- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Fùçk this is depressing
And so is this....
And so is this....
Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
- Thread starter Farmer Roy
- Start date
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
This is also depressing
might have to start driving my 4.7 V8 petrol 100 Series “party car” as my daily drive & leave the diesel Hilux parked up, to save money
might have to start driving my 4.7 V8 petrol 100 Series “party car” as my daily drive & leave the diesel Hilux parked up, to save money
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
I know people who couldn’t pick their cotton months ago because it was too wet ( & still hasn’t been picked ) and who won’t be able to plant cotton now this year.
We had 4 or 5 years of no income, then 2020 / 21 wasn’t too bad, but now we’ve potentially lost another 2 years of income
and people wonder why I drink
We had 4 or 5 years of no income, then 2020 / 21 wasn’t too bad, but now we’ve potentially lost another 2 years of income
and people wonder why I drink
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Meanwhile, at my paying job . . .
spraying cricket ovals for bugs
spraying cricket ovals for bugs
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Hope there's plenty of cricket pitches... We might all be spraying the cùñts soon...
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
PS - for the foreigners, we don’t have “red” diesel here. It’s just all diesel
PS - for the Austrailians we don't have sunshine, deadly spiders and snakes here in the UK, it's all wet and boring.....
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
I'm beginning to wonder if you .....
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
PS - for the Austrailians we don't have sunshine, deadly spiders and snakes here in the UK, it's all wet and boring.....
I know, I lived & worked there for 3 years
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
PS - for the Austrailians we don't have sunshine, deadly spiders and snakes here in the UK, it's all wet and boring.....
In regards to “deadly” snakes & spiders . . .
while not dismissing the potential real danger, I am 56 years old, have spent nearly my entire life living, working & playing in rural Australia, at times in VERY remote areas. I have never been bitten by a snake or spider, don’t know anyone who has died from a snake or spider bite & only know 1 person who has actually been bitten by a snake.
Maybe growing up with them you are just more aware & therefore less likely to be bit ? Like kids who grow up in towns / cities are very traffic aware & don’t just step out onto a busy street & get run over ?
Apart from actual old age / ageing diseases, most people I know who have died have been from suicide, car accidents or cancer, probably in that order. Suicide definitely comes first . . .
snakes & spiders are pretty well at the bottom of the list for causes of death in Australia.
if you’re bored, google / YouTube Stephen Fry on QI, when he asks which is the most dangerous animal in Australia.
dan 6170r
Member
You do it just doesn’t have the die in it
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
No
We have to pay full price.
Registered businesses can claim back a rebate for the “road tax” portion, which is currently 40 cents per litre, for eligible off road use. This includes mining, forestry, fishing, agriculture, electricity generation and such like. Basically diesel use that isn’t propelling road going vehicles. We can claim that back either monthly, quarterly or annually ( depending on your business structure & accounting practices ) when we lodge our BAS ( business activity statement. Similar to VAT ) . But we have already paid full price, then have to claim the rebate.
So based on that, our “farm use” diesel is still dearer than E10 petrol & a similar price to “premium” petrol.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
and when the gubament cut the excise in half to ease poor pishy city c<ñts cost of living before the lasy election they also removed the rebate. It's only come back in at the end of September....
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Went to other side of Henty field day site to pick up some fuel tanks today. Billabong ck is right back down at Walbunderie now. You could see in the trees it has been a raging torrent 4 to 5 m up. Walbunderie to Rand is still closed. As is the entirety of the Federation way from Corowa. Made my way back via Brockelsby and Hopefield. Geez there's some water out there to the north of the Rand turn off. All that flat land out there will be totalled crop wise....
So you’re not far off UK red prices in the UK which has been £1.00-£1.10 ex any tax which can be reclaimed.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Still going to start driving my big heavy V8 petrol around more, as a cost saving device . . .
dan 6170r
Member
I’ll say it again we have we have it here it just does not have the red die in it and we have to claim back the rebate where in the UK they don’t the Rebate it’s taken off before when the farmer buys it and they put the red die in there so if someone is using it in a vehicle on the public road and they shouldn’t be the fuel could be tested To see if it’s rebate fuel or not
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
If my canola gets rejected I might have to crush it myself and make bio deisel and use the meal as stockfeed
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Ours is $1.92 a litre there’s no red diesel either and we can’t claim anything back. Petrol is more expensive though $2.10 a litre. And we get through about 14000 litres every month.