diesel power
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The recent rain has really helped growth out around these parts over the past few days. There's a lovely kindness to temperatures now and plenty of moisture in the land to really push on growth.
Just thinking same thing myself, nights are too cold.Growth rates have fallen back considerably here in the last week,on a twenty day round and starting to tighten a bit more than I’d like .
Closed ground with decent covers is flying but anything grazed is very slow to recover with a fine poor yellow colour.
We could do with some softness.
Growth rates have fallen back considerably here in the last week,on a twenty day round and starting to tighten a bit more than I’d like .
Closed ground with decent covers is flying but anything grazed is very slow to recover with a fine poor yellow colour.
We could do with some softness.
Very poor at the moment. I
Recovery is poor enough here but a great chance to clean out should stand to grass quality next round, we hadn't a drop of rain Wednesday, a few heavy showers locally yesterday evening but still escaped without a drop, never saw ground as dry early May.You'd notice grass growing today down here.
Getting good residuals in a lot of paddocks at the minute. We did have to move some without a proper cleanout (again) after the rain on Wednesday made going tough.View attachment 65634
Getting great value out of paddocks at the moment even if they do mean work.
Recovery is poor enough here but a great chance to clean out should stand to grass quality next round, we hadn't a drop of rain Wednesday, a few heavy showers locally yesterday evening but still escaped without a drop, never saw ground as dry early May.
Id agree things ticking away but not the normal May growth. I am starting to see a slow down from lack of moisture on some very high dry ground (6 inches of soil over shale) nothing new but normally wouldnt happen until june /july, which backs up your point things are very dry for the time of year.It's been growing away here ahead of demand, BUT it's well behind other years. No surplus bales yet, hoping to put a few bits din the pit next week but nothing exciting. First cut was disappointing in quantity, we'll be OK I'm sure, but we should be snowed under with wraps at this stage. Some people blaming moisture but it's definitely not that as we are on a heavy farm, night temperatures have been keeping growth held up IMV. That said, streams and springs are way down here, wet fields are all passable (but not moisture deficient) so if it stays dry, there could be trouble on hand.....
will you stop buying for awhile and give yourself some breathing space?getting more drab by the day, running out of room back indoors as there is F all growing out side, one of the worst growing years in along time. 50mm SMD so probably need 3 to 4 inches straight away. only think that has saved us up to now is there is no heat.
where would the fun in that be :scratchhead:, its a bloody addictionwill you stop buying for awhile and give yourself some breathing space?