Expovicaman 2011

Expovicaman is one of the most important Farm Fair that is celebrated in Spain, especially in Castilla-La Mancha. I think it is the second most important fair after Fima in Zaragoza. We went to Expovicaman on the 22nd of May.

As you can see in our pictures, the Farm Fair has a big variety of farm machinery, particularly tools, trailers and tractors. I would like to highlight few exhibitors like Deutz-Fahr and John Deere which exposed a lot of their models of tractors. I could check this edition that tools are bigger every time and the farms of cereals, legumes, sunflowers tend to be works we try to do as quickly as it is possible and we use as bigger tools as it is suitable. I guess it is for saving money and time.

Recording Expovicaman, it is celebrated in Albacete and it is a biennial exhibition which has over 30,000m2 and last edition had 115 exhibitors. These exhibitors are mainly smaller companies of manufacture tools with a strong investment in research and development. Expovicaman celebrated its XXXI edition this year with over 25,000 visitors.

You can watch a video from here: Video

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

Sowing Sunflowers

Long cycle sunflowers are normally sowed in April to allow us to harvest them in September. We could have a big problem if it rains during the following days after sowing because the soil may harden which hinders seeds to be born. If we had this problem, we would have to sow them again. Last days of April it was raining so we started to sow them in the first days of May. We are within time to sow them and I hope it doesn’t rain in the next few days.

As you can see in our pictures, seeds are smaller this year, so we had to change the dishes. New dishes have 10 holes of 12x6mm (old dishes have 10 holes too but of 14x7mm). Sowing is the same with these dishes: we have same speed, same distance between rows (it is 72cm)  and same distance between seeds(it is 26cm); if we change bigger sprockets we can get a distance between seeds of 30cm. We avoid sowing two seeds together with these dishes.

We use a JJ Broch mechanical sower with four rows. In my area, it is the most common mechanism and it really works very fine. We used 3kg of seeds per hectare.

About seeds, they are a hybrid of Arlesa company. It is called Almanzor and we have always got good crops with this type of seeds.


You can watch a video from here: Video

Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)