Scott Smith

@DustinKieffer @SamaHoole Where does the phosphorus in the manure come from? From the food they eat, how does it get in the feed? From the ground the feed is grown on, where phosphorus fertiliser is applied to grow their feed. You are recycling some of rhe the phosphorus applied to the system

Grain farmer here. One of the biggest needle-movers I made in the last 10 years was switching to using poultry manure. High in phosphorus and potassium as well as other micro nutrients. I’ve only bought a tiny amount of MAP (mono-ammonium phosphate) fertilizer in the last 5 years. This was specifically for landowners that don’t allow chicken poo.

Phosphorus cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised from air like nitrogen, which is what the Haber-Bosch process does. It has to be mined. Phosphate rock. A sedimentary deposit formed from the accumulated bones and excrement of ancient marine organisms, compressed over millions of years into stone. You find it in Morocco, in China, in the western United States. You dig it up, process it into fertiliser, and spread it on fields. Modern agriculture requires it. Without synthetic phosphorus fertiliser, global crop yields would drop by an estimated 50%. The Green Revolution, the one Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Prize for, the one credited with saving a billion lives, is not simply a story of improved seeds. It is a story of phosphorus. The seeds need the phosphorus. The phosphorus needs the mines. Morocco controls approximately 70% of the world's remaining known phosphate reserves. One country. Phosphate rock is not recyclable in any meaningful sense once applied to fields. It runs off into waterways, binds to soil, feeds algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico and the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie, and it is gone. Dissipated. Unrecoverable. Global reserves, at current extraction rates, will last somewhere between 300 and 400 years. Some estimates say less. The USGS revised its reserve figures significantly downward in 2011 after a methodology review. The revision was not widely reported. When the phosphate runs out, the fertiliser runs out. When the fertiliser runs out, the yields collapse. When the yields collapse, the food system that replaced the prairies and the bison and the Ogallala Aquifer has nowhere left to go. The people who describe grass-fed beef as an unsustainable use of land have presumably not done the phosphorus maths. The cow eats grass. The grass grows back. Nobody mines anything.

@Tedthekelpie @DaveMilbo Only 10-14% grade A- idiots in society to vote for them?

@DaveMilbo The all care and no responsibility nature of their policy?

Question: Why do you think the Australian Greens can't seem to bust out of the 10-14% range of the vote? Hostile media? Too beuigose? Their candidates? Their messaging? Their Their name? Is Australia just innately pro-war, pro-racism, pro-fossil fuels? The party seems stuck.

@cosfarming @MarieODea3 @Mistadamage @robbie_b_d @HoolyMcg Not to mention the management of lans by farmers - weeds, ferals, fire, landcare etc. No value placed on that, if there’s no money farming, these are the first to suffer

@MarieODea3 @Mistadamage @robbie_b_d @HoolyMcg Imagine resourcing every wheatbelt town with 30 fire fighters and 15 appliances and the earthmoving equipment that would need to be hired in emergency situations. The dollar value is real and it needs to be pointed out in situations like this.

Australian agriculture eclipsed $100 Billion last year. Don't expect it to happen again this year unless someone in government grows a spine very quickly and uses the powers they already have to direct diesel onto farms very soon

@agronomistag @Glenn_SoilAgro Show some gross margins.

The story of biochar.

@Jusakstud @CaroDiRusso Monorail! Monorail!

@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

Hey @Telstra - once again during holiday season our service goes to crap. Can’t use internet, post a tweet (without Starlink), calls drop out. But you keep saying there is no problem. Your tower cannot handle the increased traffic, the locals that rely on it all know this.

@ajcookmech @Reece_Mason1 @ipaddockapps Yep, here is a new, unwanted function. Another $100k thanks. But we won’t worry about getting premium the lighting package adequate

@Reece_Mason1 @ipaddockapps Yep and I reckon for the most part 80% of the fancy goes unused, well in tractors anyway

I tell you what, Im cranky about this shitful hawkeye system on what is otherwise a top machine. Waited close to 2 years for new harnesses & these poxy circuit boards are a known failure point. Love my Nitros but there's a point where you expect $1M to buy a machine that works

@Ozzytourer Thank your mate Albo and his muppet government for vets increased costs, power, insurance, compliance, wages and conditions. Driving the cost of living, we all pay in the end

Anyone had a male pup desexed recently? Just curious as to how much it cost...we have been quoted $420 just to snip off to peas off a Minature Fox Terrier.... We use to do bull calves in 2 mins & the dogs would get a free feed.... Vet prices are getting ridiculous...

@lovinLCHF @MaydayzOCE @RyanJones6980 @JEChalmers More to the point, why should a business have to invest an employees super for them? And calculate and deduct their tax? Deduct child support? Massive admin cost and responsibility to the business to do this. Why cant a lump sum be paid and employees sort their own finances??

@MaydayzOCE @RyanJones6980 @JEChalmers That's my point. Why should the business have 4 months to pay the super? It's a debt incurred in the same way. I've owned businesses I know if I incurred a debt I put money aside to pay for it not wait 4 mths and hope I get enough to pay it then.

Labor’s new legislation to require employers to pay their employees’ super at the same time as their salary and wages has passed both Houses of the Parliament. This will benefit the retirement incomes of millions of Australians. These laws are all about reforming our superannuation system to help ensure more Australians get the secure retirement they need and deserve. #auspol #ausecon

@Ozzytourer @morgancjonas Why do you hate our flag? You are a labor fan-boy, so by default you are a china fan-boy.

@morgancjonas So people are littering Australia with Chinese made crap!

I've been seeing more and more of our national flags hanging in random places. I love to see it, keep going 🇦🇺

@Ozzytourer Loser.

@ScottSm04233976 Stalker Alert!

The local chemist has closed. Landlord hiked the rent, the power prices and the mad IR laws. Another small business is out of business. Thanks #Albanese and #BlackoutBowen

@BenDooley8 Agree! Also paper fuxking straws!!

This!

@Ozzytourer Nice cut and paste you dependant loser.

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@Ozzytourer Hahaha. Stupid generational welfare dependant prick.

@ScottSm04233976 I have had a few different businesses actually you moronic Fuckwit! So go fuck yourself! Time you crawled out of Mummies basement or won't she let you?

@Ozzytourer @MrsS2023 From the welfare junky who’s never run a business

@MrsS2023 Must have been a badly run chemist!

@Ozzytourer @JamesMelville You don’t like the truth?

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This is not “saving the planet”. This is countryside vandalism.

@Ozzytourer @JamesMelville That’s generating your welfare champ.

@JamesMelville So what's this?

@Ozzytourer @Ausbobsmit It hurts in the back pocket, it hurts in industry, it hurts the entire country, unless you are a welfare junkie/public servant.

@Ausbobsmit Where does it hurt Robbie...

Drinking grog on the taxpayer's dime has serious consequences.

@AlboMP Labor’s ban on live export is devastating. It has a heartbreaking impact on WA farmers, and on our rural communities. They’ve lied and stuffed it up on all fronts, promising a plan to transition with money to help it happen, in the meantime sheep numbers have plummeted

The algal bloom hitting South Australian coastal waters is devastating. It has a heartbreaking impact on our marine life, on our fishers, and on our communities. We’re responding on all fronts: providing relief for those affected, new investments to restore our coasts, and long-term measures to better protect our environment. I came to Kangaroo Island today to see the impact for myself and hear directly from those affected. Climate change is real - that’s why we’re acting to deal with the damage today and take real action for the future.

@DavidPocock It’s not a subsidy you flog - and you know it. It’s a road user tax, and primary industries who are not using that diesel in vehicles on the roads can claim that tax back. You’ve clearly suffered too many concessions in your rugby career

Australia’s biggest miners have pocketed almost $60BN in diesel tax subsidies in <20 years. Unless we act, taxpayers lose $84BN more by 2030. It makes no sense for 🇦🇺ns to pay tax while coal giants get a free pass. End this fossil fuel subsidy now. afr.com/companies/mini…