Dont tell them what it was like to do silage or barley

I don't think it's used now at all.
Wilting had done away with it.
Jeez, I remember wet years with water running out between the floor boards of the trailers from a double chop.

Still have half a barrel of Co-Sil, must be nearly 20 years of age...

Actually, shovelling grain to an auger and breathing in the fumes from PropCorn wasn't much fun either..

Victor wrote: »

What is sulphuric acid used for in agriculture?

Note that laboratory concentrations may be a lot stronger than agricultural concentrations.

Co-Sil was sulphuric acid (60%) and applied to fresh grass at 2 to 3 litres per ton, to aid preservation.

AddF was Formic acid at 80% strength , and used similarly.

It came in 45 gallon drums, and needed decanted into 5 gallon drums.
Messy and potentially dangerous work, by evening it wasn't unusual for denim jeans to have holes in them (or to be falling apart) from drips or splashes.

I don't think.its used now at all, contractors refuse to put it through their machines. It could eat a track through the metal housing of a harvester in a week.

I have been ridiculed ad nauseum for warning of the next economic crisis but when it does come (possible next autumn) all trade will essentially grind to a halt. No fuel? Youths must do manual labour on the land or else, in our hunger and desperation, people will turn on each other.

realitykeeper wrote: »

I have been ridiculed ad nauseum for warning of the next economic crisis but when it does come (possible next autumn) all trade will essentially grind to a halt. No fuel? Youths must do manual labour on the land or else, in our hunger and desperation, people will turn on each other.

The deer in the Phoenix Park, and the animals in the zoo will be the first to be eaten.
I'm bulk buying ammo to keep the looters pinned back ....

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Ah, the denim jeans falling apart. Remember that well.

We were at silage back in the day and a 200L drum burst while mounting it on the back of the harvester...a young lad that was carting got drowned with Formic from the waist down. In fairness he stripped immediately and galloped to the river at the field margin!!
He didn’t come out for about half an hour. The only damage done was a good rash of nettle stings from the river bank.
H&S, how are you!! .

realitykeeper wrote: »

I have been ridiculed ad nauseum for warning of the next economic crisis but when it does come (possible next autumn) all trade will essentially grind to a halt. No fuel? Youths must do manual labour on the land or else, in our hunger and desperation, people will turn on each other.

Why do you think there will be a crisis? Their is something in me, that I like listening to misery

Base price wrote: »

Rolling oats was the worst, the dust eats into your skin.

Yep!
Those tiny little chaff fibres would get right into your pores.