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.
In message <slrnh4gtq1.3q9.greyma...@maushome.org>, greyma...@mail.com 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:-)
Oz wrote: > Tim Lamb <t...@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> 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.
-- Stephen Temple
J F Temple & Son Ltd Mrs Temple's Cheese - Quality Norfolk Produce Barn Owl Instruments and Controls
In message <6O2dnZdaMfV2hNTXnZ2dnUVZ8kCdn...@brightview.co.uk>, Stephen Temple <use...@jftemple.co.uk> writes
>Oz wrote: >> Tim Lamb <t...@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> 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.
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%
-- Stephen Temple
J F Temple & Son Ltd Mrs Temple's Cheese - Quality Norfolk Produce Barn Owl Instruments and Controls
Tim Lamb wrote: > In message <NamdnSKKTr4_89fXnZ2dnUVZ8j1i4...@brightview.co.uk>, Stephen > Temple <use...@jftemple.co.uk> 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
We also have a decent acreage of maize to feed it, and a bit of fodder beet.
-- Stephen Temple
J F Temple & Son Ltd Mrs Temple's Cheese - Quality Norfolk Produce Barn Owl Instruments and Controls
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