Peter Walker

@ipaddockapps Mice plague , then burn and deep till, Mineralisation as well as blood and bone!

So in the edge case that urea doesn't land in Au this year: Brainstorming strategies to reduce N requirement &/or increase yield under constrained N. Is it a year to burn stubbles? Tillage (with what fuel!) ? What else?

@cosfarming @jimheal69 couldn't see it any other way!

Hey @jimheal69 I see your bowls academy has a star student. High distinctions all around #jimiwicks

@mervfrench303 Can only hope there influence will be as positive as that of the Italian and Greeks

@Jusakstud Australia is going to be a completely changed place in a couple of generations.

Just to distract from diesel. Another thing the Simpson's picked again. NGT, LG, Kulin IGA all recently purchased by Indians as well as tyre shop and roadhouse in Lake Grace. 3 Local pubs bought by the Chinese. Interesting times indeed

@WheatWatcher @logue_phil We fill our tanks after the march long weekend for last 30 years. March -April is always our suppliers biggest months along with Oct-Nov. The fuel is in Australia, but the drama is being caused by the importers/refiners.

@logue_phil I wouldn't call farmers stockpiling, becuase they need the fuel for commercial activities, but I am hearing from lots of farmers that they are ordering earlier than typical.

I put together a couple of thoughts over on instagram on the fuel crisis - after having looked at the data. Watch on the link below. instagram.com/reel/DVugDArk9…

Not trying to throw rocks , I havnt heard the mining industry say they might run out of fuel yet. #favouritechild

@BarryGr66 Facebook marketplace maybe mate. Fairly certain you are already using it though.

The Farm Weekly used to the farmers bible, but after weeks paying for adverts of farm machinery and produce with zero response, I am done with it ! #asktwitter what do people think about posting ads on here for free ?

Did somebody say pub dinner?

The WA sheep exodus unleashing a grain surge. The demise of sheep in WA will add to grains. episode3.net/grain/the-wa-s…

After market muffler for small engines. straight pipe is to noisy and sparky for my liking. Google is failing miserably , keeps trying to sell me a side mount one that won't fit!

@eyres_N @ipaddockapps @DPIRDbroadacre We used to plant 4 varieties of hard wheat at the same time. From memory Carnamah, yitpi, mace and halberd. Gave us a big spread on flowering etc. Eventually got too hard and we went back to single varieties again.

@Jusakstud @ipaddockapps @DPIRDbroadacre To mitigate frost without tillering you need other means to spread flowering windows (without delaying flowering into terminal drought) This needs to be done with genetics

Nick makes a compelling case for high seeding rates across varied rainfall seasons in this excellent project. We made the shift a while ago on the back of similar dramatic results from @DPIRDbroadacre in southern WA. Throw in the weed control benefits and it's a no-brainer!

@CaroDiRusso It feels like we are watching Utopia in real life. Tasmanian stadium, snowy 2.0, social media bans. Just need them to do the high speed rail.

We have a govt bureaucracy that is bloated, intrusive and enamoured by its own BS. It's actually sickening that ordinary citizens have to go to these lengths to protect themselves. #auspol

@CasFarmerCD @ipaddockapps @DPIRDbroadacre Planet barley was the classic here. Never enough water or nutrients to "fill"

@ipaddockapps @Jusakstud @DPIRDbroadacre Dosnt solve the screenings or the re fill of the seeder twice as often, and if you're not in a high N environment (most of our crops aren't) you have to put the N on anyway. Year after year we see the people with high seeding rates struggle with screenings & test weight.

@ipaddockapps @DPIRDbroadacre We also went "precision seeding" press wheels etc in that time span. Hopefully getting similar plants/ha with lower seeding rates. Higher crop density will increase frost damage. More screenings, less root growth on poor rainfall years.

@Jusakstud @DPIRDbroadacre Granted , but those things can be mitigated. We use (and always have) our harvest field bins to store our seed, and fast filling the seeder with a chaser bin, 32mm seed tubes and high capacity fan so high rates are manageable. The dividend for doing it is literally free money.

@ipaddockapps @DPIRDbroadacre Factors against it... Scaling when you doubled ha was $$ to double retained seed. we use to keep 250t for 2000 ha. suddenly 500t for 4000. logistics ..ha seeded per day is lower, more fills, bars go slower to handle more seed everything wears more. opportunity cost poor rainfall

@Jusakstud @DPIRDbroadacre Funny that..

@cosfarming I have packed carpet bowls, beer pong, uno and regular playing cards.. Ffs

@andrewdunx @DigbyStretch @PGAofWAInc 6-25mm any luck over there. we lost 30% of the tress through a 2k wide strip of the farm also

@DigbyStretch @PGAofWAInc @Jusakstud Another one in SE Magenta today 🤞rain has got it ,looks like more ☔️ tomorrow - Hopefully not a 2017 repeat ( 175 mm) - Ag - Feast or famine 😜

Fingers crossed that our pastoral regions that need it most get some much needed rain with minimal damage from this one @PGAofWAInc

@cosfarming @knightd73 forecast for next 2 days.. 10-50mm do I

@Jusakstud @knightd73 If only you knew someone that could get it moved and would appreciate the rain in April

Winning this race today

@cosfarming @knightd73 Our bowls classic get rained out every 3rd year. Need to move it to 15th April.

@knightd73 Might be tomorrow's trick