It's been no time for frivolity. For starters, it’s canola harvest season, so I’ve been driving up and down to the coast a lot, and of course now that I’m project leader I’ve been busy with project management.
Firstly though, before stuff got nuts we went for a walk in the forest with friends. Now that the weather is more like Brisbane than Tassie it was a hot and sticky walk. It was nice though, as you can see.
The other interesting happening right now is that the fireflies are out! Chris Jones tells me that you do get fireflies in the rain forests of Qld, NSW and Vic. I was unaware of that, but I did know you don't get then in WA, so Sal and I think they are really cool. I tried to take a long exposure picture of them in our garden but they did't show up. So instead I had to take this picture from wikipedia.
Back to the canola harvest, the farm harvested their field of canola and were really happy with the result. I don't know where the snakes are going to live now though.
Unfortunately, we had small canola plots so we had to harvest them by hand using a mower, which you can see in the picture. I am so glad that work is over. Next year I am getting a small plot combine.
Finally, the day we harvested a pair of huge helicopters kept flying past. I managed to get a picture of them below.
3 comments:
hmmm... by WA standards tha canola is still green!! I would be a bit worried that the seed hasnt quite finished off and your germination might not be quite as high as it could be. Do you expect summer rainfall if you leave it longer?
Also - small plotcombine are VERY expensive. I would suggest sub-contracting out that work. There must be trial work contractors who do other small grains? Even with the amount of work that the AgDept does in WA it is still an inefficient process for them to maintain and operate all their own machinery.
Anyway, keep up that good canola work! we are having trouble getting ours to germinate - drought worse herethan last year! Keep praying for rain Nic...
Well, the seed was at 15% moister and the pods were starting to shatter. Although that's an interesting observation, some germination tests might be worthwhile.
We have three small plotcombines sitting in the equipment shed at our field station. I was planning to borrow one.
I never thought I be interested in damn canola.
Apocalypse now! Great chopper photo.
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