What's the weather like in your area 2

valtra2 · 25-02-2020 8:56pm

theaceofspies wrote: »

Are we sleepwalking into another Fodder Crisis?

Ffs really

davidk1394 · 25-02-2020 9:01pm

Snow, wind and a cold face. Praying there wont be any lambs tonight

Angus2018 · 25-02-2020 9:56pm

theaceofspies wrote: »

Are we sleepwalking into another Fodder Crisis?

I'm trying to get on top of things as much as possible this year so I went out to the silage field to pick the sticks. I was leaving deep footprints as soon as I entered the field and its normally a dry field. There's no way it will be ready for any kind of fertiliser application anytime in March.

jaymla627 · 25-02-2020 10:09pm

theaceofspies wrote: »

Are we sleepwalking into another Fodder Crisis?

Plenty of feed out their, the quality of it is the problem wouldnt fancy trying to milk cows of the vast majority of 1st cut silage that was made last year in the slops of rain in late may/early june, pure poison to a freshly calved milking cow

Mooooo · 25-02-2020 10:33pm

Yeah have a full pit yet to open, quality is poor tho would take supplementation to make up for it if no grass in the diet. Have another few weeks before I would need to open it tho. Under 5% grazed here so even if things dry up the second round may still be an issue in April but we'll cross that when we come to it.
Odds are things will improve, last spring had us spoiled , Feb was excellent but they had to come back in fulltime for 2.5 weeks in March here, hopefully that will reverse this year.

Say my name · 25-02-2020 10:43pm

Mooooo wrote: »

Yeah have a full pit yet to open, quality is poor tho would take supplementation to make up for it if no grass in the diet. Have another few weeks before I would need to open it tho. Under 5% grazed here so even if things dry up the second round may still be an issue in April but we'll cross that when we come to it.
Odds are things will improve, last spring had us spoiled , Feb was excellent but they had to come back in fulltime for 2.5 weeks in March here, hopefully that will reverse this year.

There's no promising weather forecast up till the 11th of March.
That's as far as the gfs forecast goes.
It's rain with incursions of polar maritime from the nw.

ruwithme · 25-02-2020 11:05pm

Say my name wrote: »

There's no promising weather forecast up till the 11th of March.
That's as far as the gfs forecast goes.
It's rain with incursions of polar maritime from the nw.

Good weather is always far away when your watching the like of that in a bad time.
anyways i reckon you won't be able to wear your coat watching the floats on st. Patrick's day

Tileman · 25-02-2020 11:15pm

Ah it’s surprising what a good week does this tune of year. The days are getting longer and better chance to dry out.

I had a bit of silage up for sale past few months. Not a phone call in 3 months and 4 calls this week so it must be getting a bit tighter.

_Brian · 26-02-2020 9:25am

2-3 cm snow all over.
Frozen solid.
Light snow flurries at moment.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 26-02-2020 11:29am

_Brian wrote: »

2-3 cm snow all over.
Frozen solid.
Light snow flurries at moment.

Sun shining here atm, warmish out with no breeze.

davidk1394 · 26-02-2020 11:46am

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Sun shining here atm, warmish out with no breeze.

Its a lovely spring morning here also, just not too warm. Brutal night though.

greysides · 26-02-2020 2:56pm

Spring day in the SE. Cool and the odd gust makes it worse but overall pretty good.

Bass Reeves · 26-02-2020 3:11pm

Dry cold day but no drying as such. Rain of 5-8mm forecast until Sunday. Land wet camni see stick out for at least another two weeks.

I see a dairy farmer having cows out for 2-3 hours a day. Not marking land too bad but cows have to walk 3km of a round journey I wonder the economics of it.

Mooooo · 26-02-2020 7:03pm

Bass Reeves wrote: »

Dry cold day but no drying as such. Rain of 5-8mm forecast until Sunday. Land wet camni see stick out for at least another two weeks.

I see a dairy farmer having cows out for 2-3 hours a day. Not marking land too bad but cows have to walk 3km of a round journey I wonder the economics of it.

It's about having the regrowth in April from that bit of ground really, if not enough is grazed going back in with silage in April to cover the bit of the wedge missing can hit solids etc and/ or use tight stocks of silage. Has to be done carefully so as not to put the cow under pressure too as they must go out hungry for it to be effective from a clean out point of view so there is a thin line to be threaded

Say my name · 26-02-2020 8:20pm

Did a walk of a few paddocks. Even with the bad weather of the past few days there's growth there. Ground soaked very well. Greeness is very evident.
Today was a peach of a day. Currently 4c under a clear sky.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 26-02-2020 8:27pm

Mooooo wrote: »

It's about having the regrowth in April from that bit of ground really, if not enough is grazed going back in with silage in April to cover the bit of the wedge missing can hit solids etc and/ or use tight stocks of silage. Has to be done carefully so as not to put the cow under pressure too as they must go out hungry for it to be effective from a clean out point of view so there is a thin line to be threaded

The first and last grazing is for the grass, the others are for the cow.

patsy_mccabe · 26-02-2020 11:25pm

Wolfe Tone bridge in Galway City;

https://twitter.com/GalwayWalks/status/1232444218691342336

Buford T. Justice XIX · 27-02-2020 12:46pm

whelan2 · 27-02-2020 12:48pm

Oh just fook off..:D Just when things are nice and sunny

Buford T. Justice XIX · 27-02-2020 12:55pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Oh just fook off..:D Just when things are nice and sunny

Yellow rainfall warning here as well.

Lovely day here, warm and sunny. All the sheep outside today for the first time but access back to the shed if they want.

cj maxx · 28-02-2020 10:42am

Pissing rain here and ground soaking. Had a digger lined up to clear some whins and stuff but no go as ground too wet.
Is there an allowance on the March 1 deadline due to weather ?

ganmo · 28-02-2020 10:57am

cjmc wrote: »

Pissing rain here and ground soaking. Had a digger lined up to clear some whins and stuff but no go as ground too wet.
Is there an allowance on the March 1 deadline due to weather ?

nope

Hershall · 28-02-2020 11:13am

Just wondering does anybody on here follow MT Craniums forecasts. Came across it during the week. Is it accurate?

Mortelaro · 28-02-2020 11:38am

Hershall wrote: »

Just wondering does anybody on here follow MT Craniums forecasts. Came across it during the week. Is it accurate?

Most people here do
It's usually reasonably accurate
He can get rain totals wrong,max wind gusts or amounts of snow but is fairly good at the overall weather type for the day or next few days
Its entirely a blend of models he is using so sometimes theres uncertainty, but he will say so if so
He is canada based so also sometimes lack of local weather variation knowledge here let's him down

cj maxx · 28-02-2020 12:23pm

It seems NO

foxy farmer · 28-02-2020 12:41pm

cjmc wrote: »

Pissing rain here and ground soaking. Had a digger lined up to clear some whins and stuff but no go as ground too wet.
Is there an allowance on the March 1 deadline due to weather ?

I'm in the same boat here. You'd probably get it done but it's some busy body reporting it is the big fear. I know of someone getting a field tidied up with hedge cutter and saw. Field well inland from any road. Contractor working away happily till 2 garda appeared in the field.

Bass Reeves · 28-02-2020 2:20pm

foxy farmer wrote: »

I'm in the same boat here. You'd probably get it done but it's some busy body reporting it is the big fear. I know of someone getting a field tidied up with hedge cutter and saw. Field well inland from any road. Contractor working away happily till 2 garda appeared in the field.

There was more than a bit of tidying if there was both a hedge cutter and saw there. The regs are there for a reason. There a big difference between a lads trimming a hedge 5-6 days late and a lad clearing a field during the nesting season.

Regs are there for a reason, I know there are loads of them but you just have to work around them. I know it's a pain when you annex to carry out some work and the wether comes wrong that year to do it. But some lads no matter how good the weather will find a reason to disobey them.

I had hedges that had to be done this year. When the weather was marginal there end of January I got a lad in told him to avoid the very bad spots where it was extra wet. He got 90%done.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 28-02-2020 5:57pm

Red wind warning for Clare and Galway tomorrow and the rest of the country is upgraded to Orange.

Be careful out there tomorrow, folks.

Say my name · 28-02-2020 6:24pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Red wind warning for Clare and Galway tomorrow and the rest of the country is upgraded to Orange.

Be careful out there tomorrow, folks.

I just came on to see had you that up.

It looks like Clare will get it rough and some in north Galway might be wondering what the fuss is about. And then there's a track from Clare to Dublin where it could be bad enough. And then the very south of wexford won't be the nicest either.

And all during daylight hours.
Kick a football in Clare and it might land in Dublin!!

whelan2 · 28-02-2020 10:34pm

Was 13 degrees at 7pm this evening

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