We are getting lots of reports from farmers concerned about the state of water reserves as we enter spring a summer. As always the pictures varies widely across the nation but a glance at the rainfall situation of the previous year reveals that the rainfall shortage is most acute in northeast

  There's a shift in the NAO forecast from the CFS. Take a look at the forecast below which is now taking us to the end of April; yes I know, a long way off and believe it at your peril!!! However, given that the CFS has been pretty good at forecasting trends