Today at work

[Farmer Roy]

Cowpeas today.
these are generally grown as a summer forage crop for cattle to graze, but I’m planting them into this years wheat stubble for N fixation & as a cover crop prior to grain sorghum here next spring.
I will harvest a few ha for next years seed, as I consider the seed too expensive to be buying in town

 

[Farmer Roy]

Just for interests sake

prices quoted are AU $ / tonne

 

[Farmer Roy]

We love our legumes here

not because of any payments or schemes or stewardships or bulls**t external “incentives” or someone telling us to

I started reading this but gave up, can’t believe how complicated things can be, or WHY they need to be so complicated ??https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/num3-legume-fallow-now-rotational.395065/

We chose them as a valuable part of our rotations. they just do marvellous things for our soil biology & fertility, not to mention being potentially very profitable crops in their own right


and I hate paying for urea . . .

 

[Farmer Roy]

Err, might have to call “wet sheep” this arvo

was hoping to finish this today, as I go back to my Council job tomorrow.


could have done it yesterday, instead of going out for a family lunch, but hey, it’s not the end of the world, I’ll catch up doing a few nights after work during the week, only got about 60 ha to go

 

[Farmer Roy]

Mungbeans starting to come up

 

[Farmer Roy]

Sorghum almost growing in front of your eyes

 

[Farmer Roy]

A drop of rain always creates a bit of extra traffic on the roads

 

[mtx.jag]

Lots of them around here, mainly with roof cut off, for shooting.

The salt sea air has destroyed most of them here,if it didn’t have a roof it would be because it rotted away

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Can’t be many old Daihatsu’s left running at one point they were more popular that a defender
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Fallen stock collecter still running one with a trailer around us

 

[Cotlandfarmer]

The salt sea air has destroyed most of them here,if it didn’t have a roof it would be because it rotted away

I saw a swb one at David Harris last Friday, it was absolutely immaculate, although what's the chassis like underneath

I had one back in the 1990s, the engine blew its head gasket on the M5 heading home from Bicton college for my brother's 18th birthday party.

Managed to limp into the services at Cullompton on two and a half cylinders.

 

[Steevo]

did it run down hill

Don't be silly.....this is @Hfd Cattle and his land of milk and honey.

I'm pretty sure the water would run whichever way he wants..........before he then turns it into Thatchers!

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Time to gather up few more bales

 

[Hesstondriver]

Time to gather up few more bales
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Do you want this one ?free to go home

 

[spanners and hammers]

we get much more water if you give it a shove will float pass him in about a week

 

[le bon paysan]

Time to gather up few more bales
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Doesn't rain on him either!!

 

[Just because]

Beet harvester almost rebuilt and spread Got on well today 20 arctic loads spread

 

[Pan mixer]

You know that you have a drainage issue if there is a Swan watching you from the slightly full ditch.

 

[adda]

Time to gather up few more bales
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It would be no good leave bales out here like that even for one day

 

[Lazy Eric]

View attachment 1157364View attachment 1157369Decided to just scrape off the topsoil/mud 2 buckets width. Then I can come back and dig a drain into the clay with a smaller bucket. Should stop the sides falling in, I hope! Unless it drys up significantly in the next couple of weeks, it’ll be fun putting the stone in

I think I’d just leave it for now. That looks hard work . Nothing of a job when it’s drier .

 

[grainboy]

New year
New job,

These 2 will be available