Recent content by Two Tone

I’ll bet that Joe Rogan will say that it can be controlled by spraying it with Ivermectin - Liberally!

All your chaps are brilliant. I particularly like the fact that many of the names and numbers and printed on the hopper of my GD drill. It is so handy when you have a quick question we need answering.

Metcalfe

Good to be actually drilling at last. This should have been drilled last October with Beans. Now switched to barley because we‘ll need the straw. Too wet still to use the GD, so using @Warnsworth Horsch that Weaving have modified using their Artemis drive system. Not exactly ideal conditions but...

No worries, Not just the GD but other stuff you do like fitting your Artemis system to @Warnesworth ’s Horsch drill that used to belong to @Charlie Flindt . @Warnesworth hired it to us to drill some Spring Barley into 15ha that didn’t get drilled with Winter Beans You sent a brilliant young...

The Brecklands?

Had the same thing on 2 grass fields last Saturday

Just spent a wonderful morning at Weaving’s factory. What an incredible success it all is and how it continues to develop. 3D lazer cut tubular steel now replacing box steel. Stronger with much better weldings, being shot blasted reading for painting here:

He does. It’s just a different colour of desert sand - Red.

Yep! Further muddied by things like SFI paying farmers who use DD. The problem being that if DD become a disaster once very 5 years as it has this one, that annual payment doesn’t even touch the sides of the loss it has incurred. I’m thrilled for those that can make it work, but this year...

Spot on again! There are farmers that ploughed or min-tilled here that also have less than ideal crops. But without exception, every single only of them is better that where land was DD’d, even on light land. In most cases, they have a crop, whereas those of us that DD’d have half a crop at best.

Spot on! If I return to a plough based system, it will be the 4th time I will have done so in my farming lifetime. And the reason every time is for repairing and adequate Blackgrass control on Heavy land. Every time I did so in the past, I said that there wouldn’t be a next (5th) time! Yes, we...

Even Harry is having similar problems, though you don’t see the entire picture until 19 mins and 45 seconds in. He has Brome in his DD’d bit and one hell of a lot of grass in his Claydon’d bit. All caused by the excessive rainfall and he is on mostly very free-draining land! He isn’t going to...

These are exactly the questions I’m asking and similar conclusions I’m coming up with. BUT….. is the catalyst the excessive rain we have had the cause of such a sudden, catastrophic breakdown in Blackgrass control? And if so, has this in effect scuppered RPA’s incentive of trying to make...

Don’t tell anybody, but……….. I (personally) have got a plough. It might just earn me some money again. I just don’t have a Combi to drill with, which would be another vital part of the equation to follow it. I kept the fecker just in case………..! (But it belongs to me, not the farm). Maybe I...