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Post by missouriboy on Sept 9, 2018 18:05:22 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 13, 2018 2:06:13 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Sept 13, 2018 12:40:45 GMT
Not qualified to comment but .......... A lot of the country has been in drought for several years. It will be interesting to see how the growing has fared in Western Australia's wheat belt - the state where Tim Flannery's ghost town, Perth, is located. They have been wet and cold this past Winter. No help? Thought so .....
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 14, 2018 0:41:07 GMT
Australia is projected to have a decline of approx 2MMT in wheat production. Not a big deal when the world supplies are 261MMT.
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Post by Ratty on Sept 14, 2018 13:05:28 GMT
Wheat growers celebrate banner year, but uncertainty looms [ Snip ] Who would read the article without that?
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 14, 2018 14:29:17 GMT
The "Palouse" Region. During summers of my college years in the mid-1970s I drove green pea combines for the Green Giant company out of Dayton (Walla Walla) Washington. Beautiful country with very productive volcanic soils. The local farmers would rotate peas with wheat under contract with the Giant. A combination of hot, dusty boredom on flat lowland fields, to exciting vistas and driving on sloping fields cut out of the lower mountains. The later were particularly exciting after a hard rain ... when heavy, self-leveling machines might start sliding toward the field cliff edges. He who got the cliff edge windrow would lead the formation with his driver's platform upslope with legs ever ready for a mighty leap. And a curse or two for those who plant the whole damn field.
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Post by Ratty on Sept 15, 2018 0:18:35 GMT
The "Palouse" Region. During summers of my college years in the mid-1970s I drove green pea combines for the Green Giant company out of Dayton (Walla Walla) Washington. Beautiful country with very productive volcanic soils. The local farmers would rotate peas with wheat under contract with the Giant. A combination of hot, dusty boredom on flat lowland fields, to exciting vistas and driving on sloping fields cut out of the lower mountains. The later were particularly exciting after a hard rain ... when heavy, self-leveling machines might start sliding toward the field cliff edges. He who got the cliff edge windrow would lead the formation with his driver's platform upslope with legs ever ready for a mighty leap. And a curse or two for those who plant the whole damn field. Beautiful area. You didn't perhaps attend Whitman? Code, any idea of the geological reason for the undulations? One of our finest wine growing areas has something similar if not as pronounced as in your photo.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 15, 2018 4:00:57 GMT
The "Palouse" Region. During summers of my college years in the mid-1970s I drove green pea combines for the Green Giant company out of Dayton (Walla Walla) Washington. Beautiful country with very productive volcanic soils. The local farmers would rotate peas with wheat under contract with the Giant. A combination of hot, dusty boredom on flat lowland fields, to exciting vistas and driving on sloping fields cut out of the lower mountains. The later were particularly exciting after a hard rain ... when heavy, self-leveling machines might start sliding toward the field cliff edges. He who got the cliff edge windrow would lead the formation with his driver's platform upslope with legs ever ready for a mighty leap. And a curse or two for those who plant the whole damn field. Beautiful area. You didn't perhaps attend Whitman? Nope. I commuted from Missouri. Stayed in their labor camp trailers.
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 15, 2018 13:31:21 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Sept 15, 2018 22:56:15 GMT
Current theory? Not settled then ..... I looked for something visual from that wine area I mentioned but there is nothing I could find for direct comparison. This site talks about the geology and has a few pics that hint of the similarity: Geology and Soils of the Limestone CoastI did find this tourism site which also doesn't help me: Mount Gambier and its surrounds . Might be of some interest though? Mount Gambier is a little East of the area I mentioned.
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Post by sigurdur on Sept 17, 2018 12:22:56 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Sept 17, 2018 13:14:48 GMT
I think it fair to say that it's been tough ... for a few years now.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 21, 2018 17:23:17 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 21, 2018 20:49:38 GMT
When I read that 'Wired' article I thought there's a market there for a 'Linux' copy left software for agricultural machinery. There is a lot more capability in such machines than most people realize. I was given a demonstration by a road construction company where they 'accessed' a site and there in pseudo 3D were all the vehicles working on the site and for example the 'dozer blade heights and the track were all being controlled by the company mainframe. Same for the backhoes and graders etc. If someone starts building an open source variant of the various ag and construction software they could corner the market.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 21, 2018 21:28:22 GMT
When I read that 'Wired' article I thought there's a market there for a 'Linux' copy left software for agricultural machinery. There is a lot more capability in such machines than most people realize. I was given a demonstration by a road construction company where they 'accessed' a site and there in pseudo 3D were all the vehicles working on the site and for example the 'dozer blade heights and the track were all being controlled by the company mainframe. Same for the backhoes and graders etc. If someone starts building an open source variant of the various ag and construction software they could corner the market. I will mention that to my son, the freshman computer science major ... and see if challenge (greed) for Generation Z overpowers the millennials proclivity to laziness. This is what machine-heavy manufacturing and constructing sectors have been coming to. Another reason Trump is right. Bring back that plant and equipment to here ... knowing that the number of jobs per unit of product is going down ... but the wage per job that will design, maintain and operate the plant will continue to go up. Concentrate those jobs and their product here.
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