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Post by pudding on Jun 24, 2002 2:05:16 GMT 1
whats everyone busy at, at the moment??
here i planted some soybeans today, i am done side dressing corn, the wheat harvest is coming along ok, ran a chaser bin and combine yesterday....
another week and all the beans will be in, and the wheat will be off........then i guess we start bush hogging and crop spraying!
meanwhile my parents in NZ are freezing and half of lil ole NZ is snow bond......(well was last week i am told)
whats everyone doing?........
laters
pudding ;D
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Post by kenjar on Jun 24, 2002 2:23:46 GMT 1
Hey Pudding,
You enjoying your stay in Kaintuck ?
Not alot going on, waiting for the milo to dry down.Probably take another 3 to 4 weeks.
How is the wheat turning out? Do you have hard or the soft varieties?
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Post by leemsutton on Jun 24, 2002 12:52:20 GMT 1
Waiting for the crops to ripen. Should be into the barley in about 4 weeks
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Post by eppie on Jun 24, 2002 18:54:39 GMT 1
My brother finally put a new starter motor on his Deutz D50. Saturday he mowed some grass with it, for a few people who had hay fever. They had some wild "birdies land" around their summer houses. It's not that we needed that grass, it costs more fuel and labor than it gives hay, but my father could help them get rid of it. Tomorrow, we will make some bales of it. I'm repairing my machinery. This morning, i went to the smith and had 2 new tires on the tedder, tomorrowmorning, i will replace a tine wheel on the rake.
Hey Pudding, what is a bush hog? is it just a mulch mower for rough land, or is there something special about it??
I use my goat, siksik, to 'mow' the roadsides. It eats all kind of weeds, and its blades stay sharp when it mows around treestubs.
Renze, The netherlands
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Post by leemsutton on Jun 24, 2002 21:02:33 GMT 1
Hay over here always sells well as the horsey people buy it for their precious pets!
One woman that keeps a horse here hired a flat bed lorry (£150/day + fuel) and then drove all the way to WALES (about 150 miles from here) to buy 300 small hay bales for £10/bale!!
Ok this was 2001, when there was a Hay/Straw shortage due to bad weather during the 2000 planting season, but COME ON that is just stupid! Normal prices for a small hay bale are about £1.50-£2.50 per bale. When I say small bales I mean conventional bales - 3ft x 2ft (about 20kg)
If I had a horse it would have been living on something else that was cheaper.
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Post by kenjar on Jun 24, 2002 23:06:34 GMT 1
Renze, Bush Hog? Pudding is refering to a company who makes rotary cutters. In the the southern states instead of mowing or shredding they use the term bushhoging. Have a look. www.bushhog.com/ |
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Post by pudding on Jun 25, 2002 2:34:05 GMT 1
hey kenjar, thanks for the email today...... bushhog is a mower......we have two of them (well one is a woods type).....both 'bat wing' type......they are a new thing to me.......never had them in New Zealand.... the bush hog was so popular the name became generic..........ie common terminoliy (spelling) similar products to do this is coke cola (coke or cola), rollerblade (its actually a trademark).....yadayada the wheat?....one field went from 7 to 37 bushel to the acre.....another was 70-80 b/ac..that whole farm averaged 53ish bushels to the acre.....the farms down south have been doing better......getting about 90 b/ac........dunno what our seed wheat areas are yielding like, truth is we just started thrashing them tonight......with a shelbourne renyolds striper header and axial-flow what were your yields like? i should really convert them back to t /ha so the non-americans can understand  hard and soft varieties?>......dang i guess this is terminoliy we doin't use at home.....i will ask! we have both seed and milling wheat whats woobeef up to these days?......watching it rain? |
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Post by leemsutton on Jun 25, 2002 8:38:44 GMT 1
whats the conversion for bushels/acre to tonnes/acre?
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Post by pudding on Jun 25, 2002 12:37:16 GMT 1
bushel of wheat is 60pounds
bushel of corn is 56 pounds
bushel of soybeans is 60 pounds......
kenjar......
hard wheat = milling wheat.........yes we have that.......
soft wheat = biscuit wheat..........we have none of that....but i don't know what our southern farm grows.....and they have a heap of wheat!
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Post by Woodbeef on Jun 25, 2002 13:02:04 GMT 1
Hey Mr Super Hero Type Dude,
Yep,you pretty much nailed it there!!! Just literally watching the grass grow! We have not been able to string more than two or three dry days together since it was tall enough to cut! Quite a bit of it has been blown down of late also. Not looking very good for haying this week either.
I'm getting so bored,I might go and help the neighbors peddle manure separators and pumps for something to do!
B-B-Que season has not really taken hold up here yet. So the Farmers' Market has been pretty dead too.
Did it get real humid in Kiwiland? If not you are in for a big surprise once it warms up below the Mason/Dixon Line!!
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Post by Red_Painter on Jun 25, 2002 17:02:06 GMT 1
Pudding, do you plan to double crop the wheatland with soybeans following the stripped grain fields. Just was wondering what the practice is there. When I was in Kentucky years ago visiting relatives, they were talking about double cropping wheatland. Tobacco was their main crop there. Was wondering how the stripped ground is tilled if not double cropped. Is that the ground you bushhog or is it rangeland?
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Post by leemsutton on Jun 25, 2002 18:49:56 GMT 1
Pudding,
What is a pound?
What is a bushel compared to a UK tonne.
1 UK tonne = 1000 kg
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Post by eppie on Jun 25, 2002 20:27:33 GMT 1
Leemsutton:
We had the hay for our horses too. The fifteen breeding horses just eat silage grass, and maize silage as well.
I think the hay prices at yours are pretty the same compared to the Netherlands.
By the way, we (my father and second brother) arent those horse people that buy hay for that price. (and i dont ride horses of flesh and blood, but steel ones.)
Kenjar, thanks.
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Post by kenjar on Jun 25, 2002 20:54:04 GMT 1
Pudding,
Wheat in our area ranged from 15 to 55 bushels per acre. We had mostly hard red winter types.
Lee,
A pound = 453.6 grams
2,205 pounds = 1 metric ton(1000kg.)
A bushel of wheat = 27.27 kg(appx.)
Your are welcome Renze.
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Post by pudding on Jun 26, 2002 2:46:24 GMT 1
thanks kenjar!....
hard wheat?........yep we have that.......lots of it
the rest is seed wheat
red_painter........yeap.........we double crop all our wheat ground with soybeans........all done no-till
there is one field of wheat we don't double crop....its in a coal mine reclaimation program with the govt........its only 60 acres......i don't know what we will do with it.......how it is tilled.....i guess it will stay how it is, then go back into wheat
double croped land is all, no-till, we have 5 2388 axial flows cutting with 3 30ft and 2 25ft fronts, all straw is chopped......if it even goes in the combine (we also have 2 28ft stripper headers)......they leave a great finish.......we also had two new hollands running down south this year....a tr98 and tx?....something.....these were contractor owned....
planting beans we use a JD1850 air seeder (30ft), kinze 2600 (40FT), two JD750 drills on a toolbar thing (30ft), and a great plains (wore out....30ft).......lol.......when the push comes on, we drag the ole battle axes out of the sheds!.......the great plains was run on a ford 9600........my rig is the 2 JD750s.....on a caseih 9170 (our JCB185 died)......my rig is tired too.........only one marker arm works........and we don't even use the front units (planting on 15 inch rows instead of 7.5inch rows)
leemsutton.....lol.....is a UK tonne different to a metric tonne??........only pulling ya chain!
woodbeef...so me guessing you chasing that woman round the house lots at the mo eh?
yeah humidity ain't as bad in lil NZ, like it is here in USA.....but i guess also like here in the USA, it depends on where you are a little.......and who farted!
whats ontario like?.......i wanna check that place out one day!
laters
pudding
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