Stuart Barden in Kenya

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Flying Field Day

We ran a field day and we ended up with five plane loads and two car loads of commercial farmers from different grain growing areas around Kenya and one (who drove funnily enough) from Tanzania.
Had a good day, it was a real encouragement to not feel like the only commercial farmer around which is how it feels sometimes.
We have been waiting on parts for our new secondhand harvester and although they are in Kenya it is a long process to get them through customs.
I gave up today and will just do what I can with what I have and hope it holds together, 600 acres of Sorghum is ready and I am very keen to get it off. No grain storage built yet and so all sold off the harvester to an end user.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Those Birds

We have currently got about 2 to 3 million birds eating our sorghum, our 41 bird scaring people are helping although the damage is real. The above photo is of a small group.
I am starting to get creative and so lets wait and see whether we can sort these freeloaders out.