Thread: Send her down, hughie!

Originally Posted by bob10

Australian farmers are set to harvest the biggest ever winter crop , but flooding in the Eastern States means some will miss out on the high prices, with flooded grain not fit for human consumption sold as stock food, for lower prices. The lucky winners from the harvest are the West Australians.


Australian farmers set to harvest largest crop but recent rain has brought pricing pain - ABC News

I don’t know where all this is coming from. The yield was awesome but we are getting plenty of reports that much won’t or can’t be harvested. Around me there is lots and lots that will be ploughed in as it’s beyond harvest.
I think this is optimistic journalism/reporting

Our profitability is based on grain price at the purchasing end and we are predicting very high prices next year

Recent news here suggests that a lot of the SE Australian crop will be unsaleable - the market for feed grain is limited, and a lot of it is damaged beyond use for anything else due to the rain. Northern NSW and Qld got a lot off before the rain, but the bulk of this years bumper crop will be from WA.

enough , hughie , enough , its just running off everywhere now, down the drains and out to sea

320 at my place in the week

188.5mm in November - last time there was this much in a month was June 2018, and that is the only other one since 2008 - earlier rainfall charts are put away.

Edit: Looked at this again & realised I put the wrong month!

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

enough , hughie , enough , its just running off everywhere now, down the drains and out to sea

320 at my place in the week

Dusted off the crab pots, deep holes at the mouth of the creeks should be holding crabs , a silver lining & all that.

Another silver lining, Bob. Leslie Dam is discharging excess water, no longer has water to be trucked in to keep the roses watered.

We have had thunder and lightning with high humidity since midday. About 5pm the rain started and really pelted down. Some very close lightning and immediate thunder, brilliant light and explosions shaking the ground.
Very surprised we still have power.
Cheers

How did your hobby farm fare, Paul?