- Location
- southern riverina Australia
No idea. But I'm sure it would be more than enough to last us for decades if it was stored......
Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
- Thread starter Farmer Roy
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Steel
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- Location
- Finley, Riverina, Australia
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glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
How deep?
I remember the katherine river bridge had the depth painted on it, top one was 24metres if i recall correctly
Steel
Member
- Location
- Finley, Riverina, Australia
I think the Dimantina is fairly flat and wide more than deep.
- Location
- Cornwall
Looks like I’m gonna have to load the kayak up for another trip to Lake Eyre then!
- Location
- Cornwall
Just had a talk by the BOM at our Agronomy Conference in Melbourne. They are pretty bloody cagey about the next 6 months!!!
Phrases like “chance of an El Niño resurgence”, “the water companies in southern Australia are very very nervous” and “another year like this would be a disaster”, but was reluctant to make any firm forecasts. Content to say “wait till the March 6 month models to come out”.
Also touched on climate change and suggested that the models showing the highest degree of accuracy were pointing to the same amount of rainfall over Australia but locally it would shift north, so northern areas would likely get more and southern areas would get less.
Made everyone in the room a little nervous!
Phrases like “chance of an El Niño resurgence”, “the water companies in southern Australia are very very nervous” and “another year like this would be a disaster”, but was reluctant to make any firm forecasts. Content to say “wait till the March 6 month models to come out”.
Also touched on climate change and suggested that the models showing the highest degree of accuracy were pointing to the same amount of rainfall over Australia but locally it would shift north, so northern areas would likely get more and southern areas would get less.
Made everyone in the room a little nervous!
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
How the hell do the chem companies know what to order/ manufacture when none of it might sell?
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
They take the same riska as the farmers for once.
- Location
- Cornwall
We’ve now just had a presentation by a statistician on how to interpret trials data etc. He does a bit of work with the BOM on their agriculture work and he seemed a little less pessimistic. Reckons the dry is likely to continue but El Niño resurgence is less likely.
- Location
- Cornwall
On a different note, the BOM guy did say the flooding in Queensland was accurately predicted a good week out but the authorities didn’t get the information out in any meaningful way.
Not that there was much that could’ve been done I guess.
Not that there was much that could’ve been done I guess.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
No one ever beats the s**t out of me when I climb my ladder
Watch this space re the Mdba and our current water issues. We wont take being squirted by scientists anymore. And have vowed as a group to beat th he scientists up instead. At our recent irrigator meeting one of the old blokes shared this with us. That the so called scientist behind the former labor governments MDBA plan was one Jason Alexander. He said he first came across this little man in 1991 when he was the enviromental scientist for the Australian conservation foundation. There ideology then was they wouldn't stop till all irrigated dairying in northern Victoria, all rice growers in my region and all cotton in the northern basin was stopped. Now I ask you, how often have you seen a leopard change his spots...
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- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Yo Tone, ever heard of Ken Jury?
Why is it such common sense can be so ignored.....
Why is it such common sense can be so ignored.....
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
9.30 Sat night. Sittin here sinking cheap Jack's waiting for the dew to come on so I can go bale
It better not take to much longer
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
@glasshouse https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ne...r/news-story/f7adf2e8850b05fc084764d3767c88a3
There is no physical way to measure that amount of water. Only best guesstimate really....
There is no physical way to measure that amount of water. Only best guesstimate really....
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
30,000,000,000 cubic metres of water by the articles figures.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Yes but like I said, it's only a guess as theres no accurate gauging on any of those rivers that can take into account the floodplain. Anyway, using that figure that's 30 million megalitres. Which is 10 times the volume of the Hume dam or 3 times that of lake Argyle in the kimberly
JMTHORNLEY
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- Location
- Glossop
Old man would give me a cold shower and beat me senseless if I showed him that
Very valid mind
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Bit more of this this morning as I couldn't buy a vowel last night(meaning no dew)
raked up yesterday morning
and baled this morning
(meaning no dew)