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PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace

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David in Englan

07-06-2006 08:38:59

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Hi,
This photo taken in same field in same spot LAST week ! You can see the wheel tracks, and the irrigation unit. Water comes from manmade resovoir on the farm.
His planter driver does it by eye - no sat-nav equipment - and he gets good staright lines.
You can see a patch of red on the left under the end of the boom, this is red lettace growing.
Cheers David

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4010guy

07-06-2006 12:31:34

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to David in England, 07-06-2006 08:38:59

david, I just want to thank you for taking the time to post on this site as i have realy been enjoying you piks from over thear.

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David in England

07-06-2006 09:35:07

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to David in England, 07-06-2006 08:38:59

Hi Jon Farmer;
A couple of guys grew strawberries here 20 years ago in rows. They bussed in people from the towns to pick, and also did self pick.
There is a huge strawberry farm in Herefordshire the County below us, some 45 miles. They are growing big time, huge hooped steel framed tunnels covered in plastic, and the strawberrys grown on raised bed insde the tunnels. They spoil the view of the coutryside for miles ! But its nice to have stuff grown here rather than flown in from abroad.
Cheers David

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Jonfarmer

07-06-2006 10:22:20

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to David in England, 07-06-2006 09:35:07

Ours are grown in open fields just like corn or any other rowcrop. I'll have to get you a picture of them, they're actually in season right now, and the nearest field is mostly U-pick strawberries, but you can buy them pre picked in baskets for considerably more money also. Labor for something like that is hard to find in this area.

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Matt from CT

07-06-2006 13:27:09

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to Jonfarmer, 07-06-2006 10:22:20

Same with labor in my area (northeast Connecticut).

A young couple leased a large local orchard about 5 years ago that was semi-abandoned...

They've done a real good job getting back into shape -- although they still only prune about 1/2 the trees each year. They've added u-pick flowers as a summer business, as well as a vegetable stand while waiting for the big fall season.

BUT...it's mostly a combination of u-pick and what they pick to have in the farmstand.

Not enough labor to pick all the apples the orchard produces. Back when I was in High School, before it was semi-abandoned (they sold fruit...but didn't do any maintenance/upkeep) the owners brought in Jamaicans to pick the apples.

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Jonfarmer

07-06-2006 15:28:54

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to Matt from CT, 07-06-2006 13:27:09

The local berry patch used to be kept pretty nice, but that was back when the old man who started it was healthy, but he died a few years ago, and his heirs haven't kept it as nice, lots of tall weeds in them. It is mostly U-pick, they do pick a few themselves and sell them at the head of the field, but they make the price difference enough so most folks pick their own. I haven't been this year, but it must be getting towards the end of the season. It takes real ambitious people to do something like this, and they can't lose their ambition, otherwise they'll lose out. Used to have a couple strawberry farms just across the border that had beautiful strawberries, but last I knew as of a couple years ago, it got to the point where you could only go pick just a couple days a week because somebody got a contract for most of the crop, so they picked them and sent them on their way. I imagine there is money in this, but I think strawberrys is an awful lot of work.

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Jimmy King

07-06-2006 09:21:28

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to David in England, 07-06-2006 08:38:59

Think You for the pictures and class room, David.
I will have to look up from where, but my Great Granddad came from England around 1880 or 81. My Granddad was the first child born in the States. There were 12 total the oldest girl was too sick to come to the States so she stayed with Aunt and Uncles and died a few months later in England. We know nothing about my Great Granddad King but do my Great Grandmother her maiden name was Thorne she had 1 sister and 2 brothers that lived here at Ash Grove and a brother in Kansas a sister in Canada, I have been told all of her brothers and sisters came to America at one time or another and some returned to England. My Uncle was in England about twenty years ago and got in contact with a couple of their later family members.

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Jimmy King

07-06-2006 09:36:35

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to Jimmy King, 07-06-2006 09:21:28

Here at Ash Grove, MO we grow good rocks, mostly Hay land I remember when we growed several acres of Oats, Barley, Corn, and wheat. some still grow some corn in the bottoms and some irrigate. I can remember when there were about 3 doz dairy farms in a 10 mile radius of here now off hand I can only think of about 6 or 8. I quit in 1996, there had been a cow milked some where on this farm that my Granddad owned since 1911. We are only about 12 miles from the Springfield, MO City Limits so our land is getting very high. Some land about 3 miles from me sold a few days ago for $4600 an acre.It is kind of hard to pay for that with beef cattle.

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Matt from CT

07-06-2006 09:45:14

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to Jimmy King, 07-06-2006 09:36:35

Sounds a lot like my area of Connecticut!

With one exception -- ya just about could shift the decimal place once to the right. Certainly once divided into house lots, you're in that range in many places up here!

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RustyFarmall

07-06-2006 09:01:32

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to David in England, 07-06-2006 08:38:59

David, thank you for those pictures. I have seen similar operations in California, but the only crops I see here in Iowa are corn, soybeans, hay, and occasionally a field of wheat. Also, very interesting to see the machinery and methods used for harvesting.

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Jonfarmer

07-06-2006 08:52:00

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to David in England, 07-06-2006 08:38:59

His planting driver does excellent work, theres no doubt about that. Looks like they got a patteren of wide row, then a narrower wheeltrack row, really makes me wonder what they use for a planter to be able to do that?.

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David in England

07-06-2006 09:04:41

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to Jonfarmer, 07-06-2006 08:52:00

Hi Jon Farmer;
Glad you enjoyed the photos. Im 56 years old and grew up with grain, sugarbeet, potatoes & grass farming firstly working on a farm, then as a dealer salesman & laterly as an implement manufacturers salesman. This intensive vegetable growing is very new in this area, so I find it facinating. Yet the guys in the US & English vegetable growing areas have done this for years and its "normal" for them !
When they start planting in a few days time, I'll get a photo of the planter. They must use seeder units which can be spaced along the toolframe to obtain the different row widths. I do hope all you grain & grass farmers are'nt too bored with this and my ramblings. I love to see the photos of your crops, areas and machines.
Cheers David

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Jonfarmer

07-06-2006 09:19:15

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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace in reply to David in England, 07-06-2006 09:04:41

Where I am, there is pretty much nothing but dairy farms, so the corn planters I get to see, are fixed row units, the spacing can't be changed, so I was actually expecting you to say thats what they had, but they didn't put any seed in the hoppers they didn't want to plant. I enjoyed these pictures, it is facinating for me to see as well since nobody has a lettuce farm here and I have never seen anything like this. Closest I can come to it is a strawberry farm, which there are several in the area. I'd like to see that planter!. Do you have strawberry farms?.

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