sipher172 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 I thought I would share a few photo's from a trip to Brazil that I have just got back from. I was visiting some of our farming clients in the Centre West state of Mato Grosso. I have also included a few other pics from a couple of trips to the US and other trips to Brazil in the last couple of years. The first few pics are from the drive through Mato Grosso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 Here is a few photo's from one of the farms we visited, they were harvesting the soybeans and planting the 2nd crop corn at the same time. They were running 9 harvesters and 5 planters. They had just taken delivery of a few new John Deere's as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 Here are a few other photo's from previous trips to Brazil and crop tours in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave the farmer Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Smart pictures.thanks for posting.the size of mato grosso is just mind boggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Thanks for shearing. Other lands farming always brings out "you couldn't do that here blar blar" but there surely is a gem to be taken away from every farm you saw i'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Great photos and thanks for posting. Does anyone else think that the wheels on that Case look rather odd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave the farmer Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Yes those wheels do look odd on that case magnum.i think they have taken the outer wheels off for going down the road maybe.as it looks like it's set up 4 dual wheels all round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 Just back from a US crop tour, here a few pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 Here are a few photo's from my last trip to the US, Brazil & Argentina. The first few photos are from my first day driving from Chicago to Champaign, IL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 These photos are from the 2nd day, driving from Champaign back to Chicago through Indiana. The crops were noticeable worse in Indiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 The port photo's are from Argentina on the river system. We toured a soy crush plant that process 20,000 tonnes per day and receives 1000 trucks. In the town where we were the there was a total daily crush capacity of 120,000 tonnes of soy, it was pretty crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Interesting photos there Chris, the soya plant must be huge. In the photos from indiana, how much will the crop being combined by the Case yield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 That soy field was yielding about 60bu/acre, it was on the high ground. Other areas on lower ground where they had been harvesting the day before was yielding as low as 30-40bu/acre. (1 tonne = 36.74bu) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Just come back from a crop tour in Brazil and I realised I didn't share any pics from last years crop tours. So thought I should send through a few pics from last years trips and then this years crop tour in Brazil. Last April we visited Argentina when they saw the extreme flooding. As can be seen from the pictures it was pretty wet. Also, I thought I would highlight the hotel we stayed in, which was a converted grain silo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 We also toured the Southern Brazilian corn crops on this trip as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Next I have a few photos from our crop tour to the US last summer. We also visited the CBOT trading floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Finally here are a few pics from my latest trip to Brazil. Unfortunately I didn't have my drone working for the field where the Deere's were harvesting. There where 10 harvesters in that one field. This farm though had 100 Deere harvesters running that day in the State of Mato Grosso. To note, this wasn't the biggest farmer we met with on the trip. The biggest ran over 200 harvesters and producers 1.5-2mln tonne of grain per year. The scale of farming in Brazil is unbelievable. It was clear to tell we were in a farming community when the hotel had a statue made from a grain auger, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave the farmer Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Thanks for posting .such a huge farming country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FendtFarmer Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Always interesting to see how farming is done in other country's, thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Fantastic! Great to see such a fascinating variety of kit at work in another part of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Fantastic photos, love photos like these, thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Brilliant photos and very interesting reading. Thanks for taking the time to post them. Would all those combines be owned by the farms running them or are they hired in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 10 hours ago, mb86 said: Brilliant photos and very interesting reading. Thanks for taking the time to post them. Would all those combines be owned by the farms running them or are they hired in? Yes they are all owned by the same company. The big farms in Mato Grosso and North East Brazil harvest between 100-400K/ha. The scale is huge there, I have visited one farm that had 100kha in one block. There is one public listed farm in Brazil that you can look at as an example, called SLC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Unbelievable scale. Very impressive indeed. What would be an average farm size there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipher172 Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 7 hours ago, mb86 said: Unbelievable scale. Very impressive indeed. What would be an average farm size there? Average farm size in Mato Grosso and North East Brazil is about 10-20k/ha. Then there are several mega farms at 100k/ha plus The farms in South Brazil are a similar size to the UK and US at 300-400ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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