[Daisys Mum]

Won't be popular I'm sure but we are now in need of some rain! The river is so low that one of the horses got under the water gate yesterday and onto the neighbouring barley fields, it was pure luck that he didn't go onto the A1 as there are horses on the other side. Took 3 of us to get him herded back into a safe place to then get a head collar on him. The fields are hard and dry and any fertiliser just seems to be sitting on top of them, I have bought a little for one of my fields, the one the ewes and lambs will eventually go onto but don't think that there is any point having it spread as there is very little grass on it and if it gets windy again before it rains I would have been as well not bothering.

[Rosemary]

A few light showers wouldn't go amiss here 

[Marches Farmer]

Nor here.  The grass is very green but could do with freshening up.

[mowhaugh]

Yes, we need it to, absolutely no grass here at all, despite application of much expensive fertiliser.

[ellied]

A few overnight april showers would be nice - grass is coming away and the mud is almost passable now so I don't want a lot but last summer's cracked earth would be good to avoid

[AndynJ]

In a polite way
 
P*** o** we've had enough rain for 2 years, we still have puddles

You want rain ?? come down here I'll give you bl**dy rain

We haven't had rain for a while but still need to wear willies,(oops wellies) ground is very soft and a couple of inches down it's sodden

[in the hills]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .......... thank you 

Our mud and puddles have dried up in the last day or two. It's bliss. Sheep look happy, chickens can have a dust bath and the dogs are clean .... well sometimes.  Children enjoying playing out. 
 More of it ..... at least for a while longer. 

[Q]

You want rain ?? come down here I'll give you bl**dy rain

 

[Louise Gaunt]

I'm with AndynJ, we are a bit further west from them in Devon and are just starting to dry out, so no rain for us please and thank you Mr Weatherman!

[Daisys Mum]

Well could we just have some in south east Scotland please Mr Weatherman, seriously my grass has stopped growing and with lambing immenant i am going to be struggling, thank goodness the equines are natives and need very little good grass.At the moment they are in the pig field but that just is going to delay getting pigs as I like to have a decent amount of grass for them.
Even the hen run which is usually pretty green at this time of year is bare.

[jaykay]

Noooooooo!!! Not for a bit yet please (I see the forecast is for rain next Wed anyway). The springs are still running and the ground is still muddy in places. But at least it's not currently a calf-deep bog, as it has been most of the winter.

[john and helen]

we have some coming tomorrow so I've been told …. …

[AndynJ]

 

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[AndynJ]

not really  BUT SHUT UP ABOUT THE BL**DY STUFF, you'll bring it on us.

I will lend you some, NO NO sorry I will give you as much as you like for free.

 

[Daisys Mum]

Sorry AndynJ but I have hobbling ewes at the moment cause the ground has got so hard.