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Crops harvested and started with land improvement

John Deere 8420T crawler with our new AP land leveller. The tractor and blade are both controlled by RTK-GPS.

Harvesting the red onions

Accident with the irrigator boom

It has been a long time since our last news update from April. A lot of things have happened on the farm since. This spring was very dry, so the potatoes had to be irrigated three times. Before drilling the carrots we also had to wet the ridges in order to drill the crop. After drilling we irrigated another 8mm. The crop is now looking very good. Sadly an accident did happen with our irrigation boom (see picture). Controlling the weeds went well during the dry period but, after all the rain, we still got a lot of seedlings. To date we have lifted potatoes from the varieties Triplo, Agila and Agria. Only the Nicola's are left now because the mother tubers don't want to rot away. We will have to be a bit more patient. The last few years we have had a lot of occasions when we got a heavy downpour in a short time. Especially in the low spots in a field you are faced with water problems. To prevent this we purchased a new land leveller. With this machine, that is steered by RTK-GPS, we can take soil from the high spots and place it in the low spots. The red onions are now good to lift. Between the showers some of the crop was loaded up and stored on the farm. One field of yellow onions has already been harvested. The rest hasn't fully died off yet.