Yield Moinitor, recals itself

 

Well, it would be nice if it were true that the barley yield was 10.3 t ha, alas it decided to read three times the actual yield, the moisture was spot on, it must have been around me to long and has a bad case of possitive thinking.
I will reset it tomorrow and come back to reality.

Harvesting Field Peas

I harvested the field pea seed increase block yesterday,they yielded just over 1.2 t ha which with 69mm of in crop rain and being planted at 50% of the normal rate of seed was ok.
The local beans that are like a Rosa bean yielded 1.4 t ha although they were hand harvested and planted at the full seed rate.
The Trials are in the background,we are harvesting the 16 crop types/varieties/row spacings as they ripen, lots of weighing and records to be kept.

Sunflower, Mung Beans (Green Grams) and Linseed (Flaxseed) in the trials

Barley harvest has started

I harvested a truck load or so late last week, I checked our farm grain moisture meter against the malthouses unit, the grain moisture was 13%, should be right by tomorrow (Monday)
I will harvest the "ThomasBlues" field pea seed increase block first thing tomorrow (early morning to reduce shattering losses. Then into the Barley full on if the grain moisture is ok (it needs to be under 12.5%)
If you click on the photo you will see on the left of the photo the 180mm (9 inch) paired rows that are 750mm (30 inch) from the center of the pair to the center of the next pair.

Imposter Found Out

My big boy James via Skype suggested that the young Cheetah I ran down was actually a Serval Cat, upon closer inspection via a google search it appears he is right, it also explains the disproportional aggression shown from him, he was a medium size Serval and not a very small Cheetah.
Although the two very small critters were Cheetahs and so I maintain the running down a Cheetah story, the fact their eyes were still closed and were only able to roll and not run is an aside. 

Two baby Cheetah in the crop

I found these two little fellows in the sorghum I was harvesting, fortunately I saw them and then left this piece of crop for a few days, I checked two days later and the were gone, I assume their mum relocated them, they still had their eyes closed. (click to expand the photo)

Unloading in Bulk, then bagging for delivery

 

New trainee harvester operator

Grace our 15 Year old had some lessons in operating our Case 2388 harvester this week, or as some green eyed farmer friends from Australia call our harvester "The Old Coke Can"

Ex Gular Rugby player Runs down a Cheetah

Ok the heading did not mention he was a young Cheetah,I was harvesting the last strip in a patch of crop when I saw this fellow, he took off over the harvested crop area towards about 10 eagles who were dinning on a fairly big bird on the ground about 100m away in the direction he was running, I chased him down (just) and once I had hold of him was very unsure if it was such a good idea as he was super aggressive. I released him in the bush nearby and so I hope he found his mum.

One of the slums around Nairobi

Veiw Over The Rift Valley

 

I took these Photos last week while traveling to a field day at a farmer friends place,my phone camera does not do the Rift Valley justice,its pretty impressive