Morvenvale

Very ripe Gregory wheat patiently waits for the harvester after 50mm of rain yesterday.

Another Kinze 850 bushel chaserbin is added to the fleet this season to keep efficiencies of our headers up. Both haul out bins have electronic scales to help the operators load trucks to legal limits.

Harvesting Grout feed barley the last few days has been excellent with average yields above 5 ton/ha.

Plenty of storms about. A little hail around the shed this morning.  The sound coming off the tin roof was amazing. The largest stones were about 20mm. Fortunatley it stayed clear of the crops.

The Grout barley has a strong finish  after recent rain.
 

More rain over the last two days has ensured grain fill and increased yields. Another 35mm is like icing on the cake with a total of 110mm over the last five weeks - almost unheard of at this time of the season.
 
Jock Cameron and Peter Ricardo inspecting Gregory wheat.
  
Sunlin wheat
 
Durum wheat - Jandaroi

Seeking header and chaserbin operators for this coming harvest starting end of October through to early December.  All machinery has modern auto steering and some experience would be an advantage. Also positions vacant for support staff working on the ground responsible for operating tractors and mother bins, loading trucks, augers filling silos, managing field bins, […]

Another 30mm of rain last week has made a big difference to our season. It is a real boost to flowering crops like wheat and chickpeas. Andy and Lizzy in some early wheat below.

Some late barley is coming out in head. The rain has been a big help for this crop.

The early chickpeas rows are […]

Our chickpeas continue to grow. After 30mm last week, they are just starting to flower.

We do have a John Deere tractor. It belongs to 4 year old Andy Ricardo. His 2 year old sister lizzy was caught washing it with a couple of kilos of washing powder and fabric softener. Mum was not impressed.
Cheeky Andrew says green ones “Are The Go”

  But his dad said “take a […]

 
Jimbour chickpeas planted 1st June on a full moisture profile at 65kg/ha on 800mm row spacing. They march on despite cold temperatures over the last month.
 
Gregory wheat continues to grow well but will need rain in the next month to hold its potential. Pictures taken today - 7th August.

Seeding has taken longer than usual this season. About 40mm rain on the 3rd June made a break between early and late winter crops. We planted mostly wheat, but also durum wheat, barley and chickpeas - all looking good at this stage. The picture below was taken today - it’s Gregory wheat planted 1st […]

Big savings on herbicide have been achieved using the Hayes weedseeker boom.

An estimated 3000 litres have been saved in the last month alone.

Rome wasn’t build in a day, and neither was grain storage at Morvenvale. We keep adding more storage  when the season permits. Two more grain bins with 1280ton capacity each will help handle the next harvest adding to the existing 2 x 660 ton bins on the right. All are the same height at […]

The new WeedSeeker 3pl boom from Crop Optics & Hayes Spraying should deliver huge savings in herbicide on “Morvenvale”.

 Click on pic for link to Hayes Spraying

I found this koala in the chickpea crop. He must have been lost because he was over 1km from the nearest tree.  They say koalas dont drink - that they get all they need from the trees. I think the drought  had forced this little guy to look for greener pastures. I am pictured here with Andy and Lizzy who had not […]

Well, harvest is upon us once again. After a tough dry season, the crops are poor so the job will not take long. In a normal year,  harvest wouldn’t start before Nov 1, but all should be finished around here long before then. Tough season.
Kind of reminds me of an old ag teacher I […]