A days rain would be no harm here, growth well back. Good bit of hay made all the same
Ah will ye quit it, you should have a site ban put on ye for posting that 😜
We spread slurry from one of the slatted sheds yesterday and it will probably sit on the ground for the week or so. I'm not looking for rain to wash it in as like most on here I'm sick to the teeth of fooking rain for the past year. If I remember correctly, the rain started around this time last year and we haven't had three dry days since. Cnut of a year on women, man and beasts.
If we need anything it’s heat
Went to the beech in wexford yesterday turned out to be a amazing day. Family asked me today were we in a different country yesterday.
Which one did you go to if you don't mind me asking?
I know you are not from carlow yourself from your poster handle. But I reckon there does be more carlow people visiting wexford beaches than the wexford people themselves.
Killmuckridge. 17.5 degrees at 7pm yesterday evening when I was leaving.
that’s good to know I might keep them on and feed now for 6 weeks
Wrong thread Dickie.... anyways I'd finish them ASAP they might not be even 6 weeks out from looking at the pictures.
Tee shirt in the rain weather. Should be a good burst of growth now.
Mild weather here. Roughly 17°c. Plenty of rain after falling. A lot of winter barley cut but very little straw baled.
What are the yields for the straw looking like
I have no idea. Looks like good quality but the poor weather could turn it to shíte pretty quickly.
From what’s baled so far in winter barley it’s as good as 12 to as low are 5 bales an acre
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/record-hottest-day-earth-temperature-july
Not in cork
Nice bit of rain last weekend and misty since. It was badly wanted the dry weather and N wind had the place burnt here on the west coast
anyone find early this morning to be severely cold? i was lying in bed around dawn and window a few mil open as is usual with the warm nights in high summer , there was a breeze that was cutting through. havent woke up as cold in a long time, cant be much growth
ffs this evening was like a winters evening. It’s going to be a long winter if we don’t get a blast of dry warm weather.
Land is still sticky after last weekends rain, hopefully it will dry up again, this coming week is looking ok. A six month winter is bad enough without it going any further
Some evening here now in limerick. Thunder and lightning and power just gone. Rain starting to fall heavy enough
Lightning up here now, thankfully not heavy rain (for now) as ground was only recovering the last few days
Serious pyrotechnics here in Leitrim last night,got up at 2am and plugged out everything as thunder and lightning were very close to the house.
Heavy showers after that……really is a disaster of a ‘Summer’……..no run of 3/4 good days in a row up here……
People at the mercy of the rain Gods to try and get dry silage saved.
Windy night but a dry morning. Could do with a bit of rain as grass growth is slowing down
never got a drop Of rain overnight. Few flashes of lightening but no thunder. I cut silage on Friday and it had gone into hay on Sunday morning. Savage drying out. Wrapped it as Haylage but if I’d known we would miss the showers I’d have left it as hay. Great drying wind out again today. we could have done with a drop of rain for grass growth.
Baled stuff yesterday eve that was only cut late sat eve and shook out yesterday morning and it was haylage too. Unreal drying out the last couple of days.
We never saw a drop of rain either in the midlands and we’ve been bulling ourselves the last 2 days trying to get all done before Sunday nights rain🙄
I was the same working flat out , Friday, Saturday and yesterday and now a fantastic day. Pity they can’t predict it a bit better now. My baler man says he wasn’t watched the weather in years as he never plan any work if he did. Starting to think he is right.
Ah well at least that’s all the fodder done for the year. Bit of straw to get and get fym out now and we are newly everything done
Cant even go in on the fields here in South Tyrone, have a load of topping to do and that rain last night has made it alot worse
Theres a bad week of rain promised here as if land wasn't sticky enough already. Fantastic
badly wanted rain here to get fertiliser in that went out. ground is hard as a rock and cool breeze each evening come 7 pm, growth suffering badly
106mm of rain fell here in the first 2 weeks of August and it's rained most days since then.
The worst "summer" I remember in my time and I've seen a few bad ones.
They say '86 was bad but that was before my time.
a winters night. was at a my h with kids and they were nearly froze when the came off and they were running a lot horrendous year
