Morvenvale

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 May.

Quietly confident about filling those silos

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 13m.

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 figured harvest would finished long before this but 30mm  over the past two weeks has held the job up. On the last field of chickpeas today. Yields average about 1ton/ha. The air reels on the flex fronts have helped alot on the short droughty crops.

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 seen a koala before - they won’t forget their first koala.
After a long drink, I picked him up and took him to a big patch of timber…..David

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 had in High School. He said “In the last great drought ( of 196?), the cows gave dried milk and the grasshoppers carried lunchboxes”.
Well the grasshoppers aren’t carrying lunchboxes, but they do need to neel down to eat the wheat. Yep……Its a Tough Season