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whats the weather like in your area?

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  • #7262
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,378 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Not a drop here. FIL is going all in for hay I think :rolleyes:
    met a lad drawing in silage in the lashings of rain there half an hour ago


  • #7263
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    met a lad drawing in silage in the lashings of rain there half an hour ago

    Just tedded the field there now. Could be hay by Tuesday as it's half way there already


  • #7264
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Just tedded the field there now. Could be hay by Tuesday as it's half way there already

    Are u in a different country or what Reggie.
    Jeez rain here last few days is unreal with more given for tonight.
    Only hay here is last years being fed to weaned ewes


  • #7265
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    sea12 wrote: »
    Are u in a different country or what Reggie.
    Jeez rain here last few days is unreal with more given for tonight.
    Only hay here is last years being fed to weaned ewes

    We have 26 acres of hay done already and another 10 down now and we might do the 26 again later in the year as all that hay is sold


  • #7266
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,747 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    We have 26 acres of hay done already and another 10 down now and we might do the 26 again later in the year as all that hay is sold

    Whole country will get a drop later.


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  • #7267
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    Whole country will get a drop later.

    That rain tonight won't do it any harm. According to yr.no we have till Thursday evening. High winds forcasted for the next 5 days here so any rain that falls won't have much effect. All the hay ground is on south facing hill slopes


  • #7268
    selectamatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,197 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    Worst day here in a good long time a power of rain has fallen since this morning! The granny and mother were down in sligo town and said it was a grand morning down there :rolleyes:


  • #7269
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Not a drop here. FIL is going all in for hay I think :rolleyes:

    Go big or go home


  • #7270
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    ganmo wrote: »
    Go big or go home

    That's the style ganmo


  • #7271
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,108 ✭✭✭visatorro


    lashing here. lad drawing silage beside me all day. wagon just followed the mower around. won't be great but sure it's, in now someone will ate it!!


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  • #7272
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Glorious last 3 hrs here, pissing down. 3-4 days would be great. Fert delivered to be spread Monday am


  • #7273
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Fairly nippy out there this morning


  • #7274
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Horses rain from 10 till 2 last night
    Milking in t shirt atm. Have alot of grass to knock if I could get 2 dry days together and a wedding Friday and sat


  • #7275
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Horses rain from 10 till 2 last night

    Same. After very mediocre growth for most of June until last week, it's been utterly rocketing it since, I'm skipping paddocks left right and centre!


  • #7276
    Milton09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭Milton09


    Just totted up my rain gauge readings - 75mm of rain here in the last 19 days, things getting sticky !!!


  • #7277
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Milton09 wrote: »
    Just totted up my rain gauge readings - 75mm of rain here in the last 19 days, things getting sticky !!!

    That's incredible for such a small country. 20 mm here. Cut second cut during week dry as snuff no rain till last night. Ground like concrete


  • #7278
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭White Clover


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    That's incredible for such a small country. 20 mm here. Cut second cut during week dry as snuff no rain till last night. Ground like concrete


    Considering housing some bullocks here. Back fencing etc for last week or ten days. Ground starting to cut up. My concern is the next round grazing. If conditions are bad we're in trouble.


  • #7279
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    White Clover wrote: »
    Considering housing some bullocks here. Back fencing etc for last week or ten days. Ground starting to cut up. My concern is the next round grazing. If conditions are bad we're in trouble.

    Looking at forecast once Mon passes things getting warmer and drier


  • #7280
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    Coop is back to last years milk lev3l this week havingbeen running 10% plus ahead all along


  • #7281
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Looking at forecast once Mon passes things getting warmer and drier

    Time for hay :D


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  • #7282
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Time for hay :D

    saved without rain:eek:


  • #7283
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    dzer2 wrote: »
    saved without rain:eek:

    Lads what is it with ye and hay getting a little rain as it's down. What did they do years ago as they didn't have yr.no and the likes.

    Love them ads saved without rain.....me arse.

    Same with small squares. People have this fascination of having to bring them in straight away. When I was young we would leave them out for 2 weeks to be safe of heating


  • #7284
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Lads what is it with ye and hay getting a little rain as it's down. What did they do years ago as they didn't have yr.no and the likes.

    Love them ads saved without rain.....me arse.

    Same with small squares. People have this fascination of having to bring them in straight away. When I was young we would leave them out for 2 weeks to be safe of heating

    Yrs ago there wasn't the same machines for drying and the amount of balers also the amount of hay that was sh1te was real


  • #7285
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Lads what is it with ye and hay getting a little rain as it's down. What did they do years ago as they didn't have yr.no and the likes.

    Love them ads saved without rain.....me arse.

    Same with small squares. People have this fascination of having to bring them in straight away. When I was young we would leave them out for 2 weeks to be safe of heating

    Teams of people, plus cocks of hay - if they thought rain was coming - then into cocks. Spread out the next day again, on it went...
    To be fair - when the cocks were made right, only the very outside got wet. Hay inside was grand...

    Was a lad close to us saved hay like this when I was small, and never faile to get it.
    He was against mechanical turners too - as it broke the grass, so the cocks weren't as good then...


  • #7286
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Username John wrote: »
    Teams of people, plus cocks of hay - if they thought rain was coming - then into cocks. Spread out the next day again, on it went...
    To be fair - when the cocks were made right, only the very outside got wet. Hay inside was grand...

    Was a lad close to us saved hay like this when I was small, and never faile to get it.
    He was against mechanical turners too - as it broke the grass, so the cocks weren't as good then...

    Hay can still be made with the right planning


  • #7287
    Greengrass1
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    Why lads bother with hay is beyond me. See fields around locally not grazed all yr left for hay. Pure dirt is all that would be. It's basicly dead. And it'll be turned to death then fir a solid week.
    If we ever made hay here we'd make it inn3/4 days and it would be nice stuff.
    If you search definitely of hay in Google it will say GRASS that has been cut and dried not grass that has been let shoot to out and not a bit of leaf left in it


  • #7288
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Why lads bother with hay is beyond me. See fields around locally not grazed all yr left for hay. Pure dirt is all that would be. It's basicly dead. And it'll be turned to death then fir a solid week.
    If we ever made hay here we'd make it inn3/4 days and it would be nice stuff.
    If you search definitely of hay in Google it will say GRASS that has been cut and dried not grass that has been let shoot to out and not a bit of leaf left in it

    I suppose like everything - some lads make good enough hay, some lads leave the grass go too old. You could say the same about some lads with silage...


  • #7289
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Username John wrote: »
    Teams of people, plus cocks of hay - if they thought rain was coming - then into cocks. Spread out the next day again, on it went...
    To be fair - when the cocks were made right, only the very outside got wet. Hay inside was grand...

    Was a lad close to us saved hay like this when I was small, and never faile to get it.
    He was against mechanical turners too - as it broke the grass, so the cocks weren't as good then...

    A lot less N


  • #7290
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,688 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Why lads bother with hay is beyond me. See fields around locally not grazed all yr left for hay. Pure dirt is all that would be. It's basicly dead. And it'll be turned to death then fir a solid week.
    If we ever made hay here we'd make it inn3/4 days and it would be nice stuff.
    If you search definitely of hay in Google it will say GRASS that has been cut and dried not grass that has been let shoot to out and not a bit of leaf left in it

    We sell hay to stud farms......supply and demand isn't that what you do with your milk? Horses need hay.

    Interesting enough all the auld lads (70 years+) around here won't attempt hay till July as in until the grass dies off. Years ago it wouldn't be touched till this time.


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  • #7291
    GY A1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,255 ✭✭✭GY A1


    Still cloudy here but lookin a bit better. Was rain all day yesterday


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