David Lonsdale

@dyerjonathan @WheatWatcher By your logic a mineral sands mine offering hundreds of jobs for decades should be a no brainer ?

@WheatWatcher Distributed transmission lines with little to no local economic benefit different to a centralised facility with obvious economic and infastructure windfalls.

I can think of a location on one of Australia's busiest freight corridors, 3 hrs from 2 different ports. The MLB-ADL flight path might be an issue, though....

@VicIndyMovement 6pm ABC radio news one evening last week referred to “eye watering state debt”. Didn’t strike me as an even handed comment either. (For the record I’m no fan of the SRL)

The ABC has a requirement under the ABC Act 1983 to “ensure that the gathering and presentation … of news and information is accurate and impartial according to the recognised standards of objective journalism”. Very hard to see how this meets that standard.

@matt_norrie @Warwick_Long Bank by bank, club by club, pub by pub, shop by shop, school by school.

Narrabri lost its 113-year-old newspaper today. On the final pages: Inland Rail cut north of Parkes, more water buybacks, gas policy uncertainty. And that’s just this week. Bit by bit, rural Australia isn’t being shut down dramatically — it’s being quietly managed into decline.

A pregnant French schoolteacher walked alone into the Gestapo headquarters in Lyon, France, sat down across from one of the most feared Nazi torturers in occupied Europe, and talked him into letting her marry her condemned husband — all to set up the escape she had already planned. Her name was Lucie Aubrac. She was 31 years old, five months pregnant, and she had exactly one weapon: nerve. By the summer of 1943, Lyon had become the most dangerous city in occupied France. The Gestapo had taken control. Klaus Barbie — the man they called the Butcher of Lyon — ran his operation out of the Hôtel Terminus, where prisoners were taken for interrogation and often never seen again. The city was full of informants. Every café, every street corner, every apartment block was watched. Lucie and her husband Raymond had been living double lives for three years. On the surface they were a history teacher and an engineer. Underneath they were two of the most active Resistance organizers in southern France. They had founded their own underground network — Libération-Sud — out of nothing, starting with chalk graffiti on walls and building it into a real fighting force. On June 21, 1943, Raymond was arrested at a secret Resistance meeting. He was taken to Montluc Prison and sentenced to death. The Nazis were in no hurry to kill him — they wanted information first — but the end was not in doubt. Lucie understood exactly what Montluc Prison meant. She had seen what happened to the people who went in and did not come out. So she went to see Klaus Barbie. She walked into the Hôtel Terminus alone. She told the receptionist she needed to speak to the officer who had sentenced her fiancé to death. She was admitted to Barbie's office. She sat down. And she told him a story. She was not Raymond's wife, she said. She was his fiancée. She was pregnant with his child. She was a respectable woman in a desperate situation. All she wanted was to marry him before he was executed — to give their baby a father's name, to save what little honor she had left. The story had just enough tragedy in it, just enough simplicity, that Barbie agreed. He granted permission for a prison wedding. What Barbie did not know was that Lucie had already assembled a commando team. On October 21, 1943, Raymond and fifteen other prisoners were loaded into a vehicle and driven through the streets of Lyon following the brief prison ceremony. They were heading back to Montluc. They never arrived. Resistance cars moved in from both ends of the street, boxing the convoy in. Armed fighters opened fire. Six German guards were killed in the ambush. The prisoner vehicle was smashed open. Raymond and the other prisoners were pulled out, bundled into waiting cars, and driven to safety. Lucie was six months pregnant when she led that raid. It was the only time during the entire Second World War that Gestapo personnel were attacked on the street in occupied France. After the ambush, the Aubracs fled to London, where their second child was born. Charles de Gaulle became the baby's godfather. After the war, a Vietnamese nationalist leader named Ho Chi Minh became godfather to their third child. The couple returned to France and lived ordinary and extraordinary lives side by side — teacher, engineer, parents, grandparents, witnesses to a century. Raymond and Lucie remained together for 68 years. Lucie died in Paris in 2007 at the age of 94. Raymond died five years later in 2012 at the age of 97. At the time of his death he was the last surviving member of the eight Resistance leaders arrested at that June 1943 meeting. In his final years, Raymond was asked many times what he wanted people to remember about Lucie. He always gave the same kind of answer. He said she was not reckless. She was not acting out of passion. She was a historian. She understood exactly what was happening and exactly what it meant. She just refused to accept it.

Colorectal cancer rates in adults under 50 have doubled since the late 1980s. One in five colorectal cancer diagnoses now occurs in someone under 55, up from one in ten in 1995. A new study highlights the most concrete factor responsible for this trend. Using DNA methylation profiles as molecular records of lifetime exposure, the authors compared cancer patients under 50 with patients over 70 and identified the herbicide picloram as a significant new risk factor. There are converging lines of evidence. The picloram exposure signature was significantly elevated in early-onset tumor tissue and replicated across nine independent patient cohorts. Across 21 years of US county-level data spanning seven states, higher picloram use tracked higher early-onset CRC incidence, and the signal held after adjusting for income, education, and the use of other pesticides. Picloram associated tumors also showed a distinct molecular profile, with APC mutations at 74% versus 90% in low-exposure tumors, suggesting these cancers follow a different biological pathway than classical CRC. Picloram entered commercial use in 1964. Patients now diagnosed in their 70s were already adults before meaningful exposure was possible. Patients now diagnosed in their 30s and 40s were exposed across childhood and adolescence, the developmental windows when epigenetic programming is most plastic. This study delivers the first triangulation of molecular, ecological, and temporal evidence pointing at a specific environmental driver of one of the steepest cancer trends in modern epidemiology.

@ludeydookie Dead ones vs alive any differences in seed depth or is it random Ludey?

Got quite a few canola plants turning yellow, some even dying. -not frost -only 60kg/h map underneath no urea - 15mm post sowing, good moisture underneath Any suggestions

Japan makes eight billion dollars a year exporting gas. Japan doesn’t produce any gas. They buy it from Australia and on-sell it. Australia is governed by idiots. #auspol

@agvocate_au Parasites. Like phone scammers should be a formal grounds for deportation.

Wankers. What is the mind of jerks who dump appliance on rural roadsides.

@paper_collar @AmberB_C And you had it on a pallet too

And that my friends is why we don’t like bulka bags

@CorbinSchuster Less than that. 1942 cousins came down from the mallee and bought the straw off the bough sheds roofs for fodder

Food for thought. The current diesel supply issues facing Australian agriculture are very similar to what our forefathers faced 100+ years ago, when everything was pulled or drawn by horses and the country faced times of severe drought and shortages of hay.

@DMAg_consultant @gsandral @nig_michael Great P trial site

@nig_michael @gsandral More reference material 👍 nil fert vs fert in canola

A fertiliser miss for the ministers reference.

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

@ipaddockapps Milling oats

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?

@agvocate_au @VicFarmers Traffic levels should be greatly reduced at Trumpian $3 litre + fuel prices !

6 weeks later. It's reached the next stage of State Government road repair evolution. The stage where an approach for suppressing damaging reports and avoiding publication will be rolled out. You know what to do.

@WheatWatcher Ukraine toweling the Ruskies ATM

Everyone is getting a little over the doom and gloom at the moment. What good news does anyone have, or chat that doesn't revolve around the happenings around the world?

@HoolyMcg Have not seen recent posts but he made a shit bagging political post the evening of the Vic fire emergency day that was inappropriate. Has clearly been a great community volunteer over his lifetime. Is it a case of losing his filter?

I know this man I will stick up for him When is asking for actual evidence/facts in a tweet deemed “inappropriate “ ? Strange there is nothing on X from the “usual” ragbaggers. This is a witch hunt if iv ever seen one !!!

@Oscarthefarmer There were some rural booths in NSW that had very strong ON polling at the last Federal election. Plenty regional ppl been ON for a while.

Talked to couple of politically smart farmers today. The fundamental thing which none understood is "why?"! The very things that piss people off about Nats, Libs and ALP, their biggest flaws but none of the strengths? That's what ONP actually is! That's all it is... Befuddling

America is the only country where one of the most popular TV shows of all time is based on the American healthcare system being so bad that a teacher had to become a meth producer to fund his cancer treatments. And this was an entirely plausible plot.

Victorian Liberals still have the born to rule mentally. While the media attacked Labors Annika Wells….. “A European jaunt by senior Victorian Liberal Bev McArthur cost taxpayers $7722.92 for premium economy seats to London, after which she held just four meetings over two days but spent 15 days on a luxury cruise around the North Pole.” Shannon Deery Herald Sun