Stuart Barden in Kenya

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Chickpeas in the trials


These are Kabuli Chickpeas, I have been very impressed with their lack of disease, they are podding up well, probably a bit on the low side for mechanical harvesting although not terrible.
 

Yellow beans in trials looking good


The Top Photo is of Yellow beans on the left and Faba beans on the right, the Yellow bean plants are only about 40cm high but loaded with pods (bottom photo) we would have to hand windrow them and then machine harvest with the Combine if we grow them commercially as the pods are very low.
Wait and see how they yield.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Veiw from the farm office

The most advanced barley (in the photo) is at my best guess around 5 weeks from harvest, the Mung beans are podding up well, we have had 214mm of rain in crop in the crop above  and about 165mm in the Mung beans and dry planted barley which is still at the grain fill stage.