Great video James Great to see the local lads presenting themselves so well Amazing the changes in grain growing over the past 30 yrs I left that game then from Ballacolla where we used to grow around 60 acres grain Beet etc and Australia beckoned , Funny looking back on 30 yrs other than working on a 30,000 acre grain & sheep property in Western Australia, I moved into running a service to the mining industry and it was good to me so stuck with it Lots of big gear in this state it’s not called broad acre for no reason This you tube is unbelievable especially for a young bloke like me” I used to do a bit of business with your late Grandpa in the Creamery many years ago “ I am an avid fan of the Millennial Farmer from Central Minnesota he produces very professional footage, as a way of inter connecting the producer with the end users, and I feel that it’s a way that producers will need to go in the future esp in environment where you work as in Australia which is much more rural,so there not the back lash of you combine dust on my clothes line etc . This is where live streaming on your combine etc comes in, because in the past years ago the kid from the local house who’s family were not farmers ,strolled across the paddock and you that they wanted a spin so of course they became Co pilots and some of them moved on to be fine operators etc I doubt that happens now so much ,and that’s where u tube etc comes in Moms less likely to object to a little noise dust etc if little Johnny is watching the machine working, anyway I won’t be boring you, Say hi to you Dad for me , last time I have a memory of speaking to him was in the early eighties, there was a 2100 Leyland that he had owned for sale in a garage in Rathdowney and I was thinking about buying it His advice Stay away from it Thanks Larry I bought a Zetor Crystal , that gave me many years of good service Which I Know the Leyland would To end keep producing that grain, if you have ever been to Oz , they talk a lot about drinking beer I suggest that they should drink Guinness ,Jameson etc in order to help the Irish barley farmers and they like that Mick Phelan Ex Ballacola now Wa
Great video James Great to see the local lads presenting themselves so well Amazing the changes in grain growing over the past 30 yrs I left that game then from Ballacolla where we used to grow around 60 acres grain Beet etc and Australia beckoned , Funny looking back on 30 yrs other than working on a 30,000 acre grain & sheep property in Western Australia, I moved into running a service to the mining industry and it was good to me so stuck with it Lots of big gear in this state it’s not called broad acre for no reason This you tube is unbelievable especially for a young bloke like me” I used to do a bit of business with your late Grandpa in the Creamery many years ago “ I am an avid fan of the Millennial Farmer from Central Minnesota he produces very professional footage, as a way of inter connecting the producer with the end users, and I feel that it’s a way that producers will need to go in the future esp in environment where you work as in Australia which is much more rural,so there not the back lash of you combine dust on my clothes line etc . This is where live streaming on your combine etc comes in, because in the past years ago the kid from the local house who’s family were not farmers ,strolled across the paddock and you that they wanted a spin so of course they became Co pilots and some of them moved on to be fine operators etc I doubt that happens now so much ,and that’s where u tube etc comes in Moms less likely to object to a little noise dust etc if little Johnny is watching the machine working, anyway I won’t be boring you, Say hi to you Dad for me , last time I have a memory of speaking to him was in the early eighties, there was a 2100 Leyland that he had owned for sale in a garage in Rathdowney and I was thinking about buying it His advice Stay away from it Thanks Larry I bought a Zetor Crystal , that gave me many years of good service Which I Know the Leyland would To end keep producing that grain, if you have ever been to Oz , they talk a lot about drinking beer I suggest that they should drink Guinness ,Jameson etc in order to help the Irish barley farmers and they like that Mick Phelan Ex Ballacola now Wa
I live beside the fields ye have at the big silver gate beside the chipper
Smart man.
never mind the tillage, we all know ballraggert is famous for its hurling after partys!!!
Crikey god forbid if they win the senior final ,but a great party by all accounts, even made the news in Oz
So true
Fifi