tillage, tates, topping, tatty picker and bale chasing | growing food takes ages

Описание: Bit of a long video, I don’t know how it will go down but hay ho, fair bit going on at the moment.

You may think, quite rightly, there seems to be lots of tractors and cultivators. We aim to get much done before potato harvesting and even that will be starting two weeks earlier than average.

The muck spreading crew spread the 2500t of sludge cake in the same day which caught me out so none was caught on camera. Interestingly that day in the news, it was said, the stuff is apparently full of microplastics. Great! I can’t see them banning synthetic fibre so I wonder if the mighty people will just moan and point the finger instead of adapting their lifestyle choices.

Potato dry matter monitoring is in full flow. A potato is around 80% water 20% cell make up or dry matter. Different markets tolerate different dm’s. For what we grow for they are growing out of spec so we are having to flail the plants off to hopefully check this. We show you a few ins and outs of the defoliating operation.

Our local internal drainage board, ‘Black Sluice’ is out and about maintaining the main water arteries. Martin seen here operating the JCB with Herder reed cutter bucket.

The last of this seasons straw being carted off the field by Frankie. I drove one of these trailers for ten years so i can appreciate how easy Frankie is making it look, theres no automation on the trailer controls so every action is man inputted on the 22 or so options on the 1, yes 1 joystick.

The Case Magnums tyres have about given up. As a third row tractor we will seek out a set of used rubber to pimp it up as moving it on the Bailey low loader is not too practical.

Hope you enjoy the week on the farm!






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