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Is this precision farming?

A 50 acre field and this was the final length. Cutting Braemar spring barley in the Angus countryside ...... between the showers. Moisture varied from day to day, ranging from 22 - 16%

Posted to Harvest Highlights 2008 Gallery (Gallery) by davemillar on Tue, Sep 9 2008
Massey Combine

Chomping through barley in Warwickshire. This was about mid August, when thinks were a little drier than they are now!

Posted to Harvest Highlights 2008 Gallery (Gallery) by katemh1984 on Tue, Sep 9 2008
OSR and snail trail

Right i have made a hudge cock up (am i allowed to use that word on here?) Right, i came in from work and couldn't be bothered to do anything- Tea was on so i headed for the computer. Forgetting i have been working with OSR all day, i walked in, dropped my boots and overalls off in the garage and...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Tue, Aug 12 2008
Sun, fog and combining!

Hey!! A decent day today - been planting veg - i was on the back of the planter with a mate who i work with planting, getting pulled behind a david brown!!! Needless to say, its the dairy tractor!! Anyway, got a load of veg in (that was in between stopping every 5 yards to un block the planter due to...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Tue, Jul 29 2008
Organic versus conventional

I've been sitting on this clip for a few days, but I can assure you that the fields look much the same now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjlZFb58ZdA So which method should growers be using to try to feed an increasingly hungry world?

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by flutefriend on Wed, Jul 16 2008
Turkey talk and shoot shananigans!

As i sit and read my Rappa electric fencing magazine ( Oh yes, i know how to spend my saturday nights!!) i've got bloody turkeys on my mind again! This time because i have to re-house them. Today i have been out spraying the fence around the pen as its overgrown with grass etc so i got that done...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Sat, Jul 12 2008
Spring toll evident in North

Ian Bird's T2 fungicide treatments at Catchgate Farm, Castle Eden near Hartlepool have just been completed on time, despite 64mm (2.5in) of rain in the past week. But the cold wet April has taken a toll on potential yields, he believes. "Our first wheats look OK, but the second crops are a bit...

Posted to Over the Hedge - Arable Barometer farmers' diary (Weblog) by flutefriend on Fri, Jun 6 2008
Blossom midge watch underway in Dorset

I've just been out again looking for orange blossom midge, writes Peter Snell from North Farm, Horton, Dorset. It was a calm, dry and cool evening and there were a few about but nowhere near the one in three threshold our feed wheats require to justify treatment. Anyway I'm reluctant to spray...

Posted to Over the Hedge - Arable Barometer farmers' diary (Weblog) by flutefriend on Thu, Jun 5 2008
Spring sprung in Scotland

Spring is here - I think, says Mike Eagers from Trinlaymire Farm, Threemiletown just to the west of Edinburgh. Up to now the weather has been showery and in generally cold with a recent east wind. All the spring bean ( Fuego ) and barley ( Optic and Oxbridge ) sowings are complete, though only recently...

Posted to Over the Hedge - Arable Barometer farmers' diary (Weblog) by flutefriend on Tue, Apr 22 2008
Still wet in the west

Andrew Blenkiron with some of his green waste compost. Ground conditions at Chillington Farm, Codsall Wood, near Wolverhampton are very wet after 50mm of rain and 125mm of snow over the past two weeks, writes Andrew Blenkiron. Very cold winds and night time temperatures well below freezing are holding...

Posted to Over the Hedge - Arable Barometer farmers' diary (Weblog) by flutefriend on Wed, Apr 9 2008

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