rain,rain,and more rain

[delabodge]

just want to say thanks to my reading crew,who against all odds stuck at it today in torrential rain to hit the deadline,we couldnt rake up as it was floating,,,mad days like today make you realise what great lads I work with,,you know who you are,,,,,,

[Andy Collins]

Nice one

[schofield]

been glorious sunshine for a change up here in north yorkshire!!

 

well done to the lads

[Matthew Arnold]

It was havoc in Bournemouth today. We got the same amount of rain but no where near the amount of flash flooding. BBC News - Dorset flash flooding causes disruption

[farmer_ben]

made 1000 small straw bales yesterday, all ruined now! mother nature at her most harsh!!!

 

not much we can do!!

[nick channer]

luckily we've done 15000 small barley bales and none got wet.. only in the swath... got just over 1500 mini hesstons out in field though.. all stacked up so hopefully bit sunshine tomorrow and it'l dry the top ones off... loaded a lorry this morning just before it started belting down and he was off to north wales... god no's what they were like when they arrived

[farmer_ben]

i got 300 on a trailer and back in a shed, stacked 200 in the field as it started raining as a panic measure! must say my first harvest has been a real challenge

[nick channer]

its the stop start that does my head in..just get everything going smoothly, combine grain carters, small baler, lorrys organised to collect bales out field, big baler going with bales being carted or stacked then overnite everything comes to grindin halt!! my cousins got a 600 lexion on hire with a 40ft header so balin behind that is a pleasure.. although it does smash the straw to bits.. could do with a week of good weather and we'l be done.... gonna take big baler off tomorrow and put the sumo do some min tilling ready for drillin..

[blazer]

just looked on the Met office site, and it looks unsettled for weeks ahead, also the 'Met office' are celibrating 150 years:sneaky2:

 

It seams to do it every year, no rain when crops are growing then rain for harvesting - do you think 'old Nick' is on the anti's side.

 

Locally we can have really heavy showers and the next village is dry. We have had little rain since the end of Febuary most of the springs and streams have dried up.

 

One local big farm was watering wheat field when green to try and get it growing. On the shoot we have over 70 acres of cover crop and some is little more than knee high against 7' on good years.

 

Not sure what tonnage the wheat is this year. They have X2 large wheat storage on the estate they hold say 13,000 tonnes each - alot of bread.

[harvey b davison]

Would love to help out one harvest, just to get to experience and see how much work goes into harvesting, which people seem to take for granted.