First Commercial Wheat harvested

Some small plot trial results

 

Soya Bean planted 4/4/15,  plant pop 24 plants per square meter,variety was DPSB19 yield   1.12 t ha 

 

Mung Beans (green grams) planted 4/4/15 plant pop 27 plantrs per square meter variety was KS20 yield 2.51 t ha

 

Soya Bean planted 4/4/15, plant pop 26 plants per square meter, variety was DPSB8 yield was 1.27 t ha

Yellow beans planted 4/4/15 plant pop was 15 plants per square meter, variety "From Village next door" yield was 2.54 t ha (nice)

Soya Beans planted 4/4/15 plant pop was 17 plants per square meter, variety EHI3600, yield 1.62 t ha

Kabuli Chickpeas, planted 8/04/15 variety "from Tuskys supermarket" plant pop was 14 per square meter YIELD WAS 3.64THA

Soya Bean planted on the 8/04/15, variety was Nyala, plant pop was 25 plants per square meter, Yield 1.76 t ha (highest Soya yield)

 

All in all we got some interesting ballpark information (they are not replicated trials) from this seasons trials, Kabuli chickpeas , Local yellow Beans and Mung Beans (Green grams) look like crops we will take into commercial production.

New Buhler Grain Cleaner

Our home built for $3500 rotary grain screen just could not get us into specification (99% above the screen,.i.e retention) so we either wasted lots of $ on freight and grading losses to send the grain 200 plus km or we bought a grain cleaner, fortunately for us one of if not the biggest companies in the world of grain cleaning, flour mill machinery plus plus (google them they do just about every food processing gear including chocolate), Buhler just happened to have one of their TAS 152A-2 cleaners in the country, sitting 50km away in Nairobi, it is made in Germany and the quality is beautiful.
We have set it up temporally for now but when we finish building our grain store/shed we will move it to be able to clean direct from the 25t delivery pit and into the store/shed, it will clean wheat at 50 to 60t per hour so it will allow us to clean all our grain straight of the harvester.
As we deliver direct to end users we need to provide a clean product ready to mill or malt.