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

Blaithin

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Alberta
Puts the bit of a dry spell in the UK into perspective.
Only because it hasn’t been so long in the UK. With harvest happening and winter coming, what does it look like for livestock farmers there in December and January? How much forage is being put up vs what’s needed and what’s already being fed out.

The growing season being affected by drought is only the catalyst. It’s the off season and having enough to feed that’s the real first test.

Come early 2019 the UK could easily be facing similarities with having to truck in feed and pay high prices or sell off stock.
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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Livestock Farmer
When did spice cupboard become the innuendo? @CornishTone's girl was not playing in an innuendo, she was in the cupboard!

Pete's was the extra subtle innuendo with cervical irrigation. Not like I was double innuendoing about the same thing, that post wouldn't even make sense if spice cupboard was the exact same region as cervical irrigation!

Men and your ability to only think of one thing at a time :facepalm::LOL:
What are you talking abouto_O:scratchhead:. We were merely commenting on spice cupboards (since apparently we can only think of one thing at a time:rolleyes::whistle:)and you've taken it in a whole other direction :facepalm::whistle::ROFLMAO:
 

holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer
Only because it hasn’t been so long in the UK. With harvest happening and winter coming, what does it look like for livestock farmers there in December and January? How much forage is being put up vs what’s needed and what’s already being fed out.

The growing season being affected by drought is only the catalyst. It’s the off season and having enough to feed that’s the real first test.

Come early 2019 the UK could easily be facing similarities with having to truck in feed and pay high prices or sell off stock.
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Last time something like this happened (1976) the farms in the West that rely on regular summer rain had no winter feed because they had fed what little they made before the winter. Many tonnes of feed was donated from other parts of the country, including here, to get them through that winter.
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya


Demography - the study of human population and society
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This map represents the population density of #Australia in 2016 – each colored area contains 1/4 of the Australian population.

According to the 2016 national population census, this country had 23.4 million inhabitants (two years later that number is very close to 25 million) of whom almost 16 m. lived in just five cities: #Sydney (5.1 m.), Melbourne (4.9 m.), #Brisbane (2.4 m.), #Perth (2 m.) and #Adelaide (1.3 m.).

Credit: @NaytaData (Twitter)

Data source: Australian Bureau of Statistics

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unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
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Fife
I thought TFFers weren't allowed to read the Guardian ? "Real Farmers" seem to dismiss it as some lefty eco warrior enviro rag - but personally I follow it :whistle:(y);)

yeah, Coonabarabran is the next town west of here . . .
similar conditions cover a huge area, very widespread not just localised

As has been previously confirmed, I'm not a "real farmer" .

The Guardian is good because

1) it's free

2) it provides balance to my other online newspaper if choice, the Daily Mail.

3) it's good to read Monboit etc articles and see what the opposition are thinking.

4) they have some really interesting articles on a wide variety of topics.
 

Crofter64

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Quebec, Canada
I just learnt what it’s like to be in @FarmerRoy ’s shoes. Last night I turned on the tap in the kitchen. Nothing. Tried the guest house we built for my parents. Nothing. We have a 190 foot well but it’s been very dry. Luckily after running around trying to figure out what was going on and phoning some neighbours we tried the taps again and the well had recharged. It turns out that some other neighbours were having the same problem.So now we have water but have to be very cautious . We’ve decided to put in a submersible pump and hopefully avoid this issue in the future.
 

CornishTone

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BASIS
Location
Cornwall
I just learnt what it’s like to be in @FarmerRoy ’s shoes. Last night I turned on the tap in the kitchen. Nothing. Tried the guest house we built for my parents. Nothing. We have a 190 foot well but it’s been very dry. Luckily after running around trying to figure out what was going on and phoning some neighbours we tried the taps again and the well had recharged. It turns out that some other neighbours were having the same problem.So now we have water but have to be very cautious . We’ve decided to put in a submersible pump and hopefully avoid this issue in the future.

190’?! Bet that took some digging back in the day?! We have a 70’ well in the back kitchen at home that was dug in 1820 when the house was built. I thought that was pretty deep. The stonework around the top 10’ is a work of art. Always amazes me the things that did back then!
 

CornishTone

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BASIS
Location
Cornwall
Going back to the whole “Rape/Canola” thing @Farmer Roy, just been out walking a few paddocks with a trainee. Head down looking, in the traditional agronomist pose, and, without even thinking, I casually pointed at the ground and said “volunteer rape!” The trainee immediately cracked up saying “that’s a bit of a contradiction in terms isn’t it?!” Fortunately she knows where the term comes from and is grown up enough to find it amusing. It would never even have occurred to me that it was an issue before the conversation a few days ago!
 

Blaithin

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Alberta
I just learnt what it’s like to be in @FarmerRoy ’s shoes. Last night I turned on the tap in the kitchen. Nothing. Tried the guest house we built for my parents. Nothing. We have a 190 foot well but it’s been very dry. Luckily after running around trying to figure out what was going on and phoning some neighbours we tried the taps again and the well had recharged. It turns out that some other neighbours were having the same problem.So now we have water but have to be very cautious . We’ve decided to put in a submersible pump and hopefully avoid this issue in the future.
My house well can’t keep up if I run water for about half an hour. Any garden watering or filling troughs needs a break before taking a shower or running a bath. But it’s like that even on wet years. Can’t remember for sure but think the well is 100 or 140’. Was a bit of a panic the first time it happened but now I just know to wait.

The barn well must be on a different steam though because I can forget that sucker on and it’ll flood the whole yard and still be going strong :ROFLMAO:
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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

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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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