Today at work

[holywell farmer]

Looks good crop there

 

[Muddyroads]

600kg of leeks and 240kg of purple sprouting broccoli delivered today has brought our 23/24 veg season to a close. It’s been a long hard year but much better than the previous one so a glass or two were emptied this evening.

 

[Flossie]

Tipping a few yows and lambs into the one field with a 'bite'. This was taken on Tuesday when it was nice. There are now 13 outfits in there. No pictures of the gateway 🫣 Went big time today with 7 lambing Plus a prolapse

Surprise surprise, the weather turned to crap tonight. The hardy hill breed decided to have a night in

 

[David.]

It is raining today, but didn’t really start till after lunch.
Finished the mungs at midnight last night.
Still got 100 tonne sitting in bins in the paddock, but we’ll get that when it dries out again View attachment 1173706View attachment 1173707

How long were they on the ground, doesn't seem long since they were pictured up in rows?

 

[Farmer Roy]

How long were they on the ground, doesn't seem long since they were pictured up in rows?

they were planted on 5 / 6 January.

Mungs are a very quick, 90 day, crop, which makes them ideal for a double crop situation, or to fit another crop into the rotation.
The plan is that either wheat or barley will be planted here in June ( harvested in Nov / Dec ), giving me 2 cash crops in a 12 month period

 

[puppet]

Weather a bit testing for outdoor lambingView attachment 1173603

Just got a bit more testing with more to come tomorrow. Amazingly only a dead pair out of about 60 overnight

 

[j6891]

Ideal weather for the outdoor calving

 

[Steevo]

600kg of leeks and 240kg of purple sprouting broccoli delivered today has brought our 23/24 veg season to a close. It’s been a long hard year but much better than the previous one so a glass or two were emptied this evening.
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[Robt]

@Speedstar my jobs as a simple garden hand the last two days …..
1) elderly client couldn’t see the point in a new fence so 12 new posts to reserect the old one.
2) nice young family to busy to tend their own garden but want to enjoy it at weekends.

next week, garden drainage and bridge building

 

[mrs mtx]

played with some sheep

 

[Just because]

Dad on ploughing bit more grass land having some juice

 

[mtx.jag]

Tanker W ⚓️

 

[Levelsman]

Dad on ploughing bit more grass land having some juice
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Good to see he's got working air-con!
Today's youngsters would want at least 3 x the hp and might just pull an extra furrow with a /Fendt.
Not too much depreciation there.

 

[Wombat]

After work this week been replacing an old collapsed one with 138m of 4” twin wall. Resembled paschendale at one point and I did get the excavator stuck last night. Which involves copious amounts of swearing, sleepers and logs. Dad did ask how we get the timber out I said in about July 2030 when it’s dried up but he could go and drag them out if he was that concerned, he decided the random old bits of timber weren’t suddenly that important

 

[Just because]

Good to see he's got working air-con!
Today's youngsters would want at least 3 x the hp and might just pull an extra furrow with a /Fendt.
Not too much depreciation there.

Actually starting going up in value

 

[sticky]

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played with some sheep

Slippery slope, go and buy him a tractor it will be cheaper and less stressful in the end.

 

[sticky]

The 6930 hadn’t been out of the shed since the end of October so i took it on a run to bring another bunch of ewe lambs home,150+ in the shed now, hopefully it will give the ground a chance to recover.

Also keep adding to the nursery yard hoping for some dry weather, only got 2 left to lamb.

And I also took a creep out to the oldest lambs as the weather is taking its toll and they are looking

stale.

 

[grainboy]

1 building of to its new home,

 

[Lincs Lass]

Smashed my personal record today .
A good day is 10 panels ,12 yesterday,15 today
This is the boundary I thought was going to be a problem.
Finish to the big ones tomorrow, then wrap the job up Monday

 

[Speedstar]

Ideal weather for the outdoor calving View attachment 1173885

Same sh!t here in the Borders, over 72mm so far in April