Welcome everyone, this thread would serve as continuation to a journey that started slow and steadily last year, follow us, drop opinions, criticise, advise etc lets farm together so we can fill stomachs, enlarge our pockets while doing what we love..

https://www.nairaland.com/5915021/cassava-farming-dairy-total-beginner/16 link to our last year adventures

i first must confess, have tried a couple of times to start this thread but I just can't get past choosing a subject (name) for it, has things been hard yes surely, have I been busy totally but that's no excuse, so folks here we Go..

God leading, proper planning, preparation and hard work bountiful harvest awaits

Our agricultural journey has been wonderful, a little reminder I am a person dats singular but I use our to signify I and my team, the old elderly farmers I listened to eagerly learning plenty, I might be a graduate from a Univerty of Agriculture but I tell you don't joke with a wise experienced farmer, practical wisdom ain't read or studied,
Second members of my team include friends who last year sometimes worked for free just so we keep moving, my farm manager, all labour and helper from the tractor operator to sprayers to farm escorts or gisting partners you all made/make WinFarms possible..

This thread is as the name applies is the story of our journey, it will include daily activities, mistakes, innovations, and titbits from planting our crops(babies) til harvest, nairaland you guys made the last thread successful so let's make this same, feel free to add inputs, criticise, encourage, advise etc

Last year a major challenge was access road, remember the cool wooden bride I posted Abi, let the rains come heavily you can't pass it, like wise when you want to harvest you need to go round taking a longer road all this influenced our decision to seek for land easily more assesible

so welcome to Lower Benue basin authority, it's thousands of hectares all owned by FG where you rent annually and use, don't worry eh by God's grace all our hectares will be our own lands ..

I must say it's a very beautiful place with good excellent lands for almost all crops, from rice, Cassava, maize etc it's suppose to have a dam, but corruption showed it's self, the dam was awarded twice and is still incomplete and in ruins but I tell u it's still a beautiful site

Washing up after work, can't swim o so am glued to the banks

willybaby:
I must say it's a very beautiful place with good excellent lands for almost all crops, from rice, Cassava, maize etc it's suppose to have a dam, but corruption showed it's self, the dam was awarded twice and is still incomplete and in ruins but I tell u it's still a beautiful site

imagine Nigeria ehn... how do you deal with killer herdsmen for ur side?

be careful ooo. Crocs could be breeding there

Deasegun19:


imagine Nigeria ehn... how do you deal with killer herdsmen for ur side?

happily we actually do not have such issues here, maybe it's because this area ain't part of there prehistoric grazing routes

Deasegun19:
be careful ooo. Crocs could be breeding there

exactly o, when ever I visit the dam Crocs usually comes to mind cause it contains big fishes

Good morning all, today we spraying premergents on our fields, pictures, chemicals been used will be updated soon, and yea some processes already carried out will be made known too

Where is the location of your farmland

willybaby:
Good morning all, today we spraying premergents on our fields, pictures, chemicals been used will be updated soon, and yea some processes already carried out will be made known too

What crops are you planting this time around?

willybaby:
Good morning all, today we spraying premergents on our fields, pictures, chemicals been used will be updated soon, and yea some processes already carried out will be made known too

I do hope these preemergents do not end up polluting the water and land in that river basin. Left to me, we need to preserve the river basins and control what farmers can apply there.

Krak:


What crops are you planting this time around?

cassava, maize and rice

stagger:


I do hope these preemergents do not end up polluting the water and land in that river basin. Left to me, we need to preserve the river basins and control what farmers can apply there.

certainly it won't, we didn't abuse it and your right sir, herbicides are seriously being abused in Nigeria, you see people mixing 250, 200ml in a 16L knapsack for weeds that's just 2 or 3 leaf stage

josh6633:
Where is the location of your farmland

Benue State Nigeria

So we back from the farm, had quite a stressful but fulfilling day, updates coming soon

Okada, please drop me. Let me put a tent here.

Ameboperoo:
Okada, please drop me. Let me put a tent here.

hahaha boss

So today we mix a yellow herbicide with a green one to get a super herbicide.. Lagon prevents weed growth while paracot kills already growing weed..

From testimonials I must say am quite excited to be using Lagon this season, have seen fields where till harvest the farm was still weed free due to the efficacy of Lagon.

A little bit of advise, spray Lagon on a moist soil, also after spraying to walking, working etc on the field for atleast 3 days, the chemical forms Lik a carpet over the field so walking on it reduces it's efficacy.. 50ml for maize per 16L knapsack sprayer 100ml for casava or very rich soil

Applying pre emergent if all goes well no weeding of our farms till corn is harvested or just b4 harvest..

No shame in saying I can't spray so I was the water boy

Now we wait 4 our maize to rise like the undertaker, while we prepare to enrich our soil more.. work done 4 d day, zooming to my home sweet home.

Tomoro am surely gonna have a big rest so I will be updating you all from the beginning, all wah you've missed

Happy weekend everyone hope you all doing well, so below is all you've missed on how our farming year began

Due to the abnormal rain patterns at the onset of the raining season, we decided against very early crops and cultivation was planned 4 June when surely the rains should be here, over here rain feel just thrice in the whole of may.

First week of June our lands were ploughed, and harrowed..

After harrowing 2 tons of poultry manure was delivered in bags and broadcasted by heactre, Maize is a heavy feeder and we didn't wanna take chances, a lil story last year NPK 15 15 15 fertiliser a neighbour bought, a very popular brand actually a week after application was still undissolved in the soil, probably might be a fake or production error..

Poultry waste is very good 4 crops, and can even be used totally as a substitute to NPK if a soil test is conducted and it's applied in sufficient quantity, but in its raw state it is very hot, this is due to acids and microbes in chicken shit.. so that's why after broadcasting our poultry manure we let rain fall on it sufficiently to cause degradation before we riddged

Planting of our maize using our handheld planter, was fabricated in house after Watching a YouTube video.. imagine our seeds sitting comfortably above a degrading layer of manure

How it looks, for a video of us using it check our Twitter handle @winfarms

nice thread, following. how much did you rent the land?

willybaby:
So today we mix a yellow herbicide with a green one to get a super herbicide.. Lagon prevents weed growth while paracot kills already growing weed..

From testimonials I must say am quite excited to be using Lagon this season, have seen fields where till harvest the farm was still weed free due to the efficacy of Lagon.

A little bit of advise, spray Lagon on a moist soil, also after spraying to walking, working etc on the field for atleast 3 days, the chemical forms Lik a carpet over the field so walking on it reduces it's efficacy.. 50ml for maize per 16L knapsack sprayer 100ml for casava or very rich soil

Nice job u are doing here op. What is the mixing ratio of the 2 herbicides u mixed together?
I guess u planted corn first and spray immediately, When are u intercropping the cassava?