Can't you speed it up a bit more?Just done a short video from some of yesterday’s spring barley ?
Can't you speed it up a bit more?Just done a short video from some of yesterday’s spring barley ?
That may put the losses up though ??Can't you speed it up a bit more?
Glad to see I’m not the only one with spring oats with a bushel weight in the 30sAround 5 t/ha of 38 kg/hl needles here! I haven’t measured the heaps yet so can’t give a better answer.
I’ll grow them one more year to see if I can get them down in the 20s
Thats some memory you have Bankrupt the ability[ to recall facts and figures from drillings and harvests long past. A memory like that would put an elephant to shame !!!!We did exactly that for the 1977 season, Vitu, but they didn't cooperate at all and bounced back to 56 or so.
Maris Tabard it was, I think.
That is one hell of a forward speed!Started cutting Doubleshot spring wheat Saturday 82 kph at 20 mc so will push into it at the weekend when the good weather shows up Early indications are of a very good yield but in the absence of yield meter on the combine will have to wait till its cut to see .
I believe you’ve said that your dad and brother are involved in the business, are they carrying on?Mental health.
I found running a business which had high working capital requirements, while at the same time the main factor in the success being the weather, to be quite a mental drain. Heavy land, a working window that had me working every hour I could physically be in the seat and awake.
My eldest son has a September 2nd birthday. He started secondary school this year and this is the first year I've been to his birthday.
Costs of keeping "in the game" with machinery etc were just getting silly. We'd figured the farms were in decent order, and have been taken on by another local outfit, and could do it with time so neither the new contractor nor customer were inconvenienced.
I'm 40 this Christmas, although to look at me you'd think I was closer to 50. It was never really planned to get as big as it got, and although I've enjoyed having the big gear and all that, it's time to try a different approach. I'm staying farming my bit, and in agriculture generally. But much lower intensity, and hopefully something a bit more manageable.
Anyway, nice to have ended it with some nice heaps of wheat.......even if I have most of it left to sell. Oops.
Mental health.
I found running a business which had high working capital requirements, while at the same time the main factor in the success being the weather, to be quite a mental drain. Heavy land, a working window that had me working every hour I could physically be in the seat and awake.
My eldest son has a September 2nd birthday. He started secondary school this year and this is the first year I've been to his birthday.
Costs of keeping "in the game" with machinery etc were just getting silly. We'd figured the farms were in decent order, and have been taken on by another local outfit, and could do it with time so neither the new contractor nor customer were inconvenienced.
I'm 40 this Christmas, although to look at me you'd think I was closer to 50. It was never really planned to get as big as it got, and although I've enjoyed having the big gear and all that, it's time to try a different approach. I'm staying farming my bit, and in agriculture generally. But much lower intensity, and hopefully something a bit more manageable.
Anyway, nice to have ended it with some nice heaps of wheat.......even if I have most of it left to sell. Oops.
Well spotted, thats what i get for trying to to be up to date , meant its bushel weight is 82 !!!That is one hell of a forward speed!
to recall facts and figures
I believe you’ve said that your dad and brother are involved in the business, are they carrying on?
We need the book!Had our fair share of mistakes and disasters here over the years, many not easily forgotten.
Mental health.
I found running a business which had high working capital requirements, while at the same time the main factor in the success being the weather, to be quite a mental drain. Heavy land, a working window that had me working every hour I could physically be in the seat and awake.
My eldest son has a September 2nd birthday. He started secondary school this year and this is the first year I've been to his birthday.
Costs of keeping "in the game" with machinery etc were just getting silly. We'd figured the farms were in decent order, and have been taken on by another local outfit, and could do it with time so neither the new contractor nor customer were inconvenienced.
I'm 40 this Christmas, although to look at me you'd think I was closer to 50. It was never really planned to get as big as it got, and although I've enjoyed having the big gear and all that, it's time to try a different approach. I'm staying farming my bit, and in agriculture generally. But much lower intensity, and hopefully something a bit more manageable.
Anyway, nice to have ended it with some nice heaps of wheat.......even if I have most of it left to sell. Oops.
Was thinking the same myself.If you feel up for it, it would be good to have a thread on this.
Not in any personal way but in a business way.
Best Wishes
If you feel up for it, it would be good to have a thread on this.
Not in any personal way but in a business way.
Best Wishes
It most certainly is to succesfully kick the crop habit would require abstaining from the TFF otherwise its like getting of the gear in a squat full of junkies !!!I'm also very grateful for all the kind words I'm getting from a variety of sources. In a way, it's not been a massive change to make but it feels like a big decision. But that was really another example of how "the farm" becomes your life, rather than letting you live your life. As I've spoken to a variety of people in related industries it's been very much of a "me too" - there seems to be an awful lot of people, mostly the self-employed, in trades allied to farming who are sick of either the antisocial hours; the paperwork (making tax digital is not for many); staffing; or the lack of their power to increase their earnings as those in the public or service sectors see their free incomes increase.
Attached is a picture to show that, despite the prices, I'm still going to "have another go".
It's like heroin isn't it...........