Thx for sharing your blunder Henry. Being able to openly admit when you make a mistake in such a public way shows real character. Love your channel, pity there aren’t more Aussie farmers sharing their story in a candid way also. Looking forward to riding the highs and lows of cropping in South Australia with you.
hello Henry - thanks for the insight. Its content like this which makes your channel really interesting. I don't mind you talking about the weather at all, its a huge factor in your outcome for the season, and its always going to be variable (high/low or right/wrong time). Hope your decision pays off.
Thanks for the update Henry and the forthright and positive approach. With all the expert commentary on current Australian weather developments you moved quickly with a very sensible change of plan. The best of luck with it all.
Hey Henry. I love hearing about the weather, as that what grows food. Being a city person, I've only seen hay cut with a rear mower, then raked. The Massey Ferg that cut the hay looks more like a combine. I like how it creates own windrow.
What's your thoughts, positive or negative for hay? Seems to be a real lack of hay cut in our area compared to usual. Think 3 wet springs in a row and low livestock prices has discouraged some farmers.
We all make stuff ups mate I remember skip row seeding many years ago and someone put the wrong seed in the truck the next morning so every second run was purple when it came into head along the road too I might add
Yes we had a bit of a stuff up, but when you look at the beautiful crop out in the paddock it's certainly not the end of the world. We could of accidentally killed the whole crop. That would be a real stuff up.
As a Farmer if you dont make at the very least ONE BIG STUFF UP over your time farming, you haven't been really farming. Farmer's are the biggest gambler's on the planet.From Fri to tues the temp is forecast to be in the low to mid 30's, with showers forecast from Tues onwards.
When you see the seed, can you tell the difference between the barleys? The thing about mistakes is that you can learn from them - what solution can you put in place to prevent the error from happening again?
Depends on what the crop will yield. If it goes around 3t per hectare then whatever way you work it, cutting hay will be a net loss. However, we will clean up the severe weed pressure in the paddocks and know exactly what we will end up with, with the hay cutting. Takes us out of the world of the unknown.
Could be.. lots of guys also have spray bar mounted on swather front and spray weeds as they cut Canola. We used a Miller sprayer with 35 ft macdon front and sprayed as we swathed
Thanks for the video mate, people who complain about farmers talking about the weather may not have ever eaten food, or drank any fluids, because everything living breathing farting relies on the liquid gold that falls from the sky. Cheers.
Thanks for the update Henry and the forthright and positive approach. With all the expert commentary on current Australian weather developments you moved quickly with a very sensible change of plan. The best of luck with it all.
Hi mate, cant say I’ve ever heard of that type of barley here in WA. Couple of questions. If you had the barley seed then you’ve obviously grown it before so I’m wondering what you’ve actually grow it for in the past, was it for sheep feed ? The tanks on the cutter are they for ryegrass spraying while cutting ? Don’t worry mate , we all have cockups. Good thing about farming is you can hide a lot of them and nobody will see them. 😀😀
We grew it as a grazing barley and took the sheep out and harvest some in 2021. Supposed to have good early season vigour, but from our experience it doesn't grow any better than any other barley early on. The tanks would be for spraying or applying inoculant to the hay as its cut.
