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

[Steel]

Another for those delicate eaters, sensitive stomachs & conservative tastes

beef carpaccio

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it’s beef, so surely must meet everyone’s approval

How is your rainfall going. Just saw a video of water flowing over roads on twitter 20 km north of Gunnedah

 

[Farmer Roy]

Werris Creek had 140 mm yesterday
Around Willow Tree, about 70 mm
We had 2
Storms this afternoon, local roads around Currabubula were closed. New England Highway was closed at Wallabadah.
We got this . . .

there was some good looking rain on the radar, but sometimes it’s just dust showing up . . .
20 km north of Gunnedah ?
who was that ?

 

[Farmer Roy]

Nah - it’s fûcked aye . . .

 

[Farmer Roy]

This is a mates place at Breeza this afternoon ( irrigation farmer on the Breeza Plain ). 5 mm rain & a dust storm

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Steel]

Werris Creek had 140 mm yesterday
Around Willow Tree, about 70 mm
We had 2
Storms this afternoon, local roads around Currabubula were closed. New England Highway was closed at Wallabadah.
We got this . . .
View attachment 855051

there was some good looking rain on the radar, but sometimes it’s just dust showing up . . .
20 km north of Gunnedah ?
who was that ?

Werris Creek had 140 mm yesterday
Around Willow Tree, about 70 mm
We had 2
Storms this afternoon, local roads around Currabubula were closed. New England Highway was closed at Wallabadah.
We got this . . .
View attachment 855051

there was some good looking rain on the radar, but sometimes it’s just dust showing up . . .
20 km north of Gunnedah ?
who was that ?

Ben Nichols on twitter.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Ok

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Werris Creek had 140 mm yesterday
Around Willow Tree, about 70 mm
We had 2
Storms this afternoon, local roads around Currabubula were closed. New England Highway was closed at Wallabadah.
We got this . . .
View attachment 855051

there was some good looking rain on the radar, but sometimes it’s just dust showing up . . .
20 km north of Gunnedah ?
who was that ?

You've said a thousand times your on a flood plain and need a slow creeping flood.. where exactly does the rainfall needed for that to happen . Are you east of Curlewis near the Mooki river? (Not quite obvious looking at Google maps).....

 

[Samcowman]

Insectageddon

Insects are vital to pollinate crops feeding the world, but have pesticides wrought irreparable damage on the ecosystem?

www.aljazeera.com

Was sent this today. Might prove interesting for you guys.

 

[Farmer Roy]

You've said a thousand times your on a flood plain and need a slow creeping flood.. where exactly does the rainfall needed for that to happen . Are you east of Curlewis near the Mooki river? (Not quite obvious looking at Google maps).....

About 5 km east of Curlewis
We get flooding from a few sources.
First water to reach us is locally, via Watermark Gully ( more a slight depression than a gully, a casual observer wouldn’t even see it, it does spread out over a wide area ). Watermark is a fairly local catchment, not that far away to the SE, but it is about to be turned into a 35 sq km open cut coal mine ( which will also be deeper than our irrigation & domestic supply aquifers . . . ). We have been fighting it for over 10 years, but there seems to be a huge push to dig as much coal & develop gas fields as quickly as possible now & bugger the consequences . . .
Watermark Gully goes straight across me.
Anyway, Watermark eventually drains into the Mooki.
The headwaters if the Mooki are up in the base of the Liverpool Range, south of Bundella. A big Mooki flood happens when the Namoi ( Mooki joins the Namoi at Gunnedah ) is in flood & the Mooki backs up & spreads across the plain.
It’s actually a huge catchment that drains into the Mooki on its way to the Namoi & I have heard reports of a flow in it last night, but both these rivers have been dry for a long time now .
We can also get more local flows across my part of the plain, from heavy storms to the direct west, or SW, but I’ve only seen that 2 or 3 times.

Every flood is different, but “normally” a Watermark flow will take a day or two to reach us & the Mooki water will take 3 or 4 days to come down.
Depends how dry things are of course & how much vegetation ( not much ) is on the slopes.
In previous floods, I’ve gotten around in front of the water & watched it just slowly creeping across the plain, slowly filling the soil profile as it goes. Just like watching flood irrigation.
It IS a floodplain, with no fences or much infrastructure here, so the water is generally slow & spreads out over a wide area, just doing its thing & rehydrating the landscape, just how it has for millennia & how this valley / plain was formed and the deep black souls laid down

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

About 5 km east of Curlewis
We get flooding from a few sources.
First water to reach us is locally, via Watermark Gully ( more a slight depression than a gully, a casual observer wouldn’t even see it, it does spread out over a wide area ). Watermark is a fairly local catchment, not that far away to the SE, but it is about to be turned into a 35 sq km open cut coal mine ( which will also be deeper than our irrigation & domestic supply aquifers . . . ). We have been fighting it for over 10 years, but there seems to be a huge push to dig as much coal & develop gas fields as quickly as possible now & bugger the consequences . . .
Watermark Gully goes straight across me.
Anyway, Watermark eventually drains into the Mooki.
The headwaters if the Mooki are up in the base of the Liverpool Range, south of Bundella. A big Mooki flood happens when the Namoi ( Mooki joins the Namoi at Gunnedah ) is in flood & the Mooki backs up & spreads across the plain.
It’s actually a huge catchment that drains into the Mooki on its way to the Namoi & I have heard reports of a flow in it last night, but both these rivers have been dry for a long time now .
We can also get more local flows across my part of the plain, from heavy storms to the direct west, or SW, but I’ve only seen that 2 or 3 times.

Every flood is different, but “normally” a Watermark flow will take a day or two to reach us & the Mooki water will take 3 or 4 days to come down.
Depends how dry things are of course & how much vegetation ( not much ) is on the slopes.
In previous floods, I’ve gotten around in front of the water & watched it just slowly creeping across the plain, slowly filling the soil profile as it goes. Just like watching flood irrigation.
It IS a floodplain, with no fences or much infrastructure here, so the water is generally slow & spreads out over a wide area, just doing its thing & rehydrating the landscape, just how it has for millennia & how this valley / plain was formed and the deep black souls laid down

The line is NOT for the coal mine! That's madness, utter madness.

 

[Samcowman]

Insectageddon

Insects are vital to pollinate crops feeding the world, but have pesticides wrought irreparable damage on the ecosystem?

www.aljazeera.com

Was sent this today. Might prove interesting for you guys.

? indeed.
I think everyone can do a bit to help. However small.

 

[Pilatus]

I think it best if us Brits make no comment on Aussie problems. Sat at a computer screen 1000’s of miles away from a problem , as we are sat facing a screen the rain falling . As the old saying says. “We are all better at managing another persons affairs better than our own,!!!

 

[Farmer Roy]

The line is NOT for the coal mine! That's madness, utter madness.

yes, it is . . .


unfortunately this country is in the grip of the coal & gas girls

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[CornishTone]

I think it best if us Brits make no comment on Aussie problems. Sat at a computer screen 1000’s of miles away from a problem , as we are sat facing a screen the rain falling . As the old saying says. “We are all better at managing another persons affairs better than our own,!!!

I think everyone is entitled to comment to be fair; it’s an Internet forum after all!

Just accept that your comments are open to scrutiny and ridicule the same as anyone else’s! And Australians tend to be fairly f**king ruthless when scrutinising and ridiculing!!!

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I think everyone is entitled to comment to be fair; it’s an Internet forum after all!

Just accept that your comments are open to scrutiny and ridicule the same as anyone else’s! And Australians tend to be fairly f**king ruthless when scrutinising and ridiculing!!!

Cornish cùnt

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

yes, it is . . .


unfortunately this country is in the grip of the coal & gas girls

Apparently at the public meeting in Deni , Mick Keelty said hes at the end of his career and doesn't care who's toes he stands on. He cant believe how screwed over we have been when it comes to water. But of course like all public officials , it's easy to read a room and tell them what they want to hear.....I fear for all his good intent, he is a toothless tiger when it comes to dealing with the states. SA in particular.....

 

[hendrebc]

But Australia has no problems with digging up all their coal with nowhere to burn it

 

[Blaithin]

They’ve been phasing out coal here for years.

Can’t say I’m a fan of the “Well so and so isn’t doing anything so no point in me doing it” Makes it all seem very juvenile and elementary schoolesque.