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

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
Coolah Tops
On the top of the Liverpool Ranges, that forms part of the Great Dividing Range, which seperates inland NSW from the eastern seaboard & was a big impediment to inland exploration in the early 1800's

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Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
On the way home

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What looks like cloud in the distance, is actually smoke from a bushfire in Pilliga Forest, about 100km away. It has blocked the Newell Highway ( the main inland route between Melbourne & Brisbane ) between Coonabarabran & Narrabri. A mate of mine is working there firebombing with his aircraft

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An amazing collection of pictures, will never get tired of the bush over there.
How are they getting on with the bushfire, any chance of rain helping?
 

Blaithin

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Alberta
What IS it with NZ Simmentals? What have you upside downies done to them? We've only ever had 2 mean ones out of around 1000!:scratchhead:

Maybe it's not the cows it's the Kiwi's. My Fleckvieh was terribly upset when there were Kiwi's around!

She placidly stood eating her food and fed her babies and barely gave us a look except when I yelled at her not to kick :rolleyes::LOL:

Oh and you should have seen the wreck when I took Kiwi's into an all Fleckvieh dairy! It was a disaster!! The cows all became mad beasts all of a sudden:eek::eek:
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
The sad thing about life in rural NZ for a holistic farmer is just how much we have desecrated the natural landscape in a little over 150 years of European settlement - much of this "development" work being done in the subsidy years of course - then left to grow gorse and broom because the money and need wasn't there to "keep it developed"

It only took a match to see most of it off - to put it back the way it was would be tens of thousands of dollars per acre - and yet grassland eats money?

Hence why the hippy comes out quite frequently - all a sheep wants is shelter, they aren't as idealistic as people
The development was mostly done long before subsidies
 

Doc

Member
Livestock Farmer
The Kiwis wind both man and beast up. No doubt.
Personally I find it's usually in the 79th minute of a rugby game. The triad of Brooke, Jones and the ringmaster Fitzpatrick were the worst. But I'm showing my age here..
 

CornishTone

Member
BASIS
Location
Cornwall
What looks like cloud in the distance, is actually smoke from a bushfire in Pilliga Forest, about 100km away. It has blocked the Newell Highway ( the main inland route between Melbourne & Brisbane ) between Coonabarabran & Narrabri. A mate of mine is working there firebombing with his aircraft

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Couple of fires around us last night after lightening strikes. One put out very quickly thankfully. One still going. Had a little rain with it so can’t see it being too bad. Don’t like the look of that one up your way!
 
Location
Suffolk
Them pictures bring back many happy memories of motorcyclin' in your part of the world!
It took more than 40 years for the Sydney settlers to find a suitable route inland as it was just easier to use a ship for transport. Now that's quite a time eh!
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holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
Maybe it's not the cows it's the Kiwi's. My Fleckvieh was terribly upset when there were Kiwi's around!

She placidly stood eating her food and fed her babies and barely gave us a look except when I yelled at her not to kick :rolleyes::LOL:

Oh and you should have seen the wreck when I took Kiwi's into an all Fleckvieh dairy! It was a disaster!! The cows all became mad beasts all of a sudden:eek::eek:
:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

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SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 77 43.5%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 62 35.0%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 28 15.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.3%

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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