Weather

29.06.2009, 08:58

greymausg

Wandering around Sunday, most sheep shorn, lots of hay made, and
weather wonderfull, not so good for coming week. Not many cattle in
the country, however.

29.06.2009, 18:58

Tim Lamb

In message <slrnh4gtq1.3q9.greymausg>, greymausg
writes
>
>Wandering around Sunday, most sheep shorn, lots of hay made, and
>weather wonderfull, not so good for coming week. Not many cattle in
>the country, however.

30mm thunder shower here on Friday. Hay all home and locked up. Grass
man cutting my clover, brought his family to pick out the thistles:-)

regards

29.06.2009, 19:04

Tim Lamb <tim> writes
>30mm thunder shower here on Friday.

31mm for the month so far.

crops burning

need some rain, but already too late for some.

29.06.2009, 19:45

Stephen Temple

Oz wrote:
> Tim Lamb <tim> writes
>> 30mm thunder shower here on Friday.
>
> 31mm for the month so far.
>
> crops burning
>
> need some rain, but already too late for some.
>

Very lucky here, 82 mm for June so far, maize & fodder beet looking
well in mornings, stressed afternoons. Winter barley turning
rapidly. We irrigated some spring barley.

Starting to commission the digester. Over 600 t of dirty water
pumped in. Heated up to over 20C so far; woodchip boilers running
flat out - we need to achieve 37C. It will then be time to start to
feed some slurry.

30.06.2009, 18:58

Tim Lamb

In message <6O2dnZdaMfV2hNTXnZ2dnUVZ8kCdnZ2d>, Stephen
Temple <usenet> writes
>Oz wrote:
>> Tim Lamb <tim> writes
>>> 30mm thunder shower here on Friday.
>> 31mm for the month so far.
>> crops burning
>> need some rain, but already too late for some.
>>
>
>Very lucky here, 82 mm for June so far, maize & fodder beet looking
>well in mornings, stressed afternoons. Winter barley turning rapidly.
>We irrigated some spring barley.

We may head for Suffolk soon to cool off.
>
>Starting to commission the digester. Over 600 t of dirty water pumped
>in. Heated up to over 20C so far; woodchip boilers running flat out -
>we need to achieve 37C. It will then be time to start to feed some
>slurry.

Good luck!

Any progress with milk sales?

regards

30.06.2009, 19:59

Stephen Temple

Tim Lamb wrote:

> Any progress with milk sales?
>

Arla are now picking up from ourselves and our neighbours on an six
month temporary contract which we might turn into a normal contract
later.

01.07.2009, 07:52

Tim Lamb

In message <NamdnSKKTr4_89fXnZ2dnUVZ8j1i4p2d>, Stephen
Temple <usenet> writes
>Tim Lamb wrote:
>
>> Any progress with milk sales?
>>
>
>Arla are now picking up from ourselves and our neighbours on an six
>month temporary contract which we might turn into a normal contract
>later.

Ah! I hope it works out OK.

I had sudden visions of a working digester and no slurry:-)

regards

01.07.2009, 08:58

Malcolm

In article <NamdnSKKTr4_89fXnZ2dnUVZ8j1i4p2d>, Stephen
Temple <usenet> writes
>Tim Lamb wrote:
>
>> Any progress with milk sales?
>>
>
>Arla are now picking up from ourselves and our neighbours on an six
>month temporary contract which we might turn into a normal contract
>later.
>
That's good news, but I hope they're not trying to squeeze you too much
on price. I heard a report on Farming Today of people who had persuaded
another firm to collect but were being paid considerably less than the
rate the firm was paying its regular customers.

I trust your wife's cheese-making is flourishing and able to use some
extra milk.

02.07.2009, 07:09

Stephen Temple

Malcolm wrote:

> That's good news, but I hope they're not trying to squeeze you too much
> on price. I heard a report on Farming Today of people who had persuaded
> another firm to collect but were being paid considerably less than the
> rate the firm was paying its regular customers.

We are being paid a price related to the spot price of milk, which
will inevitably be different from a long term contract where these
fluctuations are taken out. The price proposed looks reasonable to
us so far; we shall see when the first cheque arrives.

>
> I trust your wife's cheese-making is flourishing and able to use some
> extra milk.
>

Fortunately the month we lost the milk cheque is when we normally
draw the biggest proportion of milk; this year it was 30%

#10

02.07.2009, 07:10

Stephen Temple

Tim Lamb wrote:
> In message <NamdnSKKTr4_89fXnZ2dnUVZ8j1i4p2d>, Stephen
> Temple <usenet> writes
>
> Ah! I hope it works out OK.
>
> I had sudden visions of a working digester and no slurry:-)
>
> regards
>

We also have a decent acreage of maize to feed it, and a bit of
fodder beet.

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