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Greg Blue

@gjblue

Rugby, Community, Rural & Mental Health enthusiast, been in the fresh food game, can be contentious& cranky, another Kiwi supporting Oz economy. rt not endorse

City of Lake Macquarie Katılım Mart 2013
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
If you go into hospital as an alcoholic, they don't put a bottle of vodka on your bedside table and titrate the dose. They remove the alcohol. If you go into hospital as a heroin addict, they don't hand you a syringe with the meal tray. They remove the heroin. If you go into hospital as a smoker, they don't wheel you outside every two hours for a cigarette break. They remove the cigarettes. If you go into hospital as a type 2 diabetic, they bring you white toast, cornflakes, fruit juice, a jam sachet, and a sweetened yoghurt. Then inject insulin to manage the blood sugar response. Then write in your notes that your diabetes is "poorly controlled." Every other addiction is treated by removing the substance. The one driven by carbohydrate is treated by serving the substance and medicating the response. Have a think about why.
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Federated Farmers@FedFarmers·
Bad day to be a wilding pine 🌲
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Greg Blue
Greg Blue@gjblue·
@agvocate_au Looks very fine ,love the sensible mix of metric and imperial
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Agvocate_Au
Agvocate_Au@agvocate_au·
Self crusting quiche is a winner. Very simple to make. The mix & match of it makes it really easy to pad a small amount of veges/meat into a meal. BBQ & Camp Oven suitable. Baking paper is your friend.
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Greg Blue
Greg Blue@gjblue·
First time I have seen this beauty on my evening walk , think there was possibly a fish at it's feet ,about 40 feet up a dead tree beside Lake Macquarie ,NSW ,any suggestions @agvocate_au
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Merv Robertson
Merv Robertson@MervRobertson·
In Victoria, apparently, prison guards are not allowed to wear a badge depicting the Australian flag, but an indigenous or rainbow equivalent's OK.
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Ben Dooley 🧢
Ben Dooley 🧢@BenDooley8·
My ewes are plotting....Something.
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Greg Blue
Greg Blue@gjblue·
Watch out Australia ,this is what Albo is planning
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Farmer: "Gentlemen." Investor 1: "How did you get back in." Farmer: "Different lanyard." Investor 2: "What are you pitching." Farmer: "The ultimate sustainable textile fibre. Carbon-negative, biodegradable, flame-retardant, breathable, antibacterial, water-repellent, and warm when wet." Investor 3: "Source material." Farmer: "Grass." Investor 1: "...grass." Farmer: "Inedible plant matter, sunlight, and rain. The same inputs as last time." Investor 2: "How is it harvested." Farmer: "Once a year. The unit grows the fibre continuously. We remove it without harm to the unit. The unit then grows more." Investor 3: "Renewable annually." Farmer: "Indefinitely. The unit also replicates itself, so the supply expands at no cost." Investor 1: "Lifespan of the final product." Farmer: "Decades in use. Eighteen months to compost when discarded." Investor 2: "Microplastic shedding." Farmer: "None. It isn't plastic." Investor 3: "Energy required to manufacture." Farmer: "Sunlight, again. Same sunlight, in fact." Investor 1: "This would obliterate recycled polyester." Farmer: "It would. It also predates recycled polyester by about ten thousand years." [silence] Investor 2: "It's wool, isn't it." Farmer: "It's wool." Investor 3: "We've banned wool. It's cruel to the animal." Farmer: "The animal dies if you don't remove it." Investor 3: "..." Farmer: "I'll see myself out. Same door as last time."
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Farmer: "Gentlemen. I'd like to present the ultimate plant-based protein technology." Investor 1: "We're listening." Farmer: "It converts inedible plant matter into complete protein. Grass, cornstalks, brewery waste, vegetable peelings. Anything cellulose-rich that humans can't digest." Investor 2: "Energy requirements." Farmer: "Sunlight." Investor 2: "For the plant matter, you mean." Farmer: "And for the conversion. Same sunlight. Reused." Investor 3: "Heating costs for the bioreactor." Farmer: "None. The unit holds 38.5 degrees year-round on its own." Investor 1: "Failure rate." Farmer: "Self-repairing. The unit also replicates once a year at no additional cost." Investor 3: "Replicates." Farmer: "Produces a smaller version of itself. Which becomes a full unit." Investor 2: "Net carbon." Farmer: "Neutral. The carbon in goes back to the air the grass pulled it from. Round and round, same atoms, no new ones added." Investor 1: "And the waste output." Farmer: "Twenty tonnes of soil enrichment per unit per year. The waste is also a product." Investor 2: "This would obliterate Beyond Meat." Farmer: "It already has. They just don't know yet." Investor 1: "Where can we see one." Farmer: "There are about 1.5 billion currently deployed. Have been for ten thousand years." [silence] Investor 3: "It's a cow, isn't it." Farmer: "It's a cow." Investor 2: "We were promised plant-based." Farmer: "The plant goes in one end. I don't know what else you wanted."
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Ben Dooley 🧢
Ben Dooley 🧢@BenDooley8·
@gjblue Definitely partly seasonal, but we halved the DAP going on at planting, and gave it 2 hits of urea along the way post canopy closure. Also got a 2nd fungicide, which is actually a foliar fert doubling as a fungicide.
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Ben Dooley 🧢@BenDooley8·
Swede weights are in!Sheep will be on by tomorrow evening (and back off again, to transition their digestive systems from grass to brassicas). DM/ha is the one we're looking at. A 20% increase on our best ever result previously is pretty cool to see. Sheep and cattle will be well fed this winter!
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Gandalv
Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
In 2002, a clinical trial found that walking reduced type 2 diabetes risk by 58%. The most prescribed diabetes drug in the same study: 31%. The walk outperformed the pill by nearly double. That finding has been in the literature for 22 years. Almost nobody discusses it. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…
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Greg Blue
Greg Blue@gjblue·
@agvocate_au @Goldy_1981 One sting will be enough to get me in serious trouble ,and I'm hopeless at having the epi pen with me
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Agvocate_Au
Agvocate_Au@agvocate_au·
@Goldy_1981 They'd attack it for sure. Took a big dislike to my ute parked beside them.
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Agvocate_Au
Agvocate_Au@agvocate_au·
Feral Honey bees have built a hive in a street tree outside the vets at Mortlake. Reported. I make time for this because anyone who's susceptible to bee venom says it only takes 1.
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Just a gardener/sheep farmer
@gjblue 🤣🤣🤣remembering what it felt like all those years ago in Tapanui doing the same. 🤣🤣🤣. Seemingly he was wondering if it was Ok to leave, his wife, mr 16’s mother was also one of the photographers.
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Just a gardener/sheep farmer
So proud of our gorgeous grandson, Mr 16 today. First formal last week with his father delivering them to the formal. Sat his written drivers license today and got that.
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Greg Blue
Greg Blue@gjblue·
@Agrivetbusiness Still mainly take notes in meetings hate the laptop tapping in a meeting , but actually understanding what I wrote is a bit of a challenge sometimes
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