Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
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NSW, Newstralya
Failed grain sorghum crop we cut for hay earlier this year, having another crack at life, with no rain ( apart from the odd mm or two ) since about March
You’ve got to admire its resilience (y):love:

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Blaithin

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Alberta
Hiding in a windrow was it.

I hit a few with the mower conditioner doing alfalfa hay in Montana. Usually it just trimmed some fur and cut the tail off as they went under the cutterbar. Only got one thought the conditioner which stunk a bit.
Could’ve been standing canola. I think most of theirs is.
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
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NSW, Newstralya
Amazing. Where the fudge is it getting the moisture from? :LOL:

the thing is, its a living plant in the soil, coming into the time of year we would normally be planting it anyway.
It has a developed root system.
Given how dry it is & how little soil moisture we have ( if anyone remembers my golden rule of crop establishment of needing 1m of soil moisture ), we currently have zero chance of establishing any summer crops, let alone carrying them through to maturity & grain or fibre harvest.
Because it is so hot, dry & almost nil groundcover ( :oops::banghead::cry: ), the chances of storing any small falls of rain in a "long fallow" situation are very low - 20 - 50 mm today would just evaporate tomorrow & be ineffective for a following crop.
Realistically, we need 200 - 300mm rain soon, or ideally a nice slow Watermark / Mooki River flood to fill the profile. That soil would just soak it up like a massive sponge. Good deep, heavy, cracking clays (y):love:

However, IF we get any of those smaller falls, those living roots / leaves WILL make use of it. At the very worst, it is pumping carbon into the soil & supporting the biology, but there is a much greater chance of getting a baling or grazing opportunity at some point ( thus income, which ultimately, its all about ), than trying to establish a new crop.

Its also why I wont be spraying it out to "conserve moisture"
 
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Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
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NSW, Newstralya
Had a load of canola come in. They combined a skunk with it :sick::sick::sick:
Hiding in a windrow was it.

I hit a few with the mower conditioner doing alfalfa hay in Montana. Usually it just trimmed some fur and cut the tail off as they went under the cutterbar. Only got one thought the conditioner which stunk a bit.

wild pigs are the thing here, not uncommon for them to end up in a header or jammed in the front of a cotton picker

this year, Jack, who was running the other cotton stripper, managed to pick up a dead roo. Apparently it wasn't much fun trying to get it out :ROFLMAO:
 
wild pigs are the thing here, not uncommon for them to end up in a header or jammed in the front of a cotton picker

this year, Jack, who was running the other cotton stripper, managed to pick up a dead roo. Apparently it wasn't much fun trying to get it out :ROFLMAO:

I had some friends here who were after a fallow deer to eat. I asked my neighbour who had some hiding n his cotton and his condition was they did not leave any dead deer in the crop. I later found out they shot 3 and only found 2 so I was a bit worried when they were harvesting, but they did not pick up any.
 

Kidds

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Horticulture
Cheap pheasant feed surely? Looks like you've had the bottom of the bin of wheat that wasn't cleaned properly after it had barley in it.
It was bought as wheat and used it to feed my geese so quality wasn’t a big deal. Was charged a high price for what it was though.
Farm it came off grows it and uses it to feed cattle, they have a wheat bin/silo and another for barley. This was out of the wheat bin. I was quite shocked at the quality, or lack of. I’m no expert on grain by any means but I don’t think you need to be in this case.
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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