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Post by questa on Sept 18, 2018 4:49:07 GMT
News this morning...Last night they dumped 18 tonnes of strawberries. The needles have reached Perth. Police say it is copy cat sabotage as no fruit has been that far.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2018 13:11:05 GMT
They've announced that the wheat crop will be 30% less than normal this year in France. Since France is the biggest wheat exporter in Western Europe, get ready for the bread lines.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 18, 2018 17:11:18 GMT
That's horrible questa.
Does that mean the Russians will be rubbing their hands K2?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 19, 2018 18:57:22 GMT
Probably. France is only the 5th exporter in the world, but Russia is ahead of it. Of course, I don't know if they had a good crop this year.
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Post by questa on Sept 27, 2018 12:20:34 GMT
Strawberries. Part 2...the rescue. I thought, "I'll buy a few punnets and make some jam," more out of solidarity with the farmers than any practical help. I could only get 8 punnets (2 Kg) because all the big supermarkets and family shops had run out of the berries. The message from the lone housewife had hit home with the Ozzie characteristic of 'helping your mate'. Across the country people were appearing at farm gates to buy the fruit. In Queensland the farms opened to the public who came and helped the farmers pick and pack the strawberries that 2 days earlier they had believed would be destroyed.
In my state there have been "pick your own" farms for years. Take a bucket, weigh it empty, fill it with whatever and pay the farmer a lower price per Kilo than the shops. I heard that the smaller country roads were packed with cars as families came out to 'pick and picnic' last weekend.
They have not caught the low-life who tried to sabotage the strawberry harvest. The authorities are still dithering. The government passed a law (unopposed) raising the penalty for food tampering from 4 to 10 years jail. Meanwhile the farmers have had their crop saved and sold, TV cooks are showing how to do delicious things with strawberries, and I have 4 mason jars of fruit in syrup sitting in the freezer. I love it when ordinary people make things happen.
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Post by mossie on Sept 27, 2018 13:58:02 GMT
That is good Questa, low-lifes who do that sort of sabotage of produce should be strung up by the balls
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 27, 2018 15:20:38 GMT
Underground car parks in Paris were already converted years ago for mushroom farming, but now the Chinese are snapping up availability for bean sprouts.
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Post by questa on Sept 28, 2018 0:37:52 GMT
Here they use the abandoned railway tunnels to grow mushrooms.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 24, 2018 7:56:40 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Oct 25, 2020 16:51:24 GMT
I'm a farmers daughter but the minute I became a teenager the farm was just too far from town and the bright lights. Now, in my mid-seventies I count myself extremely lucky to live opposite a farm in the midst of a city. Who would ever have believed there was such a place. Most people here are unaware as it just looks like a huge expanse of grass and trees. Many years ago we stopped seeing horses and cows but this year we heard cattle mooing and were delighted to see the family have brought back livestock. This is the scene from my side of the road looking opposite at the Farm. Just snapped with my cellphone.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 25, 2020 17:17:44 GMT
Oh how lovely, Tod! Even though I'm glad to be living back in town, I really enjoyed the rural surroundings when I was in Xoxo. You are so lucky to have that gorgeous rich green area right across the road, just breathing out oxygen to your surroundings.
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Farming
Oct 26, 2020 12:16:48 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 26, 2020 12:16:48 GMT
Indeed! Lucky you!
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Farming
Apr 30, 2023 18:35:42 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 30, 2023 18:35:42 GMT
Interesting TV article this evening.
A Welsh vineyard struggling with weed control did a deal with a nearby sheep farmer and mulched the vines with wool. It stopped the weeds, the lanolin in the wool stopped slugs and snails, as the wool broke down it fed the vines and the sun bouncing back off the white wool improved the sweetness of the grapes.
The farmer found out about it when he put it on his veg garden.
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Post by htmb on Apr 30, 2023 19:09:15 GMT
Sounds like a wonderful solution!
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