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On the subject of wet weather and potholes. Cross compliance rules are about to changed for subsidy payments for farmers. Each farmer will be allocated depending on the size of farm a number of potholes on local country roads to be filled in over the summer before autumn payments as councils no longer have the resources. Materials will be supplied by councils.
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High wind chill all day here with brief sharp showers obviously falling as snow above 1000 feet as some very strong arctic colours in the shower clouds as they moved over the Cairngorms to the south. Not a day for standing around. Should have posted this yesterday. Totally different today no wind some long sunny spells and just a few light showers. Got a few outside jobs done including taking down electric fence in neeps as last row finished. Fine when the sun was out but mid afternoon we picked up a light NE wind off the Firth with a chill in it after the NW wind of yesterday. So the pattern was changing today. Lots of geese stocking up on half decent fields of winter wheat and barley They will be here a while yet if this NE wind persists. Currently 5c
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damianslaw In my 5 decades of farming March has aways been the hungriest month of the year for the animals on the farm. To me up here it has always been a winter month much more so than December (2010 excepted) sea temperatures are at their lowest, proximity to the arctic with more frequent north and east winds less modification. My birthday in early April has seen a lot of falling snow settling well overnight.. My mother who moved up here in the early sixties was a Londoner who used to say" spring doesn"t happen in Scotland summer arrives on the first of June" with the exception of the first of June 1975 Right up to midsummers day these north and east winds can bring fresh snow to the mountain tops. Because of the strength of light we can get some really arctic skies until late June especially in the evenings
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Frosty start to day at -4c but with clear blue skies Lots of tractors round here trying to take advantage of dryer weather but always managing to find a wet spot in a field where they get stuck patience needed, Managed to get a spring store of neeps up in the last week. Still potentially two and a half months of winter feeding to get through.Snow showeracross the Firth yesterday.