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Fuel would cost nothing to the contractor on farm. It's supplied by the farmer. So the picker gets filled up with fuel and uses farm diesel, at the lower diesel excise tax free rate. Filled when finished. Obviously the contractor has to supply his own fuel to get to the next job, and as he is...

I haven't got the bill yet? I asked a mate who's an irrigated grower but also grows dryland as well. He said they charge about $250 a hectare in irrigated and can do 40 hectares a day. So that's about $10,000 a day, so that sounds about right for a million dollar machine that needs a lot of...

This was the previous thread. You've probably not seen it? http://somersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53367 Theres a couple more if you did a search. See ya's.

The bloke who picked my cotton started at Cubby Station this season. I didn't actually ask him if he was in that photo, but I'd think it was likely? There was an interesting machinery war took place 4 or 5 years ago. Between John Deere and Case-IH. They both brought out bale cotton pickers...

Never heard em called cute before? They weigh nearly 3 tonnes by the way? We don't even have anything that would lift them. Photo of the cotton picking on Cubby Station, QLD. See ya's.

We have 2 days sorghum harvest left. We would have finished today except for some rain over the weekend. We have some nice grazing oats in to fatten the weaners. Actually it's that bloody good that we bought some extra steers to try to eat it down. There was some great rain in Feb and Mar...

Cotton is moving further south and further east every year as genetic and management improvements allow. My farm in NSW is as far east as it's ever been grown. It's now being grown in north west Victoria. As it gets closer to your farm, it will get more competitive for feed use as the freight...

It does look like there is 10% left behind. But it's an illusion. Be more like 1 or 2%. Experienced cotton growers know this. I'm a newby but I still knew it would look like there was a lot of cotton left. The contractor is ready for a newby to ask about how much cotton is left in the...

Nearly 20 years ago there was a massive problem when cotton seed was fed to sheep and cattle in Australia and contaminated the meat. The cotton was sprayed with an insecticide for controlling heliothis grub, called Helix (chlorfluazuron), It was banned soon after. Now that cotton is...

The cotton was picked last week. Went about as well as expected. A bit less than 5 bales per hectare. It was an easy picking. The contractor turned up with his million dollar machine, and off he goes punching out the bales. We didn't even need to be there if we didn't want to. Some pictures...

Had a small frost yesterday, and then a big frost this morning. This was the first frosts of the year. It was anticipated and planned for. That means the cotton and sorghum if it wasn't finished growing would now be dead! The first frost and last frost are major dates on any grain farm and all...

Depends on the quality of the land. Around here land that's worth $3,000 per acre might lease for $120 to $130 per acre per year. See ya's.

OK. So it's been more than 6 months? Anyway, soon after the last post, 22nd November we had a massive flood. 200 mills for the day, and 240 mills for November. We wanted rain, but not that much. Young cotton doesn't like it being too wet. With all the rain, we managed to get the wheat...

Here's a brief summery then. Had a cracker of a sorghum crop last season. Hot dry start, then rain on Christmas day, then a wet January and February with almost half a years rainfall over those two months had one of the biggest crops we've grown. We averaged 8.5 tonnes to the hectare. Add to...