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

[Farmer Roy]

When they make a machine that can reproduce itself and run on sunshine I'll be all excited.
The rest are simply testament to the flagellations of the human race - a race to the bottom

You do seem to like your big trucks & spreaders though

 

[Kiwi Pete]

You do seem to like your big trucks & spreaders though

Just a job.
But it gets me out and about, as does target shooting

Got a possible today, two rounds of pointscore so our team won

Need to do this more

 

[Farmer Roy]

13x$30= $390/day

how many acres an hour?
When did the balers start getting put on them?
What sort of plastic are they wrapping round it?
So can you take a nap and let the offsider drive?

13 x $40 = $520 + GST at 10%
( I am putting it through my company books, working as a "contractor", supplying labour, vehicle & tools. I will have to declare the GST - like your VAT - but I won't have to pay tax as my Company will have big tax loses this year anyway as no other income )

Round modules been out for around 10 years or so ?

Depends on crop / ground conditions, but with this extended front in dryland crops, say 10 km / hr x 12m wide = 12 ha / hr at $200 / ha

Special plastic only available from JD
with an individual unique bar code for every module, to keep track of them when ginning

 

[Kiwi Pete]

13 x $40 = $520 + GST at 10%
( I am putting it through my company books, working as a "contractor", supplying labour, vehicle & tools. I will have to declare the GST - like your VAT - but I won't have to pay tax as my Company will have big tax loses this year anyway as no other income )

Round modules been out for around 10 years or so ?

Depends on crop / ground conditions, but with this extended front in dryland crops, say 10 km / hr x 12m wide = 12 ha / hr at $200 / ha

Special plastic only available from JD
with an individual unique bar code for every module, to keep track of them when ginning

How big are those modules? Hard to guage when everything is so bloody flat

 

[glasshouse]

13 x $40 = $520 + GST at 10%
( I am putting it through my company books, working as a "contractor", supplying labour, vehicle & tools. I will have to declare the GST - like your VAT - but I won't have to pay tax as my Company will have big tax loses this year anyway as no other income )

Round modules been out for around 10 years or so ?

Depends on crop / ground conditions, but with this extended front in dryland crops, say 10 km / hr x 12m wide = 12 ha / hr at $200 / ha

Special plastic only available from JD
with an individual unique bar code for every module, to keep track of them when ginning

Any more jobs going?
Why not just a bar code for the farm?
Claas have just brought out a baler that wraps in plastic , just like your cotton bales.but smaller. It could be a game changer.
They look like six foot by six?

 

[Farmer Roy]

How big are those modules? Hard to guage when everything is so bloody flat

2.3 metres diameter, approx 3 "bales" of cotton to one round module. They weigh about 2 tonne

 

[glasshouse]

2.3 metres diameter, approx 3 "bales" of cotton to one round module. They weigh about 2 tonne

How wide

 

[Farmer Roy]

Any more jobs going?
Why not just a bar code for the farm?
Claas have just brought out a baler that wraps in plastic , just like your cotton bales.but smaller. It could be a game changer.
They look like six foot by six?

By having individual barcodes, you can then use that to gauge yield & quality variations between different fields & within fields

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

How wide

In Roy's last photo on this post you can see one, a bit wider than the height so 2.5 M or so.

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...said-it-was-easy.186684/page-927#post-6107680

 

[glasshouse]

By having individual barcodes, you can then use that to gauge yield & quality variations between different fields & within fields

Paddocks surely??

 

[Farmer Roy]

Paddocks surely??

Haha - I'm showing my habit of working with irrigated cotton years ago.
Fields
Blocks
Paddocks

A variety of terms are used

But cotton is one of the few crops we do actually call fields - maybe it's the US influence from our early cotton days

 

[Farmer Roy]

How wide

Err, legal width to fit on a truck, so 2.6 I think ? ? ?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

It's started to rain

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

It's started to rain

According to NZ Herald some places in Otago could see 2-500mm

 

[Kiwi Pete]

This is from the weather station at Nugget Point

According to NZ Herald some places in Otago could see 2-500mm

..we will be somewhere closer to the 2.
Probably 20 25mm over the coming week, but better than nowt.
Quite variable / patchy weather when it does this, they make 19mm and I made it 12mm

However the rivers will come up pretty fast as a heap of rain is forecast for the headwaters of the major rivers

 

[glasshouse]

S

Err, legal width to fit on a truck, so 2.6 I think ? ? ?

The modules are 8ft diameter by 8 ft wide?
A straw baler that size would be good

 

[glasshouse]

Haha - I'm showing my habit of working with irrigated cotton years ago.
Fields
Blocks
Paddocks

A variety of terms are used

But cotton is one of the few crops we do actually call fields - maybe it's the US influence from our early cotton days

A grazier i worked for in victoria tore a strip off me for referring to his paddocks as "pommie fecking fields" !

 

[Farmer Roy]

If we do use "field" then it seems to be always / only in an arable context, never with grazing or livestock

 

[Kiwi Pete]

'Field' here is really only used in context of "an expert in the field of microbiology"

Even the arable dudes would call it a paddock of wheat, probably as it has a fence around it for when it's being grazed

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

S

The modules are 8ft diameter by 8 ft wide?
A straw baler that size would be good

What like this one based on a m series vermeer