Light Land

Yards looking good Alex , The UK must spend a mint drying grain with your climate/seasons. You'll be hoping the world isn't a wash in feed wheat for much longer with it being your key crop?

Often 50 pence per clock hour per horsepower. Your right,it's all about cost of ownership.

No demos and 6mths waiting for our bespoke replacement of the 6470 made it to the farm this week. 6600 series running trimble RTK guidance getting worn in chipping a grass seed paddock.

Looked a heck of a bit of kit hey.

Leaping deere dealer will be hacked off at you having other demos about the traps after pulling the pin on 2 of there own. I'm pretty sure if you don't buy the demo after having it for a bit you pay for the hours you put on it here, same there is it?

Did you see that big yellow (agco?) self propelled muck spreader on flea bay, would be at home on your layout.

22 loads is a fair haul of wheat, don't farmers carry grain over in England if the price is low?

Nice looking Fendt, who makes that model?

Good see you about ftf Gav. Beat the puma sounded good.

Nice soil the plough is parked on Julian, just sand is it?

Your on the money there,agree.

An interesting clip Alex, I see what your trying too portray your layout as better now. Makes for quite a contrast were it's no uncommon to have 5-10 kinds of crops packed on 250ha (ish) of land in areas here.

Sulky spreaders popular there Julain? We've a real one like that model and really like it.

I don't get the Single Farm Payment thing, when your not farming the land yourself but in more or lease words have rented out the farm and all control over it in some cases but they are still clipping the ticket and taking the payment.? I'm not going to pick holes in your good work, I don't know enough about England to compare really. I'll have to come and have a look one day Being a perfectionist is like growing maize imo, starts off meaning well but ends up a mess more often than not. One of the biggest lessons I've learned is perfection is hard to make practical and profitable exp in years of poor prices in the real world exp when your under pressure from people/banks who want a return or worse still want there money back. We have a saying here " profitability is sanity production is vanity" implying the last tonne of grain often costs more to get than it's worth.

All systems go at Oakley, always nice to see whats happening even if I don't understand/agree with bits of it good on you for keeping the topic going.

Bit of typing there Alex, thank you. It sounds ok in theory.

So Alex................I've 180ha in Somerset. I Claydon drill purple wheat,osr and grow a few dry peas and abit of barley and rent land out for a root crop of some kind to give the ground a good stir up once in a blue moon. The farm is a one man band in fact I work part time and have my wife/friends help me at harvest time. Assuming I'm servicing my debt and run a modest fleet with just 1 tractor and an older combine why would I let Oakley take over my land ? I'm to young to do nothing and the local flour mill that takes my wheat every year is happy with my product and pay a bit more for purple wheat so wouldn't want me to pull out. The veggie man is much the same and takes a paddock of his pick every year the rest of the crops just fill in the land really and help control weeds.

Good up date Alex, just relooked over a few pages with my wife who was most impressed.

baby on the way Justin?

You'd just run with a few boom sections off or the like wouldn't you since barley is such a sod for regrowth if you go off the tramlines.

Interesting reading. I get more out of seeing what other parts of the world are doing than what tractors they have,thanks.

Is it common by you too be doing so many types of farming like your layout depicts? I don't see such diversity here in NZ any more on one farm as it's not economical (here) hence why I ask out of curiosity.

You'd hold half of Canada's wheat in that place!

Good to have an update Alex, I always read them at lunch time. The capital behind Oakley is incredible.

Yer it's one extreme or the next, that rapid made a mess last year when drilling in the wet.