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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

excellent chart to show natural variability of 120yrs

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@Brookfield_Ag

5 years

@BarryGr66 There are a lot of different charts they have available, not sure why they’ve done it that way though!

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Barry Gray

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9 months

@nogulagsagain christianity and islam are like oil and water; they are never going to mix.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

Pipe laying made easy! my daughter thinks its boring though. 100metres an hour!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

9 months

another terrible arvo with fires and storms. neighbor and daughter and son in laws houses and sheds sustained damage with wind. never seen a wind event that could throw 400kg bales of straw 30 metres off the end of a stack before!😲

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 years

No, this is not in QLD or NSW, it is in the great southern region of WA. Scepter wheat decimated by drought and frost going 800kg/ha! Not quite fitting the medias picture of harvest 18 in WA is it.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

ICU can be a scary place, but Di is recovering from her heart operation well. thanks for the messages of support from her clients and friends around Kukerin and Lake Grace. thanks to the amazing staff at #themount 🙏🙏🙏

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

5th barley in a row, Beast says : "anytime, anyplace!"💪

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

too moist to harvest yesterday, so went to perth to buy an old banger to replace one that had a heart attack. a couple of hours this morning with an angle grinder and spanners to remove all the fluff and bubbles, and she is now lean, mean and ready for an honest days work!💪

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@dockaurG @KeyganTherese Smart government India. turned around a catastrophic pandemic in a few months. 💪

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 years

Easy low cost way to get chaff on top of windrows. Greater food value in baled barley straw - feedlotters love it. also get complete kill when burning windrows even after rain. Spinners are reversed to blow chaff down 300mm PVC tubes

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

for all who are looking for ways to shift WA's grain to port, google this; Bou Craa phosphate mine in Morocco transfers product 61 miles (100km) by conveyor to the coast from the western Sahara

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

Probably the best dry season wheat we have ever grown, Scepter just powering on despite two 4+ week periods within the growing season without rain. Lucky to miss the frosts so far. 203 mm for the yr, 175mm GSR

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

battered by Overwatch, then a month of waterlogging, 400 ha of barley never stood a chance! R.I.P. Rosalind. 😢 @HoolyMcg @dustyfry1_fry

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 months

@GerardWhateley flogged to early retirement on the track, then flogged to death as a breeder. nothing noble about the racing industry!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

heartfelt thankyou to Warratah lodge aged care in Wagin for caring for mum for many years. thankyou to Geoff and his board, Dr Peter and most of all the tireless effort of the staff, who treat the residents like family. special thanks to Rhona, in the last few difficult days

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

Concerned about sustainability of continuous crop? This neighbors 45th consecutive crop! Lupins doing o.k. in a tough season. Just sand over clay duplex mallee common to this area. Have used this pdk as my benchmark all my farming life to guide me to what is possible

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

cant watch Landline with a straight face, when they start talking about a "climate Plan "for the next 80 years! laughable! dont even know when our next rain will come!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

Looking at another " normal" decile 1-2 season, happy with wide rows. allows use of shielded sprayer=less chemical costs, higher grain to straw ratio=less water and nutrients, open canopy= less fungal and aphid probs, easily contained windrow burns

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

cool and intermittent drizzle; perfect day for swathing lupins today

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

sowing lupins, peas, and later, possibly barley. full-till, full-kill, and zero row spacing!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

@JusperMachogu thanks for that eye opening thread you have shown us Jusper. This should be compulsory viewing for all schools in the west, so future leaders understand that cheap, consistent energy should be the number 1 goal for any country to thrive

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

9 months

@plalor time this skidmark stain on Australian cricket retired already!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

If you are comfortable in your home or office in the city this morning thinking it was just another cyclone, spare a thought for these northern wheatbelt farmers

Amery Drage

@drage_farms

3 years

What a mess. #tcseroja

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

Maximus barley, courtesy of @mottagwa , one of the best barley crops i have seen in this district! 5t/ha + ??

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

dam has been dry so long, paddy melons have taken over. can still walk across the bottom without getting feet wet, in mid july! stubble cover, no-till, no sheep for 20+ years = no runoff. Last filled in floods of feb. 2017

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

9 months

@MitchellGlenn IN the blink of an eye, both Smith and Khawaja will be gone, so why not play Bancroft and Renshaw against the WI? a couple of tough future tours coming up, dont need new chums opening against India and England!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

feels like baling hay on top of the world! Lake Grace, Tarin Rock and Kuender bins all visible from this pdk.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 years

what do you do when pre ems dont work anymore?......

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 year

@DrMLivingston havent met you yet Dr, but use the medical service you travel to, and assure you we are all so grateful for your attendance, and would love to see some govt support. Unfortunately they cant see over the darling scarp to what is happening in the country!😡

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

Faaark!

Talking about Livestock... 🐂

@Livestock2024

3 years

There is something wrong with the sprinkler... #FarmLife

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

road test Alemlube clip on : Underwhelming!👎 good for blocked nipples, but can only get 70% on the header, too big and bulky for the tight spots, plus needs two hands to attach in some positions

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 years

report card on cropstalker for anyone interested good: reliable no machine problems straight line best but slight curve no probs done 1000 +ha on 34cm spacings 2L paraquat in100l/ha water = good kill all grasses broadleafs sick not so good: dont try to spray around corners1/2

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

11 days

9 days post op, and new titanium shoulder going like a winner !💪

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 months

disturbing story on the countryhour. Iraq paid 150 million dollars in gold for wheat, which worked out to $1500/tonne! not what we got paid, wonder where it all went???😠 growers still getting drip fed payments from other transactions all those years ago. dodgy govt+AWB deals!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

If you are not aware, the community of the great southern owe a big thankyou to volunteer fire fighters. huge number of pole top fires after several dry dusty months followed by some light rain yesterday. time to reintroduce helicopter insulator washdowns??

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@agintegrity Subsidy?? how many times do we have to correct them? Its a road tax, if we are not using the road, why should we be paying it?

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 year

Am a big fan of the KISS principle! Simple, fast, efficient workspace, away from dirty booms, and a two way tap to a 1 1/4" suction hose that can rip the contents out of a 110L Clethodim enviro in less than 90 seconds!💪

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

bale hay in some interesting places. Griffins Reward gold mine, Tarin Rock WA

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

that ends one of the more difficult weeks of harvest in this district, including our overworked FCO. 3 harvest ban days in a row, interspersed with a couple of nasty local fires, topped off this arvo with a couple of heavy showers of rain ! Ah well, always next week.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

24 days

lucky we had a good august here in the west ! not looking flash for september, and diabolical for our friends in SA and Vic !😬

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 years

oats sown dry only got 30cm high, 1t/ha yield really struggled for moisture. wouldnt have got that without cropstalker, see where it was turned off for a trial #nocheckynolearny

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 year

@cricketcomau win lose or draw, everyone must admit far more engrossing game to watch than a 700 run slogfest!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

@ipaddockapps best way to handle, roll out big roll, cut to length, roll up and drop roll at the back of the shed, then roll forward. Can then just skid with telehandler to desired position. To cut, place log under cut line to bow the rubber, and use 9" grinder carefully [widowmaker!]

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

big ryegrass country, getting its arse whipped by everyones favorite chemical this year, Overwatch! 😊 Rosalind barley not real happy, but should be ok

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 month

even 2nd wheat starting to pump! 81 mm for august is the reason, but I suspect unused fert from a dry 2023 is helping.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 year

@grazinggoat66 @MarkMcGowanMP @benwyatt @RogerCookMLA @TonyButi_MLA @walabor ransom demands on behalf of just 3% of any population will be greeted with hatred and derision by the majority no matter what politicians say, particularly over such innocuous projects. hardly nation building.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 years

How tough is Rosalind barley? Dont worry about getting out of the flag leaf just fill those grains! Hard dry grey clay very little green left - no problem! 💪👍

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

after Dowerin, cant decide which would be best for my situation: Alphadisc or Rootboot Razor. thinking the Razor might be a bit more durable

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

made some stuff-ups this year, but I put this in the winners circle: 120kg/ha Rosalind barley spread and ploughed in, no chemicals! this area went completely under water several times during winter. would expect weed competition to be even better with a variety like Beast.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

the kids pea straw business. glad I am not picking them up by hand!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

11 months

Building our stocks of pea straw mulch for the coming year. Stock for retailers and private sales for anyone that needs it. New MF1840 baler for the win👍

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

@SkyNewsAust @James_Stacey_ @senbmckenzie here is a thought: oz superfunds hold a trillion dollars, only 3% invested in oz ag. Buy the farms, lease back to young progressive farmers who cant buy because of lack of capital. a way out for old farmers, still owned by oz, and young families back in the bush.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

2 old gentlemen, one English, the other Italian, have clocked up nearly 120 yrs combined service to agriculture! And still working! 👏👏 Fordson SuperMajor and Fiat 513R

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

no stress, no loss, picking up swathed lupins, even on a hot day like today

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

finally! 6 weeks after emergence, OW under Rosalind barley starting to green up. to be fair, the wet may did not help recovery from damage. good dose of urea yesterday before rain should help.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

9 months

@ScomoCchio the teaching of history has been severely undermined in schools. many young teachers think its their right to put their own spin on facts from the past, or just speculate on anything that is unknown!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 year

@nogulagsagain our forefathers, here in the WA wheatbelt, who started off wesfarmers many decades ago, would be turning in their graves to see what the company has become! 😢

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

congrats to @SITC_CEO_Shanna for her win in the local hero award. much deserved. alcohol and gambling, two pandemics that get swept under the carpet! has restored a little credibility to the Australia Day awards

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

@EcoSenseNow Meteorologist Edward Lorenz proved way back in the 60s the concept of the chaos theory. Even minute differences in data inputs to computer models changed forecasts drastically only a few days out. modern computer models still struggle for accuracy beyond 4 days! #butterflyeffect

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

@MitchellGlenn Bruce likes his horse racing, not bad at footy commentating, but athletics is really his forte'. so knowledgeable, and makes it sound exciting.👏

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

well done to the Dumbleyung-Kukerin boys taking out the B grade cricket grand final over Harrismith on the weekend. knocked over the dugites for 105 and chased them down with 6 wickets to spare. 🏆🍻

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

Rosalind - she is an ugly bitch when she is trying to survive, but does it well. 💪

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@DutchFarmerInUA its a worldwide problem. the urban jungle has isolated people from the real world. same here (Australia, more than 90% of the population live in cities)

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

Josh Joyce memorial golf day at the Kukerin club yesterday to remember a young man taken too soon. 😔 Was everyones mate. Had a great day playing with @kjoyce41 , Ben, Elliot, Gep and Marnie. thanks to all who travelled some distance to share the day

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 months

@OMGTheMess ribbon cutting, dinner party host; nice work if you can get it!🤦‍♂️

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

11 months

breakfast in bed for the trouble and strife, after 41 years hard labour! 😬😘 #anniversary

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

old boys knew how to lay concrete in 1914 ! still as good as the day the pitch was laid under the moss. #scorchers seem to be wandering all over the country atm, maybe a potential training camp for them on the way home?

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 year

Many thanks to Brad Boundy from Farmers Centre for his tenacious efforts tracking down a serious electrical problem in the old puma spray tractor. after a couple of frustrating days, it was touch and go for while whether we should just push it into the nearest salty dam!🤣

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@davidlipson why are fully vaxed people worrying about the unvaxed? clearly they are not confident in the protection offered. justifiably so, as numbers increase in countries that have high vaccination rates. (Israel) the only country that has got anywhere near the 80% rate.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 months

who is spearheading the push to put a moratorium on export hay out of the state?? @mdfowler100 spoke well on the countryhour. not many farmers have bigger balls than export hay growers when it come to handling the ups and down of the weather! build your own storage SW cockies!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

Middle of October before we get a day over 20degrees?? great for grain fill, as good as a rain, going on last years results

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

this kg/hl tells me not enough heads/sq m for max. yield. 80 kg/hl for best w.u.e. usually . Still, only 160mm GSR, 3rd wheat crop in a row, nil disease, nil weeds, 2 t/ha ⬆️

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

the work experience guy, wanted to try his hand at baling!😊 ( new branch manager, Farmers Centre)

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@TheLaurenChen @jordanbpeterson the only reason they even exist is because they were perceived to be impartial.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 year

little man was striding across the track, saw me and started digging in as soon as he found softer dirt!😊

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 years

going in to bat for small grain growers: air seeders tractors headers boomsprays 300-500k each full of high-tech high maintenence gadgets and electronics cant justify the cost to smaller farms<1500ha. Av wheat yield is 1.8t/ha in W.A. $2500/ha for good grain land 1/2

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@centrefugal @FrDaveNix @abiroberts exact numbers unknown , but deaths reported to be higher than the Holocast. soldiers even instructed to kill every edible animal in the forrest to ensure complete annihilation of the population. 😢

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@dendrades @TonyHWindsor let me enlighten you : diesel fuel rebate is a tax intended for road users for maintenance and construction of said roads. miners and farmers, who dont use the road, who have already paid the tax, can reclaim it if it is proven to be off-road use

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

#asktwitter does anyone else feel the gloss of canola fading with high fert prices? wheat on lupins or peas yielding consistently 1.5 to 2.0 tonne /ha better than wheat on canola. not to mention protein going thru the floor after canola. 👎

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 months

@Doctor_650 old air seeder tube, cut into 300-500mm lengths, then split with an angle grinder on the inner side of the bend. prise over the ruptured tube and it will snap tightly over the repair area. no screws, clamps or tape required. carry a few for spares clamped over the bar frame

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@HayMapApp worked with balers all my farming life, and that is by far the best teaching video I have ever seen! would have loved to been able to refer to that out in the paddock many times sorting out knotter problems. 👏

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

6 months

@robrobdean looks like a subsidised diesel powered charging station to me. those few solar panels little more than shade

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

I know many are happy with Overwatch, but its problems will not fade away, here is a little reminder: left pic, OW, right, no pre ems, spread and ploughed in. sown with Rosalind barley, 2nd week of may. both had major overland flows of flooding thru july, adjacent pdks 😡

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

Credit to Craig from Rabobank, Russ @chuditchconsult ,Grant and Tank from Farmers Centre for helping us recover from a substantial e-mail scam last year. received a good percentage back in a deposit yesterday! thankyou all.🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

17 days

bit bored. pic from my room in murdoch hospital overlooking fiona stanley hospital on my last day after getting a new steel shoulder. nothing but high praise for the staff and facilities here !💪

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

saving the planet- recycled fencing wire and garden hose! 😊 #tightbastard

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 years

@cricketcomau India ; the rising power of womens cricket right there!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 months

@HoolyMcg not to mention players if they get the chance: Nat Fyfe, Tom Hawkins, Liam Baker, all very familiar with the sheep industry!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

@AaronEdmonds9 Stay calm guys, May has just started. Average break is about 3rd week in May remember? Take the weekend off, play sport, spend time with the kids, help the owner, breeder and trainer in the garden. No need to be clutching at straws, wont make it rain.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

1 year

@nogulagsagain already had a test case in WA with them trying to extort $2m out of a landcare tree planting project along the canning river just out of Perth!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

5 years

reality check to us arrogant humans. we cannot control: weather climate wars disease just adapt and move on best we can as in past centuries. survival of the fittest remains the key to our survival as a species. A fact mostly forgotten in the urbanised western world

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

not notill, but doing a great job on big wireweed and creeping saltbush plants. highly frost prone valley floor, bare soil surface, mid June sowing with barley, may get a profitable crop

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

@724pine @trendysalestore and two or three chunked shots to totally destroy it? 😂

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

@LofayPeter was a captive listener of the ABC's world today this arvo, a sickening cavalcade of paid UN academics spruking about the worlds end due to climate change, courtesy of dodgy computer modelling. cheered on by aunties tame journo's

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 months

@HoolyMcg My advice to Simmo, dont say a word, just have a sleep in on sunday, maybe take the kids to the park, or take the missus shopping, whatever. let them sort it out!😠

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

Australia day, a land of contrasts, 2 mile beach at Hopetoun mid morning. home mid arvo , stinking hot and dry! wife, daughter, grandson and assorted dishlickers.

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

3 months

Opportunity knocks for some lucky enough to have a canola crop this year. Bunge were offering a $97 premium for non GM canola yesterday in Arthur River! CAN1 $840 vs CAG1 $743

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

2 years

@Tocharus @TobiasFrancisC Batzorig,, Altai, the HU, Tuvan, all great exponents of the various forms of throat singing. working on my Kargarrah style but just cant do the sygyt style (high pitched whistle)

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

A big thankyou for all the kind wishes. Was posted on twitter to raise awareness of the great work aged care do around oz. underfunded overworked staff deserve better than some of the bad press received over the last few years!

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Barry Gray

@BarryGr66

4 years

superb engineering masterpiece for its time. 👏

Ron Eisele

@ron_eisele

4 years

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk XIVe. G-SPIT - MV268/JE-J.

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