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

Agrispeed · Jan 16, 2019

CornishTone said:
SA or OF&G?

I’d be telling the barstewards you’re going to move... then do it!

SA. The farm owner did question why they were called the soil association if she didn't care about soil.

This one has been here before, but doing a beef audit. She didn't really know much about dairy. I keep threatening to move to OF&G but never bother. She did moan about how SA is the only real organic outfit because OF&G don't promote organic & I suggested that they were probably doing a better job at getting conventional farmers on board than SA then.

She didn't do our Red Tractor either, so we have to have another inspection in a few weeks. I'm glad she didn't because I would probably still be sifting through seed bag tickets from 2004 now.

stewart · Jan 16, 2019

cows sh#t me to tears said:
You forgot the unfair NZ govt policy of no capital gains tax either......cant do that here. Only house cgt free is the one you live in and anything owned pre 1985....

No Capital gains tax, however if you buy and sell a property and make a profit the profit is classed as income so effectively you pay tax.

CornishTone · Jan 16, 2019

“Over friendly cows”... what the actual f**k?!?!?!

That is the most absurd black mark I’ve ever heard of!!!

Did I mention I f**king detest the SA? I think I did! Oooooh my hatred for them burns with the fire of a thousand suns!!!!!!! May their collective ball sack be infested with the flies of a thousand camels!!!

Sack ‘em off! They’re no good! Only interested in promoting themselves in a vain attempt to justify their increasingly irrelevant existence!

(Sorry, they just make me wild! I probably shouldn’t be more angry about this than you so I’ll stop ranting)

Aaaand relax!

Agrispeed · Jan 16, 2019

CornishTone said:
“Over friendly cows”... what the actual f**k?!?!?! That is the most absurd black mark I’ve ever heard of!!!

Did I mention I f**king detest the SA? I think I did! Oooooh my hatred for them burns with the fire of a thousand suns!!!!!!! May their collective ball sack be infested with the flies of a thousand camels!!!

Sack ‘em off! They’re no good! Only interested in promoting themselves in a vain attempt to justify their increasingly irrelevant existence!

(Sorry, they just make me wild! I probably shouldn’t be more angry about this than you so I’ll stop ranting)

Aaaand relax!

I thought it was funny, I don't mind having that written in a report.

We are only with the SA as a hangover from direct sales, where their name is actually worth something.

cows sh#t me to tears · Jan 16, 2019

Doc said:
I blame a NSW hot summer in 1997/8 for my current address. Lancastrian wife, late pregnant ( 3rd child) living in a brick veneer house with no A/C, whose mother was ill back in Blighty.
I used to hose the brick walls down in the evening when I got home from work to try and draw some of the heat out. Probably useless but you have to show willing.
In the end the MIL and heat won.
Though, I’ve had a small victory. We live in Yorkshire.

I live in what isnt much better than a tin shed......AC has been on permanently since November. Flat roof on house.....so last few days the sprinkler has been on the roof to try and take the sting out of heat in bedrooms.
I've seen outback stations that have transportable houses like ours that have an actual shed built over the house to keep it shaded...

Agrispeed · Jan 16, 2019

This has just cleared its embargo, due to be published in the morning - It suggests a significant reduction in red meat consumption. It doesn't seem very well thought out.

cows sh#t me to tears · Jan 16, 2019

CornishTone said:
“Over friendly cows”... what the actual f**k?!?!?! That is the most absurd black mark I’ve ever heard of!!!

Did I mention I f**king detest the SA? I think I did! Oooooh my hatred for them burns with the fire of a thousand suns!!!!!!! May their collective ball sack be infested with the flies of a thousand camels!!!

Sack ‘em off! They’re no good! Only interested in promoting themselves in a vain attempt to justify their increasingly irrelevant existence!

(Sorry, they just make me wild! I probably shouldn’t be more angry about this than you so I’ll stop ranting)

Aaaand relax!

Jesus Tone

think you best head to the IGA and go sit in the coolroom with the bourbon for the arvo

Farmer Roy · Jan 16, 2019

cows sh#t me to tears said:
I live in what isnt much better than a tin shed......AC has been on permanently since November. Flat roof on house.....so last few days the sprinkler has been on the roof to try and take the sting out of heat in bedrooms.
I've seen outback stations that have transportable houses like ours that have an actual shed built over the house to keep it shaded...

a "tropical" roof was an accessory available on the old "Series" Landrover wagons - effectively another roof a couple of inches above the original, to keep it shaded as well as encouraging airflow through it to carry heat away
probably ok for 1955, but I don't think id be swapping it for a 200 series Toyota

cows sh#t me to tears · Jan 16, 2019

Agrispeed said:
This has just cleared its embargo, due to be published in the morning - It suggests a significant reduction in red meat consumption. It doesn't seem very well thought out.
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I cant read that

is this the vegan report claiming that we can reverse global warming and improve our health by reducing red meat consumption to 14gms ??

Agrispeed · Jan 17, 2019

cows sh#t me to tears said:
I cant read that is this the vegan report claiming that we can reverse global warming and improve our health by reducing red meat consumption to 14gms ??

Its a new report in the Lancet tomorrow, suggesting that we cut red meat and dairy consumption down for health and sustainability (but doesn't recognise a difference in production systems) but increase irrigation and cropping.

Some sensible, but some misguided, at best - not recognising that grazing is a massive, and key part of sustainable farming is a bit of an oops moment. I suspect this is going to throw more fuel on the Vegan/ anti-meat fire we've had recently.

CornishTone · Jan 17, 2019

Farmer Roy said:
a "tropical" roof was an accessory available on the old "Series" Landrover wagons - effectively another roof a couple of inches above the original, to keep it shaded as well as encouraging airflow through it to carry heat away
probably ok for 1955, but I don't think id be swapping it for a 200 series Toyota

Dad had a Series 2a with a Safari roof.
He hated it! I loved it! Be worth a few grand now if he kept it.

cows sh#t me to tears · Jan 17, 2019

I'd happily increase my irrigation..........if only they would actually give us an allocation

CornishTone · Jan 17, 2019

cows sh#t me to tears said:
Jesus Tone think you best head to the IGA and go sit in the coolroom with the bourbon for the arvo

I’m not sure I’d last long sat in a walk in fridge in IGA, in nothing but my pantaloons, sipping a Bundy and coke! I’m not even allowed to do that at home!!!!

cows sh#t me to tears · Jan 17, 2019

Well if you stop sipping it like a poofter and drank like a man

Wow

thought the swear filter would have nabbed that one

CornishTone · Jan 17, 2019

I’m not sure that’s going to help me in IGA to be fair!!!

cows sh#t me to tears · Jan 17, 2019

CornishTone said:
I’m not sure that’s going to help me in IGA to be fair!!!

Bullshìt

clearly the faster you drink it the more you consume before the cops are called

Deerefarmer · Jan 17, 2019

And I'm sat here in my lazy chair learning new stuff..... Like Iga is in Australia too,

Did not realize they were that widespread

cows sh#t me to tears · Jan 17, 2019

Thought it was started here :scratchhead:

stands for independent grocers of Australia. The son of the founder had a horse stud next door to me. His father gave him 20million for his 21st birthday......horses got it all

think he thought he would out do Gerry Harvey...

CornishTone · Jan 17, 2019

Yes, but the cops still get called and I still have to explain why I’m sat in a fridge, in the super market, in my under crackers, drinking Bundy!

cows sh#t me to tears · Jan 17, 2019

CornishTone said:
Yes, but the cops still get called and I still have to explain why I’m sat in a fridge, in the super market, in my under crackers, drinking Bundy!

FFS

you just don't get it

the more you drink the easier it is for you to explain and the harder it is for them to understand

Have you ever gotten a coherent answer out of someone who's pìssed

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