Morvenvale

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• Jock Cameron // Nov 25th 2007 at 3:33 pm

  Very impressive page…..Great pics!

• Glenn // Mar 17th 2008 at 11:48 pm

  Hi David;
  How are things with you? I heard you had a very dry year and now it has rained so you’ll be growing a good crop this year. what is your situation? Will you be planting many desi chickpeas? Of all the legume crops chickpeas will be the least favored as lentil and pea prices haveincreased much more than cp. We are very dry here but further north they are in good shape. We are having a good year with gross revenue up 60% and costs up only 15%(diesel and fert). we just got back from a month in Brazil and Argentina so need to buckle down and be ready to plant mid April.
  Regards, Glenn

• Christine Brain // May 22nd 2008 at 12:43 pm

  Dear David and Sue,
  Thank you so much for sharing your great website with us. I hope you get lots of responses from people keen to learn from you and share your experiences. I read The Farmer’s Wife with a tear in my eye- how typical of farming people she is-resilient, strong and practical, with a sense of humour to boot. God bless you; may He send the rain you need when you need it.
  Regards, Christine Brain

• Ian Walthew // Jun 10th 2008 at 9:26 pm

  Hi there,

  Doing a little browsing on farm blogs, I came accross yours and greatly enjoyed it.

  I thought you might be interested in a blog I run, called http://www.aplaceintheauvergne.blogspot.com Under the first photo post of every day are articles from the International Herald Tribune concerning agriculture, food, and water.

  I’m also the author of a book called ‘A Place in My Country: In Search of a Rural Dream’ which might also interest you too. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Place-My-Country-Search-Rural/dp/0753823888/ref=pd_sbs_b_title_14

  Good luck with your venture,
  Kind regards,
  Ian

  http://www.ianwalthew.com
  http://www.aplaceintheauvergne.blogspot.com

• All lift forklift hire // Jul 22nd 2008 at 12:10 pm

  It was great to see all the picutures about modern farming methods.
  Best wishes,
  Bruce

• John Stevenson // Jul 24th 2008 at 7:47 am

  David
  Thanks for the Weedseeker info yesterday – very helpful. We are also eight years into the no-stock no-till sytem which makes us a bit of an oddity in the Riverina. The results are astounding with our soils now unbelievably fluffy. We now sow by the calender over a six week period from mid April to June and can get crops out of the ground from a dry sowing on 10mm.
  Our interest in the weedseeker technology is due to the recent introduction of Fleabane to our area, coupled with the cost of glyphosate. My only concern is with the work rates we can acheive as we like to get over our 4000 ha’s in 10 days for summer sprays which is a challenge with our low humidity (about 8 hours a day max). My thoughts were to continue doing a light spray with our broadacre unit and to have a second weedseeker pass a week later when all the soft weeds had browned off – would this be feasible?
  Thanks for the site. If I get some time I will set one up for our place as it looks like a great forum for sharing ideas
  Cheers
  John

• Joanne // Jul 24th 2008 at 5:57 pm

  Hello there!

  awesome pictures!

  just letting you know that I’ve found this new website http://www.efarming.com.au/

  check out the weather section – you can see the fronts coming from south Africa!

• John // Aug 3rd 2008 at 2:22 pm

  Hi David,Peter,

  Theres leaders and followers – you guys are leaders.
  Good luck ! John

• Bob Salkeld // Aug 12th 2008 at 4:27 pm

  David and Peter, very impressed with your website and farming activity. I am a city slicker so don’t know much about the bush/farming, but it certainly looks like you know what you are doing especially given the drought conditions. Congratulations. Bob and Rhonda

• Horse supplies AnimalCare // Aug 20th 2008 at 12:00 pm

  Your farm seems to be very busy with all the crops there. Keep up the good work.
  David

• Adam Atkinson // Aug 20th 2008 at 6:51 pm

  It is good to see farmers online. Adam

• Ian Walthew // Aug 27th 2008 at 7:25 pm

  Hi guys,

  I posted on your blog back in June but I wanted to let you know about a new blog I have set up called Farm Blogs From Around the World.

  The reason I am writing to you from deepest France is because at Farm Blogs (completely and entirely non-commercial)
  I am trying to gather in one place the very best of global blogging about farms, farming and rural life. It’s a hobby really that follows my global interest in farming. As my wife is Australian and we’re trying to keep up the Aussie in our three kids from deep rural France, I am keen to get some more good Australian farm blogs on to my blog. I’ve also got up a link to Dave’s Farm and linked to him, asking for some more info about his Blog Dave’e Farm.

  You can find the blog roll, sorted by country – you’re naturally under Australia (and there is a General Interest section).

  My posts are made up of the blog recommendations from farm bloggers and I also post regular stories about world farming.

  All blogs have been recommended to me by other bloggers or identified by me during my occassional browsing.

  I have a pretty broad definition of farming – if you’re producing food, you’re a farmer, to my mind at least.

  So blogs range from ranches to part-time smallholders, and resources for them.

  Once recommended, I add them to the blogroll and then contact the bloggers (just as I am contacting you), asking them to send me a few words about their farm/small-holding and their blog and, critically, to recommend their favourite farm/farming blogs.

  And so it goes and grows.

  So, I added you to my blog roll but I am trying to provide a little more info besides each link – namely location; acreage; stock and crops raised).

  I would very much appreciate it if you could please consider:

  a) writing to me with a brief description of your blog and holding (at a minimum location; acreage; stock and crops in order to help people find like minded souls) along with permission for a once off only use of a couple of photos from your blog, so that I can make a posting about you;

  b) writing to me with your favourite farming/rural blogs recommendations; particularly Australian ones;

  c) add a link on your blog, if that’s possible, to http://www.farmblogs.blogspot.com; and if you can find a moment even make a posting about http://www.farmblogs.blogspot.com and how this blog is growing organically accross the world from other farming bloggers.

  d) please feel free to send me the odd photo, both now and on an on-going basis (people who do this write to me about once a month, with a brief para of text and up to 5 photos – again it helps drive traffic to them). The blog tries to pick up different seasonal activities in different parts of the world at different times, so any photos would be much appreciated – they also help drive traffic to your site.

  I know this is a drag but a lot of people are finding that my blog is driving a lot of traffic to them, so I hope you can find a moment to drop me a line. Very much hoping to hear from you,

  With kind regards,

  Ian

  http://www.farmblogs.blogspot.com

• Apollo Bay // Aug 31st 2008 at 1:25 pm

  It is very refreshing to visit farming website. All the best in your venture.

• Ian Walthew // Sep 3rd 2008 at 3:03 am

  Dave hi,

  I’ve done a post on you which you can find at http://farmblogs.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html#279976031004072964

  I’m going to shortly do a posting on Farmnet, but I’m holding out until you give me some recommendations of some good farm blogs, hopefully from countries other than the U.S.A.!

  I know you’re one hell of busy bloke but I have to tempt you somehow.

  Kind regards,
  Ian
  http://www.farmblogs.blogspot.com

  P.S Where’s my link mate?

• Mission Beach real estate // Sep 14th 2008 at 12:49 pm

  I think farm blogs is a very good idea. And hopefully Australian farm blogs will make this area of Internet more diverse.

• comedian // Sep 15th 2008 at 3:19 pm

  Farming is not my cup of tea, but I was looking for Western Plains and Morvenvale map and found your blog. All the best.

• srmay // Sep 15th 2008 at 10:15 pm

  David,

  Cheers for the call. I think your idea of farm blogs is great. Really like your homepage, got a lot of good info on there. Anyway, you’ll be hearing from me in the future!

• Tom Howard // Sep 16th 2008 at 1:37 am

  David & Pete,

  I was looking up a picture of Walgett and came across your web-site – amazing.

  Certainly made me feel homesick as i sit here in the rain and cold in Dublin.

  All the best to you both & families.

  Tom.

• Driving school in Melbourne // Oct 3rd 2008 at 3:01 pm

  Chickpeas are my favorite. Keep up the good work.

• Ron // Oct 9th 2008 at 11:55 am

  Hi David,
  Interesting to see what you do! I’ll pass onto Craig for the future. All the best Ron

• Snow Keene // Jan 28th 2009 at 10:57 am

  I am looking at a 220,000ha wheat farm in northern Kazakhstan where they grow a spring wheat on 300ml rain max and plant on 1 metre of moisture from snow melt, so find your page and pictures of great interest. If you can supply any further info to assist me – I will be in Kazakhastn early March prior to planting – I would be extremly grateful.
  Hope 09 is a good one for you.
  regards Snow K.
  p.s. I am an ex Bellata farmer spent a lot of time in the Walget/Colly area so know it well.

  Thanks for your comments Snow, this sounds great. How about starting your own web page with stories and pictures of your farming adventures? I am sure many would be very interested in learning more and following your story. Go to http://farmnet.com.au/wp-signup.php to start a new page – Let me know if you need help. I will mention your trip to the local Walgett DA – Myles Parker(0419217553), who may be able to help with his farming experiences in Krygestan.
  Best wishes and safe travelling, David Ricardo 0428562317

• Meg // Feb 18th 2009 at 10:35 pm

  Hello from the other side of Australia – Perth WA – found your site – grew up between Walgett and Lightning Ridge, my mother came from Collarenebri ….so interested to see what’s going on in that part of the world these days. I expect you’ve had a recent inundation with the rain in South West Qld. All the best with your season.
  Meg

• GCTCAAS // Mar 12th 2009 at 4:31 pm

  I am doing a bit of virtual travelling and it is nice to see your blog. I was amazed that I could even find YouTube – morvenvale’s Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/morvenvale

• Grayleen Taylor // Mar 30th 2009 at 1:27 am

  Great site fellas, no till is the way to go, really good to see you sharing the info!
  Thanks
  Grayleen

• ALEXANDRE franck // Apr 21st 2009 at 3:35 am

  hello David and Peter,
  verry interesting website about Australian farming. nices pictures !
  i’m French ,we have a farm in Burgundy ,it’s in the east of France. 350 km in the south east of Paris.
  We are in the plain near DIJON , (this city is know in all the world for mustard ! )
  the name off the village is BARGES !!!
  but the country (Burgundy is also know for wine ! red wine.)
  the main crops are wheat ,sunflower ,canola(colza for us) ,soja.
  we have good conditions for farming in France ,in wheat we have between 7.5 and 9.5 tons/HA ,but it’s when all the conditions are good !
  i have good friends in Canada ,in Saskatchewan ,in the great plains ,they have a big farm ,it’s like you in Australia.

  have a nice harvesting (in France it’s in 2 month, the lexion combine is ready to go !!!)

  bye bye
  franck

• Snow Keene // Oct 27th 2009 at 12:52 pm

  Hi David
  I have been over to a number of countries since I last left a message, one being Kazakhstan on a second visit, I am making some inroads into their change-over to Zero Till to the extent that we may have a delegation of farmers and research people coming on a 10 day visit so will be making contact with you to see your operation and show them the correct approach to ZT and Tramline farming. Hope your year is above average? Will be in touch. Snow Keene principal of ZERO TILL International.

• Ausfarm Direct // Aug 31st 2010 at 8:43 pm

  Good work guys, keep it up.
  I agree with John, you are the leaders.
  Regards
  Michael Reid

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