What's the weather like in your area 2

Mooooo

Ground just gone soft enough here for the weekends job of pulling ragworth:( was too hard to pull it last week. Its like it appeared overnight in some fields the bastard. Share of culls going the weekend, the ones that went down in the blood will be gone in 1.5/2 weeks or so and will be drying off a few autumn calvers as well so stocking rate will drop on milking block a bit, but calves will need an extra bit of ground. Reseed coming on so hopefully grazeable in 3 weeks

Mooooo

whelan2 wrote: »

Would second cuts not be done by now?

Ist cut got pushed late here would normally be looking at 2nd cut aftergrass this time of year

White Clover

pedigree 6 wrote: »

On the weather forums they're saying for the foreseeable and that is usually only 10 days ahead, that there's no sign of any drought now anyway. There'll be fine days here and there but no prolonged dry spell yet. It's not too bad for grass farmers atm.
The aftergrass came back in just at the right time.

I was down in south Wexford and around Kilkenny today and some places would be 19 c and Sun shining and other places complete downpours with showers and nearly floods on the roads and the wipers on full belt.

Greenfields looks to have just enough grass too. Matching the stocking rate to the growth fairly well. Certainly no surpluses.

Edit: the one thing though it would break your heart looking at good land from the roads now being neglected. Up to 5 years ago all land was farmed well and people tried to make a living and had a bit of pride. Now there's docks and ragwort and long grass on land and people don't care.
Easy know they've an income from something else.
Anyway rant over.
(But you would like to give some people a kick up the hole.):rolleyes:

What's the story with that land across the valley to the right as you come into enniscorthy from the New Ross side? Grand dry ground and nothing being done with it.

pedigree 6

White Clover wrote: »

What's the story with that land across the valley to the right as you come into enniscorthy from the New Ross side? Grand dry ground and nothing being done with it.

That's land belonging to St.Senans mental hospital (now closed).
Government property. There were talks of it being sold to a consortium and a third level campus going on the site.
It was let out last year and silage cut and slurry spread. No activity on the land this year.

White Clover

pedigree 6 wrote: »

That's land belonging to St.Senans mental hospital (now closed).
Government property. There were talks of it being sold to a consortium and a third level campus going on the site.
It was let out last year and silage cut and slurry spread. No activity on the land this year.

Clonroche type soil lying idle. A crying shame.

pedigree 6

White Clover wrote: »

Clonroche type soil lying idle. A crying shame.

It's not all clonroche type soil in the county.
There's granite underneath that. The same as the granite outcrop of Vinegar Hill.
I don't think clonroche type soil covers granite. But it would still make good land.
The roadstone quarry was just below the hospital. I'm not 100% sure what was in the quarry but it was going for chippings so it wasn't shale anyway.

White Clover

pedigree 6 wrote: »

It's not all clonroche type soil in the county.
There's granite underneath that. The same as the granite outcrop of Vinegar Hill.
I don't think clonroche type soil covers granite. But it would still make good land.
The roadstone quarry was just below the hospital. I'm not 100% sure what was in the quarry but it was going for chippings so it wasn't shale anyway.

It's so close to Clonroche, I assumed that's what it has. It's good anyway!

whelan2

Overcast and drizzling.

pedigree 6

Just watching the women's Euro quarter final between Germany and Denmark in Rotterdam. Match was cancelled last night due to flooded pitch. Still lashing this morning but flooding gone. Hardy yokes these wimen!

Edit: Sun out here now and there too.

davidk1394

Sun was splitting the stones here 10 mins ago. Now there's and absolute down pour. Have the feet up watching raw hide

foxy farmer

Lovely day between absolute belters of showers. In the middle of one now. More of the same for the week ahead according to jerry murphy on farming forecast.

pedigree 6

Just had an absolute downpour with 5 bangs of thunder and lightning.

Felt an awful eejit looking at calves and lightning striking around in the area.

_Brian

Heavy showers all day, bright in between.

sea12

_Brian wrote: »

Heavy showers all day, bright in between.

An absolut cloud burst an hour sgo. Could even have been hail stones in it. Dried up now and warn but will do allot of damage to winter corn standing

Buford T. Justice XIX

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Just had an absolute downpour with 5 bangs of thunder and lightning.

Felt an awful eejit looking at calves and lightning striking around in the area.

You'ld be safe enough, P6.

Lightening goes for the tall lads first :pac:

pedigree 6

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

You'ld be safe enough, P6.

Lightening goes for the tall lads first :pac:

Taller than a calf though.;)

Reggie.

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Taller than a calf though.;)

By much?

whelan2

In a hotel with my sister. Watching lads out side playing golf in the lashings of rain. Why ?

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

In a hotel with my sister. Watching lads out side playing golf in the lashings of rain. Why ?

Madness

pedigree 6

Reggie. wrote: »

By much?

6 and a half inches.:)

Reggie.

pedigree 6 wrote: »

6 and a half inches.:)

That half inch is important

Farmer_3650

At Croke Park today for the Galway v Kerry and Roscommon v Mayo matches. Fairly nice morning but the weather was fairly bad for the Roscommon game and second half of Galway game.

Buford T. Justice XIX

It's a bit damp in Argentina for harvesting atm.
https://twitter.com/amendiondo/status/891266904136069120
Triple wheels on front and dials on the back!

Bleating Lamb

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

It's a bit damp in Argentina for harvesting atm.
https://twitter.com/amendiondo/status/891266904136069120
Triple wheels on front and dials on the back!

Not from tillage area...what crop is that?....lashing rain here in Leitrim this morning.

ganmo

I'd guess corn

Buford T. Justice XIX

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Not from tillage area...what crop is that?....lashing rain here in Leitrim this morning.

Looks like maize to me?

_Brian

Pouring rain here all morning.

Reggie.

_Brian wrote: »

Pouring rain here all morning.

It followed me all the way up to Dublin this morning

Mooooo

****e morning and night

whelan2

Rained the whole way to Galway.