Due to the much publicised rains harvest continues. So while I’ve got a few minutes to wait in the silo queue before unloading, I thought I’d put together a few images that I’ve snapped over the past few weeks. Despite the setbacks, in yield terms it has been a well-above average year. Prices have also been really good, so for fortunate ones like ourselves with stuff to sell it should still end up being a great season.
It’s been a really busy few weeks & I’d love to share something of what’s been going on!
This is part 3 of my series – ‘View from the Silo’ showing the dramatic changes our area undergoes throughout a cropping season. The first 2 in the series are: April & June.
A big change from April
Well it’s the end of July and we’re thankfully over halfway through winter. You can see that our wheat crop has started growing and now has almost complete ground cover. Welcome rain has meant that the crops in our area are looking quite good at this early stage. The tire marks you can see running up and down the paddock show that this wheat was sprayed last week in order to kill weeds and the ‘self-sown’ lentils and clover from last year. You can see the complete contrast in colour compared to the April photo just 3 short months ago. Dead, dry and barren then, lush green and growing now. It’s a very welcome change!
This post is the second ‘View from the Silo’. It’s a series I’ve started to document the dramatic landscape changes that happen in our area over a farming season. I did the first one back in April.
The colour transformation is beginning.
Compared to the photo from April, you can see that much has changed. Autumn is now winter, bright sunshine is now grey overcast and cold. By mid June the scene above is a common one around here, as most farmers have finished planting and the crops are in the ground and starting to grow. As of today, this is the case for us too. A good thing, as the long hours in the tractor seat do get repetitive and the risks of weather &/or machinery delays are now past.
This paddock was planted with wheat & fertiliser about 3 weeks ago, and has now germinated quite nicely. Yours truly was driving for most of this paddock, but I unfortunately can’t take credit for the gun-barrel straight lines of new life you see above. As well as making tractor driving less demanding, the GPS guidance also means efficient use of paddocks via the elimination of overlaps or missed sections.These green lives carve a welcome pattern into the dark soil.
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