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@vicr3000 wrote:

 

Quite a storm in Sydney.

 

Was up NT was a few years back and the Trough rolled in from the north, very much like this in that

a great cloud bank was evident, followed by torrential rain.

 

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Fantastic picture.

I know quite a lot about farming. To blame your unfortunate circumstances on "Global Warming" beggars belief.. What? didn't you hop into the carbon credits policy under labor that saw millions handed to farmers for NOT farming their land, then you wouldn't have to lift a finger, so I can underatand your underlying self interest.

Idle

I used to do a lot of shooting up Jerilderie way. Farmer had moved from Eildon.

Apart from the creek, it was a bleak place to farm. Then Rice came, that was OK, then on and off again water, drought. Eventually it became too much and in 20 years, very few good one's.

Farming on marginal country is a risk they want to take but it goes against all environmental ideology. 

 

 

"Dr Peiser, from the Global Warming Policy Foundation says that the poles are "much more stable" than climate scientists once

 

predicted and could even be much thicker than previously thought.

 

For years, scientists have suggested that both poles are melting at an alarming rate because of warming temperatures - dangerously

 

raising the Earth's sea levels while threatening the homes of Arctic and Antarctic animals.But the uncertainty surrounding climate

 

change and the polar ice caps reached a new level this month when research suggested the ice in the Antarctic is actually

 

growing.And there could even be evidence to suggest the polar bear population is not under threat."

Yep.

Even with Irrigation it failed. That says a lot.

I must say though that we did have the worst droughts in a long while during that period.

Marginal country like central NSW is more prone to less rain, that's why it's called marginal.

The Greenies didn't help much.

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@chameleon54 wrote:

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@idlewhile wrote:

Nah, its much easier to blame global warming than raping the land for generations.

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Its a bit unfortunate that you choose to make such stupid, derogatory & uneducated comments when you now nothing of my personel circumstances. It reflects very poorly on you that you should judge others and jump to completely wrong conclusions in such an ignorant and arrogant way.

 

Just to enlighten you a little bit. The current farmer who is leasing the property is one of a young generation who is at the fourfront of modern broad-acre organic and biological farming practices. He has a semi trailer with 30,000 litres of biological siol activator ( good bacteria ) that he carts around the farm. He uses a 5000 lt. tank on wheels behing the seeder to inject the siol biota into the soil in the seed rows.  He also practices green manuring when appropriate, legume break crops ( vetch )  and uses a number of natural organic rock phosphate and liquid seeweed based fertilisers which contain micro nutrients that conventional superphosphates lack. 

 

He does all of this while also utilising the best of the new seeding technologies, basically mixing the latest technology with organic and biodynamic systems. You would be hard pressed to find another farmer who is more committed to sustainable agriculture than this young man.

 

Might I respectfully suggest that you save your glibb, reactionary comments for something that you at least have some sceric of pracrticle knowlege about.

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    There is a reson he needs to add bacteria to the soil. That alone will not improve his situation.

 

    Nature is about balance. 

C02 is not **bleep**......it is the elixer of life........... without it, life would not exist.

 

Are you really so ignorant that you think CO2 is the only toxin spewed into the atmosphere by industry?  Tell you what, go into a room where the CO2 concentration is 75%, see how alive you feel after about 20 minutes.