Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
I’m flattered Pete, but you would have come to that conclusion on your own. Following the logic of nutrient cycling it makes perfect sense. Now if I could convince everyone else....

It can be alonely world when everyone thinks you are off a bit.
It made me feel a LOT better for not going out and killing them, like I "ought to" be doing.
And they are thinning themselves out, whatever remedial work they are doing is obviously getting less necessary over time.

They are always going to be here, so long as my neighbours have hundred-acre slabs of thistle there are going to be some here....

But you won't convince the majority, there is something fundamentally wrong with enjoying the benefits of something that costs nothing...
 

Jim bean

Member
Location
Boneo AU
can't convince my sheep to eat these Kiffler potatoes, fussy baarstards. IMG_0024.jpeg
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Sharpy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Plenty of sunshine here, bit short on the water though . . .

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It's an ill divided world. We had 6 weeks without rain here in the spring/ early summer and very little bother, but it wouldn't have taken a great deal more to give us problems. Previous summer was the opposite, not so much amount but the fact that most days it rained.
We need a weather swapping machine!
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Hell of a variation in wind direction there Roy! At the coast i could understand it but inland?

yeah, not unusual - it keeps the spraying contractors on their toes :ROFLMAO:
they will quite often decide which clients & which fields they will spray at certain times of the day, depending on wind direction & whats down wind or where vulnerable areas are
 

CornishTone

Member
BASIS
Location
Cornwall
We had no water left and did not want to pay about $335ML when our neighbour asked us to grow corn for him. He has transferred 100 ML to our farm for the corn and we still have enough for 2 more irrigations. Hopefully he has more and will not have to buy it for $440 when we run out. It’s just starting to put up tassels so will need a bit more water yet.

I was expecting to use about 8 ML ha which would be 136 ML. The first irrigation took 25 ML as the paddock was very dry which has put up our usage.

Just chatting to a Barossa grape grower. He’s paying $900/ML plus infrastructure charges which something like $10,000/yr. basically they’re paying c$3,500/ML which blew my mind a little bit. They’re using between 1-2Ml/ha on grapes as an average.
 

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
too hot to do anything today, not interested in watching cricket on TV & decided sitting under an air conditioner all day drinking beer wasn't really a positive thing to do
so, after my avocado, kale, mushroom, poached egg, brown rice & grilled haloumi & pot of black tea breakfast ( did I mention this is currently my favourite breakfast ) I decided to go for a bit of a ride on the WR450, as its been a while . . . Did a nice little 400 km loop around mainly gravel roads on the southern end of the Liverpool Plains. Spring Ridge, Blackville, Bundella, Premer, Tambar Springs, Curlewis & back into town, Encompasses some of my favourite place on this earth - feels like "home" & is my "happy place" :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Sorry, not pics to share - wouldn't do it justice anyway
although, I did stop & look at this, not far from town with a For Sale sign on it, beside the road. @holwellcourtfarm I instantly thought of you (y) Don't you have an old Inter 511 Combine ( we call em combines & I refuse to call em drills :D ) that you were wanting to put zero till disc units under ? These disc units are a Homan double disc, mounted on a parallelogram, with depth controlled by the presswheel. Pretty simple, strong unit.

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glasshouse

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Location
lothians
too hot to do anything today, not interested in watching cricket on TV & decided sitting under an air conditioner all day drinking beer wasn't really a positive thing to do
so, after my avocado, kale, mushroom, poached egg, brown rice & grilled haloumi breakfast ( did I mention this is currently my favourite breakfast ) I decided to go for a bit of a ride on the WR450, as its been a while . . . Did a nice little 400 km loop around mainly gravel roads on the southern end of the Liverpool Plains. Spring Ridge, Blackville, Bundella, Premer, Tambar Springs, Curlewis & back into town, Encompasses about my favourite place on this earth - feels like "home" & is my "happy place" :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Sorry, not pics to share - wouldn't do it justice anyway
although, I did stop & look at this, not far from town with a For Sale sign on it, beside the road. @holwellcourtfarm I instantly though of you (y) Don't you have an old Inter 511 Combine ( we call em combines & I refuse to call em drills :D ) that you were wanting to put zero till disc units under ? These disc units are a Homan double disc, mounted on a parallelogram, with depth controlled by the presswheel. Pretty simple, strong unit.

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Did u ask the price?
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
too hot to do anything today, not interested in watching cricket on TV & decided sitting under an air conditioner all day drinking beer wasn't really a positive thing to do
so, after my avocado, kale, mushroom, poached egg, brown rice & grilled haloumi & pot of black tea breakfast ( did I mention this is currently my favourite breakfast ) I decided to go for a bit of a ride on the WR450, as its been a while . . . Did a nice little 400 km loop around mainly gravel roads on the southern end of the Liverpool Plains. Spring Ridge, Blackville, Bundella, Premer, Tambar Springs, Curlewis & back into town, Encompasses some of my favourite place on this earth - feels like "home" & is my "happy place" :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Sorry, not pics to share - wouldn't do it justice anyway
although, I did stop & look at this, not far from town with a For Sale sign on it, beside the road. @holwellcourtfarm I instantly thought of you (y) Don't you have an old Inter 511 Combine ( we call em combines & I refuse to call em drills :D ) that you were wanting to put zero till disc units under ? These disc units are a Homan double disc, mounted on a parallelogram, with depth controlled by the presswheel. Pretty simple, strong unit.

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Great minds, I went out for a blat on mine, too.
Also, no photos, better to leave it somewhere safe... used 3 tanks of juice
 

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