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Oscar Pearse

@oscarthef---er.bsky.social

Father of lunatics 6th Gen Farmer at #myMoree Purseholder to the Mayor NSWFA Board Member NSWFA Conservation Resource Management committee member NSW Government Agriculture Emissions Advisory Panel member Ex NFF, AFI, AgForce, MLA, Lot Feeders, CCA

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The apanthropists' best mates!

Though I'm fairly sure the current academic studies have underestimated both their vocab / communication abilities, and the complexity of their society.

Bit of video/audio analysis with AI will be fascinating one day...

21.12.2024 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had milky heads and wire weed seed and a little dirt in sample... all gone.

21.12.2024 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I should clarify.

Not talking about wholesale mass assassinations by sniper...

This is the same area as first picture. The dark background is mimosa bush and white heat is feral pigs @ β‰ˆ400m. So this is what I do of a night, walk around, doing nocturnal conservation.

21.12.2024 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So it has limits on chickpea splits... combo of it and a magic/sieve cleaner for that job.

Outstanding on all other aspects, extraordinarily clean sample possible.

21.12.2024 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dead ringer, hot as!

The Day of the Jackal TV series....

21.12.2024 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No this is just commercial grading for chickpeas...if anything I am behind the 8 ball!

But no pressure for me henceforth. Do it in March or whenever suits me!

21.12.2024 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I noticed the strong resemblance in looks!

My backpackers watched the series and said I'm the personality doppelganger of the character...

erm...

taking that as a compliment?

21.12.2024 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I don't have a mood board. But if I did this would be it for briars, pigs, everything....

"You'll keep" is the unofficial family motto.

Anyway the thermal will be pressed into vigorous action this evening. Vindicatio for 15 years of crop losses.

21.12.2024 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vindicatio

Native vegetation on ground can finally see sunlight after decades of 100% coverage of woody weed for 3 decades: weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au/Weeds/Mimosa...

Stage 1 (dozer) complete soon.
Stage 2 (sprays) begin in the new year.

Don't get mad. Just bide your time, then kill them all.

21.12.2024 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My friends, Struthidea cinerea.

Some excellent papers on their language and society:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

www.publish.csiro.au/mu/MU98025

21.12.2024 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT! Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!

If farmers clearly understood the costs they would sign this. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...

21.12.2024 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Was a rather busy week with my new little seed grading setup.

Oh and grain vac work in an old silo - for 5 hours after the facemask broke - not so wise. Mad lung infection, 36 hours sleep in 48.

21.12.2024 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

β€οΈπŸ˜‰

21.12.2024 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s so very deeply encouraging to see the charity regularly reaching around 100,000 accounts, organically, every month.
Thank you, those who help, share, encourage, and support this vital work in rural Australia.
Especially at this time of year.
I am deeply grateful.

21.12.2024 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie says there 's only one problem netflix ALT: a man in a suit and tie says there 's only one problem netflix

In other words -

Farmers have all the needed capacity and tools to adopt and to scarcities, when market signals direct them appropriately.

A greater margin share enables this faster. Take supply chain margin from others and give to farmers...? Solved.

10.12.2024 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know about that.

Coordination implies control.

I'd advocate a position that removing existing controls/controllers (esp those Andrew mentions) is both the remediation and the best solutions going forward....

10.12.2024 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

NewsCorp spends the week promoting fossil fuels as though there's going to be anyone outside a bunker to buy their crap.

09.12.2024 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And the online customer reviews to go with it!

10.12.2024 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Twittter, Meta, Google, Apple...

Whole bunch of billionaire owned/controlled companies harvesting reams of data on individuals... our proclivities, preferences and prejudices.

Makes you wonder if those folks sharing material like this will get on some naughty lists by big tech?

10.12.2024 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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What fresh hell shall tomorrow then bring, and what new ways for me to foul things up?

Anyway. Have a fence on on paddock at 10.5kv and other 5. More clean downs and fixups post harvest. New water troughs working. Things done.

10.12.2024 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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JinkoSolar Clocks Up 300GW Of Panel Shipments Chinese solar panel manufacturing goliath JinkoSolar says the firm now ships 1GW of its PV modules every 4 days.

Chinese solar panel manufacturing goliath JinkoSolar says the firm now ships 1GW of modules every 4 days.

#solarpanels

www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/jinkoso...

04.12.2024 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Static version of the same heatmap.

Static version of the same heatmap.

If you are interested in the static image, you can find that here. I'm not sure how well this will display on bsky though. I'll find another way to share it if it doesn't work.

04.12.2024 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Will was a genuinely great man, exemplary human and great mind. Sorely missed in these times...

04.12.2024 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably will.

Asked a NSW DPI Project to chase up on potential future work (they're already mapping scope and spread of vectors for pests and diseases due to changing weather_/climate change) and see how far south it's gonna get how quickly... tba

03.12.2024 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fall armyworm Fall armyworm was fist found in Australia in northern Queensland in January 2020 and has since spread

Oh yeah...Massive issue in some regions... and yeah a big worry for late sown crops.

grdc.com.au/resources-an...

I'll be checking for em and hitting hard with insecticides if (or when).

03.12.2024 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Couple of things different in 6 years.

1. Varieties have changed, going a shorter day one.

2. Grass weed management has got a lot harder so we're changing to address that the best we can.

3. Different advisor. But came up with very normal ideas after discussions. Not much of a bug checker though!

03.12.2024 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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2. Pre plant spray of clethodim and haloxyfop with glyphosate, fluroxypyr, ammonium sulfate and spray oil

3. Post plant spray of paraquat, s -metachlor, atrazine and terbuthylazine.

It's kind of nothing new, but also pretty sensible yeah. Last time in same paddock...

03.12.2024 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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So for managing summer grass weeds in a sorghum crop, my agronomist has suggested the following steps:

1. Plant row spacing. Switch from 1m spacing to 50cm. 2.5kg/ha for 50k plants per ha

Bonus is it let's me do it with JD1890 planter (2nd rank locked up) and add 65kg starter Z. Give it some

03.12.2024 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don’t miss this

02.12.2024 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Know thy product, know thy country of origin, know thy food production standards!

Sound On πŸ”Š

#AustralianMade #SupportLocal #Onion

03.12.2024 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0