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

[holwellcourtfarm]

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Reminds me of R/C helicopter "Tic Tocs"

 

[Yale]

Sorry to hear of your troubles,@Kidds.

It’s damn dry here now,burning off. This is our lawn in peak growing season.

 

[Kidds]

I'm OK thanks.
My son has a lawncare franchise (Greensleeves) on the Wirral. The Wirral isn't much more than a big sand dune really and everyone's lawn is pretty much fecked.

Did you read the bit about March-May sunshine?
Since 1926 only 10 years over 500 hours, highest was 555 hours. This year 620 hours!
That is a serious abnormality, even the meteorologists are astonished.

 

[Farmer Roy]

I'm OK thanks.
My son has a lawncare franchise (Greensleeves) on the Wirral. The Wirral isn't much more than a big sand dune really and everyone's lawn is pretty much fecked.

Did you read the bit about March-May sunshine?
Since 1926 only 10 years over 500 hours, highest was 555 hours. This year 620 hours!
That is a serious abnormality, even the meteorologists are astonished.

our last three winters & summers were each the warmest on record

maybe global warming / climate change IS something . . .

 

[Ukjay]

maybe global warming / climate change IS something . . .

Careful, you'll be burnt at the stake for saying such things ?

 

[Kidds]

our last three winters & summers were each the warmest on record

maybe global warming / climate change IS something . . .

It is something, there is no question of that. What causes it is debatable and where it will end up is questionable too. I can't see it being a good thing though.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Roman sandals might be the next big thing

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Oh God give me strength Did you know you were having the worst drought on record Pete?

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[holwellcourtfarm]

Oh God give me strength Did you know you were having the worst drought on record Pete?

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Nobody seems to treat water as the critical resource that it really is.

With the climate changing, if your business model is based on needles water waste (like pressure washing tiled rooves, WTF?) then you need to go bust!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Careful, you'll be burnt at the stake for saying such things ?

Nah, just staked out in the unrelenting sunshine.....

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Oh God give me strength Did you know you were having the worst drought on record Pete?

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Pretty dry up there, but it's funny how it gets noticed so fast when there are "people" affected - even an hour without electricity for d'Auckland makes the 6 o'clock news.

5 months without rain or no power for a week in the south island, though, well who gives a fat rat's fanny about that? ?? it's only a few hicks and some cows don't get milked.

I haven't tipped out the rain gauge since mid April and there's still only 8mm and a spider in it.... but I tend to learn, tend to make the necessary adjustments...

 

[Kidds]

There will be flood alerts here soon with this relentless drizzle.

We've got nice steady rain here today, not so heavy it makes a mess not too light to do no good. Just right.
I think I might advertise my logs for sale today, there will be folk huddled around their fires today.

 

[Henarar]

Careful, you'll be burnt at the stake for saying such things ?

that really would be warming

 

[Henarar]

It is something, there is no question of that. What causes it is debatable and where it will end up is questionable too. I can't see it being a good thing though.

2012 a whole 8 years ago, so fecking wet we were getting some of the cows back in right about this time after quite a good start to the year, don't remember it being to bloody warm either, put the cattle in one field late June and the bull must have been sinking a foot if he was sinking an inch, loads of grass but it wasn't very good as it hadn't seen the sunshine, made one lot of hay that year in about the only two dry days that came together, spread the dung in Oct in the only week that would let the spreader travel
if its all climate change it brings some very different weather

 

[Kidds]

I am digging a trench across a field today for a water pipe. Normally you can get a dry bit on top but once you take that first bit off there is moisture down there and it is easy digging.
Not today, it is dust down to below 2' and hard as a brick. I have never seen soil so dry to that depth, would normally have hit running sand by now. This rain is going to need to keep going a long time to put things right.
I am planning to start irrigating now to ensure next years crop, not this one.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Planting the Crop 2024 | Second last day of planting,finishing chickpeas thx Matt Flav Brown for flying the drone.fingers crossed for a great 2020 cropping season. | Facebook

Second last day of planting,finishing chickpeas thx Matt Flav Brown for flying the drone.fingers crossed for a great 2020 cropping season.

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[Yale]

Planting the Crop 2024 | Second last day of planting,finishing chickpeas thx Matt Flav Brown for flying the drone.fingers crossed for a great 2020 cropping season. | Facebook

Second last day of planting,finishing chickpeas thx Matt Flav Brown for flying the drone.fingers crossed for a great 2020 cropping season.

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Phew,no shortage of hummus for me then.

 

[CornishTone]

Roman sandals might be the next big thing

No better than Crocs! No deal!

 

[CornishTone]

2012 a whole 8 years ago, so fecking wet we were getting some of the cows back in right about this time after quite a good start to the year, don't remember it being to bloody warm either, put the cattle in one field late June and the bull must have been sinking a foot if he was sinking an inch, loads of grass but it wasn't very good as it hadn't seen the sunshine, made one lot of hay that year in about the only two dry days that came together, spread the dung in Oct in the only week that would let the spreader travel
if its all climate change it brings some very different weather

I think the general consensus is, for this part of the world anyway, it wont necessarily mean more or less rain as an average, or hotter or colder as an average, they will just be distributed differently and with more extremes.

Certainly as dry as I've seen it in this country but look where all the roots are. Doesn't stand much of a chance really.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Went to pick up some wheat seed from a mate near Tambar Springs ( about 60 km SW ) this morning. He was able to get some late sunflowers planted. ( very few dry land crops of anything were planted this summer )
Being along Coxs Creek & trees, the galahs & cockatoos have been hammering them since they came out in head. They have 7 scare guns set up & he & his 2 sons have been spending up to 6 hours a day on the 12 gauges for the last 2 months.
But, they are worth $1100 - $1500 / tonne