Proper farming.......

[7610 super q]

Ignoring the Ford tractor awesomeness......... seed broadcast and harrowed in.......4 ton/ acre yield...........40 years ago.....
Haven't advanced much have we yield wise ? I note blackgrass was mentioned.

 

[teslacoils]

5 weeks after harvest, and look at the weather!

 

[czechmate]

Doesn’t “proper farming” need some animals?

 

[Hindsight]

Ignoring the Ford tractor awesomeness......... seed broadcast and harrowed in.......4 ton/ acre yield...........40 years ago.....
Haven't advanced much have we yield wise ? I note blackgrass was mentioned.

That intro music takes me back to the backdrop to Sunday lunch.

 

[robs1]

Got to love the comb over

 

[Wombat]

5 weeks after harvest, and look at the weather!

17” of rain !

 

[colhonk]

Wish my Heavy clay was as light and friable as that.

 

[Hilly]

Got to love the comb over

Fashion

 

[Jackall]

the days before agronomists. Dicurane / ipu a broadleaf spray in the autumn/ spring then a cheap MBC in March and bayleton cf at flag. If we had that now even 7.5 tons ha would leave a good gross margin. a lot less chemical spend and better for the environment. ( to help out even more straw burning) but I think black grass would still be controlled now ipu.

 

[Flat 10]

Ignoring the Ford tractor awesomeness......... seed broadcast and harrowed in.......4 ton/ acre yield...........40 years ago.....
Haven't advanced much have we yield wise ? I note blackgrass was mentioned.

Brilliant but where have you been @7610 super q i think this is the 5th time this has been on here. Are you being paid by Clive again.

 

[teslacoils]

17” of rain !

This year? Leaves four inches until next harvest then.

 

[ajd132]

the days before agronomists. Dicurane / ipu a broadleaf spray in the autumn/ spring then a cheap MBC in March and bayleton cf at flag. If we had that now even 7.5 tons ha would leave a good gross margin. a lot less chemical spend and better for the environment. ( to help out even more straw burning) but I think black grass would still be controlled now ipu.

Sounds a doddle!

 

[deleted user 837354]

Ignoring the Ford tractor awesomeness......... seed broadcast and harrowed in.......4 ton/ acre yield...........40 years ago.....
Haven't advanced much have we yield wise ? I note blackgrass was mentioned.

Shame, no mention of those golden 1970's prices you often mention so fondly?

Must have been a different age as well- not a single mustard/salmon pair of trousers in sight either.

 

[CORK]

Ignoring the Ford tractor awesomeness......... seed broadcast and harrowed in.......4 ton/ acre yield...........40 years ago.....
Haven't advanced much have we yield wise ? I note blackgrass was mentioned.

I have watched this and other related videos over and over (and will watch them many times more).

I know we often look back with rose tinted glasses but these must have been exciting times - rapid yield improvement, useful technologies etc.

You would have to ask where are we now. Pushing sowing dates later is certainly making it trickier to establish a crop.

I recall a member of this forum said he worked on that farm back in the day.
I’d love to know more about John M, his triumphs and his disappointments, what he achieved and what eventually became of the farm.
Both he and the neighbour that interviews him appear to have surnames that strike me as of Scottish origin.

 

[deleted user 837354]

I've just seen this and I believe it should be added to this thread, Mr Walston Snr really was quite a charismatic chap in his day, where did he get his experience of dealing with the media?

 

[deleted user 837354]

You gotta love the bit where he is stood in front of the blackboard with the contents of his bins written on- fanfare, pronto, apex are some of the varieties listed. Even talks about reglone in his chemical store!

 

[Happy]

Doesn’t “proper farming” need some animals?

4t/acre 40 years ago would be greatly aided from them being there in the recent past.

Many been mining those reserves constantly ever since, then wonder why yields have plateaued.

 

[deleted user 837354]

4t/acre 40 years ago would be greatly aided from them being there in the recent past.

Many been mining those reserves constantly ever since, then wonder why yields have plateaued.

Yields are where they are because we have reached as much as they have to give. It's not economic to push for more and to get it you need to throw a lot of chemistry about if the experiences of the record breakers are anything to go by.

 

[Brisel]

Shame, no mention of those golden 1970's prices you often mention so fondly?

Must have been a different age as well- not a single mustard/salmon pair of trousers in sight either.

More tweed worn back then

 

[7610 super q]

Shame, no mention of those golden 1970's prices you often mention so fondly?

Must have been a different age as well- not a single mustard/salmon pair of trousers in sight either.

You can mock, but the bloke was sowing 100 acre per day, with an outfit that probably weighed less than 4 ton, cost less than £15k, got 4 ton / acre, and yes, probably the same price for produce as we get today. I would loved to have seen his gross margin. Or better still, profit per acre.