- Location
- Cornwall
Be a interesting bloke to have a beer with when we get to his part of Scotland
Rather you than me!
Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
- Thread starter Farmer Roy
- Start date
Rather you than me!
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
He wouldn't be a beer drinker . . .
I picture him more as a very weak, milky tea drinker, or the sort of person who only uses half a teaspoon of instant coffee granules
I picture him more as a very weak, milky tea drinker, or the sort of person who only uses half a teaspoon of instant coffee granules
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
We have defoliated our cotton, hopefully we don't need a second application. Theoretically we should be picking in a couple of weeks
Due to the heat & dry, we had some of the early bolls start cracking a couple of weeks ago & I was worried about them. Thankfully, they seem to be opening up well & " fluffing " up. The Picker can't pick the cotton if the bolls aren't all open & fluffed up like balls of cotton wool
Due to the heat & dry, we had some of the early bolls start cracking a couple of weeks ago & I was worried about them. Thankfully, they seem to be opening up well & " fluffing " up. The Picker can't pick the cotton if the bolls aren't all open & fluffed up like balls of cotton wool
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Good luck.
- Location
- Cornwall
Be sure to take a few pictures of it being harvested?! Intimate pictures please... intimate pictures of the harvester that is, not you!
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Handsfree kit for Tossfarmers.What the feck are they?Northern hemisphere happy tablets?
Saves draining the NHS budget for sprained wrists and CTS.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Hosing it down here
Cattle seem to be scared of rain, the sissies have left the shelter of their treeline to huddle in the far corner with their butts pointed into the weather
Bit of growth has happened in here, apart from a couple of patches where the pigeons refuelled, sun out again in the time it took to type this out and upload pictures
need to get some stuff in those puddles
Cattle seem to be scared of rain, the sissies have left the shelter of their treeline to huddle in the far corner with their butts pointed into the weather
Bit of growth has happened in here, apart from a couple of patches where the pigeons refuelled, sun out again in the time it took to type this out and upload pictures
need to get some stuff in those puddles
- Location
- Cornwall
What have you got in that mix?
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
A few leftover peas, and some kale
20kg field peas
30kg white oats
30kg forage triticale "wintermax"
1kg plantain "Tonic"
1kg kale "SF Fuel"
1kg leafy turnip "SF Pacer"
Like SeedForce varieties a lot
Sprayed out pasture with salt, tickled the top inch with a rotospike to bust up the thatch, airseeded on Jan 16th, rolled, sat for 6 weeks waiting for rain
20kg field peas
30kg white oats
30kg forage triticale "wintermax"
1kg plantain "Tonic"
1kg kale "SF Fuel"
1kg leafy turnip "SF Pacer"
Like SeedForce varieties a lot
Sprayed out pasture with salt, tickled the top inch with a rotospike
to bust up the thatch, airseeded on Jan 16th, rolled, sat for 6 weeks waiting for rain 
FonterraFarmer
Member
- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
I guess we will find out who he/she/they are when one gets there
Won't be this year, as this years summer (northern hemisphere) will be back to BC and the Rockies
- Location
- Cornwall
A few leftover peas, and some kale
20kg field peas
30kg white oats
30kg forage triticale "wintermax"
1kg plantain "Tonic"
1kg kale "SF Fuel"
1kg leafy turnip "SF Pacer"
Like SeedForce varieties a lot
Sprayed out pasture with salt, tickled the top inch with a rotospike
And you’ll strip/cell graze that or just turn them in on it?
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Likely just run them on/off/on for fertility transfer.
The aim is to keep skimming the top off it right thru winter with sheep until the brassicas are gone, then take the triticale as silage if it isnt needed for cattle turnout tucker.... could be a long wet winter going by reports from the north
FonterraFarmer
Member
- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
No point in putting in grass seed till after St Patricks dayA few leftover peas, and some kale
20kg field peas
30kg white oats
30kg forage triticale "wintermax"
1kg plantain "Tonic"
1kg kale "SF Fuel"
1kg leafy turnip "SF Pacer"
Like SeedForce varieties a lot
Sprayed out pasture with salt, tickled the top inch with a rotospike
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
could be a long wet winter going by reports from the north
that would be nice
make a change from the last 2 long hot dry summers & no real winter . . .
still 36 C here today
- Location
- Cornwall
Been a lot of this going on around here the last week/10 days! Wind had picked up today and the town where we’re based has a blanket of dust on it.
Can’t for the life of me figure out why they’re doing it. We haven’t had rain for nearly 100 days, there’s none forecast for the foreseeable future, it’s high 20’s going up to 36 again at the weekend and seeding is a good 6 weeks away at best. They must be losing 1000’s of tons of top soil! Perhaps its frustration at the lack of rain? Boredom?
Who needs top soil aye?!
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Recreational tillage ?
getting bored & feeling the need to do something ?
dunno, I'm with you, doesn't make any sense to me either.
I just couldn't bring myself to destroy what little groundcover is left . . .
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I have my longs on today.... about 9 degrees!that would be nice
make a change from the last 2 long hot dry summers & no real winter . . .
still 36 C here today
Wet and windy, must break out the plough
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Maybe they just read the date wrong and thought it's 1820?
Ye Olde Methodes
Makes no sense, although in drought conditions (sorry) there is always that burning desire to do something to fix the problem.
Often the best thing to do is go on holiday, and that way the burning of fuels achieves a positive, instead of whatever that turkey gizzard is up to
Ye Olde Methodes
Makes no sense, although in drought conditions (sorry) there is always that burning desire to do something to fix the problem.
Often the best thing to do is go on holiday, and that way the burning of fuels achieves a positive, instead of whatever that turkey gizzard is up to
- Location
- Cornwall
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The air is so full of dust it’s getting in my teeth! Weird!
Wind is gusting 60kph+. Fire danger is “bad” in the words of one of the CFS guys who works with us.
The air is so full of dust it’s getting in my teeth! Weird!
Wind is gusting 60kph+. Fire danger is “bad” in the words of one of the CFS guys who works with us.