First Wheat Sample

[tweety]

Don't you mean 13.8 protein?

[FarmerSmuck]

Tweety 18.3 is coreect. I put a lot of groceries down. Started a new field last night and yield is up to 55 and pro dropped to 14.5. I'am very very suprised with my yields. A lot of people are in our area.

[grassfarmer]

Nice try Klause but your conclusion is wrong. Research in the northern Plains proved over 7 tons per acre/per year of CO2 could be captured with good pasture management. This was proven over a 5 year trial.

Methane emissions are generally reckoned to be equivalent to 2.5tons a year of C02.

Most cattle operations in this part of the world use 4-5 acres per year per cow so we can sequester about 12 times as much as each cow produces.

[TOM4CWB]

Grassy,

Do you drive vehicles that have the minimum pollution and C02 footprint possible?

I just leased a 2015 Golf TDI wagon for my parts vehicle. Using about 5L/100km diesel with minuscule Urea consumption. Does not use/burn oil between changes. I leave the pickup parked when ever it is possible to use a smaller parts wagon.

Have you done everything possible on your farm... or could I see the black smoke rising from your equipment from far away... as was the norm 15-20 years ago?

[furrowtickler]

That's about what we are runnin, 55 bus and 14 to 15 pro - 1 red , the Carberry yielding better and better color and grade than Goodeve . Goodeve was 45 and mostly 2 some #1 .

[freewheat]

Tom! I drive an Accord for parts. CHEAP. EFFICIENT. Get strange looks though when I pull up beside a one ton with a guy in it picking up a few guards and bolts. You should see what I can fit in that thing! lol.

[grassfarmer]

Tom, I was driving little diesel cars in the early 80s - 1.1 or 1.2 litre. Driving a Corolla currently which we use unless we need to be using a truck.
Not everyone grew up with the fossil fuel wastage of North Americans.
Making new cars has quite a carbon footprint too.

[Klause]

My wife wrote her thesis at the U of S on livestock, carbon sequestration, and methane emissions.


My post was tongue - in -cheek.... notice the wink faces.




All said and done livestock sequester 0.8 tonnes per year more than grain production however is 5% less efficient in a tonne per calorie comparison.


In other words, a toss up. South America I think the advantage was upwards of 6 tonnes per ha towards cattle.


Having to make feed and winter cattle really cuts into it the efficiency up here in na.

[blackpowder]

If my main driver were worth <6000$ and burnt 18 mpg. Why spend 25k to burn 50?

This site gets silly.

[grassfarmer]

Those are "mainstream commodity livestock" figures Klause, those of us practicing alternate ways of managing grass and grazing are getting results towards the S American figures. Feedlots and the grain feeding model leave a big carbon footprint.
We can't banish winter but we can have animals grazing forages for all but 100-120 days versus the 220 feeding day winters commonly practiced on the prairies using fossil fuel grown and harvested feed