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full time worshipper , part time farmer, Amadeus

Nairobi, Kenya
Joined September 2014
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Small plot dry bean trials being harvested
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Forage sorghum progress
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Here are the numbers for dry beans (MT per ha). Kenya..0.7 Ethiopia 1.7 Tanzania 1.4 Uganda 1.5 We are using a variety that is from 1978. @kalromkulima where are all those high yielding, iron rich, zinc rich varieties released a few years back? Is commercialisation a problem?
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Annie, Billy and Maggie checking out newly emerged forage sorghum.
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Yellow beans up and away
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Planting forage sorghum continues, our new home made meters are working well. Small tweek, and they will give us the semi precision we are after
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Another Stella group of 11 Nuffield scholars from 8 countries visited Kenya last week. They looked into various agricultural businesses to understand Kenyan Agricultural as a part of Nuffield's GFP (Global Focus Program)
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Bit wet at present
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Saw this at a filter shop today in Nairobi.
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Commercial scale silage trials
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Kennedy is a first-class auto electric repair fellow in Nairobi. Tiny space, but he still has order.
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Nothing like a Saturday soil pit with friends
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New approach to forage sorghum for silage
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Cleaning edible beans today, these are our new high iron, fast cook variety called PS1. Massive seed size at 60 grams per 100 seeds.
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New trial site video
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