12 November 2013

​The sowing season has begun: Barley sorting

At this moment of the autumn, the sowing season has begun in our area... we can see a few spreader and seed drills on our village roads. This campaign, we've a difficult situation because it hasn't rained since May (it only rained 7mm on the first days of October). Farmers are preparing their fields to fertilize and sow, but there is too much uncertainty because we don't know if beginning with these tasks is a good idea or instead we should wait a few days until the rain so that we can work with the soil in appropriate conditions at this time of year.

These days, we're cleaning our barley which is going to be sowed on next days. This job is quickly but we need an appointment to carry it out because a lot of farmers are also performing the same task at these days. After that, barley is ready to be sowed and impurities (about 10%) are put in bags of 50kg... it will be feed for our chickens (together with compound feed, corn and wheat too).

We haven't begun to fertilizing. Our fields are ready to be fertilized and sowed, so we'll start these tasks on next days. The pictures about fertilizing are about other farmers in our village.



05 November 2013

John Deere 5090R

This time, we publish some pictures recibed from our follower Alfonso Flores, Fuente-Álamo (Albacete), these photos are related to his new John Deere 5090R. The tractor was delivered during last summer but we haven't published them yet.

He called us a few months ago to ask us about our JD 5720 because he was looking for a tractor with similar features... our opinion about this tractor is really fine, we don't have any complaint about that. He tested a DF Agrofarm 420 Profiline but the tight turning radius was not appropriate enough because they will work with it only in their vineyard. Also, we comented him that we prefer JD 5R Series (also, we recomended him a DF Agrotron K410 but his vineyard is of 3m width and this tractor cann't work this distance), so the choice was easy. Besides, he has a JD 6530 since 5 years ago (with 4,000 working hours) and it is giving phenomenal results.

His feeling is positive, but he told us the consumption is a little high (about 10 l/h working with chissel of 9 tines at 7 km/h and 1,650 r.p.m.)... any fault should it has.

We hope you enjoy it!!



John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
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John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
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John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
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John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R
John Deere 5090 R