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@AJGrovefarming

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North Yuna, Geraldton port zone. 12.2m CTF

Geraldton, Western Australia
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@AJGrovefarming
Alex Grove
4 years
Don't have a clue what I'm doing but giving it a crack anyway ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ’
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Alex Grove
3 years
I appreciate The can do attitude but a phone call when there's an issue with the autosteer is easily the neater option...๐Ÿง
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Alex Grove
4 months
1000ha and still home for afternoon tea, 48metre is a game changer for efficiency ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
8 months
Even with a slow steady 16mm over 36 hours the stubble funnels doing their job on un- ameliorated sand
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Alex Grove
3 years
Step one of driving the air seeder put the bar in the actual ground mate fk sake... back of the cabs glass so you can check on the thing every now and then ๐Ÿ’ gonna loose my mind ๐Ÿคช
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Alex Grove
3 years
When's @cbhgroup open? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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Alex Grove
4 years
Getting desperate now ๐Ÿ’ฆ๐Ÿคž
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Alex Grove
3 years
2 weeks on looking like it's worth all the diesel ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ™ˆ
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Alex Grove
3 years
Flash back a couple years to the unit herself. 9390 were a seriously under-rated, reliable tractor. And the big 72ft tobin disk drill in its prime. Use to seed 12,000ha/year on its own ๐Ÿ’ช
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Alex Grove
4 years
Finally tick that job off the list ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘ 3rd header required ๐Ÿคช
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Alex Grove
1 year
131 mm ytd. Our 2nd driest year on record. Not very wide spread but gives you motivation that it can be done in a tough climate. ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
4 years
Nurse cart efficiency. Sprayer hours are becoming ridiculous $$$. The less time they spend doing anything but spraying the better. ๐Ÿ’ช
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Alex Grove
3 years
Defenatly a love hate relationship with these ploughs but good lordy they're satisfying when conditions are right ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ’ช
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Alex Grove
4 years
11mm sunday after the wind holding dust down enough for a photo๐Ÿป Last paddock going in before we start re-seeding sand hills #4FarmersSeason2020 @4Farmers_
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Alex Grove
26 days
Scrapped most of our canola program with the dry start but few paddocks of emu in late June and its ๐Ÿ‘Œ shows you can compromise sometimes and sow to the conditions not the calendar.
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Alex Grove
6 years
B1 and B2 ready to go ๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸŒ
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Alex Grove
1 month
3 weeks? ๐Ÿ˜ณ
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Alex Grove
4 years
Couple more blows and I think we're pushing desert status. 2020 can go get F'd
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Alex Grove
4 years
Spartacus barley going full bananas ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿคฉ Well and truely Compensating for the thin seeding rate
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Alex Grove
2 years
15,000ha done before new years. Beer o'clock I recon ๐Ÿป
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Alex Grove
3 years
Anyone ever wondered what happens if you reverse an 80ft bar with all the tynes 5 inches in the ground. Don't try it. It's not good. ๐Ÿ˜ช
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Alex Grove
4 years
1 airseeder doing wheat, bar only stopped for 7-8 minute fills with chaser. Other bar doing barley down the road using tornado bin unfolding auger on aircart 25 30min fills. Getting extra 1 hour seeding time a day. All adds up $$$ Amplified on lupins only 50ha fills 5 fills/day
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Alex Grove
3 years
Fuck it leave it for nighshift
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Alex Grove
2 years
10 days and up it. Harvest 2k22๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Alex Grove
3 years
Good old Magenta punching hard with the new varietys still. Deep ripped house pad sand. 12inch rows ๐Ÿค›๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ’ช
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Alex Grove
5 years
Old mate recons Every acre counts ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Alex Grove
4 years
Hot, dry finish to the seasons taking it's toll, lost alot of potential ๐Ÿค”
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Alex Grove
2 years
What a cracker look at that canola ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿป
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Alex Grove
4 months
Few thousand sheep off on their interstate vacation this week๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ”ช๐Ÿฅฉโœˆ๏ธ. Kick in the balls for the businesses drought resilience with alot of pastoral, marginal farm land that's well suited to the ley pasture mixed farming system.
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Alex Grove
4 years
Winds not done with us yet ๐Ÿ™„ ๐Ÿ–•
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Alex Grove
11 months
Hi my name's Alex and I grow wheat on Lupin stubble but I have no idea why ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿคก
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Alex Grove
6 years
Hard pan gone ๐Ÿ‘Œ one piece to the puzzle
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Alex Grove
3 years
Seeding with backpackers. Need to buy bulk flags start pegging out the trials
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Alex Grove
3 years
Early rockstar on red dirt @ 45kg ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
1 year
And we're Back in the game for abit, first double digit rainfall for the season ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
4 years
Half our program is flat, some seed on surface might grow if surface stays wet? Some still at bottom of furrow 100-150mm deep now. Re seed or wait and see.. Newbie farmer seeking experiences on resowing ๐Ÿ˜ช
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Alex Grove
3 years
๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ–•
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Alex Grove
4 years
21mm last night. Soaked straight down through the 3-20cm ๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿฆ„ โฌ‡๏ธ
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Alex Grove
6 months
Getting itchy feet.
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Alex Grove
2 years
Nuseed emu ๐Ÿ’ช 140mm gsr ๐Ÿ’ฆ
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Alex Grove
4 years
As the back pains increase there's need for innovation. I call it the random weed holder backaid nozzle checker v1.0
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Alex Grove
3 years
Half the crops drought stressed may aswell finish the rest off? ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Alex Grove
2 years
Chaserbin crossing trams between headers like scars in this beach sand. That's all it takes 1 pass
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Alex Grove
5 years
๐Ÿป In the bag here's to 2020, 100mm in April ๐Ÿ’ฆ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
3 years
Wouldn't mind some urea (still waiting) but legume stubbles are showing off on less than 30kg ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
3 months
I don't know alot about growing barley but Im enjoying it this year๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป
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Alex Grove
14 days
Ryegrass see's your harvest weed seed control and lays down. Your move. ๐Ÿ˜… #ItsEvolving
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Alex Grove
2 years
Looking forward to see what sort of efficiency I can push out of this big rig. First drives impression - boom stability is phenomenal. Waiting on a few things to fitup then straight into post em ๐Ÿ’ฆ๐Ÿ’ช @GoldacresAust
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Alex Grove
4 years
Wish us luck. โšก already ๐Ÿ˜ณ
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Alex Grove
4 years
Not long to go๐Ÿ”ช๐Ÿšœ. Dry finish and few hot weeks has rushed things abit โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ณ
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Alex Grove
2 years
This earnshaw bin has blown me away Awsome build/paint quality and unload speeds. To compliment the chaserbin save it some long distance and roading for Saftey and efficiency Fully customisable to suit your needs full Credit to @LakeGraceEng on these things ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
3 years
Heavy red dirt showing why sowing on row works best and not on the interrow. Went 10 degrees to try smooth paddock. ๐Ÿคช
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Alex Grove
3 years
Little Nancy's Sleeping on the job but she'll be driving it soon enough ๐Ÿคฃ
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Alex Grove
3 years
Good old Magenta. ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ’ฆ๐Ÿ“ˆ
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Alex Grove
5 years
Beauty ๐Ÿ˜‘
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Alex Grove
4 years
Hills can't blow anymore if there Is no hills? ๐Ÿคซ
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Alex Grove
3 years
As i sit here hunched over like a prawn looking out my noisey fuel guzzling glass walled prison on wheels i ponder what could well be a big upcoming harvest and looking for staff for full time and harvest do I have any hope? Quokka? Resort to Gumtree?
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Alex Grove
1 year
Occasionally more comes out the screenings auger than the clean grain but that's ok I'll try remain calm and try again next year ๐Ÿฅต๐Ÿคฃ
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Alex Grove
5 years
No farkin around lupin fills in 2.2 minutes ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Alex Grove
3 years
Small Detour via the east coast but the lost child has made an appearance ๐Ÿคฃ
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Alex Grove
5 years
You beauty ๐Ÿป the one block there was some moisture
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Alex Grove
4 years
Erosion is killing me ๐Ÿ™„ feels like winds becoming more of an issue than I remember as a kid?
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Alex Grove
5 months
The good the bad and the ugly of wheat crops. Fingers crossed for some rain tomorrow before we start assessing what to re seed and what may re shoot. 2 false breaks in May have been tough to watch
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Alex Grove
2 years
Playing catch up with the lime 20 years behind everyone else ๐Ÿ˜… #newfarmers #shitfarmers #allthegearNoIdea
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Alex Grove
5 years
๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป thirsty work
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Alex Grove
2 years
Late sown Vixen on ploughed dirt + 44mm ๐Ÿ‘Œ Did someone say Phat grains? Stick another tiller out you ripper ๐Ÿ”จ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ’ธ
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Alex Grove
4 years
Just Plugging abit of barley in with a full tank of optimism ๐Ÿ˜Ž Send the H2O๐Ÿ’ฆ
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Alex Grove
2 years
Show me a better wheat variety on acid sand I'll wait. ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
2 years
Tonguing for a rain ๐Ÿคž
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Alex Grove
2 years
Appreciate the back Packers for keeping the trial strips rolling. No checky no learny. Here we have the crop competition against ryegrass plot. 2L treflan. ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
2 years
18 pods on primary. 80+ per plant and still flowering. Yeild expectation?
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Alex Grove
3 years
The beauty and the beast that is Canola 2021. Steady, frustrating progress but grateful for whats her still๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
5 years
"I Don't need boundary steer ill just drive them" Please don't. Ever again ๐Ÿ˜ค๐Ÿ˜‚
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Alex Grove
5 years
Year 3 of the chaff lines and still loving them ๐Ÿป
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Alex Grove
6 years
48metre the way to go ๐Ÿ’ช efficiency โฌ†
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Alex Grove
3 years
Stuff the iron ore there's Apw1 to transport #policeEscort
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Alex Grove
6 years
First year growing barley and won't be the last ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Alex Grove
4 years
@Jusakstud @jo_prendergast between 24-45mm across the blocks ๐Ÿ‘Œ be interesting to watch the recovery ๐Ÿ˜Ž
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Alex Grove
4 years
Bit bored in the sprayer anyone for an argument that your pwm somehow has superior coverage than my air induction at the correct size and pressure? I seem to be the only one that had enough of pwm extra shit to go wrong and cost and gone back to nice simple conventional. ๐Ÿค”
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Alex Grove
2 years
Saturday croppy. 16-22mm. Season saver. Crop variability this season's wild every mm has counted
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Alex Grove
3 years
Only tweet the best bits aye? ๐Ÿ™ˆ
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Alex Grove
3 years
Rockstar finally showing some green ๐Ÿ‘Œ Punched in about 30mm on 20th april into cyclone moisture. Only 2.2mm of rain since.
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Alex Grove
3 years
Gonna be some interesting yeild monitors. Early sown rockstar is sooting
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Alex Grove
4 years
Found my positive to the wind blows, few old fencelines uncovered ๐Ÿ˜ณ fkn sheep farmers pull ya posts out๐Ÿ™ˆ
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Alex Grove
2 years
Smells like harvest ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿ’ฆ
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Alex Grove
2 years
Note to self sowing 15 degrees even once is too much offset for twitter ๐Ÿ˜ฅ
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Alex Grove
2 years
"Alexa pencil into my diary canola 2nd cut early January ๐Ÿคช
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Alex Grove
1 year
Canola went from shit yea to yea shit real quick ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Alex Grove
4 years
Reminder to self don't bother tryna grow canola #shitfarmer #disaster #mightgoDriveatruck #2020
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Alex Grove
3 years
So far so good
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Alex Grove
4 years
Loving this Nufab spreader more every time i use it, such good capacity and simplicity. Bang for buck curtains doing the job.
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Alex Grove
1 year
If everyone could keep buying plenty of eggs this season it would be appreciated. Sincerely the northern chook food grain farming regions. ๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ“
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Alex Grove
4 years
I'm loosing the battle of the sand dunes ๐Ÿ˜ณ was stubble over that last year. farkin wind
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Alex Grove
2 years
๐Ÿป๐Ÿ”จ๐Ÿ‘‡ Make bank before the weather bends us over
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Alex Grove
4 years
Finally cracked the 75% mark. Still having moisture issues which this far north should only be in a boat at kalbarri...๐Ÿ™„ Need another header๐Ÿคช
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Alex Grove
2 years
Rockstar looking pretty tidy for mid May ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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Alex Grove
2 years
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Alex Grove
3 years
Not bad. Just need an X9 demo now.๐Ÿค›๐Ÿค ๐Ÿšœ
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