Rain event Big Disappointment for Some!

[woodland]

Interesting, no metric replies. Says a lot about Agriville.

42mm.

My beef is sold by the pound to the consumer still ............ hmmmm

Is your yield calculated in T/ha?

BTW the mud balls are flying with big puddles here this morning while herding bulls into the corral ...,.... how’s that for being technical 😉

[jazz]

Tells me a most guys learned to farm at their dads side using a more familiar historical measurement system.

[furrowtickler]

He’s implying we’re old. But around here even my 25 year old son talks tenths and inches. Tweety likely still in high school.

[farmaholic]

I actually think the metric system makes more sense and is superior but I guess I'm stuck dealing with some old measurements. Especially acres.

Metric is so easy, multiples of ten......but just like the Imperial system there is a base measurement and the rest are multiples or fractions of it but in tenths.

Gotta be careful with herbicide rates that are measured in units per hectare....always read and follow label directions, lol.

[Hamloc]

Interesting, no metric replies. Says a lot about Agriville.

42mm.

There are various ways I could approach this response. It is obvious you are simply trying to get angry responses and you were successful. In my case being 56 years old I was raised on the imperial system until it was imposed upon me by I believe the senior Trudeau, undoubtedly the Canadian politician I disliked the most until his vacuous son came along. Anyway interestingly enough our largest trading partner still uses imperial measure, I believe our lumber is still manufactured in inches and feet and my land was surveyed in acres. So yes I am guilty of being old, a condition I cannot change lol. Enjoy your day!

[helmsdale]

I actually think the metric system makes more sense and is superior but I guess I'm stuck dealing with some old measurements. Especially acres.

Metric is so easy, multiples of ten......but just like the Imperial system there is a base measurement and the rest are multiples or fractions of it but in tenths.

Gotta be careful with herbicide rates that are measured in units per hectare....always read and follow label directions, lol.

I'm not quite 35...

I can converse in either, but in "my world", its thousandths, inches, feet, yards, rods, miles, ounces, gallons, lbs, etc. Hell I even feel more comfortable in °f.

I have my toolbox drawers labeled "normal wrenches", and "metric wrenches".

I'm so damned old school I'm sometimes surprised I don't pre-work with a cultivator and flexible diamond narrows before rolling a crop in with one-ways...

[malleefarmer]

.23, might get more today but by the looks of radar we're in the "rain evaporator zone" again.

Rain forcefield are you ina rain shadow because of a range of hills?

[WiltonRanch]

Cool down boys. Tweets is just pushing your buttons. He’s an instigator like an antifa member inside a peaceful protest. He jumps in and derails the thread and sits back and laughs.

[tweety]

wow , so how many kg's/hectare do you seed your canola ???????
how many gms/hectare do you spray your glyphos
how many hectares are in your quarters ?
how many hectares do you farm
how many km's are your backroads apart ?
the metric system is another trudeau pipe dream when it comes to farming?

Yes, actually.

The metric system is used by 192 countries.
Imperial officially by 3.

Don't really care how far apart the back roads are. Why are you using liters/acre to spray glyphosate, you should be using ounces? Is it that different to spray .5 liters per acre or 1.25 liters per hectare (an actual setting on the spray controller) 1 % v/v with a 10 liter jug - and then you convert to gallons or the tank to liters or everything to gallons? Schizophrenic way of doing things.

Its a lot easier to farm using the metric system, its a lot easier to do everything in the metric system. 10,000 m2 in a hectare vs a nice round number like 43,560 ft2 or 4840 yds2 in an acre.

You sell grain by the tonne, paid by the tonne, weighed by the tonne - officially. 450 liter totes. 10 liter jug. Powders are in grams.

Do you use F or C when talking temperature? It's 40 years ago now.

[makar]

Sortof back on topic half inch of rain by noon and water standing everywhere and still raining.

[Chief]

If you want to use the metric system for everything tweety that’s your call. What ever you are the most comfortable with. However if I want to use something different you will just have to do the conversion. Majority speak english on this blog. If you want it in french up to you to do the translation. Have a great day.

[biglentil]

Tweety things were divided up on the imperial system from the get go. A section is a mile square. An acre is 8.25' x 1 mile. Why complicate it now.

[MBgrower]

He’s implying we’re old. But around here even my 25 year old son talks tenths and inches. Tweety likely still in high school.

0.0656 cubits here, first significant rain this season.

[farmaholic]

Rain forcefield are you ina rain shadow because of a range of hills?

I am probably on higher ground than the Wascana Flats but we're not talking a mountain range here.....

This ain't no "Paradise on the Steppe" ( author, Joseph Height )

[Maver]

I have my toolbox drawers labeled "normal wrenches", and "metric wrenches".


On our farm dad refers to the metric wrenches as "cokksucking metric ***kers" . It usually means a trip back to the tool box.