Another good year for Albus lupins in Western NSW

Stuff the green pollies don’t want to know about!!   Charging Electric Cars I recently did some work for the body corporate at the Dock 5 Apartment Building in Docklands in Melbourne to see if we could install a small number of electric charging points for owners to charge their electric vehicles. We had our first three applications. We discovered: 1.      Our  building has no non- allocated parking spaces ie public ones. This is typical of most apartment buildings so we cannot provide shared outlets. 2.      The power supply in the building was designed for the loads in the building with virtually no spare capacity. Only 5 or 6 chargers could be installed in total in a building with 188 apartments!! 3.      How do you allocate them as they would add value to any apartment owning one. The shit fight started on day one with about 20 applications received 1st day and many more following. 4.      The car park sub-boards cannot carry the extra loads of even one charger and would have to be upgraded on any floors with a charger as would the supply mains to each sub board. 5.      The main switch board would then have to be upgraded to add the heavier circuit breakers for the  sub mains upgrade and furthermore: 6.      When Docklands was designed a limit was put on the number of apartments in each precinct and the mains and transformers in the streets designed accordingly. This means there is no capacity in the Docklands street grid for any significant quantity of car chargers in any building in the area. 7.      It gets better. The whole CBD (Hoddle Grid, Docklands)and Southbank is fed by two sub stations. One in Port Melbourne and one in West Melbourne. This was done to have two alternate feeds in case one failed or was down for maintenance. Because of the growth in the city /Docklands and Southbank now neither one is now capable of supplying the full requirement of Melbourne zone at peak usage in mid- summer if the other is out of action. The Port Melbourne 66,000 volt feeder runs on 50 or 60 year old wooden power poles above ground along Dorcas Street South Melbourne. One is pole is located 40 cm from the corner Kerb at the incredibly busy Ferrars /St Dorcas St Intersection and is very vulnerable to being wiped out by a wayward vehicle. 8.      The infrastructure expenditure required would dwarf the NBN cost excluding the new power stations required These advocates of electric vehicles only by 2040 are completely bonkers. It takes 5-8 years to design and build a large coal fired power station like Loy Yang and even longer for a Nuclear one (That’s after you get the political will, permits and legislative changes needed ). Wind and solar just cant produce enough. Tidal power might but that’s further away than nuclear It's just a greenies wet dream in the foreseeable future other than in small wealthy countries. It will no doubt ultimately come but not in the next 20 years.

Which sheep would be your ideal? Both have conceived twins in last three joinings and brought lambs to the marking cradle. Top sheep a full CS lighter than the bottom sheep! Both due to lamb in 6 weeks. 🤔🤔

Greatest Rebels Team Ever Always Fighting // Always Rebels

When I first joined #twitter I marvelled at all the videos of farmers and their stuff. I’ve been away for a while but here’s a timelapse of removing our grouper bin using trailer landing legs I had built to store the bin in our shearing shed and not take up sheep space.

A Coalition government will ensure Australia’s live sheep export industry is saved. The Albanese Government’s decision today to end the live sheep industry by May 2028 carries enormous consequences for Australian agriculture and Australian jobs.  It’s disappointing to see the week of his visit to Beef2024 and to WA, the Prime Minister has chosen to look farmers in the face one day, but sell them out to protect Labor’s inner-city seats from the Greens the next. This ideological and reckless decision to shut down this industry will kill country towns and jobs across regional Western Australia.   This is an industry that employs over 3,000 Australians: shearers, truck drivers, fodder suppliers, livestock agents, farmers, and producers.   Workers who face losing their jobs, and families that are struggling under financial stress will now face the difficult decision to leave the community they love.   The Coalition supports the live sheep export industry. We are committed to upholding the highest standards of animal health and welfare, while supporting a sustainable live export trade.    We will continue to fight for the future of our regional communities against a Labor Party that doesn’t even pretend to care.

I know that shed!😊

A slightly disappointing ewe lamb scanning result will mean we have 1600 ewe lbs for sale. Weighed 270 on 18th April. Nov shorn Not a great market to sell into but $50/hd for the lot would get it done if anyone’s chasing some non Mulesed RWS replacements

Hey Nyngan unfortunately Future Wool has been postponed but we are still super excited 🤩 to bring you a Winning With Weaners Workshop this Thursday! 🐑

Good Morning Nyngan! Will we be seeing ewe at the AWI Future Wool and AWI Sheep Connect NSW Winning With Weaners this Wednesday & Thursday? Make sure you register at the links below! #SCNSW #FutureWool #winningwithweaners

NSW Sheepos: keen to have input into the type of info that we as woolgrowers receive from @sheepconnectnsw & @woolinnovation? Apply to the Producer Advisory Panel - we'd love to have you join our mob! 🐏 Esp 🔎 Nth West, New Engl, Westn Division or Sthn Riverina woolgrowers.

Last week in conjunction with the final #MLPProject Macquarie field day we had a chance to present Allan Casey with his 2022 Australia Wool Industry Medal. Allan is a leader in the Merino genetics extension space, he's enormously selfless, respectful, & a very worthy recipient.

Sheep Live Export – A dying industry? Yes and no is the answer. Read more on the link below. Free to access. Support by retweet. episode3.net/livestock/sheep…

A bit late - but a fabulous day for @WALRC1 at Dean Wyatt’s place for a ‘Livestock Matters’ day looking at all things Shade and Shelter. Was great to have @propfarmer with us to share his experiences as well

Major sheep meat processor Thomas Foods International has directed buyers to avoid mutton and lambs not prepared properly for post-sale processing 👉 loom.ly/clv_GS8

Calling all NSW woolgrowers! AWI @sheepconnectnsw is looking for growers to join the AWI SCNSW PAP. Have your say about grower extension with a great bunch of people who are passionate about delivering results on-ground to woolgrowers across the state. 👉 Apps close 12 April