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Post by eppie on Sept 9, 2002 6:05:27 GMT 1
;D ;D  ...we have an extremely wet summer, the wettest since 20 years or so. Together with very warm days, we have very good corn, and much grass in stock for coming 2 and a half winter. The cold and wet spring has been rough for early planted corn. We were lucky, and planted late. Our corn catched the hot days, and had not too much water in the first month. Unfortunately, we only grow about 0.7 hectare of corn.... The 18 horses dont eat that much. Maybe we catched YOUR rain. har har... feelin' criminal By the way: Does anybody else feed corn to horses? When i say we grow corn for the horses, people usually are surprised. But we think they really need some corn for energy when you dont feed them additional cubes. |
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Post by HPP on Sept 9, 2002 9:26:39 GMT 1
Hey Renze!
OK, so I´m not a NA-farmer (hasn´t been for 30 years now) but drought we have! Really strange, I mean, we´re not that far away from each other. 4 hours in a better car than mine I´d say? You have the wettest days in years and here it´s extremely dusty. The guys are out there seeding, harrowing and stuff and all you can see is a huge cloud of dust. I think we´ve seen 14 drops of rain the last month. And on top of that we still have summertemperatures. It´s still around 25 degrees centigrade here. Bathing season is still on (still above 20 degrees watertemperature). This week the deliveries of sugerbeats are supposed to start and no one really knows how this is going to work. At least I´m glad I´m not a sugar beat harvester. Luckily I´m working for a company that is dealing with parts for those machines!
And no rain in sight for at least another week!
We are out allmost every day now demoing tractors and equipment and I tell you, any type of soil preparation now is really hard work!
Lucky us - the things we have up front are one 716 Vario and one 926 Vario. And of course one MF 8240!
So far still no need for the 930!
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Post by eppie on Sept 9, 2002 12:17:05 GMT 1
Hi HPP.
Where did you live again? Was it Sweden or Denmark?
Acording to the weather forecasters, our rain mostly comes from southwest, above the atlantics travelling over the Channel. According to this, you have bad luck the clouds turn away back to above sea, because if it would travel on in the same direction, it must get over to your area.
By the way: do you have farms of the size that can make a 930 profitable??
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Post by HPP on Sept 9, 2002 15:05:39 GMT 1
Hi Renze!
Southernmost part of Sweden it is.
Live about 20 km from the bridge that, at least around here, is world famous, the Öresund Bridge, that nowadays takes us to Copenhagen Denmark in a few minutes. Beautiful thing!
I know the rain has been passing us by just a few kilometres. Almost all of Denmark has gotten your rain. But as soon as it comes close to us it just goes straight up to Norway. Here we can just barely smell it! And sometimes even see the clouds!
And yes, we have that size of farms as well. At least when I´m allowed to do the calculation!
No seriously, we do have them!
Had the 926 Demo on one of those farms a couple of days last week. Pulled a Väderstad 8,2 m Carrier.
Normally they do the work with their MX 270 (when it´s running!). It manages to do it in around 8-9 km/h and uses around 30-40 litres/h.
The 926 did the job in 10.5-11 km/h and used exactly 23.6 litres/h!
So, there´s something to calculate! The MX runs around 900 hours/year. The differwence in fuelconsumption is as mesured at least 6 litres/h.
Here in Sweden diesel is around 0.65 Euro/litre.
I would say that brings you quite a nice interest for the pricedifference between the 926 and the MX270, wouldn´t you?
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Post by Red_Painter on Sept 9, 2002 16:55:29 GMT 1
Western US plains and normally wetter areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan have a really bad drought. Southern parts of provinces normally very dry, have rain. Corn belt has drought in areas I guess after the very cold wet spring. I guess Australia has drought too. It's got to be devastating to farmers and machinery dealers trying to survive. Of course excess rain can be just as devastating if crops can't be harvested. Sounds like farther east in Europe rain is really bad. Hopefully bad conditions won't repeat next year, but it's what predicted in Colorado area. Forest fires are another devastating effect of drought.
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Post by eppie on Sept 9, 2002 20:50:42 GMT 1
HPP:
I'm still a little critical on talk of salesmen, but i do believe the 926 has a fuel advantage over the Case.
Hey, it's just as i thought: The clouds traveled over the atlantics, the Channel, the Netherlands and bend their way back to the north sea and the atlantic.
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Post by Woodbeef on Sept 10, 2002 0:02:15 GMT 1
Well we're not that bad this year! Some places are doing worse. Not sure I know what a typically normal year is anymore!!
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Post by pudding on Sept 10, 2002 0:14:53 GMT 1
hmmm......i know i shouldn't post this considering we have a crop consulting division....
but it WAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM, THEY CANNOT PREDICT WHAT A SEASON BRINGS
.....lol that was the disclaimer (i really like those guys)
our first 300 acres of corn av 40bu/ac
scary huh!
we bad here, some say the worst since 1933.......
yet an hour away on our southern farms.......its 200bu/ac corn
lol......crazy huh
laters
pudding
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Post by Jon B on Sept 10, 2002 2:23:40 GMT 1
Renze, we have relatives in Holland, and they tell us that every year is the wettest year on record. So I'm beginning to doubt what you say is true . By the way, they are up in the Groningen area. We here - 5-7 hours away from Woodbeef, are pathetically dry. Try growing a decent crop on 3 inches of rain from May till now. Now we did have some rains around polination time, but still, not enough. Guys were chopping corn last week, and now some guys are combining high moisture corn. This is usually done in the middle of October. Corn is at 30%. Beans are coming off 3 weeks eariler then usual. And the ground is as hard as a rock. I think cement is softer then some of the ground. Looks like its going to be another tough year. Oh well... |
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Post by HPP on Sept 10, 2002 13:20:35 GMT 1
Hey Renze!
Remember: Salestalk COULD be one thing, facts ARE ALWAYS facts. The figures I gave are facts, otherwise I wouldn´t give them!
I was just trying to point out that a lot of times you don´t have to regard any difference in repair- and maintenance costs to get the calculation for a "Fendt-investment" right. As in this case the fuel consumption is enough to make the Fendt-price worth wile.
I could tell you alot about the repaircosts on this specific MX 270 (it just happens that my son is working on this farm and he is the driver of the MX!) but I will not because then you would be right about salestalk!
Another thing: You wouldn´t be able to come up here and bring us some water would you? Weatherforecast say another week, at least, without rain!!!
Drought is really only a nickname of what we´re having here now!
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Post by eppie on Sept 10, 2002 21:44:51 GMT 1
Hey, You're defending yourself.. Har har... I might think i shot bullseye...
Hey, it's o.k. You can show facts, and facts are facts. still, not everyone who makes that much hours has a Fendt. You're doing something wrong, if you would really have a superior product, but you couldn't convince people with the facts.
All i wanted to say, is: Its natural behaviour of people, to claim theirs is better. Most men say their wife is a better partner than their neighbor's. Every mother would say: "My son doesn't do such things"
When i say salestalk, i dont mean you're a liar, i just say you see YOUR partner, child or brand you sell, mainly from the bright side. Every people has it. It's just that Fendt drivers and salesmen are easy to stir up.
But i had this discussion in full length and full width with the boys on farmphoto, so i better quit.
But other people would agree, fendt drivers and salesmen are easiest to stir up. You can see that on farmphoto.
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Post by HPP on Sept 11, 2002 13:44:37 GMT 1
Gee! And I´ve always thought that most men say the neighbor´s wife is a better partner than his own wife!
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Post by eppie on Sept 11, 2002 16:48:17 GMT 1
O.K. You're right again. But what about falling in love? Some people fall in love with very ugly women ;D  |
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Post by HPP on Sept 12, 2002 15:18:19 GMT 1
Not me, I promise!
Was married 18 years. All of a sudden I found myself 20 years old again. Had lots of fun for about 5 years.
Now I´ve fallen in love with one fantastic woman. The type you never really think exists. On top of that she´s got the type of look that makes guys walk in to lightposts and stuff. I like it!
Only thing is, she´s not very interested in tractors. But I can cope with that!
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Post by eppie on Sept 12, 2002 20:21:17 GMT 1
You see !!
When people fall in love, they mention only the good things, but they can cope with the bad things of their partners. That's about what i was trying to say.
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...we have an extremely wet summer, the wettest since 20 years or so. Together with very warm days, we have very good corn, and much grass in stock for coming 2 and a half winter.