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[Zippy768]

Just thinking now the mad thing is daddy wanted wholecrop the field with volunteer triticale . Why didn’t I listen they do know best really

Ah, be warned on that. Ive worked out that father here will mention all kinds of jobs and any nuances he sees. 95% of jobs go to plan and 95% of problems are sorted before issues. But when something goes wrong, he is v quick to say "I did say to you weeks ago about that, and nobody bothered"
Instantly forgetting all the other things that have gone without hiccup and all the other things that didnt cross his mind.

I bet many of your ideas are a success. Unfortunately it is the failures that seem more memorable

 

[som farmer]

cousin of mine ran the farm, never a word of praise, but if something went wrong, all hell let loose, ended up unable to make decisions easily, in case it was the 'wrong' one, blighted his life.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

cousin of mine ran the farm, never a word of praise, but if something went wrong, all hell let loose, ended up unable to make decisions easily, in case it was the 'wrong' one, blighted his life.

Unfortunately more sons are treated that way in farming than enough. I have no children but am a great believer in anyone can make a mistake once, it’s when you make the same one twice you should really sit down and have a word

 

[som farmer]

Unfortunately more sons are treated that way in farming than enough. I have no children but am a great believer in anyone can make a mistake once, it’s when you make the same one twice you should really sit down and have a word

and we all make mistakes, and that's the way we learn, how not to do things.

 

[bobk]

and we all make mistakes, and that's the way we learn, how not to do things.

We do , but if there's greens in the crop it should have been burnt off

 

[som farmer]

reglone, then round-up, made late, or green corn, magically easier to harvest, might be a big shock, for some, if you can no longer use products for that. From an outsiders point of view, it doesn't look right, to spray something, they eat, with something that kills it, for ease of harvesting, that they don't understand, is irrelevant, but the green zealots, prey on that lack of knowledge, and feed it.

 

[czechmate]

reglone, then round-up, made late, or green corn, magically easier to harvest, might be a big shock, for some, if you can no longer use products for that. From an outsiders point of view, it doesn't look right, to spray something, they eat, with something that kills it, for ease of harvesting, that they don't understand, is irrelevant, but the green zealots, prey on that lack of knowledge, and feed it.

Could you ever desiccate cereals with réglone?

 

[Flatlander]

In Canada it was traditionally swathed. Which is cutting and leaving in a row to dry out. It would sit on top of the stubble and even green seeds would dry down pretty good the three day. Tram lines low spots or later tillers would all dry up. Rare here twenty years ago to see crops straight cut. Now roundup is used a fare amount to dry down a crop but some markets won’t except that as an option for dry down. Oats are the main one.

 

[Renaultman]

Hire in mobile drier. Surprising what one of these mecmar / tub driers will do.

Exactly what I was about to suggest.

 

[4course]

I was forcefully told once that pedestals could not reduce MC... My experience over 20 odd years was that they could, but that person insisted I was wrong.,..

the outside walls of our grain store are metal not concrete and the effect of the sun warming the grain against the inside is considerable so by judicious use of screw in pedestals can make good use of the free solar , occassionally have seen plastic coiled drainage pipe used on the floor whilst filling and a fan attatched to the end to suck air through the not too deep grain works ok ,loading out just forcei.e. cut your way through the pipe and pull out the lengths which are wasted (but the grain isnt )

 

[som farmer]

Could you ever desiccate cereals with réglone?

We did, whether we should have, is a different story. Pretty sure we used gramoxone, prior to that, but a young child died, after drinking some, locally, and old man wouldn't use it again, it was a long long time ago now, then r-up arrived, and never looked back !

 

[Cowcorn]

We did, whether we should have, is a different story. Pretty sure we used gramoxone, prior to that, but a young child died, after drinking some, locally, and old man wouldn't use it again, it was a long long time ago now, then r-up arrived, and never looked back !

Gramoxone and Diesel , every green thing nuked in 48 hours !!!
Reglone was very handy as a fire brigade on sprouting wheat during broken weather . Gave you a few days grace while you prayed for the rain to stop !!

 

[Two Tone]

If you can blow air into a heap of grain, where the air is 2 degrees or more below the temperature of the grain, even if that air is high humidity air, it is absolutely impossible - there is now way - it just won’t happen, to make that grain wetter. It can only make the grain drier and cooler.

It is exactly the reverse of taking a cold can out of a fridge and watching a dew form on the surface of it.
Humid/damp air can only condense onto something that is colder than the air itself.

 

[steveR]

Gramoxone and Diesel , every green thing nuked in 48 hours !!!
Reglone was very handy as a fire brigade on sprouting wheat during broken weather . Gave you a few days grace while you prayed for the rain to stop !!

Happy Days

 

[mo!]

Just thinking now the mad thing is daddy wanted wholecrop the field with volunteer triticale . Why didn’t I listen they do know best really

We have a field exactly the same, Dad was keen to combine, I would have left it a bit longer. Wholecrop would have been rubbish, rat infested and crap feed. The second field will be propcorned I think. Ironically we've had a better crop of trit this year than last, and it's all volunteers. Of course trit was my idea...

 

[Brisel]

Could you ever desiccate cereals with réglone?

Only barley and oats for animal feed only, from memory.

 

[Clive]

use these things - soon get the cost back in electricity saved never mind lost crop !

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