Boys Helping Collect Some Stones

I found this pile of about 30 or so stones while I was planting Barley in late Oct, Gideon and the two small boys came out early one morning and helped me pick them and some other piles up.

Field Peas in the Commercial Trials

180mm Paired rows on 750mm centers, Field peas planted at 80 kg ha (limited seed) plus 70 kg DAP

Mung Beans Up

We planted about 30 ha of commercial size trials, this picture was taken about five days ago as the Mung Beans (Green Grams) were just up, the trials have Maize, Sunflowers, Field Peas and two Mung Bean varieties. The Mung beans were planted at 28kg ha seed, Sunflowers 35,000 seeds per ha planted, Maize at 30,000 seeds per ha planted all with 70 kg ha of DAP.

Barley Up And away

We planted 320 ha of barley in the last week of October, due to our planter limitations we have planted three rows per 750mm center, one down the tyne, one down the gauge wheel coulter and one scattered 150mm or so leading the tyne, we managed to get a great germination on the tyne and coulter although relying on the soil throw to give some seed cover was never going to be a great idea, about 20/40% of the spread came up, the barley was planted at 50kg ha with 70kg per ha of DAP.
If you click on the photo it will give a much better view, lots of soil cover, wait and see.
Medium plan is to move to a  9m JD 1890 on 250mm spacing's, this would be ideal for the narrower row crops like Barley and Mungbeans.(Green Grams)