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Agriculture / Re: Green House Agronomist by ogb5(m): 3:30pm On Nov 07, 2016 |
Nice thread |
Career / Re: How Do I Turn Down My Boss' Advances Without Losing My Job? (please Advice) by ogb5(m): 10:40am On Oct 19, 2016 |
befriend the wife of the boss. Tell the bos that you can not date him because you don't want to betray your friend which is his wife Give the boss a runs girl |
Properties / Re: I JUST WONDER WHY INVESTORS WILL NOT INVEST ON THIS PROFIT LANDS (WHY) by ogb5(m): 5:38am On Oct 04, 2016 |
Nice thread |
Agriculture / Re: High Yielding Banana And Plantain Suckers Available by ogb5(m): 3:07pm On Sep 28, 2016 |
Where is your location |
Politics / Re: Recession: 3 Nigerian National Assets Buhari Must Not Sell- RMAFC by ogb5(m): 12:28pm On Sep 23, 2016 |
If you are in financial difficulties, you don't sell assets that are viable and helping you to stay afloat. LNG and NNPC are the cash cows today. Dangote is simply looking for a way to have his paws on our wealth. 72 Likes 6 Shares |
Romance / Re: Falling In Love With A Colleague In Training, But Is She Pretending? by ogb5(m): 12:19pm On Sep 23, 2016 |
Op, the girl simply takes you as a friend and feel safe with you because you are married. You need to work on your emotions. You have advised her to date some of the other guys , but she refused, by giving her that advice, she thinks that you are not sexually attracted to her, making her to be more at home with you. Reduce the time you spend with her, find excuse not to always be with her, so she will have spare time to develop other relationships. 1 Like |
Agriculture / Re: Tissue Culture Plantain Sucker by ogb5(m): 5:23pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
Iphe56:Google the meaning of tissue culture and correct you post by giving it the correct name. When I saw your topic I thought someone has decided to open a tissue culture laboratory in Nigeria only to realise that you are doing something totally different |
Agriculture / Re: Tissue Culture Plantain Sucker by ogb5(m): 12:17pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
OP take your time. Do you know what is called tissue culture? |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 3:44pm On Sep 19, 2016 |
Seed tray. We had to buy some seed tray for use in the farm. Honestly we bought more seed trays than we require now. We did not want the extra space on the equipment shipping container to be wasted so we filled it with seed trays. We can sell some off if we get buyers or wait until next year when we will be in a position to use all of the seed trays
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 3:38pm On Sep 19, 2016 |
saliubello: Thanks for your kind and generous offer of support. We will surely be in need of someone to consult on the many challenges and decisions we will be battling with in this project. We will contact you to haverify your perspective. Once again, thanks |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 7:45am On Sep 19, 2016 |
Has anyone planted corn at 30,000 stands per hectare previously? and what is your experience. I have tried it before but we had to thin in down when we could not get fertiliser to buy and apply. Those were the days of fertiliser subsidy and fertiliser hoarding |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 7:39am On Sep 19, 2016 |
The corner and soybean planter has a separate compartment for fertiliser, so it plants the corn and applies fertiliser simultaneously. It plants 8 rows simultaneously. We intend to plant the corn at a crop density of 30,000 stands per hectare. I think we should be fine with that. On weed management of the corn farm, we intend to apply the start clean and stay clean principle, that means all weed will be killed from the plot before planting and pre-emergent herbicides will be used to prevent weed from growing after planting the corn. Doing this will require timely and fast application of herbicides since most weed seeds germinate in a couple of days. That is where the boom sprayer and 8-row corn planter will come in handy. In fact we can use one tractor to plant with the planter and use the other tractor to follow the planter with the boom sprayer and apply the pre-emergent herbicide in the same day of the planting. We will try this and see how it goes. |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 7:25am On Sep 19, 2016 |
SnowJay92: This farm is in Delta state close to Sapele. We have not yet fixed the excursion fee, once excursion fee is fixed you will be contacted. 1 Like |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 7:00am On Sep 19, 2016 |
8-row corn and soybean planter
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 6:29am On Sep 19, 2016 |
We hope to level the ploughed land with the disc Harrow. This came with tyres so it can be transported without lifting it with the tractor. A few days ago we made a trial of running the Harrow across the weed so as to level off the weed. Thereafter we will spray contact herbicides on the weed and the burn the thrash after thee has died. This should have been an alternative to bush clearing. At the end it was better to plough the land with the disc plough. This ensured that the weed are ploughed into the soil improving the soil organic matter content and saving on the cost of land preparation |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 4:59am On Sep 19, 2016 |
Disc Harrow
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 4:48am On Sep 19, 2016 |
The boom sprayer will be used for application of herbicides and pesticides. We should be able to cover 100 acres easily with it in one day. To ensure uniform coverage with herbicides and pesticides, we will apply chemicals in 3 runs to each place. That means we will apply 1/3 of the required chemical concentration per pass on the sprayer over any given area and make 3 passes through each area, each pass facing different directions. This multiple pass procedure ensures that the likelihood of missing an area is minimised during herbicides and pesticide applications. With a boom sprayer, you can easily do multiple spray runs over the same plot, it will be to expensive and cumbersome to do multiple spraying of a plot with a manual knapsack sprayer. |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:37pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
40ft boom sprayer
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:25pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
Reversible disc Plough . We bought 2 of these to ensure that both tractors can Plough simultaneously
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:16pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
I will probably say a few things about the implements since a tractor without the implement is of little use |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:10pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
This is the lovely MF3670. It has a rating of 121 hp and is 4 wheel drive with lots of electronic controls.
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:05pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
Like I said previously, the above Ford TW10 Tractor is 170 hp, so I expect some real power from it. However it is 2 wheel drive, which might turn out to be a downside. I have seen the front wheels go up in the air when testing one of Plough, which means that we might probably get some weights to put in the front. |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:03pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
At long last I have found a way of attaching the pictures easily. I found that the pictures are over 4mb in size and NL simply refuses to attach pictures that are over 4mb in size. I now send them to myself through WhatsApp for size compression before loading on NL |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 10:59pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 10:57pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
Ford TW10 Tractor
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 9:06pm On Sep 16, 2016 |
Attaching the pictures has been difficult. I will keep trying |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:56pm On Sep 15, 2016 |
Today was eventful. We tried several ways of clearing the land. First let me share some pictures |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:54pm On Sep 15, 2016 |
Ajusshi:Delta central |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:50pm On Sep 14, 2016 |
More on the farm lands
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:47pm On Sep 14, 2016 |
Available farmlands as far as the eyes can see and lots of rain 1 Like
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Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:25pm On Sep 14, 2016 |
Tractors, they are great inventions, there is nothing like mechanised crop farming without tractors. We got two tractors. One Ford TW-10 tractor and one MF 3670 tractor. The Ford is old model tractor so it should be easier for the local mechanics to repair while the MF 3670 is newer model with such nice things as automatic gear system, air conditioned cabin, nice electronics controls and even a mini fridge and fm radio. I like the MF tractor, but electronics and Nigeria technicians are parallel lines. So this is one are I think we will be needing support. How to get a reliable maintenance team for the MF3670 tractor |
Agriculture / Re: My Mechanised Farming Experience by ogb5(m): 11:15pm On Sep 14, 2016 |
First to discuss is the land. We have done farms previously in Delta state, Edo State and Oyo state. The verdict is that Delta state is better for us due to the longer length of the farming season. So we have settled for Delta state and leased 100 acres for a start. We can get thousands of acres if we want, but we have started with 100 acres. |
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