Farmer Jake's Blog

March 2009 - Posts

• Autotrac on 6930

  This is the John Deere autotrac system working on our 6930 drilling spring barley last week. The tractor is GPS guided pulling the drill at 4m intervals across the field (we hope) The system was added to the tractor last summer to help reduce the costs... Posted Mar 16 2009, 01:21 PM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: drilling, autotrac [Edit Tags]

• Spring Ploughing

  With the dry weather returning we employed Phil Odam Farm Contractors to spread some organic mushroom compost ahead of spring barley on some light land. The compost is great stuff for increasing the soils organic matter, which will help retain moisture... Posted Mar 05 2009, 02:23 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: spring barley, ploughing, tipple [Edit Tags]

• Spring Planting Apace

  With the recent dry weather, yes it's been dry for at least 2 weeks, last time that happened was in 2003, or so it seems, the land has been dry enough to travel on. Gordon here > is drilling Tipple Spring Malting Barley on Bredon Hill. This is... Posted Mar 02 2009, 08:33 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Frontier, Malting Barley, Lamb, Coors [Edit Tags]