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2wheels

Member
Location
aberdeenshire
Neighbour went to Canada as a lad, in horse work days. He claimed that he would 'plow' out in the morning, have his bait time, and then back in the afternoon. Thats with a 4 horse, 2 furrow plow.
father was in oz 1928-30. ploughing with a hart-parr tractor, 1mile out same back and packs of dingos, rabbit warrens etc.. tough life.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
I had a pal who turned up to drive a tractor cultivating in oz in the 80, s
He left his piece bag in the car by the gate , but didnt complete his first round till 5 pm
 

beardface

Member
Location
East Yorkshire
West Texas and the panhandle has big water issues. You get farmers moving east out of there over past Witchita and over to Paris Area south of the red river will be ploughing up pasture and “farm it up” for a few years to get the insurance yields then farm the insurance or flip it on to unsuspecting investors based on the insurance yields.

When we cut in North kansas ans nebraska there were farmers there very angry at Texan incomers. They all put in pivots and were basically mining everyone's water.
 

NFI

Member
Livestock Farmer
I did time in oz in 94. Mind blowing. Four of us seeding with two units, 12 hour shifts, tractors never switched off. I remember taking over at midnight, filled up and set off round the field (paddock). I suddenly got on the radio to my mate before he got out of range "where am I going after this one ?" "Don't worry, you'll still be in that one when I come back ". " How big is it ?" "About 800 acres". Yielding about a ton/acre back then.
 

Flatlander

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
Crop yields are are all over the place in Canada this past year, my wheat was a Major surprise and 84 bu an acre. 36.74 bu to the ton. Ten miles west and it was in the 20s. I’ve been across the states a fair bit buying equipment and as with any country yields are so variable. Until you actually drive across Canada or the us it’s hard to believe how big it is. Lots of great places to farm and bring up a family but your still subjected to market forces to make a good living. For me im pretty sure I wouldn’t have the standard of living if I’d have stayed in the uk. As fir the farmer with 100k acres it either an agri business or coffee shop talk. The amount of equipment needed to cover that kind of acreage would be mind blowing. Certainly not much profit once everything has been paid for.
 

Dead Rabbits

Member
Location
'Merica
Walters were running 200k acres last I knew. Also running a 20 machine harvest crew through the US so they had a trained crew for their harvest. Out of Alberta. Can’t miss their all black 379 petes and western stars pull super Bs.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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