Looking grim .......

[Pilatus]

check out the web link - massive operation, but farming in a war zone didn't sound a lot of fun !

It must be horrendous, hard for us to comprehend.

 

[Clive]

Bet he gets 5t/acre as well!

we can joke but they have great soils, cheap land , way less regulation, no assurance, cheap labour, cheap capital and tiny fixed costs over that scale and can use many products banned in the uk ………….


yet they supply the same markets as we do at the same prices !

we can’t compete, not even close at the biggest of uk scale or most efficient, anyone who thinks they can is delusional frankly

 

[farmerm]

for perspective I was sat in a Copenhagen bar with a ukrainian farmer last night

He lost a tractor to a land mine this week

i will take the rain !

Did he loose the driver too?

 

[Widgetone]

Did he loose the driver too?

I'm glad someone enquired. Wouldn't think a tractor would offer a lot of protection!

 

[Clive]

Did he loose the driver too?

thankfully no, i bet it got his attention though !

 

[bobk]

21st of March and not even thinking of starting , a war might break the boredom

 

[Huntstreet]

we can joke, but they have great soils, cheap land , way less regulation, no assurance, cheap labour, cheap capital and tiny fixed costs over that scale and can use many products banned in the uk ………….


yet they supply the same markets as we do at the same prices !

we can’t compete, not even close at the biggest of uk scale or most efficient, anyone who thinks they can is delusional frankly

I thought I felt a bit delusional today having a go at getting some barley in DD into grazed stubble turnips. Went okay but was rained out of the field at 7pm juest headlands to go as well.

 

[bobk]

Excellent drying day , grass growing before your eyes , wonder what tomorrow brings ..

 

[Sam Partridge]

Excellent drying day , grass growing before your eyes , wonder what tomorrow brings ..

Wait just a minute is this the sound of your mood lifting?

 

[bobk]

Wait just a minute is this the sound of your mood lifting?

Just seen the forecast

 

[yoki]

we can joke but they have great soils, cheap land , way less regulation, no assurance, cheap labour, cheap capital and tiny fixed costs over that scale and can use many products banned in the uk ………….

Just what the EU needs to help feed it's rapidly increasing population!

 

[Will 1594]

Just seen the forecast

moist next week

 

[bobk]

moist next week

And week after

 

[Zippy768]

Got some spraying done Weds, chose to mule through the remaining cereals yesterday with its first fert as weather looks crap for today and onwards.

Of course today has in facted turned into the nicest day of spring so far......maybe they have next week equally as wrong

 

[kiwi pom]

we can joke but they have great soils, cheap land , way less regulation, no assurance, cheap labour, cheap capital and tiny fixed costs over that scale and can use many products banned in the uk ………….


yet they supply the same markets as we do at the same prices !

we can’t compete, not even close at the biggest of uk scale or most efficient, anyone who thinks they can is delusional frankly

Are they selling at the same price as the UK

 

[bobk]

Are they selling at the same price as the UK

Oz are selling milling wheat , we're selling shite

 

[Clive]

Are they selling at the same price as the UK

yes, but logistics are currently VEEY complicated and therefore very expensive as you can imagine so loosing a big % of that to delivery

 

[bobk]

yes, but logistics are currently VEEY complicated and therefore very expensive as you can imagine so loosing a big % of that to delivery

Been watching this guy on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@tomsbrookfarm

Seems the authorities in Oz watch also , he's now jumping through hurdles like we do

 

[kiwi pom]

yes, but logistics are currently VEEY complicated and therefore very expensive as you can imagine so loosing a big % of that to delivery

So same as UK price plus delivery?
They grow a lot of grain maize too don’t they?

 

[Will 1594]

Just seen the forecast

how are you today bob . are you ok funny old year , every one getting down . it’s drying like mad with us
fresh ploughed bodied land is going hard last two days with wind
down to last 25 acre
then 250 acre of beet
and wish wind would drop to get fert on and some sprZying