warksfarmer
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Scale and very low growing cost per tonne. This is why ELMS is coming!
Hope & Faith Farms (Mike Mitchell)
Hope & Faith Farms (Mike Mitchell)
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This is why the U.K. cant compete
- Thread starter warksfarmer
- Start date
Jam Tomorrow
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- Location
- Hardy Country
All the tech in the world and yet they can’t work out how to drive out of the dust
- Location
- N.Lincs
That'll be some very rare footage - 6 of 'em all running at the same time 
Not so many 'in shot' even by the end of the video
Not so many 'in shot' even by the end of the video
- Location
- mid wales
Then the first one has to wait on the headland for half an hour for the others to get out of his way.
warksfarmer
Member
Obviously a publicity video. When I was in the USA they were never run like that.
- Location
- Shropshire
Its a lovely shot for the cameras having them all in a line, but I bet the air filters and radiators are loving being in all that dust. In fact, I bet the ones at the back are working 5 degrees hotter at least than the one at the front
- Location
- Shropshire
Also, they are quite aggressive with the reel? I always thought it was to just touch the heads rather than really pull them?
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Bound to be collisions in that poor visibility
Colin
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- Location
- Perthshire
Also a long way from markets, rely on expensive rail to move a lot of the goods, low yields, still pay same price as everyone else for inputs etc. Two sides of the same coin, but yes we could learn from bigger operations. We need to reduce fixed costs but keep yields up, maybe by cooperation!
michael N123
Member
Could of slapped it in reverse and saved 5 minutes turning
- Location
- South Molton
The reel is to run at just faster than forward speed and tip the ear into the header?
- Location
- Shropshire
Hereward
Member
- Location
- Peterborough
I would think crops will be growing in the UK long after that land has been abandoned, completely unsustainable.
Read Schumachers' Small is beautiful if you don't understand, nature should be treated as a finite resource (capital) and not just as an input cost. You can learn as much from that book as any fashionable regenerative cropping book.
Read Schumachers' Small is beautiful if you don't understand, nature should be treated as a finite resource (capital) and not just as an input cost. You can learn as much from that book as any fashionable regenerative cropping book.
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Where do they keep all the grain trailers? I was watching a modest New Holland at work near Wimborne the other evening and half the time the driver was sitting with lights flashing waiting for the student ro come back with the trailer.
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
When i worked for john Nicoletti out in western Austrailia back in 99, he was running 6 case 2388 with 40ft headers then. He would never have more than two machines running in the same field, too much risk having them all in the same place if something were to catch fire. And at that time he also owned his own haulage company to cart the grain from combine to store.
It was a very impressive outfit, seeing all the combines and chaser bins in one place on the farm, and all the Kenworths parked up in the haulage yard !
Maybe harvesting was more efficient than in this country, but getting the grain to the customer wasn't cheap !
It was a very impressive outfit, seeing all the combines and chaser bins in one place on the farm, and all the Kenworths parked up in the haulage yard !
Maybe harvesting was more efficient than in this country, but getting the grain to the customer wasn't cheap !
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Goodness me now that is a back to the future moment! Shumachers book - my flat mate at college read it not long after it was first published, and spouted forth about its contents in his Ag economics seminars. Was it first published late 70's? Regarded as a dangerous leftie if I recall by the lecturers. At same time us lads doing the agronomy option were being taught how to rip out hedges and apply more nitrogen!!
I thought it was the knife knocking ,that's what ours sounds like anyway