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

[Farmer Roy]

The thing that is pìssìng me off though, is once again it's all the upstream irrigators fault. Never do SA get a mention that they had 100% allocation on july 1st. No lifting ever seems to get done down there....... once menindee drops below 480gl it reverts to mdba control. Of course they bare no responsibility for this ill conceived notion of keeping the lower lakes artificially fresh......With minimal engineering they could stop the 1.2 million megs of evaporation from there. If Adelaide actually used its desalination plant and charged its customers a little bit more, another million megs could be retained......but what do we get on this??? Silence....instead, its ALL upstream users fault....

did you see this ?

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

did you see this ?

Yep, well didn't see it but heard about it all over ABC rural today.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Thanks, but I can’t take credit for any of the writing. I merely managed the trial site and told them what I thought they should be measuring and looking at.

I also thought it was bloody interesting
Been scratching for coverage most of the day and never replied to half of what I read

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Karliboy]

Thanks for the info and positive comments guys and gals.
No need to apologise Roy. I undestand where your coming from

 

[Steel]

did you see this ?

They later put out another release correcting the figures and now say there is no irrigated cotton around Bourke. I think the Cubbie figures are wrong too. A group of farmers from here went to Cubbie on a tour last year. At the time they were draining the storages to irrigate the small crop of cotton that year with water saved from the 2016 floods. They thought the cotton would need another irrigation to get a decent yield, but had no water left and were hoping for rain to finish the crop.
The river needs to be doing 8000 ML a day before they can pump water and as there has been no substantial rain there in the last year so they have had no opportunity to store any water this year.
Another fact the tour was told was that they are regularly throwing Jeremy Buckingham off the farm. He never asks for permission to go on the property and always does a runner before they can get the police there to have him charged with trespass.

 

[Steel]

My small 17 ha corn crop is using about 12 ML a week. The last 2 irrigations were 6 days apart as we have had a couple of hot weeks. Starting again tomorrow 7 days between irrigations this time.
Here is the readout of my moisture sensor and you can see some hot days really sucked out the moisture quickly.

 

[Blaithin]

Started my first Agronomy class this week. Think I'm ahead of the game when it comes to crop seeds but the forage seeds are complete unknowns

 

[Cowcorn]

Started my first Agronomy class this week. Think I'm ahead of the game when it comes to crop seeds but the forage seeds are complete unknowns

Good on yer !!!

 

[Blaithin]

I'm laughing because they've given us seed samples to tell apart and visually brown mustard is super small compared to most canola but the true test.... Eat it.

Who needs to know things about monocot, dicot, radicle or cotyledons

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Started my first Agronomy class this week. Think I'm ahead of the game when it comes to crop seeds but the forage seeds are complete unknowns

Good to hear we need a good agronomist around here God knows @CornishTone is doing a bàstard of a job

 

[Samcowman]

@Karliboy 3 kids here. Try not to get one of those b@astard monitor things. Brother has one and it didn’t help. They just watch the kid and made them more nervous.
Enjoy the kids they are brilliant. Even the poosplotions when it goes up their backs, don’t stress about it and just wash them off and laugh about it later.

 

[Karliboy]

I won’t be needing a monitor. I live on 5hours kip normally. And any sound normaly wakes me up even when hungover.
Nappies or pop or anything don’t really bother me either I’ve been down enough blocked sewers in my time and dealt with some real mess and smells.
As for leaving the baby at other end of house as some one said earlier, my house is tiny so she will have to go outside to the workshop if she creates.

 

[CornishTone]

Good to hear we need a good agronomist around here God knows @CornishTone is doing a bàstard of a job

Sorry I haven’t been around recently. All theses SA farms with full water allocations are keeping me a bit busy![emoji849][emoji57]

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Free liquid fert in the form of rotten fish guts coming your way too might have to rethink this merged new entity's name....instead of Centralia we could rename you and the NT little Britain what, with all your unfair advantages. Christ, you even have subs over there even if they are French built

 

[CornishTone]

And the new Space Agency! The possibilities are endless!

 

[Samcowman]

I won’t be needing a monitor. I live on 5hours kip normally. And any sound normaly wakes me up even when hungover.
Nappies or pop or anything don’t really bother me either I’ve been down enough blocked sewers in my time and dealt with some real mess and smells.
As for leaving the baby at other end of house as some one said earlier, my house is tiny so she will have to go outside to the workshop if she creates.

Dirty nappies will be easy then. Having a baby will also help you not drinking. Having kids with a hangover isn’t fun.

 

[CornishTone]

Having a baby will also help you not drinking. Having kids with a hangover isn’t fun.

This ^^!

Ironically, it increases my desire to drink but reduces the opportunity!

 

[Farmer Roy]

They later put out another release correcting the figures and now say there is no irrigated cotton around Bourke. I think the Cubbie figures are wrong too. A group of farmers from here went to Cubbie on a tour last year. At the time they were draining the storages to irrigate the small crop of cotton that year with water saved from the 2016 floods. They thought the cotton would need another irrigation to get a decent yield, but had no water left and were hoping for rain to finish the crop.
The river needs to be doing 8000 ML a day before they can pump water and as there has been no substantial rain there in the last year so they have had no opportunity to store any water this year.
Another fact the tour was told was that they are regularly throwing Jeremy Buckingham off the farm. He never asks for permission to go on the property and always does a runner before they can get the police there to have him charged with trespass.

the thing about Cubbie is they effectively block off 2 or 3 rivers before they even get to the Darling . . .

As to the fish kill & the state of the Darling, I think this is a long term problem involving many factors, that has been exacerbated by drought . . .

haha - good on him He's a bit of an action man, always trespassing on mine & CSG sites showing sh!t they don't want us to see. As I said, he is the ONLY politician who is standing up beside farmers ( including irrigated cotton farmers in this valley - so he ISNT anti cotton or anti irrigation ) in our battles against coal & gas . . .The so called "representatives" the Nationals would just crawl over the corpses of farmers in the rush to line their own pockets . . . They are just scum . . .

 

[Steel]

In the tour of Cubbie last summer the manager told them that they can not take a drop until the river is doing 8,000 ML a day past them. They have not filled their dam since the floods of 2016. The weir at Cubbie is to keep water in the river for the town, stock and domestic, fishing and skiing, it is not there for water extraction.