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oil barron

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Nut harvesting machines to shake trees; catch the nuts and transport back to the trucks. Huge business in the valley. One grower has over 100,000 acres of nuts.

A small bale homer device for use with a pickup truck.
 

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oil barron

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- The Dew point baling system. This is a massive steam boiler that injects steam into Hay as you are baling so that you can bale all day rather than just at night when the damp is down. Also adds 150-200lbs per bale.

- Retro painted Versatile. Looked smart.

- Machine for pulling drip tape irrigation out of the ground. needs some serious horsepower I believe.
 

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oil barron

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- California style ploug.
- basic JD drill
- Man size lime spreader.
- The Vicon Acrobat lives on.
- some serious silage pushers.
 

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oil barron

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- A proper subsoiler. Goes down 6ft to prepare ground for Almonds.
- Bendy slurry tanker.
- Tub Mixer for a micro dairy.
- Shyte boat.
- Big rig
- A Brit Abroad.
- A seriuous shyte injecting rig.
 

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oil barron

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@CORK I am working in the oilfields near Bakersfield. Should be here for 4 years; so long as I don't get laid off. The big Krone dealership is in Tulare and handles all the Krone equipment coming in from the Port of LA before it heads out across the US.
 

oil barron

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Aberdeenshire
- Planting spuds in January. They can plant about 160 acres a day with the crew.
- A typical central valley dairy farm. Feedlot style housing. Grow a crop of Maize silage and 2 crops of wholecrop cereal silage in a year. Some are switiching to sorgum to save water; but it tastes shyte apparently.
- Another Ritchie bros Auction.
 

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david

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@oil barron

Many thanks for posting your pictures, always nice to see how farming is done elsewhere. What's the reason for only being able to bale hay during the night (or steam rig) with dew on it ? Always like the sun blazing on it here - when we get some sun.

In my bucket list to go over for a visit - someday !
 

oil barron

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Aberdeenshire
Some cattle grazing on the foothills. Gods country this time of year; in a couple of weeks it will all be burnt off though most likely. For any agricultural historians this is the area that Miller and Lux built their cattle empire. Now owned by the Twizzleman family.

Massive bloody tumbleweed. They get all stuck in your radiator when you plough into them.

Tatties growing next to an oil well. What a pleasant site. Just makes you feel good about yourself seeing it.
 

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oil barron

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Grass grown as a green manure / soil conditioner before being disced down to grow carrots. I'm sure the dairy farming neighbors must look at this in disgust when they can't get water to grow fodder.

Some pictures from the blue sky endless horizon farms of the former Tulare lake bottom. The scale is mindblowing. This was once the largest fresh water lake west of the missisipi but has been conquered by damming the Kings and Kawelah rivvers and now grows cotton; wheat; seed alfalfa and Safflower. The soil is obviously very good being a former lake bottom; but there is an impermeable layer of clay below. They say that they won't grow permanent crops here (Almonds; Pistachios and Citrus) as there is the potential to flood again; but there looked to be some pistachio orchards going in now. The farms here are all a ridiculous size; as they need to be to be able to conduct the necessary hydraulic engineering and they have to allow certain areas to flood in a heavy snow melt year. This photo was taken on the Hansen ranch which is a paltry 15,000 acres. They are crofters compared to their neighbor J,G Boswell who farms 130,000 acres. Flood irrigation is used to manage the salt.

Although the farms are huge the attention to detail is awesome. From the carefully parked machine yards with 50 cotton harvesters in a dead straight line; to sending out squads to hand rouge any weed areas. They say that John Deere developed Greenstar specifically at the request of Boswell.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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