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Drilling on the Tarmac

Last week we had a strange request and that was: "could we bring a tractor up to Overbury School as they are doing a farming topic?" We after the rain over the weekend we were unable to go drilling so Gordon took the tractor and the drill (it happened to be attached) up to the school playground...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Sep 26 2011
Weather to Harvest? That IS The Question

Well, I am a bit late in updating our harvest progress on the blog this year. We started cutting winter barley on the 12th July on some very light, ex sand and gravel land, according to Tim who drives the combine it was the earliest he can remember starting harvest. The yield held up well considering...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Jul 24 2011
Pigeon Control

Hi I have just joined after reading some posts about farmers and pigeon problems on Rape, freshly drilled fields and harvest crops. I am looking to build relationships with some farmers in Norfolk, where we can help each other. I am looking for land that I can shoot vermin (pigeons crows etc) in return...

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by peter6371 on Tue, Mar 1 2011
Wychall School Visit For The Day

Today was the first visit of the year to Overbury by Wychall Primary School from Birmingham. The first visit had to be cancelled due to the bad weather in November so it was a very excited group of year 6's that arrived just after 10 this morning. After a quick visit to the loos in the village hall...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Feb 15 2011
Update on Rape Plants

This is a shot I took last week (18th MOvemeber) of the Sesame OSR planted with our direct subsoiler drill. The plants are growing nicely with most of the field ranging from between 7-10 leaves. They are now 83 days old. There is some predation around the field margins from rabbits and some game birds...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Thu, Dec 2 2010
Rape Plants 35 Days Old

Quick update on the new oilseed rape drill out come. The picture above is the result 35 days after the seeds were planted. We have managed to establish 36 plants/m2 having sown 80 seeds/m2 (45% establishment). The higher seed rate was used as a higher seedling loss was anticipated due to seed falling...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Oct 5 2010
Combine fire

Claas Lexion 600TT belonging to Farmers Weekly Barometer farmer Mike Eagers ablaze in oilseed rape. By the time the driver realised it was on fire it was too late to save.

Posted to Wreckers Yard (Gallery) by james andrews on Fri, Sep 10 2010
Oilseed Rape Planting with Home Made Drill

After sitting in the farm workshop most of the year our new project was finally tested. The cultivator drill was originally designed to plant beans straight into the stubble, a one pass, minimal tillage bean planter. After a little modification we managed to sort out the seed rate and Derek set off on...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Sep 1 2010
Dampened Enthusiasm

I think we might have been in this situation before! Rain that was not completely forecast at he weekend has arrived stopping the progress we made at the weekend. we managed an hour combining yesterday afternoon before rain arrived and more rain fell this morning, heavy enough to stop us for the day...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Jul 27 2010
Combine Rolling after False Start

Back to some proper Farming! We actually started combining on Monday on some Trick Winter barley, seed for Syngenta, which I would definitely grow again. On some very sandy light land, the feed barley topped out at 9.45t/ha (on 11.75ha) which is a great yield considering the year. Order your seed now...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Jul 25 2010

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