Buy A Bale Of Hay For Christmas

[icyfroth]

AUSTRALIANS are being asked to buy a bale of hay as part of a fundraising campaign launched this week, which aims to keep struggling farmers on the land.

Stemmed from northern cattle producers tough season with no live trade export, drought and bushfires which burnt feed stocks, the Aussie Helpers' Buy a Bale Campaign has received calls of assistance from Victoria, Tasmania, NSW and Queensland.

Just days in the making, the campaign has received almost $10,000 in donations as well as $100,000 from the Bartercard Charity Foundation.

Aussie Helpers head Brian Egan said the calls for assistance reflect a tough time for Australian agriculture.

"The donations will save someone and our only agenda is to keep people on the land," Brian said.

"Many of these farmers won't just fail financially, but may become victims of depression through no fault of their own making,"

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If your're really serious about helping your fellow Australian stay in a job, remember: charity begins at home.

[gleee58]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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From what I heard, whole regions of what used to be cattle farming is stripped bare of any animal life.

I don't know where Mr Abbott thinks we're going to get all the millions of cattle for the live export trade deal he's recently signed off with China from.

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It is a side effect of clearing too much land.  Agronomists & scientists warned of the dangers of clearing too much land years ago. Their advice was ignored and they got taunted and called names as those they tried to warn embarked on a race to see who could clear the most land per year.

[polksaladallie]

I wonder why it doesn't rain?

[icyfroth]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

I wonder why it doesn't rain?

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Climate change? Global warming? Doesn't matter it's all their fault so let 'em starve to death?

[polksaladallie]

Not climate change, not global warming, but land clearing.  

[gleee58]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

I wonder why it doesn't rain?

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Climate change? Global warming? Doesn't matter it's all their fault so let 'em starve to death?

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Who suggested letting them starve to death, apart from the banks that have given one farm of many back?

[gleee58]

In order for the farms to work again as they should the farmers need to stop the wholesale clearing and replant vegetation.  

No use having vast areas of cleared land if there is not enough rainfall and ground moisture to grow feed.

Abstract

http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2007/10/land-clearing-triggers-hotter-droughts-new-research-findin...

Full report

http://www.omc.uq.edu.au/news/documents/ModellingImpactsVegetationCover.pdf

Co-authors are Dr Hamish McGowan, Associate Professor Stuart Phinn and Dr Ravinesh Deo – all of UQ – Dr Peter Lawrence of the University of Colorado and Dr Ian Watterson of CSIRO.

The researchers found that mean summer rainfall decreased by between four percent and 12 percent in eastern Australia, and by four percent and eight percent in southwest Western Australia. These were the regions of most extensive historical clearing.

“Consistent with actual climate trends, eastern Australia was between 0.4 degrees Centigrade and two degrees Centigrade warmer, and southwest Western Australia was between 0.4 degrees and 0.8 degrees warmer.

“Native vegetation moderates climate fluctuations, and this has important, largely unrecognised consequences for agriculture and stressed land and water resources,” Dr McAlpine said.

Australian native vegetation holds more moisture that subsequently evaporates and recycles back as rainfall. It also reflects into space less shortwave solar radiation than broadacre crops and improved pastures, and this process keeps the surface temperature cooler and aids cloud formation.

[polksaladallie]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Not climate change, not global warming, but land clearing.  

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I wonder why it doesn't rain?

[nero_bolt]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Not climate change, not global warming, but land clearing.  

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I wonder why it doesn't rain?

Its Australia and as you should well and truly know we have droughts and then floods and then fire etc etc etc .. So try as you may to try and make a reason  the only reason is ITS AUSTRALIA and thats how it is here. Its called THE WEATHER and sometimes we have rain, sometimes flood and sometimes DROUGHTS

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[polksaladallie]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Not climate change, not global warming, but land clearing.  

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I wonder why it doesn't rain?

Its Australia and as you should well and truly know we have droughts and then floods and then fire etc etc etc .. So try as you may to try and make a reason  the only reason is ITS AUSTRALIA and thats how it is here. Its called THE WEATHER and sometimes we have rain, sometimes flood and sometimes DROUGHTS

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Top marks.  But you missed the bit where over-clearing has made those droughts and those floods much much worse than they should have been.  They were warned a long time ago, but disregarded those warnings.  Now they and their descendants are paying the price.

We had a premier here who used to boast of his expertise in knocking down almost every tree on his property.

[aps1080]

You elected him.

Weather changes all the time, i have been up qld way when it was wet and dry, drought. The farmer had been there years and that was how it went.

Dorothy mckellar summed it up in her poem.