Farmer Jake's Blog

June 2010 - Posts

• Straight Talking

  This truck was parked up in rural Ontario, in a small village called Manotick , just outside the capital city of Ottawa (Canada) and I had to stop and take a picture of it. I feel it demonstrates in a heartbeat a simple message, straight to the point... Posted Jun 29 2010, 05:45 PM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Ontario, Ottawa [Edit Tags]

• Coors 'Best Practice' for storage

  The malting trade is a very difficult business as we are dealing with a living growing seed. The seeds or grains must therefore be kept in perfect conditions to avoid loosing germination or getting pest infestations. Keeping those two key thoughts in... Posted Jun 16 2010, 08:49 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Malting Barley, Coors [Edit Tags]

• Evening Tours

  On a cool and drizzly Monday evening Alex and I were joined by the new (and not so new) tenants of The Overbury Estate for a farm tour. the idea was to introduce ourselves to new neighbours and to try and explain what goes on at Overbury Farms throughout... Posted Jun 08 2010, 02:53 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Overbury Grasshoppers [Edit Tags]

• Silage Wrapped Up

  Following the grass being cut, the grass swath is spread out in the sun to dry. When dried to the correct level it is gathered together into long rows that the baler can follow. This makes it an efficient way of collecting the grass and wrapping it up... Posted Jun 07 2010, 12:33 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Silage bales [Edit Tags]

• Worm's Eye View of Potatoes

  This is one of the potato fields that Cobrey Farms rents from us. The field was planted in mid April and the potatoes emerged a couple of weeks ago. With the dry weather Henry Chinn has asked us to start irrigating the potatoes. they receive about 25mm... Posted Jun 07 2010, 11:25 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Potatoes, cobrey [Edit Tags]

• Yesterday evening (Wednesday) Gordon went off, with a good forecast for sunshine to mow one of the silage fields. The field is just south of Conderton and was planted last spring with perennial rye grass and red clover. The ley was grazed by sheep last... Posted Jun 03 2010, 04:08 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Mowing grass, silaging [Edit Tags]