Hi all,
Has been a while since my last blog, just havent gotten around to it.
Summer is here, with a vengeance, 34 degrees C outside today. Will certainly help to finish ripening the cereals & vining peas around here.
We have had a struggle with our crops here in Tassie. Some of the linseed doesnt look too bad, the marrowfat peas look good, the maple peas are so so, some of our oats looks ok, some is a bit ordinary (didnt get the rains at the right time.....the story of 2007 here in Tassie). We lost some of our clover paddocks, the ones we have left are generally good.
Added up my 2007 rainfall this morning and was quite surprised; a fraction over 27 inches here where I am. 15 Inches in 2006, 42 inches in 2005 (our average here where I live is 30 inches). Has been very patchy, some places would have been lucky to have had 10-12 inches.
We really need a wet autumn, to fill the soil moisture profile back up & to get run off into our rivers & catchment (irrigation) dams.
Maybe then will farmer confidence return to the level it is usually at.
Regards to all,
TC 