Australia style drainage high rainfall zone

[TelesnaAg]

Where i live in Victoria, south west, they have alot of hump n hollow or as they call it "lands", for drainage mainly on dairy farms. 800 to 1000mm.

Widths varying fron 10 to 18m, pics are of bewly formed ones, i sowed with power harrow.

Ant...

 

[Devil's advocate]

Where i live in Victoria, south west, they have alot of hump n hollow or as they call it "lands", for drainage mainly on dairy farms. 800 to 1000mm.

Widths varying fron 10 to 18m, pics are of bewly formed ones, i sowed with power harrow.

Ant...

I think they have similar in Texas.

Do you get lots of violent storms?

We are not allowed to plant within 6 metres of a water course.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

Where does it drain to? The whole place looks flat.

Assume that is grazing land?

 

[TelesnaAg]

I think they have similar in Texas.

Do you get lots of violent storms?

We are not allowed to plant within 6 metres of a water course.

No we dont get storms like up north, these are not classed as water courses in oz.

Ant...

 

[TelesnaAg]

Where does it drain to? The whole place looks flat.

Assume that is grazing land?

Its been surveyed so goes to a main drain that weaves through property. Alot of these are on sloping land as well.

Ant..

 

[nxy]

Where i live in Victoria, south west, they have alot of hump n hollow or as they call it "lands", for drainage mainly on dairy farms. 800 to 1000mm.

Widths varying fron 10 to 18m, pics are of bewly formed ones, i sowed with power harrow.

Ant...

Nothing new about that they were doing it in the middle ages, its called ridge and furrow.
We had fields like that on our Oxfordshire clay till the 1970s when Dad sold the cows ploughed them all out and started arable farming.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Nothing new about that they were doing it in the middle ages, its called ridge and furrow.
We had fields like that on our Oxfordshire clay till the 1970s when Dad sold the cows ploughed them all out and started arable farming.

Im not saying they are new, its primitive compared to tile drainage and lasering, but if you facing wet years and margins are shrinking, its an option in a livestock situation.

For arable we use 3 metre beds in wet zones, run the water to a wide flat drain made with lazer bucket like 14ft wide.

Ant....

 

[yellow belly]

i saw it in south australia in 1987

it was used a lot in the uk over the centuries

 

[egbert]

We have odd bits of ancient 'ridge and furrow', some on very poor ground indeed.

I notice that the ridge is often greened up earlier in spring than ground around it - surplus drained into furrow?
and then, in a bad dry, when everything is brown, the furrows will still be green.

they weren't so daft, those old fellas.

 

[yoki]

We call then rigs over here.

You still see them on some poor ground, mostly on the hills.

They were used on a small scale to grow potatoes for own use.

Subsistence farming.

 

[Wombat]

The difference is you have evaporation, we don’t for about 6months a year. It hasn’t rained for 2 weeks been 20 deg everyday and I have water stood in ridge and furrow

 

[nxy]

My father always said that they almost vanished from Oxfordshire as a result of the efforts of the war office in WW2 who insisted on ploughing them out to only discover they were there for a reason.

Our farm was never ploughed in the war and Dad always used this to point out to visitors that our farm was particularly bad then in the 70s he ploughed it up himself.

 

[TelesnaAg]

The difference is you have evaporation, we don’t for about 6months a year. It hasn’t rained for 2 weeks been 20 deg everyday and I have water stood in ridge and furrow

Um, we dont have evap forr 6 months either, maybe if we get low humidity and wind but most winters we have high humidity and its constantly wet.

Ant...

 

[Homesy]

My neighbour has the same thing on his heaviest ground here in Devon