Drought 2020

cute geoge

Say my name wrote: »

Ahem adviser fees..;)

Ah most definitely I'd say there was your own interpretation of any advice.
And now you have another tool in your arsenal moving forward.

Can ye let the rest of us in in this trick with the molaess

Say my name

cute geoge wrote: »

Can ye let the rest of us in in this trick with the molaess

Mix in water in a sprayer and spray on field.
You can add whatever mixture you want with the molasses.
Stick in molasses and soil on Google and there'll be reams of recipes on it.

I take Clough just sprayed it on the grass and clean out was improved.

Reggie.

Its ****ing raining

Limestone Cowboy

Spreading fert here now. Got no rain of such the last week just a few bits of mist. Went to Ennis a few evening's ago and 5 miles down the road there was floods on the road. Place is fair parched looking.

SouthWesterly

Reggie. wrote: »

Its ****ing raining

Congrats.
All we need now are invites to the wellie wearing party

CloughCasey1

Say my name wrote: »

Mix in water in a sprayer and spray on field.
You can add whatever mixture you want with the molasses.
Stick in molasses and soil on Google and there'll be reams of recipes on it.

I take Clough just sprayed it on the grass and clean out was improved.

Well if your cows cleaned all your docks with it then it surely would work on steamy grass. Will put up a photo later. Was grazed twice and given fert for hay but little to no rain since closed up.

Tileman

At last it’s raining. Had a down pour about 2 hours ago and racing softly for last hour. U can see the reseed growing

Buford T. Justice XIX

Reggie. wrote: »

Its ****ing raining

Can I ban you from this thread now so?:D

CloughCasey1

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Well if your cows cleaned all your docks with it then it surely would work on steamy grass. Will put up a photo later. Was grazed twice and given fert for hay but little to no rain since closed up.

First one is end of field they were taking out of this evening
2nd with ball was topped on right of ball when they reached half way and on left wasn't topped.
3rd starting last hay field.

Edit: pics didn't upload properly. Ye get the picture anyway

mf240

Reggie. wrote: »

Its ****ing raining

Sinken yer hole wouldn't it. Hope it doesn't forget to stop.

Poor farmers awfully terrible and terribly awful

Reggie.

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Can I ban you from this thread now so?:D

I ****ing dare ya

SouthWesterly

Reggie. wrote: »

I ****ing dare ya

Using 4 asterixes in a row should be bannable

Have you no muddy puddles to splash in?

Reggie.

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Using 4 asterixes in a row should be bannable

Have you no muddy puddles to splash in?

Not my doing

Gods Gift

Will it ever stop raining.

Tileman

Gods Gift wrote: »

Will it ever stop raining.

Serious rain here yesterday and more for Saturday.

AntrimGlens

Rain at last, rained nicely all night from about 10pm until 7 this morning. Thanks be to jaysus as things were looking bad if it didn't come, we seemed to miss all the rain that was in our area the past while. Baled 12 acres on Tuesday exactly a month later than last year and had 4 less bales this year. Have another 20 acres that has all gone to seed heads and will be poor enough quality to be cut next week. Hopefully the reseed will drive on now and I'll definitely be reseeding a few more fields this summer as these tired old swards just don't perform under stress like this.

Dickie10

we got some lovely heavy rain the last few days last night and today espically

Buford T. Justice XIX

Heavy rainfall warnings for Kerry, Waterford and Cork this weekend
https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1273952830639026177?s=19

SouthWesterly

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Heavy rainfall warnings for Kerry, Waterford and Cork this weekend
https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1273952830639026177?s=19

Can we do some guntering to divert some of it to Reggie?

Buford T. Justice XIX

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Can we do some guntering to divert some of it to Reggie?

He's grand out, I'm keeping this and Mondays as well:P

Reggie.

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

He's grand out, I'm keeping this and Mondays as well:P

It's all about you isn't it

SouthWesterly

Reggie. wrote: »

It's all about you isn't it

Kerry men are a bit like Corkmen ( and Glaswegians) . They'd rather peel an orange on their pocket than share.



Edit: I'm neither from Munster or Glasgow:D

Genghis Cant

Very welcome drop of rain here overnight in N Offaly.
12mm recorded. Very little on the grand scheme of things but a very important drop.
Hoping for more tomorrow.

dePeatrick

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Very welcome drop of rain here overnight in N Offaly.
12mm recorded. Very little on the grand scheme of things but a very important drop.
Hoping for more tomorrow.

Same here in N Wesmeath, was needed badly.

CloughCasey1

dePeatrick wrote: »

Same here in N Wesmeath, was needed badly.

I'd say it rained for 10 mins last night. Tomorrow will be a soft one.

CloughCasey1

Come on ta FCUK rain. I'm ready for ya.

Timmaay

We've got at least 40mm of rain here across the last 10days, however judging by how hard it is to push in the pegs on some of our ground I'd guess we are still in a 50mm+ moisture deficit.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Timmaay wrote: »

We've got at least 40mm of rain here across the last 10days, however judging by how hard it is to push in the pegs on some of our ground I'd guess we are still in a 50mm+ moisture deficit.

The difference a drop of rain makes here. This is Tuesday morning.

And this is this morning.

And today's rain and Mondays rain should keep me going for another 2 to 3 weeks, hopefully.

Danzy

Very heavy rain for the last hour here in Cork. Topper is definitely being used next week.

whelan2

Danzy wrote: »

Very heavy rain for the last hour here in Cork. Topper is definitely being used next week.

Fields I topped last week are flying it

Danzy

whelan2 wrote: »

Fields I topped last week are flying it

Yeah, big growth this week alright.

Timmaay

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

And today's rain and Mondays rain should keep me going for another 2 to 3 weeks, hopefully.

Ah yep grass absolutely flying it since that 30mm a week ago, however loads of time for another drought to hit in later in the summer if things reloaded again given the 50mm+ deficit still there.

But yeh the grass challenge has firmly moved on now to getting every blade of steamy grass gone from the place, because the cows have zero interest in eating it, the fookers decided they would flatten a pigtail fence 2 nights ago and break into the silage pit instead of eat what they were given uggghhh. I've no regrets about letting the afc rise and not topping anything until the rain hit, but I absolutely should of gone in faster then to top or bale anything that wasn't aftergrass then.

SouthWesterly

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

And today's rain and Mondays rain should keep me going for another 2 to 3 weeks, hopefully.

20mm today.

Danzy

Yeah, the interest in cleaning the strong is gone.

It had to be built up. Things were looking very quare in early June. Still could change back but lot of help there.

ruwithme

If i recall right the so called drought of 2018, we had our last rain on the 20th June. no rain then till 14th July. short duration really. it was the high temperatures that burnt things up more than no rain .

GrasstoMilk

ruwithme wrote: »

If i recall right the so called drought of 2018, we had our last rain on the 20th June. no rain then till 14th July. short duration really. it was the high temperatures that burnt things up more than no rain .

It was late august before we got rain that year.
Wet March and April and then a day june from what I remember

mahoney_j

Timmaay wrote: »

Ah yep grass absolutely flying it since that 30mm a week ago, however loads of time for another drought to hit in later in the summer if things reloaded again given the 50mm+ deficit still there.

But yeh the grass challenge has firmly moved on now to getting every blade of steamy grass gone from the place, because the cows have zero interest in eating it, the fookers decided they would flatten a pigtail fence 2 nights ago and break into the silage pit instead of eat what they were given uggghhh. I've no regrets about letting the afc rise and not topping anything until the rain hit, but I absolutely should of gone in faster then to top or bale anything that wasn't aftergrass then.

I’ve been topping paddocks for last week ,not all of them but any with auld scrawnings and wirey stuff left after cows that was stressed see lots of places around with simillar that didn’t too and going to be a lot of crap grass for next few weeks

Bass Reeves

mahoney_j wrote: »

I’ve been topping paddocks for last week ,not all of them but any with auld scrawnings and wirey stuff left after cows that was stressed see lots of places around with simillar that didn’t too and going to be a lot of crap grass for next few weeks

Have been using a leader follower system for last 4-6 weeks. Paddocks cleaned out some are starting to green up nicely now. Paddocks with covers have s bit of stem and small seed heads but none are exceptionally strong. I will have 10acres of after grass in 10days time as well

Mortelaro

No moisture defecit on my farm atm in SE Wicklow
Total for june 94.5mm

20.3mm fell between yesterday evening and now including some heavy showers this morning

whelan2

Just hope it knows when to stop raining

20silkcut

I still have some first cut that’s gone dirty and stemmy with strong seed heads. Might chance knocking it this evening or tomorrow.

The Rabbi

ruwithme wrote: »

If i recall right the so called drought of 2018, we had our last rain on the 20th June. no rain then till 14th July. short duration really. it was the high temperatures that burnt things up more than no rain .

In 2018 we had 32mm in May,6mm on June 1st,40mm July27-29,
20mm Aug 26th.From the second week in Sept we got a bit of rain
and the daytime temps dropped under 20°.This months total so far 30mm
Ten miles east at the other side of hills 78mm.Big differences in this small country.

Biscuitus

ruwithme wrote: »

If i recall right the so called drought of 2018, we had our last rain on the 20th June. no rain then till 14th July. short duration really. it was the high temperatures that burnt things up more than no rain .

There had already been very dry weather before the last date of rain. When we made silage in the first week of June our contractor said he was refusing to put out slurry for lads because of the lack of rain.

SouthWesterly

6.8mm so far, today with 83 for the month.

Tileman

SouthWesterly wrote: »

6.8mm so far, today with 83 for the month.

I think we can close this thread now 😂. Next one will be ‘when Is the rain going to stop”

oxjkqg

Tileman wrote: »

I think we can close this thread now ��. Next one will be ‘when Is the rain going to stop”

Sweet feckal got on the Atlantic side of west clare, any small drop we got saturday evening was burnt out of it with the warm drying wind yesterday

SouthWesterly

oxjkqg wrote: »

Sweet feckal got on the Atlantic side of west clare, any small drop we got saturday evening was burnt out of it with the warm drying wind yesterday

I can see loop head from my place in Kerry and I've had lots of water.
We even have 4 blue barrels full for the eventual 2 days without rain

patsy_mccabe

I was out in Co. Limerick yesterday evening. I was really surprised with the amount of grass they had. Farmer I was talking to there couldn't believe we got no rain only very recently.

Mooooo

Enough rain now turn off the tap

whelan2

Mooooo wrote: »

Enough rain now turn off the tap

I want 5o put pour on on my cows. No opportunity in the last week