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

[Wombat]

I'm sure yippy already know I'm the opposite, I was pleased to experience tight biosecurity when entering NZ and the USA. The return to the UK was a farce.

I think the UK has always been lax and the Eu has never been much better for flights. I normally fly back from the US via Amsterdam and quite often have to go into NL on the way back and they have never really bothered anyone in the queue going through customs

 

[Bury the Trash]

The problem being that when other countries adopt strict bio security measures the Poms start whinging that they are being picked on. Look at the threads whining about the EU checking imports from the UK.

copy from the 2002 final report on the 2001 outbreak ...

7.5.1 Import controls more strict in New Zealand than in the UK?

Many people have drawn comparisons between the import control regimes in the UK and several other countries. Perhaps the most common example brought to our attention was that of New Zealand. New Zealand has a number of positive measures in place on personal imports, including a single biosecurity agency with a large presence at ports, supported by effective publicity, a system of signed declarations, amnesty bins for personal imports that break the rules, and on-the-spot fines. Some of these measures may be suitable for the UK. However, it is important to take account of the practical circumstances that prevail in particular countries. New Zealand has 3.5m air passengers per year compared to 71m passengers arriving from outside the UK annually, of which 28m are from outside the EU. And New Zealand is a net exporter – 60% of its trade relies on agricultural exports. Maintaining low production costs is therefore economically critical given the distances to their markets. Examining the policies adopted by other countries is a useful element in developing best practice at home. However, what is right for one country may not automatically be right for another. Even so, this caveat must not be put forward to justify any failure to adopt particular measures where they are both practical and effective. 7

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

boom or bust

Heard on radio this morning Coonamble grain corp sight took in 387 t last year. This year around 450 000t.

 

[Karliboy]

Thought I’d been hearing things under the kitchen in the old cellar stairs last few months looks like I’ve got a bloody Rat.
It’s dug about 25kg out of underneath the house floor which I had to move before I could see the hole

Little bit of left over pizza for bait.

How’s that song go

 

[Farmer Roy]

Heard on radio this morning Coonamble grain corp sight took in 387 t last year. This year around 450 000t.

the biggest surprise there is that they were even able to get 387 t in ‘19

 

[Deerefarmer]

Thought I’d been hearing things under the kitchen in the old cellar stairs last few months looks like I’ve got a bloody Rat.
It’s dug about 25kg out of underneath the house floor which I had to move before I could see the hole View attachment 934607View attachment 934608
Little bit of left over pizza for bait.View attachment 934609

How’s that song go

Hopefully mr. rat will be singing along with this

 

[hendrebc]

Thought I’d been hearing things under the kitchen in the old cellar stairs last few months looks like I’ve got a bloody Rat.
It’s dug about 25kg out of underneath the house floor which I had to move before I could see the hole View attachment 934607View attachment 934608
Little bit of left over pizza for bait.View attachment 934609

How’s that song go

A pint says you won't catch it

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

copy from the 2002 final report on the 2001 outbreak ...

7.5.1 Import controls more strict in New Zealand than in the UK?

Many people have drawn comparisons between the import control regimes in the UK and several other countries. Perhaps the most common example brought to our attention was that of New Zealand. New Zealand has a number of positive measures in place on personal imports, including a single biosecurity agency with a large presence at ports, supported by effective publicity, a system of signed declarations, amnesty bins for personal imports that break the rules, and on-the-spot fines. Some of these measures may be suitable for the UK. However, it is important to take account of the practical circumstances that prevail in particular countries. New Zealand has 3.5m air passengers per year compared to 71m passengers arriving from outside the UK annually, of which 28m are from outside the EU. And New Zealand is a net exporter – 60% of its trade relies on agricultural exports. Maintaining low production costs is therefore economically critical given the distances to their markets. Examining the policies adopted by other countries is a useful element in developing best practice at home. However, what is right for one country may not automatically be right for another. Even so, this caveat must not be put forward to justify any failure to adopt particular measures where they are both practical and effective. 7

A year ago they'd have said closing all air travel was excessive, damaging and unnecessary for mostly the same reasons. If they'd done it, much like NZ, then we wouldn't now have 85000 dead and spent over £200bn

 

[Farmer Roy]

A year ago they'd have said closing all air travel was excessive, damaging and unnecessary for mostly the same reasons. If they'd done it, much like NZ, then we wouldn't now have 85000 dead and spent over £200bn

Western Australia closed their borders, haven’t had a local case of covid for over 8 months . . .

 

[onesiedale]

If th government had stopped movement on the Monday instead if waiting till the Friday


the 1968 enquiry came up with that 32 years before

It continues to this day.
If only the government had stopped flights last March instead of tomorrow morning...

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Western Australia closed their borders, haven’t had a local case of covid for over 8 months . . .

Spoilt brat tennis players in hard quareteen due to rona on the plane, bitching about it.......yet theres still Aussies trapped overseas unable to get flights back, still Victorians locked out of there own state and homes.....

 

[Farmer Roy]

f**king tennis players . . .

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

100k if you make it to the 2nd round. Bunch of sooks.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Heard on radio this morning Coonamble grain corp sight took in 387 t last year. This year around 450 000t.

It was actually 327 tonnes last year. And 443 000 tonnes this year.

 

[Farmer Roy]

It was actually 327 tonnes last year. And 443 000 tonnes this year.

that extra 60 t would have been very important in 2019 . . .



That wouldn’t even cover their seed requirements . . .

 

[Farmer Roy]

Have you thought about getting a cat.

nah, we don’t like cats much, they don’t eat many mice anyway

https://www.facebook.com/1405959009661501/posts/2885216625069058

 

[stewart]

I'm sure yippy already know I'm the opposite, I was pleased to experience tight biosecurity when entering NZ and the USA. The return to the UK was a farce.

Yes I know, the comment was a generalisation.

 

[Lowland1]

nah, we don’t like cats much, they don’t eat many mice anyway

https://www.facebook.com/1405959009661501/posts/2885216625069058

We get quite a lot around now and where we used to see a lot of rats in the bush we don’t anymore.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Yesterday it said Sunday would be 44. Wonder if tomorrow it will say 46

 

[Kidds]

nah, we don’t like cats much, they don’t eat many mice anyway

https://www.facebook.com/1405959009661501/posts/2885216625069058

I get the bit about cats killing wildlife but how does dropping mouse poison out of an aeroplane compare? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.