It's Hard To Look Around & Not Feel Completely Demoralised | Lets Switch To Wheat | Harvest 2024

[@CodyShilling-u9w]

Be proud Henry. Be proud of holding yourself the way you have, given the season. You can only do your best in what you can control, mate. Fact. I know it's not always as simple as that but I tip my hat to you for maintaining your wonderful temperament. Merry Christmas mate and here's to a belting 2025🌾🌾

[@bobosborne2806]

Talk to dad about how he handles droughts,that will help you cope. Doing well young man.

[@gavanburge1577]

Great to see some grain coming off even if the yield is low. I was really concerned you were going to damage the header on those beans so that’s a win getting through that unscathed. Really admire attitude and tenacity in tough times it will bring you good things for the future 👌💪👍

[@Melripley48]

I did not expect to see that much grain flowing into the bin so I well understand the smile on your face. Yield per mm of rain must be very good! Cheers Henry

[@lockvalleyfarms981]

@Melripley48 the wheat will probably finish up close to 50% of average on less than 50% growing season rainfall.

[@johnbrame3023]

Well done bloke , good to see that grain flowing 🍞

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Looking good

[@ronaldlucas5360]

You might add south Australian farm

[@williamsmith5514]

Its been on my mind that come New year would you consider deep ripping dry ground . One of our biggest farmers done ground similar to yours and increased the yield on wheat . Mind you we had a lot more rain of course .

[@bobuncle8704]

Kinda tough. Ya do everthing right, but without ran it can seem futile. Is there any way you can go to some form of irrigation?

[@lockvalleyfarms981]

@@bobuncle8704 driest state on the driest inhabited continent on earth. We simply do not have the water, unfortunately.

[@bobuncle8704]

@@lockvalleyfarms981 fair enough. Thanks for the reply.

[@williamsmith5514]

Should go hard we with 11% protein

[@CodyShilling-u9w]

And Henry, What do you spray on your hydraulic fittings before connecting?

[@tapitXq9]

At about 4:45 he mentioned contact cleaner.

[@lockvalleyfarms981]

@@CodyShilling-u9w yes, contact cleaner

[@ralphnorbert9187]

Sheep on those bean stubbles is a recipe for disaster

[@lockvalleyfarms981]

@ralphnorbert9187 I agree, I hate grazing beans in general. We have a small mob of lambs on there now. It's working quite well because we keep getting little rains to keep everything settled at the moment. Hopefully get the best out of them before it gets hot a dry.

[@PsychicIsaacs]

Mate, that's heartbreaking! You need to get into regenerative farming. Peter Andrews, Manasobu Fukuoka, Ernst Gotsch, Alan Savory. You can keep using your big machines with these people's methods, but like I said, that's heartbreaking and you need to get some production happening on your place! As it is, you're making a desert...

[@row5611]

2 years ago they had the biggest year ever. It just hasn’t rained at the right time. Regen or not, it’s just didn’t rain. They are doing a great job they way they are doing it.

[@keldknudsen8713]

When i ser your fields i think. Where the hell are all the trees. The rain are attracted by the trees if there are a lots of trees. And a single tree do not do anything.

[@lockvalleyfarms981]

@keldknudsen8713 our farm is natural grass land. There was no clearing of trees on our property, infact almost every tree you see on our property has been planted by man. Bundaleer forest to the south of the town is man made. There is a lot of rock and shallow soil on the hills here. Makes it hard for trees to do well in spots. There are plenty of tree plantations around where they will grow well.

[@keldknudsen8713]

@lockvalleyfarms981 If you can grow crop you can grow trees. It is a matter of which tree.

[@lockvalleyfarms981]

@keldknudsen8713 of course we can. But why would we want to plant them in an arable paddock? Sucks moisture away from crops and grass that we feed out stock with. They are great to grow on unproductive land and as shelter belts for stock, for sure. We have a several hectare plantation we had planted a couple of years ago right by the house.

[@keldknudsen8713]

@@lockvalleyfarms981 Of course if you want draught.

[@lockvalleyfarms981]

@keldknudsen8713 we live in an area that has 400-450mm of annual rain. The desert starts about 1 hour north of us. Drought is a part of where we live. We are also coming of the best 3 years in our farms history and an average year. A bad one was coming sooner or later. Not to mention, this area is natural grass lands, as I said. There are tons of trees that have been planted around jamestown, including Bundaleer forest, which is beautiful I might add. I understand what you are saying about trees, but trees would not have helped this drought. The winter cold fronts never reached much of south Australia. It was the dries 8-9 months in recorded history for many areas.