practical farming solutions… #1

…in Southern Norway…

local solutions…

Problem-solving is in itself an interesting activity, and on a farm one can find as many challenges as one may possibly want. It is no different on our farm, and I like the fact that although there are many similarities between farms and farming across the globe, each farm has its own unique set of practical problems that are in need of local solutions.

Sometimes we “invent” things and practices just for the fun of it, but usually there is at least one serious side to what we create or do.

Over the years we have found that there are fewer and fewer ready-made solutions worth buying. Products either don't work or they don't last, and our farming-methods often means our needs deviates very much from what others think farmers need and what's offered to us on the market.

It also makes sense to look at farming-practices used elsewhere through a filter based on local environmental conditions and farm size. Farming-practices that work fine in one place may fail completely in another place, so there's a lot to sort, filter and adjust in order to find and fine-tune methods that'll actually work on each farm in each area across the globe.

The solution is often to take a little bit of this and a little bit of that, mix in some local ingredients or recycled “garbage” and turn it all around until we can make the parts fit together in ways that suits us. This goes for products/machinery as well as methods, and the results are uniquely ours no matter how much or how little they look like someone else's.

it works for us…

The great thing about local solutions is that they can be tailored pretty near perfect to our local needs and/or taste. Besides, nothing is better than to know exactly how something works, and be able to keep it working without any outside help. Needless to say I have no idea if any of our solutions will work anywhere but on our own farm, and I honestly can't say it matters much to me.

Throughout the next pages I've scratched down some details and thoughts about practical farming solutions tailored to our farm. I use these pages as a kind of extension for our internal notes, so the order and mix of facts, observations and thoughts may not pass as well-authored web pages.

I also make full use of the ability to change, replace, add to and remove parts of what I have written or included whenever I see fit, so as to reflect the real farm as it evolves with the rest of the world.
Have fun.

sincerely  georg; sign

Hageland 15.jul.2008
last rev: 19.jul.2008

practical farming solutions…

…I have no idea if any of our solutions will work anywhere but on our own farm…
— Georg


farming…
…2008