whats the weather like in your area?

_Brian

Just arrived in NAC Dublin and weather is crackin, sunny and warm.

Reggie.

_Brian wrote: »

Just arrived in NAC Dublin and weather is crackin, sunny and warm.

Yearly bath? :P

whelan2

_Brian wrote: »

Just arrived in NAC Dublin and weather is crackin, sunny and warm.

lovely here too, morning of football training and swimming here

CloughCasey1

Reggie. wrote: »

Breezy and cloudy here atm

Get them baling asap

Reggie.

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Get them baling asap

Was overruled. FIL want to wait till Monday Tuesday now :rolleyes: #feckingauldfellas

_Brian

Reggie. wrote: »

Yearly bath? :P

Ha !!
Naw, eldest is in competition Wednesday to Sunday so were here every day.

Bullocks

Absolutely atrocious wet here . I put 15 weanlings into the shed here and opened a bale , they are happy as could be

GY A1

Wet n wild here

Reggie.

Bullocks wrote: »

Absolutely atrocious wet here . I put 15 weanlings into the shed here and opened a bale , they are happy as could be

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

_Brian

Back in Cavan now, plenty if rain falling. Breezy and mild.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

ganmo

Reggie. wrote: »

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

Go big or go home

Reggie.

ganmo wrote: »

Go big or go home

That's the style ganmo

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!!

frazzledhome

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

Reggie.

Fairly nippy out there this morning

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

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!

Milton09

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

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

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.

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

keep going

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

Reggie.

frazzledhome wrote: »

Looking at forecast once Mon passes things getting warmer and drier

Time for hay

dzer2

Reggie. wrote: »

Time for hay

saved without rain:eek:

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

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

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...

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

Greengrass1

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

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...

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

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.

GY A1

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

Buford T. Justice XIX

We had 10 minutes of heavy rain here yesterday evening and about an hour before and after of heavy mist. Ground rock solid atm, even the heavy fields could do with a sup.

Yet 10 miles north and south of me, friends were saying it was lashing and they had brought cattle in.

I put off spreading last week seeing the forecast but going all out this week and blanket spread half the place this week and the rest next week.

frazzledhome

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

We had 10 minutes of heavy rain here yesterday evening and about an hour before and after of heavy mist. Ground rock solid atm, even the heavy fields could do with a sup.

Yet 10 miles north and south of me, friends were saying it was lashing and they had brought cattle in.

I put off spreading last week seeing the forecast but going all out this week and blanket spread half the place this week and the rest next week.

I'm spreading whole farm, would you not consider it?

Buford T. Justice XIX

frazzledhome wrote: »

I'm spreading whole farm, would you not consider it?

I was thinking of it but cash flow is a bit strangled with being locked up and i might run out of things to do next week!:pac:

I used blanket spread but feel i got a poor response due to older grasses. Definately better response on younger swards but my youngest sward is 5 years old now:o

frazzledhome

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I was thinking of it but cash flow is a bit strangled with being locked up and i might run out of things to do next week!:pac:

I used blanket spread but feel i got a poor response due to older grasses. Definately better response on younger swards but my youngest sward is 5 years old now:o

Always blanket till this yr. went weekly for early part. Back to blanket grows more grass I think. Some don't agree

Deepsouthwest

keep going wrote: »

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

Cows took a big dip here in the last 3 or 4 collections after a very strong June

CloughCasey1

Pi55ing from the heavens here again

CloughCasey1

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Pi55ing from the heavens here again

Groundhog Day

Reggie.

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Groundhog Day

Grand morning here. Sun is out aswell

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Grand morning here. Sun is out aswell

overcast here

CloughCasey1

Reggie. wrote: »

Grand morning here. Sun is out aswell

Someone up there is fond of you and your hay