Canada Farmer
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Just have to pick the right time of yearSounds like a ticket to Frostbiteville
, I'm so looking forward to summer 2019
Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
- Thread starter Farmer Roy
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, I'm so looking forward to summer 2019
FonterraFarmer
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- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Glad you areJust have to pick the right time of year
slightly over it
The only thing we have too much of is people
If we were all in Canada or Oz we’d be next door neighbours
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Sounds like a pretty accurate description of our roads to me.....
Born there or just lived there?
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Think th BOM are still on their public holiday
FonterraFarmer
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- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
If anything summer here has been sh!t, over 210mm of rain last month and inconsistent weather in January , the odd sunny day and near impossible to make hay.Glad you are
Much like the last couple of years ,I'm expecting an extra couple of weeks of summer this year
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Roll on the collapse of society, folk like that will no longer be a pain in the posterior (well, not for long).
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Weren't you tempted to stay? EVERYONE just LOVES London don't you knowMy previous residence was on the other side of Luton in Edlesbough on the B440!!!
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
I've been thinking. Bit hard for the lions to go cold turkey
Roll on the collapse of society, folk like that will no longer be a pain in the posterior (we'll, not for long).
Be best to let them eat vegans so they can slowly get a taste for tofu
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Gritted teeth mate, gritted teeth.You’re basically in Greater London!
There are actually folk near here who farm IN London, there are fields inside the urban envelope. I wonder if their tractors Incur the congestion/emissions charge?
Being here is a double edged sword. The roads are manic, most prices are crazy (Bedsit flats starting around £250k etc), waste is crazy and you are EXPECTED to get anything out of the ordinary by venturing into Londinium
On the other hand there is SO much money in the local economy that we are awash with income options unlike so many rural folk. 99.9% of locals would rather pay someone else £30+ per hour than get their hands dirty so practical folk need never be poor. It's common for locals to pay £150+ call-out charge then £80 per hour for someone just to rod a sewer rather than have to face their own shite.
There is still quite a lot of poverty though and it must be a horrible experience when there is so much affluence waved under your nose. 2 local towns have busy night shelters for the homeless and there are some large "sink estates".
It's a mad world and we're ready to leave as soon as the finances click in.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Have you got a sarong body though?Just have to pick the right time of year
Steel
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- Location
- Finley, Riverina, Australia
12% empty which I am happy with as the feed situation is not looking good and I’m happy to sell some sheep.
About 40% twins but we just branded them as we went and will wait until a cooler day before I draft them off. Some early twins will be missed as I was nearly 3 weeks late scanning.
I’m going to lamb all the twins in my yards and seperate the ewe and her lambs for a few days to try and improve my twin survival rate. Never lambed in yards before and I have been looking on this site how it is done. I have never heard of anyone in Australia lambing in yards or sheds.
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- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
That's quite an impressive % considering the season(s) you've enjoyed of late.
A bit different here on the land of milk and honey, where you can hear the surf and 1 inch of rain = 10 inches of lush grass!
Will be interested to see how that "indoor" lambing works, I saw it done in my younger days but the main reason was about 2 feet of snow on the ground in the middle of lambing - you do what you have to do!
I have read an interesting article somewhere about the link between "bleat time" and lamb survival, ie the shorter time it takes a lamb to bleat when you steal it from mum, the better survival genetics it possesses, so perhaps more worthwhile as a replacement .
Maybe something to ponder .
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
It gets worse the closer you look (as you already know having been here)
This is us at 1:100,000
This is where we'd like to be at 1:250,000
When our neighbors borrowed my NZ street atlas to plan their January 2017 tour they said "why doesn't the atlas show all the roads"?
Around us very few areas are >2km from a road of some sort.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
It gets worse the closer you look (as you already know having been here)
This is us at 1:100,000
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This is where we'd like to be at 1:250,000
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When our neighbors borrowed my NZ street atlas to plan their January 2017 tour they said "why doesn't the atlas show all the roads"?
Around us very few areas are >2km from a road of some sort.
I have a whole page in my FarmFinder map with only one farm on the page, and another whole map is missing as there's nobody there
Wouldn't have it any other way, it can be limiting in some respects, all the same.
Pretty hard to sell quite a few things to people that aren't there
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Maybe the lions were only giving it a cuddle, anyway...
Roll on the collapse of society, folk like that will no longer be a pain in the posterior (well, not for long).
It might have run a long way and needed cheering up with cats... apparently fluffy cats are good for that sorta sh!t .
But hey, at least it isn't livestock
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
will their mothers take them back after a couple of days separation?