Gav836 Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 4 hours ago, phil phoenix said: Sorry to hear it didn't work out at Case Gav. I have no idea what local market share Case Nicholson's have around their area, but around Ely & district its single figures %wise. I suspect that John Deere, Fendt & New Holland hold over 80% between the three of them, with the rest picking up a few sales each. Good luck with the new job wherever it is. 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 It shows how much things have changed Gav, you are working 750ha with 3 tractors, the last farm that I worked on in 1980 was 1500 acres and had 7 tractor drivers, none of the actual tractors were over 100hp although the biggest was a Fiat 1000DT so was just at that figure 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 6 minutes ago, robbo said: It shows how much things have changed Gav, you are working 750ha with 3 tractors, the last farm that I worked on in 1980 was 1500 acres and had 7 tractor drivers, none of the actual tractors were over 100hp although the biggest was a Fiat 1000DT so was just at that figure 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 5 hours ago, phil phoenix said: Sorry to hear it didn't work out at Case Gav. I have no idea what local market share Case Nicholson's have around their area, but around Ely & district its single figures %wise. I suspect that John Deere, Fendt & New Holland hold over 80% between the three of them, with the rest picking up a few sales each. Good luck with the new job wherever it is. Nicholsons"s was selling a lot of case tractors Phil , as well as Gav i had another mate there and sales was good . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 10 minutes ago, robbo said: It shows how much things have changed Gav, you are working 750ha with 3 tractors, the last farm that I worked on in 1980 was 1500 acres and had 7 tractor drivers, none of the actual tractors were over 100hp although the biggest was a Fiat 1000DT so was just at that figure i have 4 tractors on 170 acres ,and a 541-70 jcb 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil phoenix Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Your over powered Smithy😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 10 hours ago, phil phoenix said: Your over powered Smithy😁 I been called a few things in the past but not over powered before 😅 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justy 46 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Uncle has 5 tractors on a 140 acre dairy holding ranging from a NH T6080 down to a Ford 4000 on a yard scraper.. Plus a JCB teleporter.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted February 17 Author Share Posted February 17 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! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil phoenix Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Whatever supposed wheat surplus the world has it ain't gonna last long, this biblical spell of rain that the worlds growers have experienced since last autumn seems designed to ensure a huge depletion of wheat stocks and a guarenteed famine not far up the road. Virtually every farm around here has flood damaged fields of wheat. The only exception is A.L Lee & Son's who farm over 12,000 acres these days, and they religiously subsoil every harvested potato field as soon as the crop has been lifted. That means every field over 12,000 acres is subsoiled every 4 years, and their wheat crops have no flooding and are looking superb!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted February 17 Author Share Posted February 17 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 2 hours ago, phil phoenix said: Whatever supposed wheat surplus the world has it ain't gonna last long, this biblical spell of rain that the worlds growers have experienced since last autumn seems designed to ensure a huge depletion of wheat stocks and a guarenteed famine not far up the road. Virtually every farm around here has flood damaged fields of wheat. The only exception is A.L Lee & Son's who farm over 12,000 acres these days, and they religiously subsoil every harvested potato field as soon as the crop has been lifted. That means every field over 12,000 acres is subsoiled every 4 years, and their wheat crops have no flooding and are looking superb!! Yes phil the surplus wheat stocks are getting smaller around the world apart from Russia and China , china buys loads in and stockpile to feed its own , Russia produce a lot but also are helping themselves to a lot of Ukraine wheat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 52 minutes ago, Gav836 said: 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. i have a few acres to rip up and replant with spring barley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil phoenix Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 What I don't get is how huge quantities of wheat has come onto the european markets from Ukraine and yet according to Colonel Douglas MacGregor about half a million Ukrainian men have been killed during this american proxy war with Russia, leaving virtually no one left alive to farm the land??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 10 hours ago, phil phoenix said: What I don't get is how huge quantities of wheat has come onto the european markets from Ukraine and yet according to Colonel Douglas MacGregor about half a million Ukrainian men have been killed during this american proxy war with Russia, leaving virtually no one left alive to farm the land??? There is a lot going on that they dont want us to now about . Its a job at the moment for us to find a home for the wheat that is in my barn , Bird flu closed up a lot of poultry units and a lot of pigs was not replaced when they was building up on farms and was just killed and chucked in landfill sites , last October 3 lorry drivers told me a boat full of Ukrainian wheat come into Ipswich docks and was offloaded and tipped into stores around the area , the 3 drivers that told me had been carting it , it come in as it was cheap and also by the uk buying it it was a way of ukrainian getting money to buy more arms 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 29 Author Share Posted March 29 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! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 29 Author Share Posted March 29 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! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 29 Author Share Posted March 29 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. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 27 Author Share Posted April 27 Busy couple of days with the sprayer, made the most of today putting nearly 28,000 litres of liquid fertiliser on 220 acres of spring barley in around 12 hours. Works out to 10 fill ups of the sprayer to get it done, no bowser support today so a bit of travelling about involved. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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