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Joe Fisher
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Joe Fisher
@JJ_Fishy
Newcastle Uni & MDS Grad. Arable farming, liveries, building lets. Keen sportsman, skier & shooter plagued by a dicky shoulder.
Nottinghamshire Katılım Ocak 2012
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Making use of the @AgriiUK @RHIZADigital Contour app to plan variable rate fertiliser applications 📱 🛰️
Ground truthing is vital and it’s always a timely reminder of how variable oilseed rape often is coming into the spring 🌱 🚶
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Example #230 of how AI is useful for everyday farming. "Build me a calculator to work out optimal blending ratios for milling wheat target protein" takes minutes and save time and mistakes.
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Summer grazers soon to be finished. Angus X Jersey.
Get in touch if you would like some Xmas beef. Ready 20th Dec
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@JJ_Fishy Has that been done with a trendy Horsch avatar? Looks very tidy
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More drilling through a cover crop. Or as Father described it, ‘a complete mess’.
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Final level before concrete pour next week. Concrete floor is costing around 1/3 of the project cost 🤯
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@DavidButler34 @aSamEvans Spot on. A decent builder can name his price
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@aSamEvans I think it’s because successive Governments thought a Developed Economy should be based around the Services sector in preference to manual-oriented jobs. Now hard to find enough workers prepared to pick up a trowel or shovel!
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Why does everything take so long to build and cost so much in the UK?
Here’s an example!
Britain Remade@BritainRemade
NEW: The Government spent £22m on its Small Modular Reactor competition- and demanded 50% gender diversity across bidders’ supply chains. Is it any wonder Britain is the most expensive country in the world to build new nuclear? thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@dikesmarshfarm Yes same, but I mean take-all and latitude specifically as it’s soil borne. Never bothered normally but this year we were looking at drilling 2nd wheats earlier
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Even 5 years ago I wouldn't have drilled this farm on the 25th September, but that's becoming a distant memory.
It's a shame that no till, Mg clay, second wheat, chopped straw just doesn't work!
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@redbarnspratton @cutlerstom Not noticed much difference in pre em results with lots of biomass…. The brome still raises its head all over in no-till!
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@cutlerstom I share your concerns re pre em!
I’ve cultivated the wheelings from muck spreaders so it’ll make for an interesting comparison.
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I hope this works.
Seedbed quality - best I’ve ever seen
Likely Pre em efficacy? - questionable
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@dikesmarshfarm @loweroddfarm @Nick_Wilson3 Why with a direct disc are headlands done better 1st you think? Got a mounted direct disc & the turning weight makes me think they are better drilled last
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@loweroddfarm @Nick_Wilson3 Depends on the drill, direct disc definitely better
With RTK & permanent tramlines it makes no difference IMHO
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Impressive machine in work. Coping well in sprayed off OSR. Will be interesting to watch emergence
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@SouthFrodfarmer Clover was topping the wheat without SU herbicide intervention. Was hard to quantify the benefits - i.e didn’t produce higher yields vs control when stunted into the bottom either
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@JJ_Fishy Hi it had been a herbal ley for 4/5 years till
Last October then I thought I had terminated it however the white clover ( and chicory) has survived. My did the management increase over time?
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The sheep have arrived to eat the clover understory. No idea how long it will take and what to do about the chicory 🥴 my only deadline is to get a crop of wheat in here by mid October at the latest
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@cutlerstom Can’t you go down the route that it’s a pseudo-cereal. Worked for quinoa with the RPA. They both tick all the enviro box
outcomes more than a true cereal too
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@JJ_Fishy None really. No insecticide is about it.
Pity you can’t get low input harvested cereal at £350 odd/ha because it’s not a cereal. Despite ticking far more boxes outcome wise!! 🙄
Know the feeling - niche for a reason
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Buckwheat waist to chest high, plenty of flowers but seed set will be poor until we get a decent rain. Harvest a while off as yet. Basically harvest is now rain + 3 weeks away.
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@JJ_Fishy If you wouldn't be here except for N fertilizer, it saved you from not existing?
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High-yielding crops and N fertilizer are two of the top three scientific innovations for saving lives.
Max Roser@MaxCRoser
At Our World in Data, we spend much of our time counting deaths. But it’s just as important to know the number of lives saved — even though it is harder to estimate and involves much larger uncertainty. My Data Insight today includes this chart of some estimates.
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@cutlerstom I know your pain - the joys of niche cropping. A bit of a disaster this year for anything later sown bar maize
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This crop got off to a brilliant start with warm soils and a nice rain to get it going. But without regular rains to sustain it, things look very bleak.
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@charlespaynter @FarmerSimonC We have had too much bother trying to DD after sheep if they aren’t moved exactly at the right time.
Growing maize has helped grazing now - need to shallow cultivate anyway, later drilling giving more time to prepare seedbed etc.
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@FarmerSimonC Research at Leeds University Farm concurs & shows that livestock integration in no till arable environments on heavier land needs careful reactive management. Get it wrong and soil health👎
Ideally it’s a drier growing season activity best done after harvest🤷
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Great example of better establishment with DD. 1st pic drilled straight into over winter stubble. 2nd and 3rd, into power harrowed plough. Uneven surface caused variable depth, so no moisture where shallow until it rained.
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