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

[Farmer Roy]

I think this is the machine they are using, or one very much like it...
https://www.sumo1.com/products/dts/

ok, pretty much what DBS / Ausplow etc have been doing for years then

good to see them finally catching up

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Nice afternoon here. 5 pm and the dew has never lifted (in weeks, tbh) but really mild so far this winter. No doubt it will soon change....

Interesting about the rape/canola, I had always assumed it was just not PC hence calling it canola.
I am keen to try a little in my silage-seed mix just as a biofumigant/pollen source without detracting too much from the oat/pea/vetch/plantain mixture as far as forage quality goes. Hopefully we get some frigging rain on it this time, and it doesn't bring another 4-month dry spell like my last attempt at a pea crop.
Quite keen to see what it can really do, it has potential!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Right. Pondered your posts for a few minutes - how long does this stuff take to flower, obviously flowers are but brittle pods and dropped seed is
I am looking at around 90 days from sowing to putting the mower on... what are your thoughts?
Try some anyway?
Only be a dribble, I have made kale silage for a client once

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Looking at the remains of yesterdays rain, wondering if one can get the tractor out of the paddock and if any cattle swam into the next paddock.....

Bit like that is it? We have actually had a pretty dry few days, I could drive the car anywhere I wanted to go (but wouldn't)

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

What's everyone up to today?

Nothing to read on here of any relevance, so I feel bound to ask this question

I am in the throes of fencing my paddocks into breaks for the hoggets coming tomorrow nice and still, can hear the sea thumping but a bit dirty to go for a dive

Hmmm my least favorite job of alland it must be every other baßtards least favorite as well cos not one single prìck came to give me a hand

 

[Ukjay]

Hmmm my least favorite job of alland it must be every other baßtards least favorite as well cos not one single prìck came to give me a hand


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Love the 'Artex' look you managed to get there

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Hmmm my least favorite job of alland it must be every other baßtards least favorite as well cos not one single prìck came to give me a hand

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Looks good I am often surprised just how well folk keep clear, when a hand would be good

 

[Yale]

Hmmm my least favorite job of alland it must be every other baßtards least favorite as well cos not one single prìck came to give me a hand


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Patio for break time?

Table and chairs on there.....lovely.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

How childish!

In fairness, I’ve never even heard the whole “rape or canola” thing being raised as an issue in the UK. Surprising given the PC/terminally offended times we live in! Only a matter of time I’m sure as those who make a living out of finding offence where there is none work their way towards it. Offence is subjective, so perhaps the British just aren’t as easily offended?!?!?! It’s all marketed as vegetable oil anyway so rape is really just an industry term. “Rape Oil” May be a tricky sell?!

Ah but they print "Rapeseed Oil" on the bottles

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Patio for break time?

Table and chairs on there.....lovely.

Hmmm not quite yet although I decided they can all get stuffed and I'm not milking tonight I've started on the double Jack's whilst I do the finish

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Looks good I am often surprised just how well folk keep clear, when a hand would be good

The very definition of a proper "mate" as against a "friend": they quietly turn up to help you with the things nobody enjoys doing.

 

[CornishTone]

Right. Pondered your posts for a few minutes - how long does this stuff take to flower, obviously flowers are but brittle pods and dropped seed is
I am looking at around 90 days from sowing to putting the mower on... what are your thoughts?
Try some anyway?
Only be a dribble, I have made kale silage for a client once

Never heard of it being ensiled but I suppose anything is possible. My concern would be that you wouldn’t get it dry enough and it’d make wet, shitty silage. I don’t know if you’re baling it? If so, I’d also worry that the thick stalks would be a nightmare to wrap. You’d need a spring variety and time it right for flowing in 3 months. No harm in trying it!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Hmmm not quite yet although I decided they can all get stuffed and I'm not milking tonight I've started on the double Jack's whilst I do the finish

barstewards will hear those Jacks popping better than they heard your concrete mixer .

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Sounds really interesting Agrispeed

We undertaken have similar trials here, quite surprising when you take into account a quite small amount of vehicle usage can have such a dramatic effect on the footprint of a business, and can undo so much of the good work our soils are doing for us; it's part of our plan to eliminate as much fuel consumption as possible as a result of these findings.

Certainly the idea of putting a machine between the plant and the mouth is a very questionable method of producing meat and milk from an environmental and economic point of view.

That's where electric propulsion and home generated carbon friendly electricity should come in. There's a UK company producing good viable electric quad bikes now but viable electric tractors are still a way off yet (especially at our sort of price)

http://ecochargerquads.com/

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

barstewards will hear those Jacks popping better than they heard your concrete mixer .

Just worried the longer I take and the more I sink, the stranger this concret might turn out

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Never heard of it being ensiled but I suppose anything is possible. My concern would be that you wouldn’t get it dry enough and it’d make wet, shitty silage. I don’t know if you’re baling it? If so, I’d also worry that the thick stalks would be a nightmare to wrap. You’d need a spring variety and time it right for flowing in 3 months. No harm in trying it!

No, I will likely cover crop 3 or 4 paddocks (at this stage) and maybe shut up some grass, and clamp the lot so no worries about stalks - or wetness, really, as it will get a couple of days wilt before the chopper comes.
I may omit it this time and just keep it simple, their will be enough turnips and sh!t in it without making too much of a salad!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Just worried the longer I take and the more I sink, the stranger this concret might turn out

It will help puzzle future archaeologists if there is an imprint of a male homo sapiens in the concrete
I put bits of meteorite into the concrete at Mum's for that reason

Carbon-date that

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

It will help puzzle future archaeologists if there is an imprint of a male homo sapiens in the concrete
I put bits of meteorite into the concrete at Mum's for that reason

Carbon-date that

I've been spitting JD saliva onto the surface to help the trowelso that will have them scratching their foreheads

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I'm going for the helicopter smooth trowel finish, without the helicopter trowelshould I be making woka woka noises too

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Bit like that is it? We have actually had a pretty dry few days, I could drive the car anywhere I wanted to go (but wouldn't)

Something like 125mm in 24 hours.....