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

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
I only used one tank, but the Long Range Desert Weapon has a nearly 600 km range :eek::D:ROFLMAO:
My bike will get through a tank in about 40 minutes if I am WFO - which is standard riding technique !!
Up in my mate's pine block, he has a few road loops for his rally car and about 5 different tracks for bikes.
Road the new KTM300 and was well impressed with that, I think we may end up with a new "farm bike" instead of paying some tax :):cautious:;)
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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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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Shame about the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN manufactured Manutec press wheels:rolleyes: as my hay mower can attest too:( contractor I used to use had them on a 20 foot homan seeder. Think I found a dozen wheels over 3 or 4 years:rolleyes:
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
@hendrebc - you didn't like my breakfast, could I temp you with dinner I've just cooked ?
Kangaroo with rocket tomatoe & feta salad ?

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Chae1

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Aberdeenshire
Without seeing what you were discing it's all a guessing game really? Weeds like hogweed or bindi that need chopping if too big as they will plug the frame of the air seeder?? Other than that :scratchhead::scratchhead:
I'll put some pictures up. Seems strange I never asked or it wasn't explained to me!

Wasn't any ruts or holes to fill in. Was a rush to get it done, we were running 24 hours per day. Would have been March/April.
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
@cows sh#t me to tears - heres one for you

Bernie Jacksonto THE GOSS
January 10 at 5:17 PM

What’s happening at the moment with Darling is the end result of Tony Burke & Penny Wong’s incompetency in understanding the hydrology of the Northern basin the...se rivers only ever flowed periodically historical records prove that Penny Wong spent 66 million buying Tooralee Station which hasn’t provided any in flow into the Darling since its purchase. You want to blame the Northern Irrigators for the mess the Darling Is in think again Cotton has been grown in the Namoi valley successfully since 1963 & the Gwydir Valley since 1976 both Lake Keepit which is now empty & Lake Copeton where built as irrigation dams there’s never been an issue with water here till these morons started buying water back in 2007. What is happening at the moment is an end result of those water buy backs & government incompetence in the management of environmental flows as with now what’s happening now with Menindee lakes they’ve been full twice 2012 & 2016 & have been drained twice in less then 12 months to try & prop the mess South Australia has made of the Coorong. The water has been diverted away from the Coorong with man made drains for last 100 years also the barrages need to be removed from Lake Alexandria & return it to are estuarine system as it was pre 1940
What is happening at the moment with these water releases & they where told in 2007 it will accelerate the process of not only drought but bank erosion as well , instead of are 10 or 15 year cycle that’s now are 3 year cycle & also accelerating the fish kills in the rivers these issues where never addressed when you release cold water into are river & vice versa you rapidly deoxygenate the water & promote Blue-Green Algae blooms end result on mass fish kills. Cubbie doesn’t have any water despite Jeremy Buckingham peddling images that where taken in 2011-12 after are one in 500 year flood event. This is the worst drought here since Federation despite what the media are saying our last major fall of rain was September 2016 & at the moment this drought is forecast till 2024. There’s been opportunities to drought proof these northern rivers by bringing water back over the mountains. The EIS’s where done on dam sights on the Clarence Mann & Manning rivers plus several others but Bob Car turned those sites into National parks. What it amounts to is they don’t want agriculture in this country & there’s possibly of another 6 to 8 years of drought that’s going to happen sooner rather then later
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
@Farmer Roy

Swap you some moisture for some soil.

Unfortunately most of our hill land lacks depth and is South facing.....towards the sun. (n)

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not much depth, or capacity to store moisture for a dry period ?
looks like it would dry out quickly with a bit of heat & if it stopped raining . . .



out of interest, how far down do the roots extend, or are they only in the top soil ?
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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