Finally The Big Barley Harvest

It would be hard to believe how much trouble harvesting 1 ha of barley could be

 

Above is what happens when a bolt falls out of the sieves.

You can take the Aussie out of Australia but you cannot keep him off a Dozer

Andrew Frost spent an enjoyable hour so on Phil Tilley's pride and joy (D5LGP), our four Australian visitors left to return home yesterday, it was great to have them stay.

Some Trials Hand Harvested

 We cut the field peas off with garden shears and just rolled them up. Notice the cracks in the soil, it used the soil water up well. I think it has been 12 weeks with out rain now. Notice the Canola in the foreground, it died.

 Hand harvesting the Field Pea trials, 52.2kg takes a while. We planted 2.2 kg of seed. Two Australian friends, Andrew Frost and Geoff O'Neil were a good help.

The field peas yielded 1.69t ha on the 350mm spacing and 1.46t ha on the 750mm spacing.
We hand harvested some barley and it yielded 3.25t ha. We will machine harvest the rest on Monday.

Trials

The Trials are showing up some interesting things, the Canola has almost died, the field peas look good, the wheat looks like about 2t ha and the red sorghum is only just filling.

We will hand harvest the Field peas this week and hand harvest our trial area of the Barley to see the ratio of green weight at full grain to dry harvested weight.

I will post the results when they are done.
 

Sorghum looking OK

This is the Red sorghum with the white in the background. (click to get a better view)

Birhday Party at the Orphanage

 We had a great evening with the Kids, John and Wiz loved seeing their old friends, lots of laughing and playing. This Picture is Grace, James and Susan (James Girl) organizing something?

Barley almost ready to Harvest

We should harvest the barley next week, we will hand harvest our trial parts, then machine harvest the rest. (the whole 1 ha trial, wow that should take about 6 or 7 minutes with the Case.