date 55 days before "magic day". Where as here we are anything from 60 to 90. I think this is where pressure comes on the system feed wise. Situation not helped by co~ops pushing for early milk either

I says · 29-03-2018 10:23PM

Weather is weather the boss man who is around a long time knows a thing or two and the spring turnout has been the same for the sixty plus years he has been farming but Teagasc seem to push it

Timmaay · 29-03-2018 10:26PM

kevinm177 wrote: »

Whatever about stocking rates I think calving dates might be just as important. In NZ they try and have calving start date 55 days before "magic day". Where as here we are anything from 60 to 90. I think this is where pressure comes on the system feed wise. Situation not helped by co~ops pushing for early milk either

Fair point, NZ they tend to grow more over the winter also, so higher AFC at turnout. One difference in favour of the longer days between calving start and magic day here could be our 6wk calving rate probably isn't nearly as good in general here?

memorystick · 29-03-2018 10:55PM

2 more weeks of this will surely have an effect on the store trade.

bogman_bass · 29-03-2018 11:33PM

Beef trade will probably peak a bit later too since grass cattle will be later coming on stream

Gave neighbour 2 bales today he saw us through with a half dozen in 2013 so he's welcome to them

Alibaba · 30-03-2018 12:03AM

At least one good thing is from now on to remember that the whole thing can turn very fast.
3 or 4 decent days can work wonders.

patsy_mccabe · 30-03-2018 12:06AM

It was warm here today in east Clare. 12c showing on two different temperatue gauges.

Say my name · 30-03-2018 12:22AM

Just in case I've sounded all doom and gloom.
The UK met office has that rain/snow not even reaching the country on Monday.
But it's still one to watch for snow.
The gfs has high pressure coming in on the 2nd week of April and minimum temperatures of 20c this day fortnight.
These are not guarrantees.
So to even that back down to gloom again the Gem has night time temperatures of -10 for this day week.
Ying and yang.

whelan2 · 30-03-2018 06:03AM

Heavy rain fell here most of the night. Seems we get two dryish days and then one day to mess it all up again

Robson99 · 30-03-2018 08:11AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Heavy rain fell here most of the night. Seems we get two dryish days and then one day to mess it all up again

Same as that

Reggie. · 30-03-2018 09:23AM

Still raining here atm

whelan2 · 30-03-2018 09:39AM

Reggie. wrote: »

Still raining here atm

Same here. Up all night with a sick child to add to the woes

Buford T. Justice XIX · 30-03-2018 10:23AM

Alibaba wrote: »

At least one good thing is from now on to remember that the whole thing can turn very fast.
3 or 4 decent days can work wonders.

We're saying that since October:pac:

Alibaba · 30-03-2018 01:31PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

We're saying that since October:pac:

Well October on , you don't expect much.. But this is nearly April....

So here's hoping .. And maybe a little prayer...

Buford T. Justice XIX · 30-03-2018 01:46PM

Alibaba wrote: »

Well October on , you don't expect much.. But this is nearly April....

So here's hoping .. And maybe a little prayer...

I'd say every God going has been prayed to at this stage, I just hope one of them listens fairly soon:(

FeelTheBern · 30-03-2018 03:14PM

Boards daily forecast indicating return to normal temps second week of April so hold the line till then....

mayota · 30-03-2018 04:24PM

Grand day today but no real drying.

Mtx · 30-03-2018 04:44PM

mayota wrote: »

Grand day today but no real drying.

That ground looks very misleading

Base price · 30-03-2018 10:10PM

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