William Chestnutt

Dairy farmer on the picturesque Causeway Coast. Sell milk direct from the farm via vending machine. Newcastle agric, Ulster Rugby fan, MTB mad 🚵‍♂️

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@JerryMoloney1 Bag to the acre of Magnesia-kainit they’ll mow it down

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@sprinkles785 Heard some fool heure in north wales at this carry on this week already @richrobscows1 he’s lucky he’s the other side of the channel or he get a slap 🤪🤪🤪

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This strikes a chord with me

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Today vs March 21

Little tangent here. Scared dogs don’t make puppies…

I’ve been farming my whole life. In 2011 I lost my dad to cancer and the family looked at me to put out the crop. My dad made decisions. He was a leader.

When I became responsible to seed, fertilize, spray, etc… 3,000 acres I knew I had 1 talent from when I was a kid. I have a memory like no other. I can tell you what hybrid I plant, pop, rate, day the last 14 years because I am engaged.

When everyone was telling me exactly how to do things. I was more curious of what happens when I change a variable here or there. What was the elasticity of that decision or management.

In weather forecasting they have a similar system that I was somewhat inspired by called ensemble forecasts where they change variables slightly and see how weather systems behave differently as time progresses.

I could lean on my memory. I was bored AF quite honestly to do the same thing over and over again. What happens to corn if you skip a row or 2 or plant it thin or thick? Beans…can you broadcast them? Can you plant wheat with a shit tank? Can you run it over? When it’s 4” tall… what about 6” what about 13” Could you rotationally graze inside a cash crop and empower edge effect elasticity and fertilize simultaneously?

It would drive some people crazy as they would wonder if you should plant 160,000 or 176000 beans per acre? What’s the difference…nothing. What’s the difference between 20” corn and 2040” corn? Full season likes the latter….early yields best crowded.

Fuck around and Find out isn’t just some tic tok deal. It’s how you don’t become a scared dog. It calms your nerves as most people freak out about things that don’t really matter. Because they never had the balls to try anything else than what their dad did. I always felt like I needed to learn why and how things worked if I was ever going to become a better farmer. What matters are the derivatives, the 1st principles.

There is a lot more we can do in production agriculture. It’s not all about winning the yield contest. Sometimes it’s about learning what you don’t need. That creates freedom.

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@HarbisonHugh Pissing here again now weeks good work undone 🫣😜

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@HarbisonHugh I assumed it was a skit “so unless you can get your kids to swim and cycle round all week” is that not what Center parcs is?

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@hairyhillfarmer @stuartpengs Plenty of great crops of stuff up round here this year, meaning there’ll b a pile more sowed next year

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@colinjmurd @Conorcochrane3 @panchdeburca He’s like you Colin it’s all boys land 🤪😜

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@nookost @DubLoony @DarraghScott 🤦‍♂️

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@rava_ian Really impressed with Sheridan tonight. McCann had a good night too minus a few penalties but put in a serious shift

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@BarryMullane1 @TheLooseH 🤞

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@JoeWStanley @laithafarm @ChrisBrough7 @NFUtweets @RedTractorFood That’s good to know. Who are the others? The real puppet masters? BRC?

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@Slug_95 @billokeeffe @lelyrobotman @colinjmurd I’m open to a demonstration on farm anytime

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@KevinoHanlon12 I took 6 heifers to a man they were over an hour in the trailer when we let them off at his few of them were mad going after the docs in the field. They weren’t so good that they’d eaten the ones that we have here before they left

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@MicOrchard @JoeWStanley Seconded. I really like the Hidden Half Of Nature

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@richrobscows1 Na for the first 2 months of calving I’d hardly leave the yard. But then I’m 30 years younger than you 🤪

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@Germinal_Ire @McEvoy_M I’ve wholecrop being cut this week and I would like to direct drill with a MSS is it too late in the season or is this still a good option?