Weather - very worried about prices next year.

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We are surrounded by crop fields. This year it is wheat. The farmer managed to get the crop in and it started sprouting well, but with the recent relentless rain, it all looks as though it is dying off. And these are fields that are on the top of a hill. It doesn't bode well for food prices, both for humans and for animals next year. In fact, I don't think we will have known things so hard as what they look set to be next year. What do others think? Anyone staying optimistic?
 
This was opposite us this morning.
Barley ruined
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Lots of farmers round here haven't even been able to get a crop in! Talking to a few they are hoping to get on in spring and drill -BUT unless things dry up a lot that won't be possible. There was an amazing photo in farmers weekly a few weeks ago of a guy combining in hard frost as that was the only thing that had hardened the ground enough to get the combine on the field!! Presumably what he was combining was just dumped!

Food prices will not be good next year, as much of the rest of the world has had extreme weather as well as us.
 
We have already made the decision not to have pigs again next year due to the high cost of feed

I sell the odd fancy pet bantam to help pay for the upkeep of my show chickens but have sold very few this year because of feed costs and the weather no one wanted to buy - I even had to give some away recently just to reduce my flock for winter

I dread to think what next year will bring
 
Well how many wet summers is it now must be 5 ?? surely we are due a dry warm one sooner or later , yes and round here most people have struggled to clear crops up and gave up any ideas of winter planting, most fields were just too waterlogged to plow and cultivate let alone drill ....
 
The last hot summer was 2003 as that was the last year i bought a paddling pool for my son. Every year since then, it's been rain and floods all summer and winter. I moved my horse onto haylage as more farmers seem to be making that instead of hay due to the limited heat/sun we have now. I think it's going to be like this from now on unfortunately due to climate change.
 
Nothing to worry about, the wonderful Monsanto will be working like Santas little helpers to create crops that can survive being submerged for the first few months of life! Don't you just love 'em :mad:

I have a polytunnel going up in spring so i can grow under cover as everything we planted outdoors this year was ruined. We made haylage but it wasn't good enough so neighbours cows ate it and I'm now buying in hay.

Sooner or later it will dry up but I think this is a natural cycle in our planets life. At least we are all still here after Friday failure :D
 
After watching the "Wartime Farm" programm and the crew ensiling sugarbeet tops as animal (cattle) feed I've been watching sugarbeet tops being shred and ploughed back into the soil and thinking what a waste of animal feed. If we're going to have these unreliable years surely it makes sense to ensile anything we can that we're producing that effectively goes to waste nowadays.
 
OH comes from a farming family and always say it'll come right in the end. So yes it's wet but we'll get some dry, and if you average it out over a few years it'll be fine. We're fine for hay as we managed to get enough for the whole year, normally buy in 100 bales+ which is what we've done for the past 3 years.
 
The weather will get more and more unpredictable over the next decade. Climatologists just can't predict what will happen we just know that cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes are increasing in quantity and intensity and we often get the 'left overs' of the sting winds and rain. I feel for the farmers out there. I also think it will impact the equine industry immensely.
 
Wagtail said:
This is a very serious situation I think, especially if other countries are having problems too.
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Food prices will rise again next year:(

China are consuming more protein than ever before. There demand for wheat and soya is growing YOY.
Then you have the US, with the demand for biofuels
worldwide stocks on both wheat and soya are low
To top it all our farmers cant get on the fields to plant this years crop.

Its either too dry ( Brazil) or too wet (uk)

Tough times ahead
 
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