Recent content by Farmer Roy

35mm the other night, so that has delayed sorghum harvest by a few days ( grain moisture for sorghum needs to be 13% ) Grain moisture will take a few days to come back down, plus, we don’t like bogging around & making a mess if we don’t have to. Rain is excellent for planting wheat back into...

Staple food item in this house 🤣

f**k me, apples are more exotic here than bananas 🤦‍♂️

if he is critical of chickpeas, theres just one example for the record & to be fair, chickpeas are one of my main crops.

India ( our largest chickpea market ) still has a 68% import duty on chickpeas, so there are plenty of chickpeas here looking for alternate homes if you're interested slightly off topic, but that raises an interesting question I read all the time on TFF about concerns that the UK is “forced”...

unlike grain, its bit harder to store bananas long term though . . .

interestingly, although no one here will believe me, the reason i gave up conventional cultivation & went full zero till, was because of a run of wet years & floods on this floodplain. I also used to farm a lake bed, as the water retreated I just kept planting to the edge of it. Wouldn't have...

Ill think you'll find that "Tarrwingee Farms" is the name of the people who posted the video, not necessarily the farm it was filmed on . . . https://www.tarrawingeefarm.com.au/

my father nearly died from a brain tumour when I was 2, my Grandfather was already dead by then. My Great Uncle ( who was the other half of the “Stanger Bros” partnership) , died when I was 8. My father developed Alzheimers disease in my early teens - I learnt NOTHING about farming from my...

grain sorghum here is planted with precision planters on wide rows, similar to corn ( maize ) Harvested with a “conventional” front, but the addition of sorghum fingers definitely help . . . Been growing sorghum as my main summer crop for about 30 or more years - ALWAYS as a zero till crop the...

Sorry if I misled you, but I never said I ran the place. I just worked there in my late 20’s Irrigated cotton was our major crop, corn ( maize ) just allowed a different crop type in the rotation & different timing for water / irrigation wasn’t that large in the scheme of things here, but we...

In rural circles here, it’s not really polite to talk about who owns what or how much land a particular individual or family owns . . . You certainly never ask . . . People here like to stay private, in comparison to the many UK & North American YouTube heroes . . .

in an Australian context, “dryland” cropping simply refers to growing crops without irrigation how you do that is up to you, but in our environment the only long term viable solution to that is zero till / direct drill, retained ground cover & conserving all possible soil moisture ( in other...

Anyone can be a busy fool