Today at work
- Thread starter Penmoel
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mrs mtx
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Did a bit of shearing today
- Location
- Near Colchester
Clearing out some poo before the middle gate won't open.
Fresh straw looks lovely - till they make a mess of it in a couple of days.
Fresh straw looks lovely - till they make a mess of it in a couple of days.
We need to do that but Charlie is such a worrier so it's a struggle.
mrs mtx
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Oh bless him! I sent a picture to her hair dresser and she replied saying she could of actually done it for welfare reasons
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Ours will do it if we take him but he gets so stressed in the car that the whole experience would traumatise him. We have been trimming him about once a month over the past year.Oh bless him! I sent a picture to her hair dresser and she replied saying she could of actually done it for welfare reasons
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Since we’ve been taking veg to Riverford, they’ve got to know us and the fact we have stock who benefit from they’re rejects. From carrots and parsnips to courgettes and clementine, but bananas are definitely the favourites so far.
Wonder what they’ll make of these tomorrow? Hope they like them, we came back with over 11,000 of them.
Wonder what they’ll make of these tomorrow? Hope they like them, we came back with over 11,000 of them.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Thats not a cheap load. Priced up some organic spring wheat seed but decided against it for a few reasons.
solo
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- Location
- worcestershire
solo
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- Location
- worcestershire
A few pics from the last few weeks.
Working through getting handler wheels repainted one at a time.
Cattle trailer wheels stopped going around... new brake shoes all round.
Bit of hedgerow creation
And bit of hedge destruction... someone asked can they drop 3 conifers into field and we'll put up a new stock proof fence... didn't expect them to flatten the hedge as well! Oh well not my field(rented) or hedge but wow.
Working through getting handler wheels repainted one at a time.
Cattle trailer wheels stopped going around... new brake shoes all round.
Bit of hedgerow creation
And bit of hedge destruction... someone asked can they drop 3 conifers into field and we'll put up a new stock proof fence... didn't expect them to flatten the hedge as well! Oh well not my field(rented) or hedge but wow.
- Location
- West Wales
22mm today.
Went to put bales in the same field a few hours later, one of the drier fields
God loves a trier!!!
Went to put bales in the same field a few hours later, one of the drier fields
God loves a trier!!!
- Location
- Near Colchester
Bodging up some individual feeders.
A really top quality job in the wind and rain but we need them tomorrow.
A really top quality job in the wind and rain but we need them tomorrow.
I have seen white faced sheep being fed them before, they all looked like they had lipstick on
Amund
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- Location
- Sokna Norway
Driving manure in the snow
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Grain Sorghum
Has a great fibrous root system, one of the agronomic benefits of it.
The roots would be well down below a metre by now, maybe deeper
Has a great fibrous root system, one of the agronomic benefits of it.
The roots would be well down below a metre by now, maybe deeper
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Mung bean roots - when I dug it up the soil in the plant row was full of new, fine roots from the mungs
broke up the ( wet ) clump of soil, unfortunately tearing off most of the fine roots, but this shows some nodulation happening
on the surface, at about 35 C. Well into the 40’s for the weekend
PS - we had over 200 mm during December ( more than all of 2019 ) but it hasn’t rained for 3 ? Weeks. Dry on the surface, but still mud around the roots & below. This is what we grow our crops on, more so than in crop rainfall. That’s why stubble retention & moisture conservation rule our farming systems
broke up the ( wet ) clump of soil, unfortunately tearing off most of the fine roots, but this shows some nodulation happening
on the surface, at about 35 C. Well into the 40’s for the weekend
PS - we had over 200 mm during December ( more than all of 2019 ) but it hasn’t rained for 3 ? Weeks. Dry on the surface, but still mud around the roots & below. This is what we grow our crops on, more so than in crop rainfall. That’s why stubble retention & moisture conservation rule our farming systems
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Meanwhile, at my other job at 3.30am
then watering cricket pitches as the sun comes up
then watering cricket pitches as the sun comes up
Cheers Roy, I'm just about to have my breakfast!Meanwhile, at my other job at 3.30am
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then watering cricket pitches as the sun comes up
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