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…
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…
The grain shed
The grain shed. This has been a long term project!! So let me explain some of the background…… For winter cropping farms like ourselves, we harvest grain in the months leading up to Christmas. The further north you go in…
Another day in paradise
Todays job was to meet with our truck drivers and move grain from our Silo bags in the paddock to our new grain shed. The grain shed was finished yesterday and we really needed to get the bags out of…
Auger Maintenance
Augers can be one of the most valuable items on a farm, and yet when they don’t work – one of the most frustrating. And for those who don’t know what an auger is, its a long tube on a…