This time 12 years ago the man that owns this farm was training me in on sowing crops as we had no tillage at home and I was mad to learn. This week he asked me to sow for him. Great to return the favour.
Majority of Crops that are chopped are NOT suitable for baling and will be chopped anyway. This is Co.Galway a high straw demand area if I could sell these crops I would.
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Phosphorus February! Ploughing down biosolids today. This will replace 75% of my chemical phosphorus application, a brilliant potential IIS project for leaving cert 2024
The best investment I made since I started buying machinery. The TX66 is the oldest machine in the yard but in this broken weather it gets through work fast
I Decided to put a dribble bar on the 2600, I’m planning on spreading a lot of digestate on the farm this year to try replace chemical fert and this seems to be the best route to go to save N
Finished winter crops last week peeling winter oats off the ground, straw all chopped and no worrying about it. There will be a famine for straw this winter.
Winter sowing finished for this year, we got majority of what we planned to sow done, 35 acres were not sown, pity now as they were sprayed off and all.
The rain race was back on the last few days and sadly the rain won, have the spring sowing pushed into a corner now it will probably be May before anymore is sown