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Stu Macaulay

@Stu_macNZ

Expat 🇳🇿 now in 🇦🇺 having a go at some dry land cropping over here. Views expressed are my own

 Southbridge, Canterbury NZ
Joined September 2014
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A short video of us harvesting A30 Wheat on Saturday. Thanks Peter Miller from Carrfields Seeds vimeo.com/201515672?ref=tw-s…
Altonbrook Farm harvesting A30 wheat with Claas Lexion 770

Altonbrook Farm harvesting A30 wheat with Claas Lexion 770

An outstanding wheat crop of around 16 tonne per hectare of the Blackman cultivar A30 being harvested at Altonbrook Farm at Southbridge in Canterbury New Zealand. That made the 600hp V8 on the Claas...

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First seed treatment on chickpeas for next month
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Job done, all cereals in the ground and most out, just 4+k ha of chickpeas next month to do
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Everything is better on big wheels isn’t it…….? Might stop the augers getting bogged in a wet harvest
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Previous wheels
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Levelling out a bit more flood damage in front of the planters, making for a smooth harvest
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Trying to keep the night shift planting going thru the night with some recreational cultivation to level out wash outs and straw clumps from last months floods
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Wheat all planted, now off to help a neighbour out before rain at the weekend
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Planting well underway with some wheat in the last few days
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Let’s see what sort of a mess we can make getting the last 400ha of sorghum off
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Highway back open this morning these three waiting for a load, another 225t of sorghum out the gate
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A busy few days of sorghum harvest but the rain has finally beaten us with <400ha to go
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Now try and make some room for the last few ha
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The difference between 3% and 35% on the weedit
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More sorghum going out of the shed than in it at the moment
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Another one to add to the collection
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Keeping the sprayer drivers (aka 👸) happy with some wheel track renovating
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Time for some heliothis spraying it’s now too wet for ground spray rigs
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Puncture on a back tyre of sprayer tractor last week managed to get some blocks underneath before the rain, finally got back to the today and managed to sink 3 railway sleepers deep into the ground before it would lift
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