Harvest 2011

[farmer_ben]

Harvesting was going well for us. Dry osr and plenty of it. Not bad when its selling for £400+ a tonne. Then the Boss taken ill last monday and died that night. The fittest 62 year old you will meet and the best boss you could ever work for. Lifes a bitch. But harvest must continue. Day off tomorrow they recon 500+ coming to his funeral the church can only take about 50 at a squeeze hope it dont rain.

 

Hi There,

 

So sorry for your loss

 

Cheers

 

Ben

[Mesterh]

Harvesting was going well for us. Dry osr and plenty of it. Not bad when its selling for £400+ a tonne. Then the Boss taken ill last monday and died that night. The fittest 62 year old you will meet and the best boss you could ever work for. Lifes a bitch. But harvest must continue. Day off tomorrow they recon 500+ coming to his funeral the church can only take about 50 at a squeeze hope it dont rain.

 

Sounds like he must have been a very decent bloke.

 

Sorry for your loss.

 

 

I know nothing about farming apart from a few tortures summers weeding and leak peeling when I was a kid, but has it been a good year for farming then?

[farmer_ben]

We finished harvest 2 weeks ago now, my own yields were horredous, 1.7t ac average of wheat

 

The 1300 acres i contract farm on has yielded not bad, osr 2.4t ac, winter barley 3.4t ac and what approx 3.5t ac.

 

Hows everone else getting on?

[Charlieh]

Im hoping to finish silage baling today, got one field to do, and last field of hay tomorrow,then the baler can be parked up (wont be sorry to see the back of it this summer its had a few problems) Last summer we had finished baling on august the 18th! so its been a lot more drawn out this year due to weather

[18 stoner]

Ben, why such a difference between your own and the contracted land?

[Stephen Blair]

why is there a spanial driving the John Deere:confused1:

 

No rush, sorry for your loss. RIP

[tractorboy1]

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[Stephen Blair]

swear warning for the above:sneaky2: , ha ha that was brilliant:thumbup:

[farmer_ben]

Ben, why such a difference between your own and the contracted land?

 

my own land i only took on sept last year, has been very poorly farmed and little imputs over the years. we didnt realise how bad until harvest really, 4t ac of limeX will help sort the acidity out and a real good subsoiling will improve drainage and structure no end. and its sandy loam so suffered in the draught

 

contract land is completely different, heavy clay, very well looked after, mucked each year etc etc proper rotation

[farmer_ben]

why is there a spanial driving the John Deere:confused1:

 

No rush, sorry for your loss. RIP

 

Cuz the dogs the boss!