Seed grading, 2014. We must be getting close to sowing!! Every year my neighbour Neil Macgregor and I check with each other. The conversations go like this… ‘Have you seen Ginge?’ ‘No – not for a while’. ‘I saw him…
Ah the memories..
We are getting ready for the seed grader to arrive in the next few days. Getting ready involves moving grain, emptying bins and getting trucks ready. It came time to get the old truck out of the shed and check…
Kinghams at Tichborne – Our branch
Welcome to our family tree as it relates to the branch involved in farming at Tichborne. I would like to start by acknowledging that the lands we live on are the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people. They care deeply…
Tractors on Loloma
The first tractor appeared on “Loloma” in 1948. While tractors had been around for a while, the technology was expensive and severely limited during the war years of 1939-45. Tractors represented a major change in farming – allowing for larger…
Horse Teams on Loloma
I thought that it would be good to show you some of the farming history in our time on the farms in the Tichborne area. Most of the photos taken are on “loloma”. To start on this journey, we need…
Week 2, Wrap-up
Its good to be done – its been a big week. I mentioned monday in an earlier post, so lets start with: Tuesday: We took delivery of our first loads of fertilizer for the year . Truck drivers are like…
Week 2, March 2014
I am writing this at the start of the week with a head full of what needs to occur. We are basically 4 weeks away from sowing and there is alot to be done in that time. However, I am…
Rural Traineeship – The next generation
I had mentioned previously that we employed our first trainee earlier this year – my son Dan. To me, traineeships are a really great opportunity to get the next generation involved in agriculture. When I left school (yes – we…
Week 1, March 2014
Its been a few days since the last post, so I thought I should left you know whats been happening. As mentioned in the previous post, we had received (as some might say) an ‘elegant sufficiency’ of rain. I would…
Rain in feb
In my last post, I mentioned that we would resume grain carting as soon as the rain cleared. I need to revise that statement… We will resume grain carting when it dries out enough. It is Saturday morning and overnight…