Sowing peas...!!

[Kiwi Pete]

Friday night drinkies in the deep south - rain guage had 2mm and a big spider.
Haven't looked in there for weeks!

peas starting to look happy now

Grass is too.
So am I.

 

[JD-Kid]

a spider is worth 1/2 a inch in a dry year
pleased peas look OK be yer pleased yer listerned to a mental fella on a rock

 

[Kiwi Pete]

a spider is worth 1/2 a inch in a dry year
pleased peas look OK be yer pleased yer listerned to a mental fella on a rock

That I am.
Dad used to let the grass get away and then keep smashing it with his ewes til he stunned the grass, 'suicide by herbivore' as he used to say

Then again some of the ryecorn crops he used to grow hardly needed a head start.

Been some good showers again through the afternoon.

 

[JD-Kid]

That I am.
Dad used to let the grass get away and then keep smashing it with his ewes til he stunned the grass, 'suicide by herbivore' as he used to say

Then again some of the ryecorn crops he used to grow hardly needed a head start.

Been some good showers again through the afternoon.

windy here kind need a bit or rain
just drilled a few padocks today in the wind
5 kg chicory
5kg platain
5 kg cocks foot
7 kgs clover
7 kgs mavrick ryegrass
hopefully seeds still in the padock a bit of the soils gone ...yea i know should of DD it but to rough

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Snow inland, by the look of FB it's pretty and white in the hills
That's a good sounding mix, have been sowing quite a bit of plantain into dairy pastures around the area that's all popping up, few calls today saying it worked and can I do more

 

[JD-Kid]

Snow inland, by the look of FB it's pretty and white in the hills
That's a good sounding mix, have been sowing quite a bit of plantain into dairy pastures around the area that's all popping up, few calls today saying it worked and can I do more

yer want to sit down when working out the price of that mix tho it's a bit over kill on the herbs but hey what the hell if can get get 2-3 years good grazeing out of it for lambs it's worth it

biggest prob i have is keeping clovers going the creeping red seems to be not bad tryed some other red but did not go to well white is a write off in dry seasons

 

[JD-Kid]

so what's the paddock looking like now
hope fully looking a lot better

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Yes it's still wanting a bit more rain but filling in ok. Just walking a bull away to his paddock next door so will get you some South Otago pics.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Haven't buggered the structure much
Getting a bit of feed around though, wish I'd taken another one out, but oh well, just get an extra hundred lambs on instead.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

2.26kg DLWG last fortnight

1.96kg day for these guys

 

[JD-Kid]

quiet a bit of grass come back just think how much after the groung hog would of come back
looking OK and if pre head on the grass should be good feed value

 

[Kiwi Pete]

To be honest I don't think I'd do much differently next time.
That is about as much grass as anywhere, hopefully it keeps it up off the deck so I can mow it!
Bit of good advice with the rotospike.... although the bits around the edges still have heaps of peas coming up through all the grass, which is knee high with a flag leaf.. think it should be a 10 week crop?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I might see if @llamedos would be so kind as to switch this thread to a more suitable one.. it has never really been Direct drilling and has ended up more of a livestock &forage and strayed to holistic farming...


Purpose of the experiment really is to see what can be done with a cover crop using neither herbicide or plough.... or money in this case!
Pea seed was free for cleaning out mate's grain store
Rotospike was a favour from the neighbour..
60 litres of diesel is what it has directly cost me to put in, $9/acre...

So if it grows a bale of food and opens a window for a succession crop, I'm ahead of the "everything must be killed" brigade

 

[texas pete]

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I do like seeing your NZ farming pics, V interesting.

I would be happy with them as a crop, especially given your minimal spend.

I did pea and oat mix once, rats were a shocker in the wrapped bales

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I do like seeing your NZ farming pics, V interesting.

I would be happy with them as a crop, especially given your minimal spend.

I did pea and oat mix once, rats were a shocker in the wrapped bales

Thanks Texas Pete
Yes I had about 5 years on baleage making duty and that was my main reason for not putting a cereal in with the peas.. the number of re-wrapped bales...

So I thought I'd give this a try.
In places the grass isn't really too thick but there still don't seem to be many broadleafed weeds fortunately.. I did read in an American article that peas are almost as cost effective as nitrogen fertiliser- I didn't inoculate these because of the wait for inoculant being over a month

Will be interesting to see if they nodulate much without it

 

[JD-Kid]

Thanks Texas Pete
Yes I had about 5 years on baleage making duty and that was my main reason for not putting a cereal in with the peas.. the number of re-wrapped bales...

So I thought I'd give this a try.
In places the grass isn't really too thick but there still don't seem to be many broadleafed weeds fortunately.. I did read in an American article that peas are almost as cost effective as nitrogen fertiliser- I didn't inoculate these because of the wait for inoculant being over a month

Will be interesting to see if they nodulate much without it

thats why yer cut it early with no grain

 

[Bury the Trash]

i just like lookin at the pictures .....

 

[Kiwi Pete]

i just like lookin at the pictures .....

Sorry direct drillers....
Just following the 8260 out of Clinton, have spent many happy hours in that old tub

 

[hendrebc]

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Sorry direct drillers....
Just following the 8260 out of Clinton, have spent many happy hours in that old tub

Would they be ploughing some steep ground with a conventional plough and twin wheels?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Would they be ploughing some steep ground with a conventional plough and twin wheels?

Pretty standard equipment down here for some strange reason.... even my little puddlejumper has duals on.... would be working to tip this tub

But yeah, big country up there, kuriwao gorge/top of the owaka valley. You don't see many reversible ploughs, they tend to flip tractors

that's mt roseberry, 705m

Currently out drilling HT kale for my neighbour

Just in the last paddock now

(I know you guys appreciate a few snaps)