- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Funnily enough that doesn’t make me feel any better
Today at work
- Thread starter Penmoel
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Grass.
So the forecast was for 10mm post drilling. 2400 percent more has fallen. This is the fourth dry day in seven weeks. It's a bit bedraggled but it's there. Now I have a few months to work out how to turn it into £££.
Might be able to see it was cross drilled too.
So the forecast was for 10mm post drilling. 2400 percent more has fallen. This is the fourth dry day in seven weeks. It's a bit bedraggled but it's there. Now I have a few months to work out how to turn it into £££.
Might be able to see it was cross drilled too.
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- Location
- northumberland
Gonna need to up the game with the rats [emoji57] bar stewards have dug through some fresh concrete put down yesterday, even had some broken glass mixed in to try n stop them, [emoji848] now where’s that old tin of cymag
- Location
- Near Colchester
Scrunched up chicken wire in the hole next.
GeorgeK
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
Shame there are rats in that hole, otherwise you could connect up an exhaust pipe for half an hour or so to "speed up the curing time"
- Location
- S. Staffs
They aren't very fond of steel wool either!
How's that happened
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
More progress planting today.
Ground conditions surprisingly good!
All drilled up now, wheat and beans. Planted extra with a view to halving reducing spring barley acreage.
First time ploughed in 15 years. Turned over lovely, dry and crumbly. Should reduce blackgrass pressure from later planting and ploughing too.
Ground conditions surprisingly good!
All drilled up now, wheat and beans. Planted extra with a view to halving reducing spring barley acreage.
First time ploughed in 15 years. Turned over lovely, dry and crumbly. Should reduce blackgrass pressure from later planting and ploughing too.
Looks good hopefully going to carry on here on Thursday
- Location
- Eastern Ontario Canada
Building boom. Number of farms drops. Production slightly up. number of cows milked stable. Biggest change is next generation coming on. 600 head herds upgrading to new facilities. Many long over due.
Looks good. I personally doubt it will be as big an issue as some make out but aren't you worried about ruining your DD soil structure? What do you normally use for establishment?
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Not worried at all. Quick buzz with the plough followed by single pass combi drill - no worse than anything else imo. It’s not like it’s bashed the life out of the soil or such.
I think the soil having had a break for 15 years undisturbed has probably done it the world of good, hence why is came up so well and so dry. Can’t see I’m going to undo that with a single plough/combi use. If anything it may even help things-who knows!
Normally just seed in one pass direct into stubble with Horsch Sprinter on Duetts.
In 2012 I planted very little and regretted not planting more so wasn’t going to make that mistake again.
- Location
- Cornwall
How can we have had non stop rain since what seems like the end of September with as many “dry” days as I could count on one hand! And your there merrily ploughing and drilling away ??
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
We’ve had exactly the same. Plan A got abandoned long ago.
Think we’ve probably has 6” rain since mid Oct when we were rained off DD on 10th Oct.
Had two big rain events that have flooded the fields out in the last week or so, but it’s surprising how well it drains away on undisturbed land. Took the tractor out last week to try some slug pelleting and made 12” deep ruts in some parts of one field.
Contractors who came to help us out were surprised as well. Said there were plenty of acres up by them not touched at all. Not seen many fields round here planted either.
- Location
- S. Staffs
Came back up to the midlands from Somersetlast week, and as we got to climb a bit towards the Cotswolds the oh said ‘I don’t think they’ve had anywhere near the rain we have, look at all this sown ground, wish ours looked as dry’!
Certainly looked like that to us especially south of Cirencester
Certainly looked like that to us especially south of Cirencester
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
2nd cut lucerne today
Better in the ac than outside. 38°c today, 42 tomorrow...
Better in the ac than outside. 38°c today, 42 tomorrow...
- Location
- Eastern Ontario Canada
Office furniture arrived. Place coming together now
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holly smoke
Member
- Location
- between the sea and the moor
Started yesterday replacing an old pan tile roof that has leaked for years as the lats were knackered
Replacing it with new fibre cement sheets as we don’t have enough tiles to go back on as there is quite a few bust tiles
Hopefully be water tight for a few years now
Replacing it with new fibre cement sheets as we don’t have enough tiles to go back on as there is quite a few bust tiles
Hopefully be water tight for a few years now
- Location
- Worcestershire
Luggin grain, digestate, washing kit down and servicing. Can we go back to the summer [emoji849]
- Location
- Near Colchester
Moved the big bull out from his girlfriends.
unloaded some steel for a few projects.
Annoyed a whole lot of twitchers who were all standing looking over the gate at some cattle egrets.
As the cows all assumed that I had come to feed them and they stood in the way of the long lenses.
(cattle egrets in the background, 'starving to death' cows in the foreground)
unloaded some steel for a few projects.
Annoyed a whole lot of twitchers who were all standing looking over the gate at some cattle egrets.
As the cows all assumed that I had come to feed them and they stood in the way of the long lenses.
(cattle egrets in the background, 'starving to death' cows in the foreground)