Ferme du Vieux Chêne

June and the sun beats down on the farm. I decided that I should get my own silo ready for the crops that are growing in my fields. I have located it in the farmyard…

…Which means that the Harvester has had to find a new parking spot – I’ve moved it to the grass behind the railway depot👍 On the slope beside the track, the poppies are putting on a fine display…

…I own this bit of land but I don’t think I can do a lot with it other than perhaps having a picnic😂 However, we’re probably going to be too busy for one of those – we had our first harvest job of the year and dispatched the tractor and harvester over to the next valley…

Fertilizing and Spraying still form the bulk of my work for our neighbours…

Between jobs I took the time to re-evaluate my targets. I now think that my best next field will be number 23…

…rather than field 20. It will cost €100K less and is still easily accessible. I took a look during a quiet period in late June and found a nice crop of Barley growing there…

Fortuitously, at the same time as my crop of Oats became ready to harvest in the first week of July, so did this field of Barley and I was able to take the contract. It gave a good insight into the volume of crop I could expect compared to my field 17…

…I took 20000 litres of Barley to the grain mill from that field and I stored nearly 8000l of Oats in my silo…

…from my own field. I’ll be interested to see what return I get in Sorghum from field 14 when that ripens next month😎

Excitement over and back to the Fertilizing…

…I’m amazed that this farmer wants me to fertilize so late in the crop’s growth cycle – this Sorghum is nearly ready to harvest and I fertilized mine a couple of months back! Still – it’s cash in hand and I’ve been able to add a Forage Wagon to my fleet of vehicles…