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Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
I am constantly astonished about how lovely the land is that everyone on here (well almost everyone) farms, it must be so easy to make money on that.

A large scale farm right next door to me is on his 9th pass using large tracked vehicles in the next door field, the last pass was the drill but it still looks a bit nobbly.

Just to remind you sand and loam brigade, this is soil.

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Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
I am constantly astonished about how lovely the land is that everyone on here (well almost everyone) farms, it must be so easy to make money on that.

A large scale farm right next door to me is on his 9th pass using large tracked vehicles in the next door field, the last pass was the drill but it still looks a bit nobbly.

Just to remind you sand and loam brigade, this is soil.

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I told you that you should be proud of your grass seed bed. (though I would have thought a wider/heavier set of rolls mightn't go amiss. When we stopped using our set on one farm in the spring I thought we were the last people in east Anglia to be using them!)
 

R.B.H

Member
Location
Bedfordshire
I am constantly astonished about how lovely the land is that everyone on here (well almost everyone) farms, it must be so easy to make money on that.

A large scale farm right next door to me is on his 9th pass using large tracked vehicles in the next door field, the last pass was the drill but it still looks a bit nobbly.

Just to remind you sand and loam brigade, this is soil.

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I would like the challenge of your land(y), our light land may be easy to work but making a decent profit is difficult :scratchhead:

Is ploughing the only option?
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
I would like the challenge of your land(y), our light land may be easy to work but making a decent profit is difficult :scratchhead:

Is ploughing the only option?
We can do a little less inversion but this year the harvest was so damp the structure has been destroyed in many places, I suspect that my neighbour has had the same problem as he ploughed this year and hadn't done so for years
 

mixed breed

Member
Mixed Farmer
Posted too early again. :banghead:
It's usually around midnight when Tanker comes and I'm :sleep: .. 930 tonight:eek:. Sign of the times, driver tells me a block calving farm is drying off for their winter holiday, more sadly though, another farm on the round have packed in. Could be here as early as 8 before long. 
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good news for me, A chance to do the job I hate doing at dawn, the weekly intimate tank scrub :love:
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Reaches the places the auto wash can't. ;) Lie-in in the morning (y)
 

pine_guy

Member
Location
North Cumbria
Posted too early again. :banghead:
It's usually around midnight when Tanker comes and I'm :sleep: .. 930 tonight:eek:. Sign of the times, driver tells me a block calving farm is drying off for their winter holiday, more sadly though, another farm on the round have packed in. Could be here as early as 8 before long. View attachment 593486 good news for me, A chance to do the job I hate doing at dawn, the weekly intimate tank scrub :love:View attachment 593488 Reaches the places the auto wash can't. ;) Lie-in in the morning (y)
Could have washed your wellies before you got in !!
 

pine_guy

Member
Location
North Cumbria
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How am I doing for a newbie fodder beet grower? Not been the best year to start, really dry and then wet and cloud, think it could have done with more sun. Middle two probably more average. The right one was out a bit where it didn't germinate well and thin on the ground. Not quite as big as @Cows 'n grass monster he posted in the dairy thread.
Was rotten in the middle though.
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Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Painted on some of this yesterday for the neighbour
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(excuse the peas spilt on the floor, bag was a little too little for emptying out the seed bin)
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Will be interesting to see what comes up.
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Saw ying and yang (y) and shifted the mobs around - just about baleage season down here
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Saw some cover cropping :eek:
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Good to get home again :cool:
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as one of them had both feet back :(
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(y):cool::cool:
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Starting to get their summer jackets on :love:
And peas have come through
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(Pardon the free undersowing - it's meant to have the grass as well)
Vet coming at 1 and we'll see why my little Angus fella is still bloating up.
The antibiotic and repeated bleeding of gas hasn't really brought him right, so will aim to get some gory pictures for y'all.
I'm picking he's eaten plastic at this point. :cry:
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Interesting, I just assumed it was connected to the size of the root, not really rotten, just growing hollow like an old oak tree. Any smaller ones I have cut open seem fine.

Doing some broad spectrum soil tests this winter, so will be interesting to see what my boron levels are like.
What variety beet, have heard quite a few tales of that happening - can't recall whether it was Brigadier or Kyros - but a switch helped.
Their neighbour reportedly had the same issue with the other variety, switched and had no issue!!

So, perhaps it can be seasonal too.
Looks like good sized bulbs for a first attempt, as you say you'll get bigger bulbs where they haven't got a neighbour to compete with. But if they'll grow like that, it's a cheap feed (y)
 

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