Daniel Fox

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This labour government has decided taxing imaginary things is a good idea. But, if they get away with it and pass this law, they won't stop at taxing unrealised capital gains in superfunds over $3 million. Their insane tax programme will be expanded. This new cook-up is just a Trojan horse. It just attacks a very small and obscure area of the financial world. They expect very little resistance form the public, and very little opposition from the people paid to provide opposition. Similar things have been done in the UK, and it has caused chaos. Millionaires, business people, entrepreneurs and productive people are leaving the country in droves. They’re running to places where they feel more welcome. They take opportunity with them. There are many areas where this dangerous new tax on a concept rather than actual money will have deep impact. It hits the stock market, as well as property market which will in fact impact everyone’s super not just the wealthy. Most importantly this will impact food production. Big chunks of land tend to appreciate in value. The value increase has been accelerating as the value of the dollar declines. This means family farms, held in super accounts, will be taxed heavily.  Because value is relative and imaginary, there is no clear formula or predictability to the scale and timing of capital gains. Somebody will have to pay the cash tax, on an asset not sold. The imagined gain. Ludicrous. There are two ways this can be achieved, through using profits from operating the farm, or selling the farm. So many family farms invest everything they have into fences, feed, seed, fuel and equipment. When conditions are good, there is some money to be made, when the two major supermarkets are not busy pummelling them. There is even the odd export dollar. But it is not as if it isn’t already hard enough for family farmers here in Australia. Between the droughts and flooding rain,  they fight to keep their farm lands free of power lines and electricity windmills. Fighting pests and regulations. Fighting to pay the energy bills. Fighting for access to water. Now they will be fighting to pay for imagined gains with real cash. This means an increase in the cost of food for the rest of us. That, and more corporatism in the farming sector, as more family farms are gobbled up by foreign corporations and big capital. Bad leaders can cause shortages where there was once effortless abundance. Albanese, Chalmers and friends are bad leaders. Short sighted and greedy. Playing divisive politics, as they seemingly tax the rich to give to the poor. The reality is they will just destroy more decent Aussie family farms, and everything that goes with it.  The rest of us will pay more for our food. Australia can’t afford three years of this nonsense. No farmers, no food. I just want Australia back.

@AgroJAK @agrobaz @LavisPaul @theGRDC @CSIRO @kalyx @deltaag @VicNotill 2/2 buffering inputs with humic/fulvic, stimulating fungi in the rhizosphere, buffering and correcting soil constraints to improve root growth, and increasing the microbial life in the soil are all aspects to increasing soil carbon sequestration in 12 mths and long term.

@AgroJAK @agrobaz @LavisPaul @theGRDC @CSIRO @kalyx @deltaag @VicNotill I’d imagine it is using the whole 12 months to fix carbon in the soil. Residue conversion via cellulose digesting fungi not bacteria, balanced plant nutrition (not just NPK) to maximize photosynthesis, stimulating root exudates and root growth, 1/2

Can incorporating stubble with nutrients build soil C? Is incorporation needed? How much? Treatments going in for the 3rd year with the Kalyx Team at the Young site with 7 other sites around the country ⁦@theGRDC⁩ @CSIRO @Kalyx @DeltaAg Soil C Project 2023-2028.

@AgroJAK @agrobaz @LavisPaul @theGRDC @CSIRO @kalyx @deltaag @VicNotill Must be reasonably accurate if the clean energy regulator is issuing credits for them that can be traded in the marketplace.

@Fox_Farming @agrobaz @LavisPaul @theGRDC @CSIRO @kalyx @deltaag @VicNotill Sorry but I find that a 12.7 t/ha increase in 12 months is unlikely and I’d question how it was measured and what fractions of C have actually been increased. I’m talking about increases in stable carbon, formally known as humus and now mineral-associated organic matter.

@agrobaz @AgroJAK @LavisPaul @theGRDC @CSIRO @kalyx @deltaag Published in Autumn ‘24 @VicNotill magazine. There is a lot more soil carbon building strategies than just simply digesting stubble, leading to big gains in short periods. Yes it’s part of it but not the only part. This result of 12.7t/ha at Luke’s was in a 12 month period.

@AgroJAK @LavisPaul @theGRDC @CSIRO @kalyx @deltaag Awesome work John, I look forward to learning from it and helping many people gain from this research 👍

GRDC stubble height trial 3rd year results were very interesting: strip disc 4.22t/ha, draper disc 3.83t/ha, draper tyne 3.77t/ha. A warm year with summer rain and a dry finish with no frosts all worked in favour of stripper stubble this year. We have found the strip disc niche.

@agrobaz here you go Baz, Anapurna vs Illabo comparison in a severe frosty zone. Anapurna about 2t better.

@brodenholland What was your plant population at 50kg mate? I weigh all our seed and see a big difference between varieties for 1000 seed weight. Beckom was 33g in the same year that Illabo and Anapurna was 45g.

350 heads a m2, definitely letting the wheat do it's thing. Big heads fat seeds, less bulk. Scepter, 50kg seeding rate, 7.5 inch spacings, 450kg urea, 250ml gsr, 530 YTD, est 6.7t/ha ish.

A post from mid year but still a very relevant and illuminating article.

@agrobaz @grantcropcircl1 I think if longsword wasn’t a feed only variety it would have had a lot of adaption to a lot of growing areas. I really liked it but the feed idea scared us off it. Now we are growing Anapurna it might be something to go back to again to try.

@grantcropcircl1 Absolutely. We grow a lot of longsword and illabo already. Accroc and Annapurna are usually our best and worst wheats - often in the same yr.

These late frosts highlight why winter wheats have a place in our system. First pic is Annapurna, 2nd is valiant both sown ~ 28th April literally 500m away.

@CorbinSchuster We have two farms (about 75% of our land) in projects producing carbon credits and food. We will probably sign the last farm up too. I have already banked carbon, I think it’s important to get a base line early for a starting point.

Liquifying urea continues for foliar applications. Manual agitation definitely speeds up the process in the colder periods of the year.

@brodenholland @agrobaz @charlieblack31 Its a conversation that needs more than 160 characters haha more than happy to stand in a paddock and discuss

@Fox_Farming @agrobaz @charlieblack31 Can you give me a brief plan then? Haha

Annapurna red wheat punching out bulk tillers after maize. These wheats are very exciting and I feel are the next leap in breaking yield records in our irrigated (and dryland) farming systems. @Fox_Farming thought you’d like this one 👍

@brodenholland @agrobaz @charlieblack31 Understanding how silica and calcium work and fit into an overall nutrition system is essential to get the best out of them. Si and Ca are things that need to be planned as it is deposited into the growing cell walls. Less focus on nitrates as a plant N source is also critical.

@agrobaz @Fox_Farming @charlieblack31 What product Baz might do a trial lodging is the issue and modus here is temperamental

@agrobaz @charlieblack31 Get the calcium and silica on foliar Baz for stem strength. Also getting calcium nutrition right has been shown to greatly reduce N requirements.

@charlieblack31 @Fox_Farming Yes, and higher. At those yields managing stand ability becomes essential. Re marketing, there’s often good protein markets around, it’s not always feed.

Meanwhile, in Italy 🇮🇹 Italy bans ground-mounted solar panels on agricultural land. Ed Miliband take note.

Many ask, so here’s how it’s done. This is the simple bit to greatly reduce #rotorloss in CR @NewHollandAG This is one part of the improvement list. Basic setup & much better concaves are other parts. @harvestaire_pty

@ipaddockapps @hirschirsch @DamianHarris12 Coating granules with humates should help reduce fert toxicity.

@hirschirsch @DamianHarris12 Fert tox is made worse by marginal moisture

Every year someone says fert tox will be an issue with single shooting, and every year we test it. And every year, the nil fert is worse than full fert. Narrow rows and high SBU change the dynamic. 70kg MAP + 30kg MOP #ipaddockalphadisc

Fascinating discussion about the relationships between vitamins, minerals, nutrition and early menopause, premature births, and insulin levels.

@johngbennett @theGRDC @GrainProducers @GrainGrowersLtd I’ve been using Incyt inversion tower for a few yrs now. They also have a spray planner that is similar to (and better) than this imo.