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@BindiIsbister Can you pour plaster down the holes to ‘map’ the holes?

“Mouse macropores” not really the type of amelioration we want to use to improve infiltration - must be a big nest pictured right or they love burrowing into freshly deep ripped 500mm soil that was spaded in 2017. Left photo unspaded 2017 ripped in 2026 (~150m apart)

@Wamballup That is my observation also that well grazed stubbles have less mice issues but as others have said not always the solution when bumper yields have left enough grain to drive the mouse feedlot. How many mice for 1 DSE?

I pick up the paper and read about mice problems. If you include sheep they eat any grain left on the ground and when walking around fill in the burrows mice problems solved Someone correct me if I am.wrong

@Tedthekelpie @S_M_Bowman There are different qualities of oil as well, suited to different und uses, australian is light sweet crude as compared to heavier options from the gulf. Would not be a complete solution

@S_M_Bowman Does anyone actually think domestic oil production will stay domestic or just get sold on the international market

I swear Pocock is the only serious politician

@HoolyMcg @MeredithGuthr15 @gsandral @DPIRDbroadacre I guess i don't discriminate when it comes to moisture, if it is wet enough to sow a crop then away we go. not waiting for a cold front to kick things off. I thought you would have had more issue with the trigger being 15mm instead of 20mm like it used to be

@originalstinger @MeredithGuthr15 @gsandral @DPIRDbroadacre Absolutely not. It was from the tropics. A break is when continental SW cold fronts come in.

@DPIRDbroadacre break of season map (15 mm over 3 days from 28 March) showing some locations still waiting for a break. Don't panic - its early days yet, average break is mid-late May. Not much rain on the horizon in the next 2 weeks except for Esperance (high pressure). #climate

@HoolyMcg @MeredithGuthr15 @gsandral @DPIRDbroadacre Yes

@originalstinger @MeredithGuthr15 @gsandral @DPIRDbroadacre No.

@MeredithGuthr15 @HoolyMcg @gsandral @DPIRDbroadacre Is is a break when you get 50mm in last week in march and sow your canola program.

@HoolyMcg @gsandral @DPIRDbroadacre I put that in as a response from @originalstinger .

@Jusakstud The collars can make it easy to achieve better pasture utilisation for sure. Good things

@originalstinger waiting for halter to get approval in wa.

Hey cow people. One of the Miniature Hereford cows has busted out of there small paddock. She looks close to calving and has gone into some bush trees by herself. Do we leave her alone. Get her back in? She roughly 600m from the cow paddock. Back end looks moist, but nothing show

Agricultural businesses in the northern Ag region of WA are under serious threat. In my experience, label rates of registered baits are not enough to control a population that has gone exponential. Recent inspections of baited paddocks show significant removal of planted seeds despite recent baiting after seeding - in fine weather. Growers will need to apply baits more than once, which is costly. The common sense approach would be to have registered mouse baiting products that have a rate range on the label, where higher rates can be used for higher pressure. Emergency permits required asap. @APVMA @GRDCWest @theGRDC

Have you ever wondered who the real pioneers of direct-drilling were in WA? My clever friend @JoFulwood recently earned her PhD looking into this topic. It’s worth a read. researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/output…

@MeredithGuthr15 @DPIRDbroadacre If you included the last week of march in the break of season map, what would it look like?

@DPIRDbroadacre stored soil moisture map shows some locations with good soil water. Break of season (15 mm over 3 days since after 1 April) (doesn't take March rainfall into account) showing break for Esperance region with more rain for that region in the next 8 days. #climate

@jalbirri @Glenn_SoilAgro @1800weevil If it was ammonium nitrate then yes

@Glenn_SoilAgro @originalstinger @1800weevil We expand into producing our own diesel and urea, does that make us weapons manufacturers? 🤪

Might need @originalstinger and @1800weevil to run some workshops on how to make on-farm biodiesel and buy back some of the canola that is in CBH storage 😬

@paper_collar @ipaddockapps @agrobaz @eyres_N @bentags @GRDCNorth Every year is different, grazed paddocks, burned stubbkes and dry sown crops were what maily blew in 18 with three strong windy fronts with no rain. Clayed country and ungrazed stubbles were most resilient

@originalstinger @ipaddockapps @agrobaz @eyres_N @bentags @GRDCNorth Weather man has this year matched with 2018

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?

@agrobaz @eyres_N @ipaddockapps @bentags @GRDCNorth The soil erosion down here in 2018 cured many people of ever burning stubble again.

@ipaddockapps @bentags There’s lots of data on this from the @GRDCNorth stubble project 10yrs ago. I wouldn’t be burning stubble for the sole reason of higher n in the immediate crop phase. It’s not reliable and has many downsides.

@SimonCotter62 @soupercocky @logue_phil When it costs more to local manufacture. Consumers in a free market economy choose cheaper options. I don’t see too many ‘patriotic’ consumers prepared to pay a premium for locally produced products when they are trying to balance a budget

@originalstinger @soupercocky @logue_phil Now now dont start that “we can be fuel independent thing” remember the Aus govt wants to fuck over agriculture now theyve fucked manufacturing

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

@LizSchmitt @BettaworldKaty That is a chemical tank and as such can contain oil based formulations and while will not be a good long term option will cope with fuel in the medium term

I'm stunned that News.com.au don't know the difference between a water tank and a fuel tank. I seriously doubt those things are fuel-rated! Haha, as for me, given that a shopping trip is a 100km round trip, I've shifted to using the motorcycle. The Hilux is used fortnightly for the heavy stuff. 👍

Ah the great Australian fuel fiasco. You can't go near the media without being told that naughty Australians are hoarding fuel and that's causing the shortage! Yer right! Where are we hoarding it? The sock draw? Under the bed? In the cutlery drawer? You see, 75% of Australians live within 100km of a capital city. And how many of those have the capacity to store enough fuel to refill the car once? I'd say, not many. And if that's enough to cripple Australia's fuel reserves, someone's been seriously negligent. ⛽

@BrettPage72 @logue_phil @Tigerbill172 Might have to compost into fertiliser then

@originalstinger @logue_phil @Tigerbill172 bottom of the bunk ( bloody autocorrect)

@logue_phil @Tigerbill172 If only red meat was on the up and cheap meal a great high protein feed additive

@Tigerbill172 @originalstinger And the more canola meal on the market the lower the price . Very sensitive market.

@Tigerbill172 @logue_phil Yes if you ingnore opportunity cost then definitely cheaper.

@originalstinger @logue_phil Interesting pondering future sustainability when it goes to shit….about 330 ha’s @ 1.5, if HRZ south prob 250ha’s. If call it 300ha’s average area required, cost @ $400+/ha (conservative number) 60c/L min to grow plus making it.

@ipaddockapps Is why Ag is so much fun, decisions decisions and glorious uncertainty

@originalstinger I bought a mbp yesterday for cooch on a new block, its a 2 edged thing. Save on N but I worry using fuel plowing now that we might need to sow the crop