Getting concerned

[Spanish]

I am reading your comments, almost for pitying myself. Incredibly in the dry Castile we are like you without sowing almost nothing. I think the best tool these days is patience, what happens is that it is hard to carry.
With the cost of seeds, fertilizers and phytosanitary and with the produccuiones that we get here (about 5,000 kg / ha on average the good years) we have to do things half well, if not here we have the alternative of sunflower cultivation.

I see that you do not count on sowing sunflower. Isn't sunflower sown in the UK?

 

[glasshouse]

I am reading your comments, almost for pitying myself. Incredibly in the dry Castile we are like you without sowing almost nothing. I think the best tool these days is patience, what happens is that it is hard to carry.
With the cost of seeds, fertilizers and phytosanitary and with the produccuiones that we get here (about 5,000 kg / ha on average the good years) we have to do things half well, if not here we have the alternative of sunflower cultivation.

I see that you do not count on sowing sunflower. Isn't sunflower sown in the UK?

No

 

[glasshouse]

No

Can you not drill wheat?

 

[Spanish]

No, I can not sow wheat, I do direct sowing, there are some that work, but I do not like how it looks is a very rare year

What hurts me is not to sow wheat what I have harvested from sunflower, because I can sow sunflower in what I do not sow cereal but sunflower after sunflower I do not see it. Normally sunflower, here fertilizer is not tiled

Before spring barley was planted, even in March, but now if you don't plant it before February 15 as the springs are getting less rainy it is not interesting to sow it

 

[FG.]

Combi on, seed in and calibrated (may need to tweak that up somewhat on going :-/ ) Round-up is in the can, springtine and vibraflex have been found.
Even came across the plough.
Trying to think what else in need.........oh yeah, just need my min-tilled heavy clay ground to reduced its moisture content :-(
At least something will be going in this weekend......the sucklers.....a month early

 

[glasshouse]

Combi on, seed in and calibrated (may need to tweak that up somewhat on going :-/ ) Round-up is in the can, springtine and vibraflex have been found.
Even came across the plough.
Trying to think what else in need.........oh yeah, just need my min-tilled heavy clay ground to reduced its moisture content :-(
At least something will be going in this weekend......the sucklers.....a month early

Why not just plough it?

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Never mind the nettles, this old springtime had got blackthorn growing through it.
I think it was last used in 2005 before we bought the Weaving

 

[FG.]

Why not? just plough it

That's looking likely once we get a break with the rain.
Hopefully the black grass we’ve been keeping under control, won’t be given the light of day with the plough

 

[DrWazzock]

It's getting a bit more exciting here. Plough or direct drill? Maybe get my brother on ploughing while I get some beet up. It won't combi straight behind the plough, not least because we don't own one but I can borrow one. Weathering would help it, then it can dry quicker. But if the top dries enough the undirill will have the job done in a couple of days with a fraction of the diesel and maybe as good an end result, maybe, maybe not on the sticky areas. We still have an MF30 though and a power Harrow so all options are on the table. I like to let our stuff to dry off a bit between power harrowing and drilling anyway. Generates a fraction more tilth. If I direct drill I can't do all of each field. If I plough there is a chance I can do all of each field which looks a hell of a lot better or......

maybe leave it all till spring anyway and grow cheap spring barley cheaply rather than dear or maybe cheap winter wheat dearly.

Anyway we only have a tiny amount to do compared to some folk so I am not that concerned about it.

In the meantime I still have some work to do on the beet harvester. Hardy spicers today.

 

[Will 1594]

It's getting a bit more exciting here. Plough or direct drill? Maybe get my brother on ploughing while I get some beet up. It won't combi straight behind the plough, not least because we don't own one but I can borrow one. Weathering would help it, then it can dry quicker. But if the top dries enough the undirill will have the job done in a couple of days with a fraction of the diesel and maybe as good an end result, maybe, maybe not on the sticky areas. We still have an MF30 though and a power Harrow so all options are on the table. I like to let our stuff to dry off a bit between power harrowing and drilling anyway. Generates a fraction more tilth. If I direct drill I can't do all of each field. If I plough there is a chance I can do all of each field which looks a hell of a lot better or......

maybe leave it all till spring anyway and grow cheap spring barley cheaply rather than dear or maybe cheap winter wheat dearly.

Anyway we only have a tiny amount to do compared to some folk so I am not that concerned about it.

In the meantime I still have some work to do on the beet harvester. Hardy spicers today.

Wazxock going to a sale Saturday there is a load of beet harvester bits will look and see what there and let you know

 

[glasshouse]

Never mind the nettles, this old springtime had got blackthorn growing through it.
I think it was last used in 2005 before we bought the Weaving
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Thats a proper cultivator!!!

 

[glasshouse]

It's getting a bit more exciting here. Plough or direct drill? Maybe get my brother on ploughing while I get some beet up. It won't combi straight behind the plough, not least because we don't own one but I can borrow one. Weathering would help it, then it can dry quicker. But if the top dries enough the undirill will have the job done in a couple of days with a fraction of the diesel and maybe as good an end result, maybe, maybe not on the sticky areas. We still have an MF30 though and a power Harrow so all options are on the table. I like to let our stuff to dry off a bit between power harrowing and drilling anyway. Generates a fraction more tilth. If I direct drill I can't do all of each field. If I plough there is a chance I can do all of each field which looks a hell of a lot better or......

maybe leave it all till spring anyway and grow cheap spring barley cheaply rather than dear or maybe cheap winter wheat dearly.

Anyway we only have a tiny amount to do compared to some folk so I am not that concerned about it.

In the meantime I still have some work to do on the beet harvester. Hardy spicers today.

Just hook the mf 30 behind the power harrow

 

[teslacoils]

Still nothing. I'd be tempted to get the sprayer out at the weekend if we dodge Friday showers. Then drill in a fortnight?

 

[grainboy]

Working next to my dismantling job today, seemed to being doing the job considering the conditionS.

 

[glasshouse]

Working next to my dismantling job today, seemed to being doing the job considering the conditionS.

Is that the svegma drier you are taking out?

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Thats a proper cultivator!!!

Dad paid 30 quid for it in a farm sale 40 years ago, it doesn't owe us much !

 

[bobk]

Dad paid 30 quid for it in a farm sale 40 years ago, it doesn't owe us much !

About 30 quid I reckon .

 

[teslacoils]

Apparently rain from tonight all through to Tuesday for us. Ah well.

 

[DrWazzock]

Quite happy in the shed doing thorough refurbs. Maybe I ought to make that my new business. Started on the cleaner loader now. Treating it to a new set of rollers and sprockets. I actually prefer refurbing equipment, sourcing or making or subcontracting manufacture of obsolete parts when compared to going up and down on the tractor all day. I find the history of agricultural machinery design fascinating and love getting things back to good working order, not to the kind of sh!t state that dealers turn out. Also had a call out today to do some welding on site for a mate. Lovely jubbly.

 

[bobk]

Quite happy in the shed doing thorough refurbs. Maybe I ought to make that my new business. Started on the cleaner loader now. Treating it to a new set of rollers and sprockets. I actually prefer refurbing equipment, sourcing or making or subcontracting manufacture of obsolete parts when compared to going up and down on the tractor all day. I find the history of agricultural machinery design fascinating and love getting things back to good working order, not to the kind of sh!t state that dealers turn out. Also had a call out today to do some welding on site for a mate. Lovely jubbly.

Open a museum .