Here are some pictures I took the other day of our winter wheat. I think it looks pretty good considering how terribly dry it was last fall. The variety is Coda, it's a club wheat.

Enjoy

Bruce P

Youve got the right size person to make the crop look good
The weather has been all over the shop for the last couple of years trying to cut hay at the moment still to wet at home still better to be to wet than to dry, I think ????

Paul

Something fell out of the sky the other day, a few drops.

We struggled to remember its name.....rain I think it used to be called.

We've had 1.5mm so far this month which usually provides 52mm and previous months were similarly dry.

The hydro dams are at less than 12% and we now have 40 million dollars worth of diesel generators (many Cat powered) costing 4 million dollars a month in fuel alone to replace lost hydro power due to the drought and stupid greedy Government decisions to sell our power to Victoria via a cable under Bass Straight that is now broken! They were banking on rain that never came. Some dams have not been full since 1998 - a problem compounded by a publically funded billion dollar irrigation scheme using precious hydro water serving a dozen or so big farmers who are now facing water shortages less than 6 months after the scheme opened.

So much for becoming the bread bowl of Asia! Instead were are buying second hand Indonesian diesel and gas power generators and of course the fuel comes from Asian refineries too. As my Chinese mate often says....stupid Australians!

If this is how it is gonna be with climate change and incompetent Governments, then we are all facing a very challenging future indeed.

"Inter674" wrote:

Something fell out of the sky the other day, a few drops.

We struggled to remember its name.....rain I think it used to be called.

We've had 1.5mm so far this month which usually provides 52mm and previous months were similarly dry.

The hydro dams are at less than 12% and we now have 40 million dollars worth of diesel generators (many Cat powered) costing 4 million dollars a month in fuel alone to replace lost hydro power due to the drought and stupid greedy Government decisions to sell our power to Victoria via a cable under Bass Straight that is now broken! They were banking on rain that never came. Some dams have not been full since 1998 - a problem compounded by a publically funded billion dollar irrigation scheme using precious hydro water serving a dozen or so big farmers who are now facing water shortages less than 6 months after the scheme opened.

So much for becoming the bread bowl of Asia! Instead were are buying second hand Indonesian diesel and gas power generators and of course the fuel comes from Asian refineries too. As my Chinese mate often says....stupid Australians!

If this is how it is gonna be with climate change and incompetent Governments, then we are all facing a very challenging future indeed.

Put the power back on we need it to run our desal plant to keep our grass growing!

The wheat crop was chopped for silage and sold to a dairy. Working ground now with D8k and 7 shank Wilcox next is preirrigation then planting corn

skinner do you water down the furrow or in bays there ????
The 7 shank Wilcox I gather is a ripper the roller on the back looks like it helps to turn the crop under as well

happy little helper you have there checking out the wheat

Paul

Yes we flood irrigate in checks or as you say "bay" this field is laser leveled flat side to side with 2.5 tenths of a foot fall per hundred foot of run. checks are 78 feet wide 1200 feet long. That tool on back of the ripper is called a crumbler it saves one pass with the disc by firming the top of the soil letting us disc once then landplane or laser.

Don't you hate looking back and seeing that you lost an implement:doh:

"Durango" wrote:

Don't you hate looking back and seeing that you lost an implement:doh:

I say if all you lost was the ring roller you must be living right!