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Yet aircraft spray at 150 km / hr at a height of 3 metres ?

Now that Road Trains are legal on our roads in this part of NSW, it’s not as big as it used to be 🤣 they take 60 t at a time

Sorghum harvest. Have a contract for high moisture ( 14 % ) sorghum delivered to Narrabri ( 130 km ), but we hit 15% so have pulled up for the weekend Excellent soil moisture for next crop, but it makes it a bit heavy on the trucks pulling out along the black soil tracks 🤣 80 tonne bin is...

I was being quite generous with the field efficiency I thought - it would generally be higher when using a water / mixing truck 5 ha fields - I’d have thought 36 m would be more trouble than it’s worth 😮

36 m x 20km/h x 10 hours say 75% field efficiency = 540 ha easy 👍

Roast lamb ( with lots of rosemary for ANZAC 😁) on the camp oven. Weather starting to cool down so time for more camp oven meals

so you don’t think there would be a spare 700 tonne of grain production for a new packing venture ?

Honestly, I can’t see the appeal ? 🤷‍♂️ I have to admit to enjoying Clarkson on Top Gear, & I do understand his style of presenting but I caught part of a Clarkson Farm show a while ago & as a farmer, it was the most embarrassing & cringeworthy thing I have ever watched I have no idea who...

Is there even much of a millet industry in the UK ? from what I know of growing millet, I wouldn’t have thought your climate was suitable ?

36m self propelled are not for the financially faint hearted . . .

Some may remember me saying that I was going to get my old HZJ75 Toyota ( 1998 ) road registered again & put it back to work. Been unregistered since 2019, but cars don’t like sitting still for too long. A few jobs to get it to pass its roadworthy again, one of the main ones was replacing all...

Err, best way to stimulate root activity is to have good soil structure & active biology . . . it doesn’t always come out of a drum from a shop 🤷‍♂️

I’ve never grown lamb & it’s been a long time since I’ve grown any beef but - a lot of the arable crops I grow are for export markets, so have some experience of that world 🤣 something like 75% of our total agricultural production is exported. To Asia ( China, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam etc etc...

Maybe, but you don’t “run out of feed” overnight . . . they dropped the ball & it is poor management

respectfully, they are probably shooting sheep in WA ( first I’ve heard of it ) due to poor management decisions over the last 6 months, rather than short term transport issues . . . there are a LOT of trucks in Australia looking for work

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/research-topics/agricultural-outlook

As stated earlier, part of the reason for the expansion of the British Empire ( remember that ? ) was to feed the home populace . . . I don’t think you’ve been fully self sufficient in food production for 300 years or more ?

To be honest, this was the first I heard of this story remember - Australia is a VERY large country. Far larger than most can comprehend. As sad as the above story is, I personally think it highlights poor management decisions on the part of the individual, than any failings anywhere else...

https://sfs.org.au/article/australian-agriculture-moving-confidently-into-2024-rabobank-annual-outlook

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/research-topics/agricultural-outlook