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

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
I never realised your part of the UK looked so much like here.....:whistle::LOL:
Incredible similarity, isn't it? :whistle::D

What time of year was that? Ive left cows out till january on barley stubble getting round bale hay but they ran out of dry lying areas and had to bring them in. Still well worth doing it was a hell of a saving. Have a few ideas for keeping bulled heifers out this winter but could do with some rain to be able to put a forage crop in about now.
Late June last year.....

..... In the Catlins, NZ. :)
 

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
Careful where you put them and for how long....

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He really needs to put up a bloody backfence, it is a dozen stakes and a wire and saves your soil so much abuse when the tap gets turned on.

They can only roam and make mud if you let them roam and make mud - but you can't tell some folk, they are too busy for the important stuff. :rolleyes:
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
The very definition of a proper "mate" as against a "friend": they quietly turn up to help you with the things nobody enjoys doing. (y)
Yeah, I go see mates and end up getting told off for keeping hubby out so late :sorry:
:) usually out making noises and sparks

And then told off again when I get home :sorry::sorry:

I've just pressed 400 fleeces for a mate who is going to come and shear mine when he's finished his and scanned them (y)
I'll pop down again Thursday night and put down a few more, I think I am out every night this week :sleep::sleep::dead:

My winter guests are arriving in the morning for a couple of months (y) hence the fences.
 

Blaithin

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Alberta
Canola

the EU / UK call it Rape, or Oil Seed Rape

Australia / Canada / US & most enlightened, modern progressive producers call it Canola

with more enlightened times in the 1970's or thereabouts, the Canadians ( who were or are the biggest producers ) decided that RAPE wasn't a particularly nice or friendly term, from a marketing point of view or trying to break into new markets

So, the very clever, enlightened Canadians decided to rebrand it, make it their own & give it a better name ( Kiwi Fruit anyone ? :whistle: )

CAN ( Canadian ) OLA ( Oil )

It would be the Canadians ( such nice, independent people ) who would do something like that, certainly cant see the UK being that proactive on a marketing concept, theyd be more likely to say its always been called sexual assault & the public just have to except it & be thankful for it.
Partly.

Fellas at the U of M bred Canola from rapeseed in the 70s. They then named what they bred the Can Ola bit.

It seems to have a drastically shorter time to maturity than UK rape which would be a goal in breeding for Canadian use. Doesn’t seem to be eaten by every animal under the sun like UK stuff either.

Canola is the biggest GMO crop here. Not sure about GMO rape.
 
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Bill dog

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Scottish Borders
(y)(y)
Feel I've to step in and defend salers!

We've over 400 salers cows.

Heifers and second calvers all go to saler bull so thinking around 700 pure salers and don't have any problems with temperament.

Perhaps the bloodlines or your management of them was the issue.
Fair play to you!
I will never knock anyone for using a different breed, but they just didn’t work for me . Great cows , but just a fraction hot as youngsters :rolleyes: !
I won’t say how mine were bred on here, but I possibly did end up with a hot strain !
Herefords and Angus seem to get on fine with the place here !
 

Chae1

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Location
Aberdeenshire
(y)(y)
Fair play to you!
I will never knock anyone for using a different breed, but they just didn’t work for me . Great cows , but just a fraction hot as youngsters :rolleyes: !
I won’t say how mine were bred on here, but I possibly did end up with a hot strain !
Herefords and Angus seem to get on fine with the place here !

We do find they go through a stage as heifers where they are a bit wild but generally find them okay.

We've a Hereford bull now too and he's fine and quiet. Looking forward to seeing first calves in autumn.
 

Yale

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Livestock Farmer
Don’t ask but I’m at this black tie do tonight,not my scene really but surreal.

And the lamb main is lovely.

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CornishTone

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BASIS
Location
Cornwall
:love::love:

An incredible iconic machine but you can't exactly creep up in one [emoji57]:D

They’re surprisingly quiet when flown at low level. We have Chinooks from Odiham use our farm at home for confined area and sloped landing practice. If you hear them you have to be bloody quick to guess which field they’re heading for as you only hear them when they’re just about on top of you, and they never seem to come from the direction the sound is coming from. They’re an amazing machine to see up close!
 

unlacedgecko

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
They’re surprisingly quiet when flown at low level. We have Chinooks from Odiham use our farm at home for confined area and sloped landing practice. If you hear them you have to be bloody quick to guess which field they’re heading for as you only hear them when they’re just about on top of you, and they never come from the direction the sound is coming from. They’re an amazing machine to see up close!

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The view from inside is pretty cool as well (image from google).

When they went for deep maintenance after a rotation through theatre, the mechs removed 600kg+ of sand from each airframe.

Odiham is their deep maintenance facility. Helicopters take scheduled maintenance to a whole new level. EVERYTHING has to be signed into and out of the tool store, down to cleaning rags.
 
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Deerefarmer

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Location
USA
So:sleep::sleep::sleep::whistle:,after a catch up on some the more vitriolic threads on here, I come back to my favorite :love: thread.... how's life down under today @Farmer Roy and @CornishTone and @cows sh#t me to tears , any signs of rain yet? How are you coping roy?
We had quite a wet spell thru June ,now July has been hot and dry, late planted corn and beans needing a drink ,those who can are watering, some whining about the drought going on here:whistle:, seems like the fields that were ran on wet (compaction) are the ones suffering,:rolleyes:
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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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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