The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bionic on September 03, 2012, 02:19:31 am
-
They said September is going to be slightly warmer than average and slightly drier than average. :excited:
I am still in shock. Bring it on :sunshine:
-
they said
may june july august was going to be heat wave :innocent: :innocent: :innocent: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
i'm off to Oz to see family on friday so want a dry october when back please :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine:
Mx
-
I'd like to see a 'proper' autumn with crisp sharp clear mornings not an Indian summer to wreak havoc on trade yet again....and a proper winter ;D
-
no I must admit, I could do with a couple of weeks of heat. Today is lovely not a cloud in the sky. Just gives people a boost before winter me thinks
-
My swallows could do with a warm spell so that they can get the last broods fat enough to fledge before it is too late.
-
We're still waiting to mow! Think it'll have to be silo this year though now :gloomy:
-
It was very misty here this morning but has turned into a lovely day. I have been sitting outside knitting ;D
Sally
-
They said September is going to be slightly warmer than average and slightly drier than average. :excited:
I am still in shock. Bring it on :sunshine:
Well Sally - they haven't got it right so far - it's been :raining: all afternoon :gloomy: ::)
-
It's been lovely here in Somerset. :sunshine: I'm really looking forward to the next few days. :thumbsup:
-
I should just like to record that it was :sunshine: here this morning. One of 5 days this 'summer' and I had to go back to work in an office :rant: September is only allowed to be warm and dry if it promises to do it at the weekends as well!
-
Yes I agree Jaykay, that's the only way our kids will get some summer. Today beat the last day in August last week when I had to scrape the ice of my windscreen to get to the Lanark sale! :cold:
-
drizzle in the morning here in West Sussex then the sun started shining, been a very nice day, hope it may continue, lots of work to do and it all involves working outside.
-
:sunshine: :sunshine: and nothing but :sunshine: here is Shropshire. Long may it last.
-
..and :sunshine: but very windy here in the Scottish Borders.
-
:sunshine: & breezy - brilliant day to get the washing dried & cleaning-out the chook houses ;D
AND ...
I'm gonna pick some more Rowan berries for my jelly :yum:
-
drizzle in cornwall. ::)
-
:sunshine: :sunshine: here in north yorks, will get some paddocks dried up so work can commence on some repairs to fencing (we use big loader to bash in posts and little tractor to tension wire) its just been too wet to take machinery anywhere, combines in the area were flat out well into the night yesterday could hear them churning away thro open bedroom window, still lots to be cut so fingers crossed for a good window of warm dry weather., might bring the price of wheat down a bit! :fc:
Mandy :pig:
-
unfortunately it wont the price is governed by the world market and shortages there most cereals is sold on a forward contract if these farmers forward sold 1000 tons at £180 per ton they have to fulfill there contract or be penalised even if the price jumps to double there contract price once again it is the money men that are making on others misfortune :farmer:
-
the corn exchange was the original hedge fund. its been happening for hundreds of years.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/barclays-makes-500m-betting-on-food-crisis-8100011.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/barclays-makes-500m-betting-on-food-crisis-8100011.html)
-
We've mowed our bottom field at last today - pray for no :raining: !!
-
I went to get hay on Monday. The farmer was out combining while he had the chance. His wife showed me all the hay they had managed to harvest. Not much at all. Fortunately they still have a fair bit left from last year. Hope September is dry. They may manage to salvage some more. They haven't any small bales of this year's yet and I can't manage large bales.
-
apparently its supposed to be dry until October :sunshine:
-
it's drizzling a bit and quite blustery just now but still blissful not getting soaked when feeding or getting eggs - I don't even want to mention cleaning out houses ;D :&>
-
Mad weather, last week digging channels from the paddocks to take away surplus rain!
This morning out putting factor 50 on all the piglets ears as they got a bit fried yesterday in the scorchio :sunshine: , still :sunshine: today but local man said cloud will descend from the north. Grass was very very dewy this morning and it was a tad nippy, proper Autumn weather.
Mandy :pig:
-
Well it all became a disaster here. The mowed grass was drying out lovely and hubs and his brother were putting the hours in working through it. Then on Friday it rained all day :gloomy:
It dried up again on Saturday so we ended up getting it big-baled into silo. The field was so wet though that the man who baled it didn't manage to finish it all. Anyway, we've decided we're not going to bother again, we'll just get the sheep to eat the grass and buy in any bales we need.
I've never known the field so wet, it's dreadful and the tractors have made a real mess. Ho Hum. Anway, this is my middle son with the product of our recent stresses!
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l51/gemmah115/ollie.jpg)
-
Well it all became a disaster here. The mowed grass was drying out lovely and hubs and his brother were putting the hours in working through it. Then on Friday it rained all day :gloomy:
It dried up again on Saturday so we ended up getting it big-baled into silo. The field was so wet though that the man who baled it didn't manage to finish it all. Anyway, we've decided we're not going to bother again, we'll just get the sheep to eat the grass and buy in any bales we need.
I've never known the field so wet, it's dreadful and the tractors have made a real mess. Ho Hum. Anway, this is my middle son with the product of our recent stresses!
Same here!!! We did ours a couple of weeks ago - forecast was for 6 days st[/size]raigh[/color]t[/size] of good wea[/color]t[/size]her, cu[/color]t[/size] [/color]t[/size]he grass on [/color]t[/size]he sa[/color]t[/size]urda[/color][/size]y, [/color]t[/size]urned sunda[/color][/size]y, monda[/color][/size]y, [/color]t[/size]uesda[/color][/size]y [/color]t[/size]hen peed i[/color]t[/size] down, [/color]torrential,[/size] for 3 hours on [/color]t[/size]uesda[/color][/size]y evening. Big bale ha[/color][/size]y[/color][/size]lage [/color]t[/size]hen... Rubbish!!!![/color]
-
It's been dreadful hasn't it? This is the first year in the sixteen since I met my husband that I've ever known us be unable to make small hay bales. It better be a one-off! :rant:
-
sorry the weather has not been with you gemma. we had a rather busy day yeasterday brining in the pea straw just the odd 350 bales the sun was out in force throughout way to hot but its now done the weather here is dry but the wind has got up and the sun is not out oh the joys of weather watching ;) and planning.
-
sorry the weather has not been with you gemma. we had a rather busy day yeasterday brining in the pea straw just the odd 350 bales the sun was out in force throughout way to hot but its now done the weather here is dry but the wind has got up and the sun is not out oh the joys of weather watching ;) and planning.
350 bales??! Glad you managed to get them all in. Thankfully our little piece only yielded us 9 :D. Dave and I are just thankful that our livelihoods don't depend on the weather; it's annoying but it's not too great a disaster at least.
-
only small conventional bales we have so far stacked in 500 straw 200 hay and now the pea straw so we will be ok for the winter this year.
-
Can't complain here, we went to the East coast for a car boot yesterday, spent 3 hours in the lovely autumn sun with hardly any sales though - not due to the weather! Only a wee shower when we got home. Could still get things done today if I didn't feel so lousy with a full blown summer flu kind of bug :rant: . Nearly collapsed carrying 2 bags with 20 kilos of wheat each in to the house :'( :&>