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Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer Roy" data-source="post: 4335442" data-attributes="member: 71668"><p>Ok, some background info for the ones late to the party</p><p>I'm located in north west NSW, nearest main town Gunnedah. Approx 31 S 150 E, which in the northern hemisphere puts me somewhere in line with Egypt or Libya or somewhere . . but we do have better soils . . .</p><p>100% dryland Cropping, 2 seasons a year. Cool climate crops like wheat, canola, chickpeas, barley etc through the winter, warm season crops like cotton, Sorghum, mungbeans, sunflower, etc through the summer.</p><p>Heavy black self mulching clay soils, high OM, neutral PH. Open alluvial floodplain, original vegetation was open grassland like the North American prairies or southern African Veldt</p><p>Rainfall supposedly 24" & summer dominant pattern, but VERY variable & seems to be getting more extreme.</p><p>Temps can go from say -7 C to 47C, although last summer was hottest on record, this winter just gone was hottest / driest on record & this spring has already broken records for heat & lack of rainfall</p><p>Cropping is basically all zero till ( mainly to conserve soil moisture. We grow crops on stored soil moisture, not in crop rainfall ) but I'm not a fundamentalist nazi about it. Sometimes we need to work the ground eg after a wet harvest & deep wheel tracks, to control chemical resistant weeds, or pupae busting after cotton to control resistant insects.</p><p>Me - I'm 51. Divorced. 2 teenage girls. Remarried. A 9 yr old son.</p><p>My great great grandfather came here from England in the mid 1800's, he was the second mayor of Bathurst, the first inland town in NSW after the Blue Mountsins were crossed. We have been around this area since the early 1900's.</p><p>My mother came out from Scotland in the late 1950's as a nurse on assisted passage. I have Right of Abode in the UK & spent 3 yrs there in the late 80's - early 90's working on farms.</p><p>With deaths / family partnerships / divorce ect, we have lost a lot of land since I was a kid - from over 4000acres to now me just owning 1400 & leasing another 1100 next door. I also do contract planting work, & the occasional casual work at a local funeral home just for sh1!s n giggles ( the manager is a friend of mine )</p><p>So - there's some background</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer Roy, post: 4335442, member: 71668"] Ok, some background info for the ones late to the party I'm located in north west NSW, nearest main town Gunnedah. Approx 31 S 150 E, which in the northern hemisphere puts me somewhere in line with Egypt or Libya or somewhere . . but we do have better soils . . . 100% dryland Cropping, 2 seasons a year. Cool climate crops like wheat, canola, chickpeas, barley etc through the winter, warm season crops like cotton, Sorghum, mungbeans, sunflower, etc through the summer. Heavy black self mulching clay soils, high OM, neutral PH. Open alluvial floodplain, original vegetation was open grassland like the North American prairies or southern African Veldt Rainfall supposedly 24" & summer dominant pattern, but VERY variable & seems to be getting more extreme. Temps can go from say -7 C to 47C, although last summer was hottest on record, this winter just gone was hottest / driest on record & this spring has already broken records for heat & lack of rainfall Cropping is basically all zero till ( mainly to conserve soil moisture. We grow crops on stored soil moisture, not in crop rainfall ) but I'm not a fundamentalist nazi about it. Sometimes we need to work the ground eg after a wet harvest & deep wheel tracks, to control chemical resistant weeds, or pupae busting after cotton to control resistant insects. Me - I'm 51. Divorced. 2 teenage girls. Remarried. A 9 yr old son. My great great grandfather came here from England in the mid 1800's, he was the second mayor of Bathurst, the first inland town in NSW after the Blue Mountsins were crossed. We have been around this area since the early 1900's. My mother came out from Scotland in the late 1950's as a nurse on assisted passage. I have Right of Abode in the UK & spent 3 yrs there in the late 80's - early 90's working on farms. With deaths / family partnerships / divorce ect, we have lost a lot of land since I was a kid - from over 4000acres to now me just owning 1400 & leasing another 1100 next door. I also do contract planting work, & the occasional casual work at a local funeral home just for sh1!s n giggles ( the manager is a friend of mine ) So - there's some background [/QUOTE]
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