Recent content by TheVardibo

Some action from Finland. Had a proper snowstorm here today. This lorry was going to pick up som pallets fom us. Driver called and said he had run in to the ditch. Lucky he did not go 30 meters forward or he would have gone in to the sea! Still not on the road as they will have to use a crane...

I remember when i was eighteen and had my saab 900 turbo, witch was way to fast for a youth like me. :) Me and my mates had offcourse fiddeled with the turbo pressure, and it was turned up as high as it went... One day I was driving on a typical finnish gravel road. Too fast around a corner and...

As I am from Finland I think i have to comment on this. Finland has about 2.5 million hectares of arable land, all of witch is north of the 60th parallel. This is possible because the gulf stream and the baltic sea delivers some heat. Without that it would be inpossible to grow anything :)...

Back again with some pictures from up north. We have had a very early spring this year, dry and warmer than normal. Started the first fieldwork on April 4th and all grain was seeded in April. Normal years we start last week of April, so about 3 weeks earlier than normal. Very pleased with the...

My christmas present arrived today. A new grader blade, the old one broke after over 30 years of service when father was filling back drains. This one will not break to easy and is 50 cm wider at 3 meters. Just waiting for some snow so I can try it out. Last christmas we had almost a meter of...

Yields were down a bit here as well but quality was really good and harvesting weather was superb. The highest yielding fields of late varieties of yellow onions can yield around 60 tons, but then you are really pushing it. Reds tend to yield a little less but are payed better. Quality is very...

In Finland there is a large demand for locally (Finnish) produced food. Therefore Finnish products tend to be priced a bit higher and people buy the products anyway. With out that I don´t think we could compete with imported food. Prices for red onins range from 30-50 cents a kilo, delivered...

Here is some more pictures from this fall, harvesting and seeding combinable crops. We grow wheat and oats, mainly as break crops and on fields that are not suitable for vegetables. Tractors and combine ready for the day! As you can see we like red machinery :) Harvesting oats with our...

Farming is a challange in all parts of the world it seems :). In Finland we are always amazed how cheap you can produce and export your products in Holland. As a vegetable producer holland is a big inspiration. The onions are lifted as soon as they "fall over". We don´t have the time to wait...

Here is some more pictures from our vegetable operation with is the most importent bussines on the farm. Powerharrowing land for lettuce transplanting Transplanting lettuce. Must be one off the most boring tractordriving, but the result is good. Fencing the bloody deers out. We need...

Oh, I forgot this thread. I´ve been busy with harvest at home and now school. I study at Swedish agricultural university in Uppsala. Niels, Holland would be a dream to farm in :). We have a much shorter growing season and also the fields are much smaller and more awkvard. But a lot of the crops...

I have been a long time reader of this forum. I think it is interesting to see how farming is done in different parts of the world. In this thread I will post pictures from our farm, located in the south-west part of Finland, on an island called Aland. We farm about 60 ha, and grow vegetables...