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@brianrushe81 @IFAmedia Thanks Brian, no balls dropped during your term. Hope to see you back in the game soon.

Happy Christmas everyone. As I finish up my time as @IFAmedia deputy president I just want to say thank you to everyone who supported, encouraged and provided guidance to me over the last 4 years. It’s been the honor of my life to have been entrusted to represent farmers.

@garrettmalt Nice bita tractor porn there Gar 😉

Good man Santy, he knows the drill at this stage! 🚜🎅🎄

@ByrneAgri 😂😂

@KevinoHanlon12 You may bang it on the santa letter Kevin 😉

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@garrettmalt Great news lads, we have a baby Douglas too, hardy types!

Not much farming done around here since last Friday! Welcome baby Douglas to the family, a bruiser at 9lb 12oz 💪👶🏻

@paddyfromnobber @seandineen4 Fine job, does it have an antibacterial agent to prevent moss

@seandineen4 Greenhill systems

Cheers to the first few girls off on holidays 🐄 see yee in the rotary 🥛 #SDCT #Dryoff #delaval #Heinekenzero

Increasing soil organic matter is difficult. How difficult? Here are the numbers: To increase SOM 1%➡️1.1% (=11 tons in top 6"), with 1%/yr loss, requires ~6.7 tons/ac biomass = 223 corn or 239 bu/ac wheat crops. See my calculations, do your own...csanr.wsu.edu/putting-number…

@robertlufkinmd What is this diet called?

@FredVLarsen Organic situ ?

1st year out of 4 has now passed for the lucerne based living mulch rotation. From small undersown lucerne in an average WOSR field to dense forage cut for dairy to newly emerged notill winter wheat which is the 2nd year cash crop in this rotation.

@KevinoHanlon12 Did she leave you outside for a few nights along the way Kevin 😍. Here's to the next 20.!

20 years together 11 years married today. That lovely hair is long gone🫣

@PSliepen @Matt3ngland @garfordrobocrop Is compaction at 6mts an issue?

@Matt3ngland @garfordrobocrop Probably a hard pan between surface and 6 meter down with lots nitrogen on that layer

After having had no issues with weeds in last years #organic winter linseed, I’ve now got some pretty nasty looking thistle patches. We should have bought a @garfordrobocrop

@KevinoHanlon12 What is she kevin ? Breeding wise

First Lady up to calf. A faithful red first calver in calf to a home breed 1/2 Norwegian red bull.🤞

@NewstalkFM @DuncanStewart4

@Shalvanstown @WhitesOats Good job John 👏. Looking fairly clean , weeds much of an issue this year?

Last stipe of 23 #difficultharvest just before the truck arrived from ⁦@WhitesOats⁩ 😅

@KevinoHanlon12 Sorry to hear that Kevin 😳

Shit morning back on the 60 day merry-go-round🤬

Wow, I didn't realize that inter-seeding was a thing back then. Stumbling onto historical research on green manure crops is what got me interested in cover crops. I realized we left a lot of tools behind in the haste to scale up agriculture

Our West Point office came across this photo from 1960. The caption says, "... (farmer) drills in a cover crop of rye and vetch in late August each year. Drill was built in farm shop. This cropping system has been used for the past 7 years. Yields have increased each year.” #TBT

#DYK -> The #bacteria & #organisms found in #healthysoil are also found in the human gut. Consuming food grown in healthy soil can contribute to our own long-term health by maintaining a balance of vital microbes. Retweet to spread the word about the importance of #soilhealth !