- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Good record of your apprenticeship Roy
Whose were they? Do you remember where exactly? (Can't be far from us.)Outdoor pigs in Wiltshire View attachment 917103
Whose were they? Do you remember where exactly? (Can't be far from us.)
Just googled Compton manor. Not far away. Lovely countryside round there. Shame about all the people. (Noticeably more than 20 or 30.years ago...)
Whose were they? Do you remember where exactly? (Can't be far from us.)
Just googled Compton manor. Not far away. Lovely countryside round there. Shame about all the people. (Noticeably more than 20 or 30.years ago...)
Outdoor pigs in winter is effing hard work, but those working hours sound silly. We're strictly 0700 till max 1700 here (unless something has gone badly wrong!).the main thing i remember about Wiltshire was the ridiculous ( so it seemed to me ) working hours. It was winter, so short daylight hours. We started at 4.30 or 5.30 ?, then had a hour "breakfast" break at about 7, then morning tea, then lunch, then afternoon tea & finished at about 6 or 7 ?
It was fu`cked - we were only actually working ( & getting paid for ) a 10 hour day, but the working day was about 14 hours long & we were starting & finishing in the dark, with very little "free" time at the end of the day. F`uck that. Id rather just work 10 hours straight without a break without all these bloody meal breaks . . .
I was sharing a cottage with a young English fella who worked on the arable side. I do remember drinking a whole bottle of gin ( straight ) one night & waking up about 2.00am lying on the concrete floor in the toilet, curled around the bowl, while he was standing over me having a p1iss. The next day wasnt good . . .
I felt your pain....I detest mowing that type of groundGoing to need a new set of blades after this too. Lots of rocks ffs.
Going to Danistan shortly myself....
Ha ha. I'm the opposite. My phone cover is that worn that the QR code wont scan anymore. So they just look at my license .
That rain needs to stop nowView attachment 917053
90 mm of rain over the weekend, deep heavy clay soils & we can easily drive a ute around today
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Chickies above are on 1 metre row spacings
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will be planting grain sorghum into the fallow country now & this rain has gotten me confident about double cropping mung beans behind the wheat.That rain needs to stop now
Looks a good crop
On the subject of the end user of cereals it amuses/annoys me in equal measure that militant vegan activists completely fail to understand that the animal feed market is a critical backup option for cereals when circumstances conspire against the grower and the quality just isn't there for human use. What would become of low quality grain if there was no feed market?will be planting grain sorghum into the fallow country now & this rain has gotten me confident about double cropping mung beans behind the wheat.
at this stage, the rain is still hugely beneficial for the chickies, but yes, it wont be long before the wheat / durum starts to suffer - especially as im aiming for high quality milling / semolina markets, not feed grain