Dry Very and No Grass

[Arry 24,762]

Out for a mooch to see what the Rabbit situation is. Ground is like concrete and no grass, in fact I met the farmer on his way to feed the stock. There using the winter feed its so bad.

Cheers Arry

[WILF 49,897]

2 hours ago, Arry said:

Out for a mooch to see what the Rabbit situation is. Ground is like concrete and no grass, in fact I met the farmer on his way to feed the stock. There using the winter feed its so bad.

Cheers Arry

Yeah noticed that this weekend, the grass situation is brutal isn’t it…..meanwhile in Ireland, I’ve got cows looking over the fence in envy because my lawnmower is waiting on belts to fix it ! lol 

[steve t 1,212]

A neighbour of mine has started feeding silage already 

[Arry 24,762]

11 minutes ago, steve t said:

A neighbour of mine has started feeding silage already 

Yeah we just haven't had hardly any rain it bone dry. They were taking food out to all the stock this morning.

Cheers Arry

[jukel123 9,399]

Harvests all in . Last time they were in this early was the long hot summer of 1976.

[Gypsydog94 4,701]

Luckily we have got lucky around me most of this summer. But just starting to run low on grass now for the cattle. Hopefully weather breaks soon and won’t start feeding

[WataWalloper 3,540]

Up in the dales they had a real bad start to the silage this year, an with only 2 cuts left of lucky there will be a fair few farmers with the choice of selling some cows or buying some feed this winter, shame 

[WataWalloper 3,540]

2 hours ago, jukel123 said:

Harvests all in . Last time they were in this early was the long hot summer of 1976.

Only beans left to do here now 

[TOMO 28,606]

Loads of maze been grown down here in east Midlands this year ..so that's still in the ground...as is sugar beat....but the wheat and barley is in...and on my travels around the UK in late spring i hardly seen  any rape at all just the odd field here and there...not like years ago...where half the country was was yellow 

[gnipper 6,781]

We've had really good growth in our trees compared to a lot of the other nurseries so we've been lucky this year.

 It seems half of the ground round here is maize this year where normally they would grow salads and veg and I don't know why the change? 

[Arry 24,762]

10 minutes ago, gnipper said:

We've had really good growth in our trees compared to a lot of the other nurseries so we've been lucky this year.

 It seems half of the ground round here is maize this year where normally they would grow salads and veg and I don't know why the change? 

 

3 hours ago, TOMO said:

Loads of maze been grown down here in east Midlands this year ..so that's still in the ground...as is sugar beat....but the wheat and barley is in...and on my travels around the UK in late spring i hardly seen  any rape at all just the odd field here and there...not like years ago...where half the country was was yellow 

A lot of maize grown here this year I would say more than other years. Rape is well down and what I did see didn't look that good. I think I read somewhere that rape production is down by 40% in the uk this year. the maize is looking good but they recon the roots go deep. 

Grass however looks f****d. They did make hay but it was short and now they have started to feeding it.

Cheers Arry

[Gypsydog94 4,701]

6 hours ago, TOMO said:

Loads of maze been grown down here in east Midlands this year ..so that's still in the ground...as is sugar beat....but the wheat and barley is in...and on my travels around the UK in late spring i hardly seen  any rape at all just the odd field here and there...not like years ago...where half the country was was yellow 

The maize will start coming off in the next week or two around here. They banned some sprays for the rape that would tackle flea beetles making it to much risk if the crop fails