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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer Roy" data-source="post: 5268346" data-attributes="member: 71668"><p>dry weather is dry weather</p><p>but droughts are man made . . .</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsgrazier/?ref=nf&hc_ref=ARSI0xAoGtCZgk19HQE-VvldL_y-9qRNdBnUZdzPzD6Niu4i8q5FkGwRC7Ili9Se-3U" target="_blank"><img src="https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/36333511_265620040661257_9007245533013606400_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=a861ca0db0d55fce4af6bce7c92da18c&oe=5BD9CC61" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsgrazier/" target="_blank"><u>Grassroots Grazier</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsgrazier/photos/a.221282518428343.1073741828.220921791797749/270807886809139/?type=3&comment_id=270890293467565&notif_id=1530762371007405&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic#" target="_blank"><u>Like This Page</u></a>Page Liked · <a href="https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsgrazier/photos/a.221282518428343.1073741828.220921791797749/270807886809139/?type=3&permPage=1" target="_blank"><u>July 5</u></a> · </p><p></p><p><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fc2/1.5/16/1f331.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fc2/1.5/16/1f331.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Drought<img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fc2/1.5/16/1f331.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fc2/1.5/16/1f331.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fd7/1.5/16/2757.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />❗️WARNING - unpopular opinion ahead<img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fd7/1.5/16/2757.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />❗️</p><p></p><p>A discussion with some good mates the other day got me thinking about human intervention and treating the symptoms vs treating the cause. ...</p><p>This photo was taken over Tamworth NSW last week and shows the current devastation they are experiencing with the current drought, only about 2 hours from my place. </p><p></p><p>The first thing that hits you is the colour. </p><p>That’s the colour of lost dreams, broken families, rumbling bellies, poking bones and withering roots. </p><p>Look past the red dust. </p><p>What else do you see?</p><p>See those repeating lines like wrinkles on an old face?</p><p>They are contour banks.</p><p>They are man made and were put in using heavy machinery beginning about the 50s to combat the problem of soil erosion.</p><p>Problem - bare soil.</p><p>Solution - put in contour banks that stop rainfall from running fast over the bare, compacted soil after cropping or sometimes grazing that often resulted in topsoil loss. It captures the water and channels it into larger table drains that safely take water away from the paddock.</p><p>Result - lots of crops, less crop and seed loss or land damage from damaging, heavy, running rain.</p><p><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>But could we have been treating the symptom = (soil erosion)</p><p>And not the cause? = (Poor water infiltration due to industrial farming practices, loss of soil biodiversity due to chemical usage increasing compaction/poor soil structure etc etc etc)</p><p>And now, in our short term thinking have exacerbated a long term problem?</p><p>Now, when it rains, all of our much needed water will be channeled right off the place it is most needed - our dry, parched earth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer Roy, post: 5268346, member: 71668"] dry weather is dry weather but droughts are man made . . . [URL='https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsgrazier/?ref=nf&hc_ref=ARSI0xAoGtCZgk19HQE-VvldL_y-9qRNdBnUZdzPzD6Niu4i8q5FkGwRC7Ili9Se-3U'][IMG]https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/36333511_265620040661257_9007245533013606400_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=a861ca0db0d55fce4af6bce7c92da18c&oe=5BD9CC61[/IMG][/URL] [URL='https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsgrazier/'][U]Grassroots Grazier[/U][/URL] [URL='https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsgrazier/photos/a.221282518428343.1073741828.220921791797749/270807886809139/?type=3&comment_id=270890293467565¬if_id=1530762371007405¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic#'][U]Like This Page[/U][/URL]Page Liked · [URL='https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsgrazier/photos/a.221282518428343.1073741828.220921791797749/270807886809139/?type=3&permPage=1'][U]July 5[/U][/URL] · [IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fc2/1.5/16/1f331.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fc2/1.5/16/1f331.png[/IMG]Drought[IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fc2/1.5/16/1f331.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fc2/1.5/16/1f331.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fd7/1.5/16/2757.png[/IMG]❗️WARNING - unpopular opinion ahead[IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fd7/1.5/16/2757.png[/IMG]❗️ A discussion with some good mates the other day got me thinking about human intervention and treating the symptoms vs treating the cause. ... This photo was taken over Tamworth NSW last week and shows the current devastation they are experiencing with the current drought, only about 2 hours from my place. The first thing that hits you is the colour. That’s the colour of lost dreams, broken families, rumbling bellies, poking bones and withering roots. Look past the red dust. What else do you see? See those repeating lines like wrinkles on an old face? They are contour banks. They are man made and were put in using heavy machinery beginning about the 50s to combat the problem of soil erosion. Problem - bare soil. Solution - put in contour banks that stop rainfall from running fast over the bare, compacted soil after cropping or sometimes grazing that often resulted in topsoil loss. It captures the water and channels it into larger table drains that safely take water away from the paddock. Result - lots of crops, less crop and seed loss or land damage from damaging, heavy, running rain. [IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG][IMG]https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f8d/1.5/16/1f914.png[/IMG] But could we have been treating the symptom = (soil erosion) And not the cause? = (Poor water infiltration due to industrial farming practices, loss of soil biodiversity due to chemical usage increasing compaction/poor soil structure etc etc etc) And now, in our short term thinking have exacerbated a long term problem? Now, when it rains, all of our much needed water will be channeled right off the place it is most needed - our dry, parched earth. [/QUOTE]
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