Cup Day Happenings
It’s late pre-silly season at the farm at the moment. We’re all busy getting machinery & ourselves ready for windrowing, and then harvest. The theory is to do lots of maintenance and repairs now in a bid to avoid crucial downtime later. A bit like communism, it’s a good theory.
Some of the things happening over the past few days include:
- Spraying chickpeas to suppress fungal diseases.
- Maintenance & testing of our improved spray system for the windrower.
- Full service of header. Oil change, replace and clean filters etc.
- Checking radiators, tyres etc on trucks.
- Prepare yard for new on-farm storage that is being built.
As a follow up from my last post, we had around 15mm of very welcome rain last Friday afternoon. This brought our October rainfall up to 35.4mm and our growing season rainfall up to 227.4mm. That’s barely over 9 inches in the old scale. (25mm = 1 inch) If not for all our stored soil moisture this season we would have experienced drought like conditions. For us, it seems that last summers big wet did about equal parts harm and good.
Themocracy