Rob Tuncks

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@originalstinger @logue_phil Sure can not🤪. The equation will remain the same. We cannot lock the farm gates and run our operations on bio fuel. Horses are better for this but you just showed they are a non starter to.

@RTuncks @logue_phil Can you run a team of 500 to pull the 60 foot DBS bar?

If you crushed 500 tonnes canola to get around 200,000L oil then farms could become fuel self efficient, ingredients oil methanol and caustic soda and you have biodiesel. @logue_phil and some glycerine by product

Small debt free, low stocking rate, low input, low external labor farms will survive and probably thrive through the volatility ahead. Minimal overhead, no crushing interest payments, family labor keeping things resilient and self reliant. The problem your question is not addressing: The global population relies on industrial scale output. Food security isn't about who stays afloat it's about whether there's enough affordable calories at scale. These high production, debt stressed farms (the ones pushing limits to service loans) are the backbone of bulk commodity supply feeding global population and supply chains. When they buckle en masse it's going to be catastrophic. The resilient small ops aren't set up to quickly scale volume to replace that lost capacity different models, different realities. So while debt free family farms hold steady or even grow quietly in their niches, aggregate supply tightens, staple prices climb, and vulnerable populations bear the brunt. It's a brutal mismatch: the survivors won't be able to feed the planet.

The farms that survive the next 10 years won’t be the biggest. They’ll be the ones that know their numbers better than anyone else. What’s one number every farmer should know daily?

@Reptolord Because it is! You have created a reality in your head that is completely opposite to what’s real.

Imagine being so illiterate that you think this is where industrial beef in the quantities people consume comes from.

@AnnieWyer @ChavuraStephen We cannot get bulk delivery atm my local supplier has orders for 800,000 litres and has 20,000 on hand. This is required for harvesting potatoes and sowing winter crops

@ChavuraStephen Farmers have fuel in bulk delivered to their properties. People buying fuel from petrol stations are only allowed 250 litres maximum.

Could be a farmer who needs fuel for a summer harvest so we can be fed?

@OMGTheMess Australia had no reserves they counted everything including tankers in our waters. The 30 days also includes using the last drop which means pipe lines fuel delivery trucks refineries are all dry. Good luck with that

30 day fuel reserve was an economic decision, not a strategic one And will, ironically, create an economic crisis

@comical_engr We used to we used to make lots of stuff and where self sufficient . We used to be a real country.

One 'useful' thing that Australia could start making is Urea again!

@gjm1508 @Gordicans Northwest shelf (LNG) was Howard, Malcolm Fraser with Sir Charles Court was the start of the rot. Like I posted the "Unity party". You can find dodgy contracts agreed to by both sides.

@RTuncks @Gordicans Queensland LNG contracts were signed by ALP premier Anna Bligh and ALP Resources Minister Martin Ferguson … abc.net.au/news/2010-03-2…

Australia must be making a fortune out of the surging gas prices via development in Iran right? Oh I forgot, we give it away for free. The gas companies are making a fortune, Australia gets almost nothing. Meanwhile the Labor party is paid to turn a blind eye

@SamaHoole @GusWhyte Plus cropping kills way more animals in way worse ways. Cannot stop it and cropping feeds the world but the fact they think this is a valid argument shows how little they understand food production

Australia is the world's largest beef exporter. People who find this uncomfortable sometimes suggest that Australia should redirect this toward plant agriculture and feed itself more ethically. Have they looked at a map of Australia? Not the bit with the cities. Not the coastline. The bit in the middle. The part that constitutes 95% of the agricultural land. It looks like the Outback at 40 degrees in October, where the annual rainfall in good years is 250mm and the soil has never had topsoil in recorded geological history. It looks like the Mitchell grass downs of Queensland, where the black cracking clays grow native perennial grasses that have evolved specifically to be eaten by ruminants and cannot support cropping without irrigation that doesn't exist. It looks like the Northern Territory station country, where a single cattle station might be larger than England and the nearest agronomist is six hours away by plane. You cannot grow quinoa in the Northern Territory. You cannot grow wheat in the Pilbara. You can run cattle on both, because cattle evolved to convert the inedible into the edible, which is the precise function being asked of them. The people saying Australia should eat less beef have not been to the places the beef comes from. They've been to Melbourne. Melbourne is lovely. It is not where the food grows.

@ZackBro74245761 @AvidCommentator Yep this conflict even if it ends right now is going to kill millions due to second order issues. Ukraine was a massive food exporter and now this

@AvidCommentator Famine is going to grip parts of the world soon!

This is absolutely bloody disastrous. How much global electricity and fertiliser production is gone from this one attack. One.

@BrettPage72 How far are you from your network? Can you get line of sight? There are long range wifi options (up to 10km) you could run them on solar panels and batteries. Failing that you can run a starlink of solar and batteries but it wouldent be a cheap option.

#agtwitter what’s everyone’s go to camera for monitoring fuel storage’s ? after a cellular option , no wifi

@Matt_Camenzuli The fundamental problem is no one in charge has any idea how things work. If you don't deal with reality, reality will deal with you.

Anthony Albanese has just appointed the wrong person to head up the Fuel Taskforce. Albanese is a lifelong waste of taxpayers’ money. But much worse than that, he has been out of his depth for his entire career. He now presents an imminent danger to our nation’s prosperity, national security and strategic preparedness. Many people will suffer for his efforts as push-comes-to-shove in our latest fuel crisis. As they say in the playground “it takes one to know one”, and not to be outdone, Albanese has gone and put a lifelong climate zealot and total waste of taxpayer money, Anthea Harris, in charge of his government’s response to the fuel crisis. The clip below, is Anthea giving an address to the ANU in her capacity as the head of the Climate Change Authority back in 2015. She either believes that all of these non-solutions to the non-climate problem are really necessary - which would make her rather daft - or she knows it is all a complete scam, and she is just a scammer… A professional scammer, living on the taxpayer, and living well at that. More, the net result of her work so far has been to help destroy our energy grid and just about everything else relating to our ability to make and do things in Australia. Because cheap and reliable energy is central to everything. Everything. Whether it is coal, gas or liquid fuels, Australia needs these things to provide a first world living standard for the people. She has been an instrumental part of the war on our living standards thus far. All the while they threw our prosperity in the air, put on a blindfold and hoped to catch it in a windmill shaped glove. Now she is in charge of Albanese’s response to our critical, non-critical supply of petrochemicals that are at crisis levels, but we are not in a crisis. If you believe any of what they say… She is not an expert in logistics, or oil supply, petrochemicals or any other area that might qualify her to ensure we have enough fuel to drive critical infrastructure. Not to mention little things like food reaching the supermarket shelves. She is not the right person for the job. She probably thinks we could use this crisis as an opportunity to further destroy lives and livelihoods as they relentlessly pursue the hopeless goal of changing global temperatures. I am sure she will see it that way. She probably thinks we can all work from home and stop eating meat for the good of the planet. I have no doubt Albanese thinks she will do a great job of whatever it is he thinks he is achieving at our expense. I have no doubt we will be worse off for her best efforts. We have good cause to be very cynical of the current leadership. They won’t even admit there are problems - not in any of the areas where there are many problems - so they won’t be able to properly solve them. We have every right to be worried, and we have little cause to respect them or their leadership at this critical time in our nation’s history. I am afraid that if we don’t vote all of these absolute lightweights out of office at the next election, there won’t be a Nation left. I have no doubt there are problems in the opposition and other camps, but they could not be worse than the problems we have in government. I just want Australia back.

@NSWFarmers Wow. So we spend more money with inputs excluding the fert but get a way smaller yield. The problem with no-one in charge having any idea at all. We are not a real country any more.

"Clearly we can plant crops without fertiliser, but the yield and the productivity of those crops is somewhat diminished." -Ag Minister Julie Collins. What do you think? theland.com.au/story/9202514/…

@AlSattler18888 After today’s attacks on Middle East oil/gas infrastructure not sure I would bet on April. This could get very bad

So told today i basically would more than likely not see a bulk fuel delivery on farm before mid April Plan B -plan Z are all gunna be used this year Yep our politicians are so full of shit we could use them for fertiliser

@MarkoMatvikov Its almost like the country the ww2 vets left use. A few generations later and we have stuffed it 🤷‍♂️

We're an island with major allies on the other side of the world (who can't be depended on). It's strategically and economically critical we're energy independent - as well as agriculturally with reasonable manufacturing capacity.

@somuchbullsh 165km trip Lol

@RTuncks bigrigs.com.au/2023/04/19/wor…

Hilarious listening to farmers begging city citizens to use public transport to save fossil fuel for them. The same bunch who re-elect a party that loves fossil fuels, especially coal, rejects net zero and rails against climate change. Almost makes me want to get rid of my EV.

@boodjerie @AvidCommentator We need one everyday!

@AvidCommentator Ship tracking sites show what seems to be plenty of tankers on their way to Aus ports.

Has anyone seen a timeline on when Australia will start missing fuel import shipments? And we see the broader knock on effects from that?

Some of the answers lol a lot of people don't understand refining vs oil production... 20% of GLOBAL crude is exported via Hormuz, around 50 to 60% for Australia the rest is made up from USA, Malaysia, Russia (via India), some local production. We are very exposed to the straight being shut.

Quick question (I couldn't be bothered researching it) IF 20% of our oil flows thru the Straight of Hormuz, WHERE does the other 80% come from?