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

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At last started our rice today. Bottom two bays were sh!t and probably about 6 t/ha. Top two bays are much better probably over 8 t/ha. Unfortunately only 20 ha so harvest will be over tomorrow.
 

holwellcourtfarm

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following on from the EID debate elsewhere, every one of those modules has its unique bar code on a sticker applied by the picker, after it is wrapped. These are read as the truck enters the gin yard, & every module is tracked this way, back to each field & grower
Interesting. I'll have to ask Tesco to trace the cotton next time I buy a T shirt :whistle::D
 

Farmer Roy

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Ingesting. I'll have to ask Tesco to trace the cotton next time I buy a T shirt :whistle::D
haha - I don't think it goes as far as the mills, let alone manufacturers

its for the GROWERS benefit for yield / quality mapping in fields & also purely for identification of who owns what cotton when it is ginned & classed. The classing, or the quality of the fibre, can be a major determinant of actual monetary reward :)
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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View attachment 662876 View attachment 662874 At last started our rice today. Bottom two bays were sh!t and probably about 6 t/ha. Top two bays are much better probably over 8 t/ha. Unfortunately only 20 ha so harvest will be over tomorrow.
So what happened to yours:scratchhead: friends down the road went 12 tonne/ ha averageo_O

:facepalm:thought you had a big bit of s**t on the windscreen in your first pic till I zoomed in and realised it was a black dog:rolleyes::ROFLMAO::facepalm:
 

Blaithin

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Typical :rolleyes:

You issue a flood alert for people's safety and they all go out to watch it happen :banghead::p:D


At least I was SUPPOSED to be out there in flooding :whistle:
What, is the water going to jump up and bite me if I'm standing there watching it? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

They put the road closed signs up and more traffic goes around the sign to see why the road is closed than would normally go down the road while it's open!
 

Blaithin

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I really haven't poked my nose in the EID thread. I just figured all the hoops UK farmers jump through with passports for cattle, TB tests, etc. etc. how could EID's be a pain in the ass?

Are they trying to rewrite the phone book with them or are the farmers really just bucking something even Canada has in place (and we have nothing in place! Except compulsory RFID tags and no TB :censored:)
 

CornishTone

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I can see that the cost of readers and implementation might be a bit of a hurdle for smaller farms, but there must be options to share/pool/hire these more expensive pieces of kit? I’m probably being naive as I don’t know a lot about that side of the industry.
 

Kiwi Pete

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I really haven't poked my nose in the EID thread. I just figured all the hoops UK farmers jump through with passports for cattle, TB tests, etc. etc. how could EID's be a pain in the ass?

Are they trying to rewrite the phone book with them or are the farmers really just bucking something even Canada has in place (and we have nothing in place! Except compulsory RFID tags and no TB :censored:)
Apparently it (RFID) will achieve nothing that paper doesn't already achieve, and the costs make it prohibitive, and it is the NFU's fault that the Earth is a sphere..

In short, build an ark and find a friend

:cry::cry::cry:

That's roughly it, put another 15 pages of fake news in usual TFF style and there you have it.
 

Blaithin

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You mean they'd rather write all that crap down then scan it as quick as a beep? :scratchhead:

If I was at the feedlot still I'd make a video of the scanners. The efficiency is phenomenal. Catch the animal in the squeeze, pull the wand near the tag, beep, all the animals history, colour, buyer, auction mart, lot... whatever the hell you want to put in the records, just appears. As soon as the wand was broken or a tag wouldn't scan, you brought in increased human error with improperly recorded numbers.

Poor technology afraid guys!
 

Kiwi Pete

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I can see that the cost of readers and implementation might be a bit of a hurdle for smaller farms, but there must be options to share/pool/hire these more expensive pieces of kit? I’m probably being naive as I don’t know a lot about that side of the industry.
It costs maybe an extra $5 per animal for an EID tag over a standard tag. You don't need a reader but it is helpful, and it has positive spinoffs... Stupid and expensive is therefore the perfect conclusion.
 

Blaithin

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At heart, EID's are for animal traceability. So if at slaughter or death that animal is found to have an issue - BSE, TB, etc. - it can be traced back to where it was infected and what it exposed along it's way. So really, in that scenario they don't need to be read at all.

But if a farmer wants to fully utilize their ability to link data and records electronically, then a reader is the way to go.

At the feedlot we could run through easily 700-800 head or more a day during processing. Between 7 am and 5 pm. You'd be very hard pressed doing that while manually writing everything down.
 

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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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