After nearly 13 years this is my last post here. Sick of the ads and constant nagging to go Premium. Now I'm getting notifications from X that's just posts the boss is making. Harvest will continue with the same handle at Bluesky if you are interested. 👋

Last run of the first paddock for #harvest24

Not sure Piastri’s farm will be happening any time soon

Soft launch at harvest tonight on Barley. Just enough for a sample to figure out what we have. 🤞

I'm getting this guy to do all my machinery marketing blurbs from now on! farmtender.com.au/listing/ma…

I'm not one for "Bumper Stickers" usually, but I'm all in on this fight.

We are looking for another team member to get hay and harvest done. Reposts appreciated

I’ve never seen anything like it before. Hail continuously for around 30 minutes varying in size of stubby lids to big marbles. Lentils hit, laser light in shed shredded damage to ute and car. Not ideal

Anyone got any good storm / hail pix from last night I could use? #storms #wimmera #casterton

A couple of weeks ago I was privileged to be invited to a community event up in Armidale to discuss the Renewable Energy Zone in New England. I learned a lot, and I think I helped some others learn some other things. It strikes me that this REZ (and others?) came from an utterly naive mindset that just didn't grasp that downsides to wind, solar, and transmission even exist. Let alone a proper conception of what scaling up many GW worth of it in a 'zone' like New England would be like. I get the sense that some paper pushers in a city genuinely thought that the guys in the country would be as excited about renewables as they were. Armidale sits in the middle of this stunning tableland, covered with incredibly rich farmland, which falls away into these deep canyons down to rivers in national parks. It's moderately well-populated. Historically, it was over-cleared. Most of the best remnant trees that provide the right habitat for mammals, and contiguous stretches of it, are on hilltops and ridgelines. And unsurprisingly, it's the hilltops and ridgelines that are prime for wind-farms, which require cleaning enormous roads all along the ridgetops to construct. Those and the edges of the table, which fall away into the deep canyons that create updrafts for massive birds of prey. Maybe Australia has more land than many other countries. But it's not as though we haven't found good things to do with it. Including keeping bits wild. Maybe there are bits of Australia where there's genuinely low impact for massive amounts of wind and solar. But if New England is anything to go by, we haven't found them yet. I'd recommend the video. My section starts around 1:05:00. And there is also an excellent panoscope mapping out the geography of the REZ and proposed projects around 40:00. youtu.be/ZCNelOkaGKo?si=y_KR…

Hey @TeasdaleAg, that free beer next week rain is sneaking a little closer! Gone by Tuesday? 🤔

The Aurora was out in full force last night. A few pics of our trials under Aurora australis. I didn't think trial would look so magical at night. The @VicGovAg team has done well to have them looking this good and hopefully giving valuable results with @theGRDC @GRDC_NVT

It's on again! More civilised time tonight.

After getting up just before 4am as I do almost most nights, then having to investigate a noise coming from a shed near the house (12v pump on our sxs running 🙄), I turned around and discovered this going on. Wow!

On tues Oct 22nd @westonfence will be holding a field day on our property “Stewart Park” Mt Dryden Rd Fyans Creek. See first hand kangaroo exclusion fencing and our experience with it over 5 years. Made from recycled plastic and an Aussie family owned company 👍 Flier to follow

#Chickpeas look OK so far, but I do have a squeaky seat in the Telehandler.

Every harvest is a chance to leave the land in better shape than before. Make the most of it. Act now to secure your install before this harvest.

One of my biggest personal hates is seeing all the resistance building up where councils spray posts and reflectors. Weeds are hard enough to control without having this happening all over the country. Resistant rye grass and vetch in these pics Photo location- Horsham Victoria

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