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Second application of 27N SO3 liquid fertiliser going on wheat last week using the Bateman with their own AccuRate dribble bars fitted. Busy day that day until wind stopped play at 7pm, had around 100 hectares on three different farms by that time. Lots of running about to fill up too with it going on at 270 litres per hectare. IMG_6304.MOV

It’s been a busy few weeks recently with a lot of spraying and liquid fertiliser application taking place with the Bateman. Between doing those I’ve also been drilling sugarbeet as and when conditions allow with the last ones finally being drilled on yesterday on a trial plot field. I also power harrowed the bulk of the last field as it’s been too windy to spray a lot of the time recently.

First lot of liquid fertiliser is all on and cover crops are sprayed off. Waiting on the wind to drop so I can get the pre-emergence herbicide on the spring barley. Spent a couple of hours checking over the dribble bars on the sprayer again (washed out and with clean water) ready for the next fertiliser application too.

Some of the ploughing for beet this year is going take some beating into submission if it dries out. Fields have been fairly tight too thanks to the amount of rain that’s fallen on them, fuel use has been interesting in some fields on the plough and Sumo!

Been a busy couple of weeks at work now the weather is improving with the last of our sugarbeet now finally harvested and taken away, ploughing for this years sugarbeet, spraying and liquid fertiliser application and now getting on with spring barley drilling. Been a few wet holes to contend with but I’ve not got stuck yet, had a few close calls with the Bateman and when beet carting though!

That should handle most things, mine is Ryzen 7 5800X Aorus Gaming 7 wi-fi board 32gb DDR4 RAM Aorus Gaming Master 3070Ti GPU 1TB SSD 1TB HDD 540GB M.1 SSD 240GB SSD with back up operating system Corsair 850w PSU 5 x Corsair ML fans with liquid cooling for CPU

Nice! Let’s have the specs then 🤓 I built my own a few years back and just keep upgrading internals now. Anyone would think it had been Valentine’s Day recently too by the card 😂

It’s fed from a belt mounted unit on the waist.

We have two fields of wheat that will be ripped up in April to put another crop in, there just isn’t enough viable plant cover there to leave them. The others will hopefully pull together enough to leave. Will come back to what the other crop is we’re putting in nearer the time as it’s a bit different.

Thanks to 80mm of rain in the past 10 days we’re off the land again so good chance to take the slug pelleter off the Bateman yesterday and start servicing it/checking grease points all work. It’s going to be busy once it dries up! Not looking forward to what the yellow weather warning for rain drops on us tonight!

As I’m back on the farm and in the workshop welding these days I’ve invested in an airfed helmet from R-Tech. It has good reviews and I’ve had no issues with the welders I’ve bought off them in the past. After a couple hours welding on the hedgecutter whilst still recovering from a 4 week long chest infection I thought the time was right!

It does indeed, when I left school in 1997 I worked on a 450 acre farm where there were 3 of us and 12 tractors. There’s now just the owner on that one but the same number of tractors.

Thanks Phil. It was nothing to do with market share as Case have a good following in the area. There were other reasons behind my decision that I’m not going to go into on here. New job is based between Wymondham and Attleborough so only 20 minutes from home.

Thanks, 8 years since l’d last done any so was quite pleased with that.

It’s been a case of new year, new job for me. I left the world of machinery sales at the end of December 2023 and have gone back to working on the farm full time. I’m now working on a 750ha arable farm which is heavily involved in trials work partnering with several different organisations to do this. So far I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the workshop, ditching, sugarbeet carting, hedge cutting and most recently ploughing. There are three tractors on the farm, New Holland T7.225 & T7.270 plus a John Deere 7310R. Spraying is carried out with a Bateman RB26.