I won't bore you with more photos - you know you are living in an agricultural support town when all roads into town are lined with tractor sales yards. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue.... no purple ones but one manufacturer did do a limited edition in pink apparently. I believe that it was actually a promotion to raise money for breast cancer research (not necessarily to appeal to Farmer Barbie.)
Of course the tractors are arranged around an impressive array of 'implements' for every possible farming activity - also painted in red, orange, etc
Across the road: Lucerne silage being baled in the afternoon. Overnight it was wrapped and in the morning it was being loaded to cart away. That stuff, being green (not dried like hay) is REALLY heavy. It ferments inside those packages so the livestock get a good dose of probiotics in their winter supplementary feed.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteI do like rural industrial activity! YAM xx
this is very informative and interesting. LOVE the bright colors of the machines and enjoyed the video. did not know hay could ferment and make probiotics. I paid 29 dollar for 30 days of probiotics for Beau
ReplyDeleteAll those monster vehicles in bright colours look so efficient.
ReplyDeleteSilage usually stinks. If I remember rightly. Or is it only a certain kind
ReplyDeleteI guess that depends on your definition of stink (or sensitivity to smell). Sheep love it. It's sort of sweet smell if made correctly.
DeleteIt looks like very fertile and verdant land over there TM.
ReplyDeleteAmazing what irrigation can achieve Dave.
DeleteLooks like home to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love it.wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
Probiotics are good for everyone, I have a regular dose too. Are you on the outskirts of Chch?
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