Fenwick
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do you have the coordinates GPS? It would be interesting to see the NDVI results on the Copernicus Browser.
Does Copernicus allow you to see satellite imagery over time? What does the NDVI tell you? I've had a quick look, Looks like it'll be good for recording land transformation over time!do you have the coordinates GPS? It would be interesting to see the NDVI results on the Copernicus Browser.
yes you can create timelapses etc.Does Copernicus allow you to see satellite imagery over time? What does the NDVI tell you? I've had a quick look, Looks like it'll be good for recording land transformation over time!
It's true though.nothing original yet. All stuff that you would have picked up on here over the thread. However, nice bitesize chapters to read in a very personable style. I love the way he crunches numbers to make you relate to stocking densities rather than stocking rates.
Then there is this little gem about Management Intensive Grazing which has cropped up on here so often...it's as if he has been to the same school of analogies as @Kiwi Pete ! View attachment 1155747
how did you get to view that image? link please to the site if poss....thankshaven't got as far as time-lapse, but quite chuffed to see our farm stands out quite plainly from neighbours
haven't got as far as time-lapse, but quite chuffed to see our farm stands out quite plainly from neighbours
The site has changed a bit, but this link got me nearly back there.how did you get to view that image? link please to the site if poss....thanks
Ours is all PP, most will have been reseeded until about 1990, and barring a couple of shaws that were removed the fields are about the same in 1850.What is growing on your land? Pasture? What is growing on the neighbours lands?
Right now the best looking fields around mine (neighbours fields) are Italian ryegrass or well rested, well functioning pastures.
Unsurprisingly wheat looks awful with all that bare soil.
In the summer the fields of maize are head and shoulders above the rest.
You can also use the phone app 'onesoil', although it is a litle more basic. One can easily spot the areas where the cows have grazed and where the pugging during this wet weather has been more or less intense.
I'll post a screenshot.
Ours is all PP, most will have been reseeded until about 1990, and barring a couple of shaws that were removed the fields are about the same in 1850.
Having played with different dates on the app, I see the neighbouring field that most of the time looks like bare ground, suddenly turns a darker green than any of ours, I think 2022 was drilled osr and marigold companion or something similar.
High pH silty clay here.What is the soil type?
Species suited to sand different the special suited to clay...
We are acid sands so totally different!High pH silty clay here.
Yes even sainfoin and lucerne will grow here, unless it's a flat poorly drained area.We are acid sands so totally different!
Fortunately for you I think most legumes prefer alkaline. Timothy, ryegrass, fescues, plantain, trefoil, white clover would all work well, I'd guess.
l wonder after 70 yrs applying acidic nitrogen fert, how we have actually increased the ph of our soils.
not so many years ago, soil testing would leave us with ph of 5 to 5.5, with some areas starting with a 4.
more recent testing, and lower N use, are showing more like 5.5 to 6. Now the other difference, older tests were done 'on site' using litmus paper, and colour chart, recent ones lab tested.
which one is more accurate, or is the lower ph being corrected, slowly by nature, and less N use ?
Beautiful day there. Do you muster off a bike or do you have some dogs that help out?
understood lucerne/alfalfa was a dry area crop, grown where moisture is deficient.
therefor surprised to find it as a water hungry crop, and the growing of it, with irrigation, has very seriously depleted water supply, in some states in USA, as much as introducing rules to stop it being exported/grown, and withdrawing leases, bought by other countries, to stop the indiscriminate use of said water.
Saudi Arabia is growing intensively in US to feed cattle in Saudi, and other countries as well.
Carbon foot print, lucerne USA to Saudi, very environmentally friendly. And people think planting a few trees, will sort the matter out
and a happy new year.