Seed cleaning and first top dress on canola with the drone- 100kgs urea.
Rain was a good result in the end considering on the largest forecast day we had only had 5mm- finished up with 20 after 3 days.
Hay oats in this week and finishing off a few contract sowing jobs
Season might be done for earthmoving this year. Hard to justify the fuel costs when water’s tight and inputs are through the roof for the cocky.
Might be time to park the bucket, hook up the seeder and just idle around using less fuel in the 9470 🧐
I understand how fuel prices are rooted, and yes it hurts
At the moment it adds an extra $15/ha to put the crop in and when you look at it over our 750ha it’s not that bad ($11k)
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The killer for us is the cost of urea
Even when trying to pull rates back it’s still adding an additional $90k - which is equivalent of the interest payment on 90ha around here!
That’s the number that should be getting the attention! I need cheaper nitrogen!!!!
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Thanks to the National Carbon Farming Conference & Expo for a well put together day and your hospitality
Great to be named the inaugural high achiever award from the Soil Industry Carbon Group
Enjoy the rest of the conference!
Teamwork makes the dream work @Lawrie_Co@agriprove
Shoulda stripped the grain but have decided to smack some summer crop in. Absolutely great yield from one irrigation the pay back on 1 meg of water was worth it here.
Um….. started a trend and we are into the next farm. Looking like a lot of canola going to get a haircut in Northern Victoria.
Massey double conditioner is the only choice 👌
Final day of the hay guard Broome tour
Water Corporation
Using up to 70 megs water/week over 3 pivots
Liquid injecting calcium and silica into pivots to wash out salt and heavy metals from soil.
All profits from project go back into community support/projects - great initiative
Day 4 hay guard tour
Wallal Downs Station
200000ha
Used for male feeder cattle
Market primarily live export 400-450kgs
Weaners come onto station at 100kgs
When they get to 300kgs go into pivots
Stand and graze property
6 x 48ha pivots here all run from ground pressure- no pumping
150kgs/dm per day if fertilised right
Up to 1700 head get half pivot / 3 day rotation
Hay made to keep ahead of growth, can’t store in sheds due to prohibitive cost/cyclone risk.