thank goodness its cooling down

[malleefarmer]

Last 5 days 35,38,40,43 and 39 today for those of you who have worked in oz know what I mean.

Harvesting ceases about 11 am and starts again about 7 at night.

Cool change this evening back to more bearable temps

[Crestliner]

Mallee, alway enjoy reading about your situation. How much left to harvest? Days,acres,crops? How are your yields and quality? Need any help, I have a nephew that would like to work on a farm in Oz during our winter? Thanks.

[Oliver88]

How are the yields?

[sumdumguy]

Hi Mallee, nice to talk to dirt diggers from far away lands. Just wonder, those temps do not seem unbearable to us. Is humidity the culprit? That sounds like prime harvest weather in Canada.

[tstep]

That's hot. I went through some of that many years ago in Aussy land. A week of 45 degree was a little much. Happy harvest get r done!!

[malleefarmer]

have around 12300 acres to go. Yields across the whole shebang will end up average. Quality is a issue this year for barley low test weight.

Wheat quality surprisingly is good.

Yiels will be around 1.7 to 1.8 t/ha for cereal and lupins peas a disappointing 0.8 and hay yielded well all premium export grade.

google collaborative farming austrlia or bulla burra that the model we use as well.

70% is stored on farm made sales to endusers such as dairys and feedlots before harvest, the box trade to india and feed and flour mills.

Those of you who have worked in aust know we do a lot of acres per machine, with our 2 40ft we hope to average around the 600 acres per day some days way better some days zero because weather or breakdowns. Rain overnight better check the guage maybe 4mm wont hold us for long.

locally next year a few others are looking to do a similar thing to farm together join up and sharing labour and land and machinery.

unlike Canada the cost of steel in Australia is ridiculous combines seederes sparayers