David Greig

@GordonRefshauge @lawbal44 I don’t know Gordon? I tried to host a Bredwell Fedwell back before the drought and got zero replies. Hard work is raising 40+ poddy lambs (I know someone who did that) not learning how to allocate feed to ewes pre lambing. 🤷‍♂️

@propfarmer @lawbal44 What is the value proposition for the very large majority? I hear it often that sheep are hard work, and I wonder how efficient those flocks are.

Tell me it isn’t true. Sheep Sust.Frmwk (Oct 2023) has 42% of producers preg scanning, 69% for twins but 29% separating on twin. That’s 8% separate twins. Other studies have 34% of prod. scan for twins, which for the same numbers above is 4% separate twins. Confirmation bias.

@lawbal44 @GordonRefshauge Numbers would be quite low out here and further west I would think. There would be each end of the spectrum in every town though.

@GordonRefshauge Nah, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. Andrew’s ‘educated’ most in this area. There’s him and three other guys he’s trained between here and Canowindra. They are all flat out in season but they cover some country Cooma, Oberon, Condo, Young, Coota…

@FarmerTonyWhite 😆 no tracks, but fairly new tyres. We have more trouble getting things to grow through their stubble, if it isn’t managed correctly, the following year!

@propfarmer U got tracks on your harvester? I got nothing but flat tyres harvesting them 😀

Another good year for Albus lupins in Western NSW

@BrettShearwood Great on square headlands, I can’t get it to work well enough on sharp angled edges though. Will always miss unfortunately.

Are many utilising automated turns? Can it make a new operator 'perfect' very quickly? #ausag #cotton24

Stuff the green pollies don’t want to know about!!   Charging Electric Cars I recently did some work for the body corporate at the Dock 5 Apartment Building in Docklands in Melbourne to see if we could install a small number of electric charging points for owners to charge their electric vehicles. We had our first three applications. We discovered: 1.      Our  building has no non- allocated parking spaces ie public ones. This is typical of most apartment buildings so we cannot provide shared outlets. 2.      The power supply in the building was designed for the loads in the building with virtually no spare capacity. Only 5 or 6 chargers could be installed in total in a building with 188 apartments!! 3.      How do you allocate them as they would add value to any apartment owning one. The shit fight started on day one with about 20 applications received 1st day and many more following. 4.      The car park sub-boards cannot carry the extra loads of even one charger and would have to be upgraded on any floors with a charger as would the supply mains to each sub board. 5.      The main switch board would then have to be upgraded to add the heavier circuit breakers for the  sub mains upgrade and furthermore: 6.      When Docklands was designed a limit was put on the number of apartments in each precinct and the mains and transformers in the streets designed accordingly. This means there is no capacity in the Docklands street grid for any significant quantity of car chargers in any building in the area. 7.      It gets better. The whole CBD (Hoddle Grid, Docklands)and Southbank is fed by two sub stations. One in Port Melbourne and one in West Melbourne. This was done to have two alternate feeds in case one failed or was down for maintenance. Because of the growth in the city /Docklands and Southbank now neither one is now capable of supplying the full requirement of Melbourne zone at peak usage in mid- summer if the other is out of action. The Port Melbourne 66,000 volt feeder runs on 50 or 60 year old wooden power poles above ground along Dorcas Street South Melbourne. One is pole is located 40 cm from the corner Kerb at the incredibly busy Ferrars /St Dorcas St Intersection and is very vulnerable to being wiped out by a wayward vehicle. 8.      The infrastructure expenditure required would dwarf the NBN cost excluding the new power stations required These advocates of electric vehicles only by 2040 are completely bonkers. It takes 5-8 years to design and build a large coal fired power station like Loy Yang and even longer for a Nuclear one (That’s after you get the political will, permits and legislative changes needed ). Wind and solar just cant produce enough. Tidal power might but that’s further away than nuclear It's just a greenies wet dream in the foreseeable future other than in small wealthy countries. It will no doubt ultimately come but not in the next 20 years.

@FarmerTonyWhite No idea of your interests but, Bradman museum at Bowral, Big Merino at Goulburn, There’s an Aussie woollen sock maker in the main St of Crookwell Detour via Yass for 🍇🍷 Canberra museums/Parliament House if you’re into that?, Mostly livestock areas that you’ll travel through.

Hey punters, what is the must sees between Sydney and jindabyne ? I may be going to see some snow & give the punters a laugh at me on skis one day soon.

@Pilot92470433 @camwallaclifton I can do that with merinos, plus wool.

My accountant told me this week that 60,000 sheep have left his clients farms this year, never to return. These are farmers leaving the sheep industry, forever. Just one accountant. The sheep industry is haemorrhaging like it never has before because Labor did a deal with the AJP

@k_bolto @pbl1972 @Tedthekelpie All interesting questions. What it tells me is that two very different looking animals were able to deliver the same results over a long time period. The scanning crate is my priority No.1 classing method, everything else is second.

@propfarmer Is the higher Bcs animal more efficient or did it eat more. If the latter it in no use under high stocking rate system.

Which sheep would be your ideal? Both have conceived twins in last three joinings and brought lambs to the marking cradle. Top sheep a full CS lighter than the bottom sheep! Both due to lamb in 6 weeks. 🤔🤔

@SteveMc19695 @sheepGeekCP Ditto here, all mated regardless of weight. No real visual difference at scanning but you always get that one that’s in lamb that you wonder how the hell it happened 🧐

@sheepGeekCP @propfarmer Is there a visual difference between the wet vs dry mob.

Early morning start for scanning. Fingers crossed 🤞 for an ok result.

@DarrenGordon22 No I don’t sorry. I’ve just taken delivery of technology to help me gather this type of data. Hopefully I’m organised enough to do it next year!😊

@propfarmer Did you have a LW on rams in and rams out?

@lawbal44 2/2 We did trail feed daily. Ave joining wt was 36kg (our heaviest ever), we’ve done better at a 31kg ave. Only joined for 18 days, same as usual. Many questions we probably won’t get answers for but I think it’s more season/situation related.

@lawbal44 1/2 I’m putting it down to lack of nutrition in the paddock. It’s the first time I’ve joined outside a ‘feedlot’. After a run of big seasons the country is tired. Rams were fine.

Ewe lambs done yesterday. Never think you’ve got it under control… These are the heaviest lambs I’ve ever joined. A bit disappointed but relieved at the same time. Winter feed is not plentiful in the native country this year.

Interestingly, whilst overall percentages are down, twinning percentage has remained constant? Not what I would have expected.

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@RohanLeach No chance, no moving parts for animals to play with. I went with this option rather than a Hobbs Hoist for that, and other reasons. These legs have a combined capacity of over 50t. The bin weighs just under 4t I think.

@propfarmer Looks great but any chance of sheep rubbing/ bumping causing collapse?

When I first joined #twitter I marvelled at all the videos of farmers and their stuff. I’ve been away for a while but here’s a timelapse of removing our grouper bin using trailer landing legs I had built to store the bin in our shearing shed and not take up sheep space.

@RichieQuigley Can’t recall the brand @RichieQuigley but they are standard trailer landing legs. The lower legs are extended with a bigger foot than standard. This was my first draft drawing. I’ll get some pics tomorrow when I’m in the shed.

@propfarmer Looks great David thanks for sharing. What are. The legs

@woodenj05 That was a year or two after we changed bloodlines, we were starting to get a few numbers of new blood in the flock. The rise post 15/16 was suppressed due to drought conditions thus the big spike once times turned good.

@propfarmer What was the change between 2014-2015?