- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Have a read of this @Farmer Roy @CornishTone . Try and tell me we upstream irrigators or Cubbie are to blame https://www.southernriverinanews.co...1/394099/basin-plan-turning-us-into-a-mockery
This is what we are up against. Things may be slightly different now, but in 2001 before we built our new dairy I went to the lower lakes, lower Murray looking at dairies that had the same plant that we were looking at. One of the farms I visited was on the Murray swamps at tailem bend. The river was 13 feet above the flats. They irrigated through 18in siphons that would do 50megs a day. NO meters like we had had on our detheridge wheels for 60 years. Said they were allowed 13 irrigations a season, but they just went and started a symphon whenever they felt like.....fair???. You tell me!
This is what we are up against. Things may be slightly different now, but in 2001 before we built our new dairy I went to the lower lakes, lower Murray looking at dairies that had the same plant that we were looking at. One of the farms I visited was on the Murray swamps at tailem bend. The river was 13 feet above the flats. They irrigated through 18in siphons that would do 50megs a day. NO meters like we had had on our detheridge wheels for 60 years. Said they were allowed 13 irrigations a season, but they just went and started a symphon whenever they felt like.....fair???. You tell me!
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