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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad as Fish" data-source="post: 50020" data-attributes="member: 396">The weather is different every year and it usually favours some farmers while others are disadvantaged. This year may have had a wet summer but June was one of the best for silage making ever, so, overall, dairy farmers have no great cause for complaint, although they will of course, they'd be complaining even more if there had been no rain at all  and the grass stopped growing altogether.Tillage farmers were not so lucky with a very catchy harvest, but, in farming, you just have to take each year as it comes and look to a five or even ten year average. What has been to their favour is the advent of less intensive tillage systems over the last few years, meaning that ground is prepared, and crops planted far faster than before, allowing them to make the most of dry periods, hence the appreciation of regular weather forecasts. It might have been the wettest July but those farmers with experience from many seasons will not have been phased by it, next year the situation could be reversed and they'd need to manage the day to day operations quite differently.</blockquote>

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