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

[CornishTone]

Whereabouts in Lincs were you @CornishTone ? I was working in north Lincolnshire the last couple of days and it barely seemed to get light.

This about sums it up: https://loudribs.com/product/grimsby-any-port-in-a-storm-a3-rubbish-seaside-print-signed-and-dated/

Been staying next to RAF Coningsby and doing my BASIS advanced soil module at Riseholm College. Last day today so have the 6hr trip back home to look forward to tonight!!!!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

CIWEM have created this table listing the environmental pledges of all of the UK political parties running up to our election. It makes interesting reading. I don't think ANY of them really "get" it yet (except perhaps the greens who are a UK political irrelevance anyway). The biggest issue is CUTTING OUR USE OF FOSSIL FUELS.


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[delilah]

(except perhaps the greens who are a UK political irrelevance anyway).

oi, do you mind, just been out in the p!ssing rain to put my poster up . Got more MP's than Brexit party. Caroline Lucas is the best PM we will never have.

 

[TelesnaAg]

CIWEM have created this table listing the environmental pledges of all of the UK political parties running up to our election. It makes interesting reading. I don't think ANY of them really "get" it yet (except perhaps the greens who are a UK political irrelevance anyway). The biggest issue is CUTTING OUR USE OF FOSSIL FUELS.


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Cutting fossil fuel is irrelevant unless you look at many other factors, and the ability to cut the fossil fuel in order to get the solutions put forward, its full of loopholes at the moment.

We are not even close to being able to mine without oil.

If consumption trends continue with population growth its will be a very long time until we can get away from fossils.

Ant...

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

oi, do you mind, just been out in the p!ssing rain to put my poster up . Got more MP's than Brexit party. Caroline Lucas is the best PM we will never have.

I agree, Caroline Lucas hits above her weight in the bearpit but on a national scale the Greens are not going to be king makers, let alone form a government this time.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Some good news for oz, there will be some cracker yields sth of the ranges this year.

Some parts of SA are doing well, havent heard much on west oz but they have wet summer predicted.

Victorian tour puts wheat, barley yields above ABARES’: GIAV - Grain Central

A recent crop tour of Victoria by the Grain Industry Association of Victoria has provided some good news about the state's imminent barley and wheat harvest, with yield estimates above those from the national forecaster...Read More

www.graincentral.com

Ant....

 

[TelesnaAg]

As an example, this is good for environment, but bad for economy and govt...they want it both ways.

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Ant...

 

[New Puritan]

Been staying next to RAF Coningsby and doing my BASIS advanced soil module at Riseholm College. Last day today so have the 6hr trip back home to look forward to tonight!!!!

Ah that explains it, I was a bit further up than you, half way between Scunthorpe & Grimsby, by Humber airport. It's pretty bleak up that way.

 

[renewablejohn]

Ah that explains it, I was a bit further up than you, half way between Scunthorpe & Grimsby, by Humber airport. It's pretty bleak up that way.

Come on now show some respect your supposed to have lots of fairy lights at christmas and the view on the horizon of all those lights at the oil refinaries and the flickering candle flames out of some of the chimneys not to mention some of the tanks looking like globe christmas puddings. What could be more festive.

 

[renewablejohn]

Cutting fossil fuel is irrelevant unless you look at many other factors, and the ability to cut the fossil fuel in order to get the solutions put forward, its full of loopholes at the moment.

We are not even close to being able to mine without oil.

If consumption trends continue with population growth its will be a very long time until we can get away from fossils.

Ant...

Seems a strange statement I would of thought its relatively easy mining without oil as a fuel. Accepted you will need some for lubrication.

 

[New Puritan]

Come on now show some respect your supposed to have lots of fairy lights at christmas and the view on the horizon of all those lights at the oil refinaries and the flickering candle flames out of some of the chimneys not to mention some of the tanks looking like globe christmas puddings. What could be more festive.

Don't worry @renewablejohn - I've nothing but total respect for anyone who would wish to live round Immingham...

Actually it's a fascinating place, there's so much industry there, but would I want to live there - nah.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

As an example, this is good for environment, but bad for economy and govt...they want it both ways.

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Ant...

And the rest of the EU will be expecting Germany to pick up the slack in the budget when the UK finally manages to leave

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I have been officially accepted as a member of the CIWEM "Natural Capital Panel", 25 senior members who advise on the organisations' position on all Natural Capital issues and draft their submissions to government.

What do you all make of their position paper on soils?

View attachment Protecting and Enhancing Soils PPS 2019.pdf

 

[renewablejohn]

Don't worry @renewablejohn - I've nothing but total respect for anyone who would wish to live round Immingham...

Actually it's a fascinating place, there's so much industry there, but would I want to live there - nah.

Can remember my dad ploughing the field which the oil refinary now stands on with a crawler and losing his shot gun as he always rode shotgun in the cab. He came home and said what he had done and after myself and my mother walked round that field three times he finally ploughed it out.

 

[New Puritan]

The refinery still have the original farmhouse there as a little guest house for visiting staff.

Edit - though there's two refineries next to one another, so we may be speaking about two different ones.

 

[renewablejohn]

The refinery still have the original farmhouse there as a little guest house for visiting staff.

Edit - though there's two refineries next to one another, so we may be speaking about two different ones.

I got shot scrumping apples from that farm. It was all grass fields when I was a kid with the railway line dividing the fields. Think the railway line still divides the refineries.

 

[Bury the Trash]

They were mining coal for 100's of years before oil was refined, just nowhere near as much as today that's all

 

[renewablejohn]

I have been officially accepted as a member of the CIWEM "Natural Capital Panel", 25 senior members who advise on the organisations' position on all Natural Capital issues and draft their submissions to government.

What do you all make of their position paper on soils?

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Well done for getting in the Lions den. I think you need to set up a seperate thread as its a very important topic.

First impression

What utter waffle. My first job would be get rid of EA and Forestry Commission as neither are fit for purpose.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Seems a strange statement I would of thought its relatively easy mining without oil as a fuel. Accepted you will need some for lubrication.

Incorrect sorry.

Ant....

 

[New Puritan]

I got shot scrumping apples from that farm. It was all grass fields when I was a kid with the railway line dividing the fields. Think the railway line still divides the refineries.

Blimey.

One of the two refineries is doing some very interesting stuff at the moment with renewables - which is why I have been working there.