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

[glasshouse]

Yes it does seem that way. Lamb especially has been very high priced for them to buy recently and it's lamb and sheep prices that they dropped by £0.80-70 per kilo liveweight overnight. They haven't done much to the beef price but that hasn't been anything special for a while.

Boris is allowing the supermarkets to run a cartel

 

[Crofter64]

Supermarkets are colluding to drop those prices
They never miss a chance at a good shafting

Maybe this is the shove some farmers need to get into direct marketing.
It is a massive bother but you get to set your own price. My prices are quite a bit higher than the supermarkets, but I set my prices based on my costs - Isn’t that how it should be?

 

[glasshouse]

Maybe this is the shove some farmers need to get into direct marketing.
It is a massive bother but you get to set your own price. My prices are quite a bit higher than the supermarkets, but I set my prices based on my costs - Isn’t that how it should be?

Ok on a small scale, but plenty folk tried and failed

 

[Crofter64]

Ok on a small scale, but plenty folk tried and failed

so why grow big?

 

[CornishTone]

A sky with no con trails...

 

[Kidds]

Those white bits are probably from con trails

 

[CornishTone]

Those white bits are probably from con trails

Doubt it. They’d be heading north/south and not many planes fly over us north/south. All high altitude traffic is east/west here. I’d show you on Flight Radar 24 but...

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[cows sh#t me to tears]

So, if the drought breaks and the planes are grounded.......does that give me permission to build an anti aircraft battery under the Melbourne/Brisbane and Melbourne/Sydney route here....

 

[Farmer Roy]

I like seeing planes flying overhead, don’t see many though . . .





more likely to see light aircraft or the odd heli than any big jets

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

It's like the Hume freeway here at times......4 or 5 going and same coming.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I like seeing planes flying overhead, don’t see many though . . .





more likely to see light aircraft or the odd heli than any big jets

We sometimes get the odd big bird go overhead, I think we're on the flight path from Melbourne to Buenos Aires when the weather in the south Pacific (roaring forties) forces them to fly further south

don't quote me on that though

 

[Kidds]

On clear days like we have been having it is not unusual to be able to count 20-30 planes at one time.
Can't hear them all but can see them.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

We sometimes get the odd big bird go overhead, I think we're on the flight path from Melbourne to Buenos Aires when the weather in the south Pacific (roaring forties) forces them to fly further south

don't quote me on that though

consider yourself quoted...

 

[Farmer Roy]

Doing book work inside on a glorious autumn day . . .
thank goodness we’ve now got a decent internet & mobile phone connection - via the SkyMuster satellites & a dish on the roof. Only 6 km from the centre of town, in a residential area ( albeit 2.2 ha block in our case ) & no NBN cable & very sh!t mobile reception

catching up on some Spotify while supposedly working

 

[Yale]

Last night whilst we were sitting in the hot tub I saw what I thought were a stream of aeroplanes heading SW to NE.

Quickly went into the house and there was nothing on flight radar.

Rang a mate who sometimes tracks military aircraft and it took us a minute or two to work out they were satellites.

I‘ve never seen or noticed it before but in the half an hour I watched 20-30 satellites went on approximately the same trajectory. It was fascinating.

It was just how you would imagine an alien invasion swarming.

I’m not sure why they were visible particularly last night but it was about 7.30 PM so the sun which had set must have been just catching them high up.

I found it amazing,

 

[Yale]

They weren’t as close together as this however you get the idea.

How to See SpaceX's Starlink Satellite 'Train' in the Night Sky

Act fast! SpaceX's Starlink sats won't look like this forever.

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[Yale]

Looks like they were the star link sky train.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Last night whilst we were sitting in the hot tub I saw what I thought were a stream of aeroplanes heading SW to NE.

Quickly went into the house and there was nothing on flight radar.

Rang a mate who sometimes tracks military aircraft and it took us a minute or two to work out they were satellites.

I‘ve never seen or noticed it before but in the half an hour I watched 20-30 satellites went on approximately the same trajectory. It was fascinating.

It was just how you would imagine an alien invasion swarming.

I’m not sure why they were visible particularly last night but it was about 7.30 PM so the sun which had set must have been just catching them high up.

I found it amazing,

we see quite a few satellites, the International Space Station & heaps of "shooting stars", but then we generally have clear night skies & no light pollution. People in towns or large population centres don't see anywhere near the night sky we do

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Last night whilst we were sitting in the hot tub I saw what I thought were a stream of aeroplanes heading SW to NE.

Quickly went into the house and there was nothing on flight radar.

Rang a mate who sometimes tracks military aircraft and it took us a minute or two to work out they were satellites.

I‘ve never seen or noticed it before but in the half an hour I watched 20-30 satellites went on approximately the same trajectory. It was fascinating.

It was just how you would imagine an alien invasion swarming.

I’m not sure why they were visible particularly last night but it was about 7.30 PM so the sun which had set must have been just catching them high up.

I found it amazing,

Hope you were keeping the 1.5m minimum distance apart

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I've gotta say, this social isolation thing is a walk in the park.....I'm at least 30 years ahead of most people