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Light Land

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  • Birthday 03/12/1984

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  1. Maize planter looks good Alex.Much crop being grown free this year?
  2. Your last picture captures the scene well Alex. Very nice.
  3. Offence is taken not given. Negative comments,no comments,probing questions your going to get them all much like life. As you touched on different layouts reflect different peoples bent/interest and what there trying to achieve and at the end of the day as long as your happy doing what ya doing that's all that matters really. PM'ing a question is at times a more respectful why of asking a question that would just clutter up a persons topic other wise if it's abit left of center or might be taken as picking holes. I found instead of trying to spark more technical discussion with my Eastbank layout it was better to join a real farming form and just enjoy ftf for what it is. Aussie is big on ctf as you'll know Alex as they have some very difficult soils that repeal water and will blow away. There limiting factor is often the compaction and the moisture loss from dealing with it hence try not to make compaction to start with and to be fair basic cropping of cereals/rape with wide seeders make it easyer to fit ctf in.If you want to wise up on somthing your right it's best to look at a part of the world were it's old hat to them. I've worked with ctf in Canada and oddly enough it was to get traction on the hard tramlines so you could pull big impairments with out dry bogging as the land was to soft naturally in places. If compaction is the limiting factor to yield why don't you you look into the kinsey/albrcht system of managing soils they have proven in many country's you can put right low om,compaction,low yields with very detailed soil maps and working with the current cec and balancing out soils to help them stay in good shape even with root crops being grown on the land. There was an interesting write up in the English farmers weekly a while back saying English farmers were falling behind in farm profitability when they were compared with Holland and NZ so it's interesting to read of your interest in progression. I had the chance to work with an a young English bloke last harvest as we had a contractor combine our seed raddish. while setting the combine up I asked him what he thought of cropping here and back in England and he said in summary " there aren't many cropping farms left here now but the ones that are still going for them it's really "game on" they are trying to make as much money as they can knowing it's all they are going to get. Maybe the hungry dog runs faster.
  4. Interesting, if the cap fits ware it hey.
  5. Going to put boards on the bottom of the boxes so you can pick them up? Is bulk spuds not popular in the UK? Alex?
  6. I thought that too,How many kg of spuds do you get in a Britain box Alex?
  7. Cold and wet with -5 on the farm, tractor work is up to date with most of the wheat in the ground. Off to listen to some of top arable farmers from around the world talk about fert,crops,irrigation today. 70% of farmers think they are in the top 10%, this should be a good test and show were the gaps are in my arable understanding.
  8. More nice work Sean,if you listen carefully you can almost hear the pigs and the rattle of the loader tractor hitting bumps around the yard.
  9. Really looks like old grassland were the chopper is working,nice. Can you put bark chips from forestry in an AD plant?
  10. How do the tracks fear doing all the road work you do Alex? I was reading some were the other day that long trips heat up the tracks and damage them.
  11. Interesting Dave. Yes sadly alot of law makers have no idea about farming. It's a tool to be used in some condition's just like a plough we all know to well if you abuse it it's not good for the land but to say it has no place is just ignorance. Running around with a carrier after harvest then spraying with an abused tool like round up isn't the fix all people claim.
  12. Thought you'd like them pattie pie. In return my mate is helping me with tractor work to take the load off me at the nut house.
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